Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-01
WITH THE wREsTLERs.
Piening Wins One Fall From Carl
 Norheck

John Fleming, the Butcher BOy,' clinched his right to the title of Graeco- Roman wrestling champion of America by defeating Carl Norbeck, the Norwegian champion, at the Len OK Iyceum last night. The large hall l was packed, and although the affair was listless at times there was plenty of excitement while it lasted. Pien- ing secured one fall. Norbeck was careful after that and proved to be stiff proposition to solve. Piening did most of the work and was in no dan- ger of being thrown except near the
 closing minutes of the match. He grew a bit careless, then, and Norbeck caught him in rolling fall, which of course did not count. The match ended at 12 o'clock and Hugh Leonard of the New York A. C., who 1 acted as referee, rendered his decision | in favor of Fleming. Both men were fresh at the conclusion of the bout. Norbeck's weight was announced at 2O3 pounds. The Butcher Boy" seal ed in the neighborhood of I'll pounds Jack Quinn was behind Piening and Andy Walsh of Brooklyn seconded Norbeck. George Bothner was time keeper for Norbeck and Jimmy Hand Ter held the watch for the Butcher
 Boy" The bout was limited to two hours The Strangle hold was barred. They began at 1923.
 Norbeck got a waist lock at the fifth minute and forced Piening down.
 The Butcher Boy by clever maneu-
 vering worked himself up. Norbeck was strong and showed Fleming against the ropes. The ropes were not taut and Fleming came dangerously near being precipitated among the audi ence Fleming then played for fore hammer lock and swung Norbeck around.
 In doing so he caught NorbeclS's left hand for bar and had Norbeck on one shoulder. Norbeck was ill q try ing position He squirmed and tossed like top, but it was no use, For Pien- ing. with a firm grasp, brought both the Norwegian's shoulders to the mat. The fall was square and clean-cut. The time was 3 minutes and 45 sec onds.
 An intermiSSion of 10 minutes. en- sued before the match was resumed. At the termination of the hour Nor beck was down and rest of 10 min utes followed. It was seven minutes of midnight when the match was con cluded. The men had until F o'clock in which to complete their compact, according to previous agreement. The final minutes were exciting. Nor beck almost had Piening's shoulders to the mat. but the Butcher Boy' wriggled out in time and escaped.
 The following from q Philadelphia exchange is interesting: Harvey Par ker, the great wrestler. arrived i'll town last night with Manager Bob Manchester aud q roll of money as thick as his muscular arm Parker will wrestle all corners at the Monu- mental theater this week as usual, and several men have been booked to appear on the mat. Haryey's chief worry, however. is the growth of the sentiment i'll favor of Charles J. Weiss's Baltimore wrestler Americus August Schoenlein) and the defiant attitude of man and manager. There fore he posted $100 as forfeit for a wager anywhere from that sum up to $1,O00 for an eyen-up match, best two out of three falls. to come off this week Parker says if Americus wishes to evade this match. believing Parker is too experienced. he will, on the same terms, put q novice, pupil of his, on the mat against Americus. This man is John J. Little, who will arrive this week"
 George V. Tuohey, manager of Charley Wittmer, has received an of- fer of purse for mixed style match between Wittmer and Parr. to take place in Buffalo before the Industrial Athletic club early in this month. Tuohey said that he would hardly con- sider the proposition. but added that if Parr would agree to meet the Gin cinnati man in a straight GraecO-Ro- man contest he would be accommo- dated with q good-sized bet. It's funny that all these fellows are side stepping Wittmer when he asks for q match at Graeco- Roman said Tuo- hey. s.Wittmer has never lost fall at that style, although the referee in the Mcleod match thought so. and he alone was of that belief. Everybody near the ringside said that Wittmer was not within three inches of being downed. and I rather guess that when this is the unanimous opinion of even the warmest admirers of Mcleod there must be some truth in it. How eyer, that's neither here nor there. If Parr wants to meet Wittmer l am ready to make the match but prefer it at Graeco- Roman. Wittmer has plenty of work ahead and he is inn proving all the time i'll catch-as-catch- can. but I want to keep him ill his own style, if possible. Wittmer is now at NIuncie, Ind, and has q crack catch as-catch-can wrestling partner, to whom his splendid showing in the first fall here against Mcleod is due. In a little while Charley will be as good as the best at catch-as-catch-can, ana then I suppose all the feIlciys who are now champions at that style will find themselves too busy to tackle the