Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-15
NTH TIE WRESTLERS.
Busy as bees Are the Chaps in
 the Wrestling Game.

Reinecke, Who Was to Wrestle Dwyer,
 Has His Arm Hurt by Three Min
 ute Hammer Lock-Tom Jenkins
 and Tom McInerney Face Each 9th
 CT To-Night-Ge Bothner Offered
 Big Money to Go Over to England
 Dan Mcleod Fails to Get Fleming in
 a Match.
 New fork. Doc ,:,- < date has been arranged for the contest between George Ro:bTcr ahG Tom JenK.ns- The two are to meet i'll this city at Lac Grand Central Palace on Decalaoer %. This was ..c:dtu upon at ses, sion between .he managers of 10th men yesee iry. On Tuesday the wrestlers Will hold q meeting for inc purpose of selecting q referee. Both ner is in fa.or of Laying an cSper;- enced maa G'iie.ate. Gnd it is pos-it l'e that HugIley ;.ep'arI. wrestling ip- structof cf The Now York A. C.. wi be chosen. BGthncr prefers him at1 Jenkins says that he has no objection. The names of four other men for the office will be given consideration. Jen- kins will undertake to throw Bothner four times in one hour, feat which John Fleming, the Butcher Boy, ," failed to do. Bothner's friends be- dieve that notwithstanding his strength and weight Jenkins cannot perform the trick. @z
 Billy Newman, manager of the New folo A. C., New York, has notified Frank Richheimer. manager of Leo Pardello, that he will offer a purse for a match between the Italian and the winner of the Fischer-Herrick contest, which is to be decided before his club on December 19.
 The def of John Piening the s'Butcher Boy" has been accepted by 5 John Rooney, the Giant Gripman, and they are to have it out in a limit ed bout in Chicago next month. Roo ney is an expert at Graeco-R Roman style. He has defeated some of the crack wrestlers and he is confident of lowering Piening's co1ors. ~s-~
 Word comes from England to the eff feet that the National Sporting club Of London intends holding another wrestling tournament in which Ameri- can and foreign wrestlers will be asked to compete. Already a number of wrestlers of note in this country have signified their intention of entering the Graeco-Roman and catch-as-catch-can styles.
 Jerry Donnelly of Ireland, who ar rived in this country about six months ago, has signed articles to meet John ny Connors at Hamilton, Ont, on De- cember IS. The match is at catch-as- scatch-can and Graeco-Roman styles, alternating, best two in three falls to count. Connors is the champion mid- dleweight of Canada. and his friends are backing him to defeat the Irish man.
 The other night at the Southport Winter Gardens, London, wrestling match took place between Tom Can non and J. Brown of New York. Can non, who undertook to throw his op- .ponent twice in thirty minutes or for felt $50, got the first fall in six min utes and thirty seconds, and the sec ond in seventeen minutes and forty seconds A full Nelson was used by . Cannon in securing each fall.
 By posting a forfeit at Batavia, N. T., Ed Atherton. the big up-the-state wrestler, reserves the right to secure the first chance against Alois Con- thier, the "Giant Frenchman.' Some time ago Atherton challenged Con- thier, and the latter said that if the American deposited some money he would cover it and arrange match. Atherton wants to wrestle Gonthier at either cafch-as-catch-ca or Graeco- Roman to a finish.
 The contest between Tom Jenkins and Jim Parr is to be held in Buffalo. After waiting for the various clubs to bid for the match the rivals agreed to appear before the Sixty-fifth Regiment Athletic association of Buffalo on De cember 19. Alois Gonthier on the same night will appear in the main preliminary. Gonthier is to meet two men, George Winzenreid and Louis Steinagle. He will endeavor to throw them twice each within thirty min utes.
 The London Mirror of Life of De cember 3 announces the death of Sam uel BattishilI. formerly a well known wrestler and the holder of the cham pionship belt for the West of England The body of BattishilI was discovered 
 Meadows, on which the Plymouth races are held. He had been missing for some time. Tn his day Battishill was perhaps one of the finest expon- ents of catch-as-catch-can and collar and elbow styles in England. Battis- hill was about 50 years old.
 Leo Pardello. after a fairly success ful trip on the road. has returned to New York Pardello got home on Fri day and immediately looked up a match with Nick. Elliott. the heavy weight. Frank Richheimer, Par dello's manager, has received ain offer from a club in Scranton to have Par .dello meet Elliott there. but the purse offered was not to his liking and nego- fiations as far as that place is con eerned have been abandoned. Rich heimer is now communicating with walter Kelly. the Buffalo promoter and expects to have the bout held in that city
 Tom Jenkins is scheduled to meet Tom McInerney of Ireland at Cleve- land tonight in straight match, best Two in three falls. at cateh-as-catch-