The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31
LOU HN)SENAN' 5 GOSSIP
THE SPORTING PUBLIC NOW GET
TING A SURFEIT OF FAKE
WRESTLING MATCHES
CONNOLLY Is STILL WRITING
An Eastern Strong Man Anxious to
Fight Jim COrbett Jack
BOnner's Latest
Fight.

that matters are a trifle slack in box
ing circles, foreign and fake wrestlers
have come to the fore with a rush and
are having an interesting time CALLING
! the unSuspecting public and ralSing in
| Shellels enough to keep their fat I'M
| wieldy carcasses in luxury for the re-
n;ainder of their useless lives Ever
since the late lamented Yousouff went 10
| his watery grave in the wreck of the
la Bourgoyne. host of imitators Of
the great Turk have sprung into eX-
| iStence. His Immediate successor, Hall
Adah was about the only one of the
host of pretenderS entitled to wear the
mantle of Yousouff. Both of these men
| stand in class by themselves. 1t is
only fair to say i'll Justice to the genu-
| inc Turks that the majority of those ad-
! VertiSed of late as coming from the
| sultan's realm never saw that country.
For instance, there is a fellow travel
! ing throughout the states who appears
in one city as q giant Turk, in the next
as an East Indian and so on ad lib, ac>
Cording as the fancy of his manager
may Indicate TO keep out inpoSitionS
of this kind he carries along a STACK
| OF costumes OF all nations with the aid
of which his bulky body assumes for
the nonce the character which 1t may be
| called upon to play. Naturally all of
| the matches in which this so-caled Won
der participates are fixed affairs" the
money being divided between the fallirs
! according to previous agreement.
! 1t must be granted however that the
genuine foreign strangers now appear
! ing on the mat are not much better than
the counterfeits. Paul Pens. champion
Rooney. in this city, is fine
example Of his order. In his
match with Rooney, the gigantic
bulky Frenchman betrayed absolute ig-
norance of the first principles of scieu-
tific wrestling and fioundered around the
ring in stupid and clumsy fashion. H
was positively one of the worst importa-
tiCns from across the sea that ever ap-
peared on a mat in Chicago and the
fiasco dealt final Knockout punch to
wrestling matches as far as local sports
men were concerned.
! Pons afterwards met Ernest Rocber
In New York, and several hours Of weary
! huggirg and hauling ensued, the police
| stopping the contest at midnight after
! it became apparent that neither man
was particularly DESTROYS of gaining a
| fall. Since then Pons failed to throw a
! man known as George Little in Mon
| treal, being unable to gain single fall
| III an hour, although his opponent
weighed but 16S to the big fellows go
| pounds. It afterwards transpired that
! the so-called Little was none other than
| Mcleod has wrestled under an assumed
name, a common trick with the members
! Of his profession
| Martin Julian's newly found Oriental
| who travels under the gccgnomen Of
! Nouroulah, appears to be another over
advertised monster. He threw James
| McWeeney recently in New York not a
particularly brilliant achievement when
! the fact is taken into consideration that
Julian's champion weighed $50 and Nc
| Weeney only 1877 pounds. He has also de-
feated a couple Of other lesser lights
| but III none Of these, matches We're tie
! specta tors impressed in any degree by
| his Skill. The following con ment on the
! Oriental'S victories by d Gotham critic
| may throw some light on the situation
''Nouroulah has beaten a couple of
| small men on the mat, but he can thank
| everything that goes towards making
| him the expansive mass of humanity he
| Is. In a word the big Bulgarian seems
| TO have as much claim to the wrestling
| championship of the world as Mike Nor
| riSSey had to the pugiliStic title 1t will
| be remembered that the now famous
Mike shot his bolt in about thirty
| seconds after facing Peter Maher''
! Taken on the whole these Wrestlers
| are a cheap and unreliable lot Even
| those of the tribe who are experts in
| their profession do not deserve patron
age, 4OI Tie SOOQ anu SuInclSnC reason
| that they would rather com money under
| false pretenses and by crooked work
| than exert their lazy frames in the task
1 OF obtaining d legitimate reward.
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Kings County Insane Asylum, Borough
Friend: The country is gong to the dogs,
| on the toboggan, sliding to eternal
smash. Never a paper do take flash
at b but see where some other gazabe
| around where he rules the roast. MY
| old pal, John l.. Sullivan put it right
when he said the next generation would
never amount to a row of shucks if the
| lighting game was squelched.
What kind of bloke would yours tru-
| ~ be today if he hadn't learned to use
| his mitts at an early age? OF course, I'm
in the shade little just at present but
| they can't keep a chap of my ability
| down long. It's due to my early train
| ing that I'm the man | am today. My
| governor had me lighting as soon as L
| could toddle, and If L didn't lick the fell
low he stacked me against, the old man
would turn around and whip me.
| Kept here under cover at the time when
| m most needed on the outside. If the
| professor was turned loose he could do
| more to put the manly art on it's pins
again than any mug in the biz
I notice that our mutual friend. Bill
| Brady, has been handing out hints on the
Au4Sl lHdt ne means TO cut loose from
| big jeff before long Nothing to it.
| Lou: Bills the smoothest cove to dish
out Dull con to the papers that ever hap
| pened He'll keep his champs name in
| PRINT even II there's nothing doing. I'll
| put you wise to little. secret. Bi1's
never been the same man since he tried
| to pull me in under his wing and got
turned down If you only knew the offers
| that guy made me, and, been refused.
/ you'd feel pround to think you beat him
| to it. CT course I'm out a little in pocket
on the deal, but l look to you to make
| that square when we begin gathering in
| the spondulix. You don't need any writ
ten contract with me, go ahead and make
my matches. The professors word is a
! good as bond any old time.
| l hear Charley Mitchell has made
! tracks for home again. Artful boy,
Charley is. He got next that | was on
his trail and skipped in a hurry. None
only hope they won't all take to the
briny before you get me out of the pal
| ace for bugs.
I may as well tell you right now, there
| amt much use in trying to make Jeffries
| come to time. You couldn't pull him
| into the ring with me. I've had him
! cowed for many long day. Maybe
! though you could premise that I'd LET
him stay and then have ms hand him the
| double cross. 1t goes against my con-
| science to play crooked, but If YOU say
! we need the money, make a deal on these
/ lines.
/ And now think TIL pull the gong on
! myself. as I'm tired swinging the quill
and the literary atmosphere around this
joint is bloomin' cloudy. There's q bIoke
tied down q few feet away from me
| believing like bloody bull. Thinks
| he's shadow and tried to walk through
a stone wall this morning. Two ribs
! cracked and his conk spread ali over his
| face. Booze was the ca use OF his dewn-
! fail Well, Well. drinks a curse, as rye
] tried to tell many fine young fellows