Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-12
NTH HE NRESTLERS.
Jack Roach And Jack Harvey
 Wrestle to a Draw.

sHor Two. Hours and Forty Minutes
 They Struggled for Supremacy
 Roach Did All the Work While Har-
 .vey Acted On the Defensive-Both
 Men Were Tired and Were Willing
 to Quit When Time Was Called,
 The much talked of wrestling match Eor the 125 pound championship or the world between Jack Roach of this city and Jack Harvey of Brooklyn New York. was pulled off last night7in Con- eordia hall before 300 spectators and resulted in a draw after two hours and thirty minutes of wrestling. As soon as the men had donned their wrestling rigs Announcer Gene Wilson told the spectators of the terms of the match and the special conditions agreed upon. One of those conditions had a most important bearing on the match for it took from Jack Roach the only fall of the evening.
 The men faced each other on the call of time at ten minutes past nine o'clock After sparring for five min utes, each looking for an opportunity. Roach pulled Harvey to his knees with an arm hold. For twenty-five minutes then did Roach try all kinds of holds to put Harvey over on, his back, but from each hold he slipped away. Harvey was strong, perhaps the stronger of the two, and he broke all holds easily. Time after time did Roach try for the hammer-lock, but he could not hold it. With leg holds he raised Harvey and stood him on his head, but the head spin was used con- finually to get away from this position. Several times Roach attempted q scis- sors hold, but Harvey slipped away from it. The quarter-NeIsons were broken at will and the arm and crotch holds were also snapped like so much string. At the end of twenty five minutes Harvey slipped away from a quarter-Nelson and gained the top. He did no work of any account and in two minutes time he was again on the bottom and Roach was begging away with locks of all kinds trying to find a secure one.
 1t remained thus until one hour and fhirty-five minutes had passed when Harvey again slipped to the top. He was there but half minute when Roach was all over him again. He fad been working for the hammer-Iock and he partly secured it with the right hand He then slipped the left to 8 quarter Nelson and slowly turned Har- Ney over. The latter tried to wriggle out of it and in so doing he slipped toward the footlights and his shoul- ders went down on the bare floor. It was declared no fall. There were several kicks on this decision, but the agreement entered into was that no fall should count when the shoulders of either man was off the mat.
 AS the hands of the clock were go- ing toward twelve, the spectators be- gan to grow weary and some of them left the hall. Finally the seconds, John Es Kelly and Jesse Foley, agreed to a draw. It was an unsat- isfactory ending, but there was no pos- sible chance to see a fall made had the men wrestled all night and the last half hour of wrestling was not fast with the possible exception of the time when Roach got Haryey's shoulders off the mat.
 There WAS some interesting sport at Miners Bowery theater. where John Fleming is meeting all corners this week. Fleming tackled Billy Edwards of Harlem last night under Graeco- Roman rules. Ed wards went on the stage per- fectly fit. For the first five minutes it was nip and tuck, neither gaining an advantage. But Fleming soon be- came master of the situation and made Edwards tired breaking difficult holds. At the tenth minute Edwards escaped a hammer lock only to fall into a bridge. He broke this also and for the next 2 minutes the going was spirited. At the thirteenth minute, however Ed wards was all played out and could not avoid a full Nelson and was llrown. The. time was IA minutes and 10 seconds. A-arl Morlein of Harlem went on in the afternoon. Morlein was thrown in 8 minutes and 9 seconds. Piening will endeavor to throw two men tonight inside of twenty minutes at Graeco- Roman. They are Karl Lund. the Danish Giant" and Neil Olsen of Sweden.
 There was semblance of trough house" in the bout between Harvey Parker, the Little Demon," and 0SOISS botuHeF dt the hOnuOn tleafer last night The fact that Parker un- dertook to throw Bothner in fifteen minutes atch-as-catch-c style drew a large crowd. Both men were in prime shape. Bothner, as usual, showed exceptional cleverness in emerging from tight quarters. On two, occasions he was Tn a dangerous position and by clever footwork and skill got out of harms way. At the twelfth minute Bothner, in breaking half-Nelson, struck Parker on the right eye witiT his elboEy, raising a tiny '.mousev This spuifed the Little Demons and he sallied forth viciously. But try as he would he could not get Bothner over for q fall. There was q lot of demon stration at the finish when Referee James Mcdonald announced Bothner as the winner. At the matinee Parker fhrew a big fellow weighing nearly 200 pounds. rarker's rival was Sam Good win of New Yor.1. The. .bout was also at catcn-as-cath-can style. Goodwin was defeated in ten minutes. Tonight Parker will ,meet Max Luttbeg of St Louis
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