Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-09
WITH HE NRESlERS
Dwyer at Last Meets His Master
 in Charley Wittmer.

] Wittmer Secured the Graeco Roman l And Catch-As-C -Catch-C Can Styles - | Dwyer Took the Cornish Style Very Easily--Dwyer Was Outclassed in 1 Weight And Strength--Many Chal- l lenges Were Issued - Henderson 1 Wrestles a Fifteen Minute Draw l With Jim Magner.
 l In such a downpour of rain as pre- vailed last night it was hardly to be expected that City hall would be i filled with the lovers of wrestling to witness the match between Charley l Wittmer of Cincinnati and Professor ] NJ. J. Dwyer of Waterbury, yet there were at least eight hundred people present who had braved the storm to see the two best men in their class come together in a wrestling contest. The old Auditorium was missed last night for there is no denying the fact that it is the best place in the city to l witness an athletic contest of any l kind. There were few disappoint-
 
 place and there were also several an inducements and several challenges hurled promiscuously about The l spectators had begun to get impatient for it had passed the starting hour of S:I5 and was going to 9 o'clock and they were anxious as to whether there would be a match or not.
 1 Finally it was announced that Pro- ! af pYf1 Ao ha agreed to contest in the preliminary with Mort Henderson of Rochester, refused to do so. He was present on the stage, but he would not contest against the fiery-topped butcher boy. Atlas tried to explain to the audience 1 that he had burned his side in his baths in Bridgeport, but there were many present who believed that Atlas after getting a look at the husky lad l from Rochester got "cold feet and thought his place was off the mat, for that night at any rate. Manager George Tuohey evidently believed that Atlas had fiunlzed for he threw some i hot gaff into him and told the people l that he was willing to back his twen- l ty-two year old boy, Henderson, against the husky professor from Bridgeport at any kind of a game of 1 wrestling and he would let Atlas se- lect the style. He would bet him all kinds of money or he would handicap | him, but the former Graeco- Roman champion only smiled and said, Nay, nay, Georgie; you don't get me up against no such game as that, not this evening, dear boy"
 In the meantime, 'Farmer' Martin Burns, the one-time champion of the world, was introduced, and he put the audience in the best kind of humor by his peculiar method of delivering a challenge and by his actions in gen. eral. The Farmer wanted to chal- lenge the winner of the big contest and he said that he had come all the way from Big Rock, Indiana, to issue that challenge and he meant business. He told the audience he would like to show them a few new holds and locks and John E. Kelly came on the stage to try them with MT Burns. The holds and locks were not new by any means, but the method of explaining them was, and Burns made a hit with the audience. Burns and Charley Wittmer claimed that it was the first time they ever saw each other, but those who heard them say so winked the other eye. and it was the general opinion that all present last night were not strangers to each other.
 John E. Kelly had q little some thing to say last night too, and lie said it. He has been after the scalp of Professor Dwyer ever since his last defeat when Dwyer threw him three times and then injured him. This time he issued q challenge to wrestle T Dwyer, the latter to agree to throw him five times in one hour at Graeco- Roman style of wrestling. Kelly said that he had $25 posted with the sport ing editor of the Democrat snd he would wrestle for $50 and the winner to take the entire gate receipts. Dwyer accepted the challenge, but stipulated that he must have a purse of S2o0, and perhaps the match will be made to-day.
 Now all this did not happen before the matches, but some of fI came be. fore and the rest was interspersed throughout the rest of the bouts. The big boxing contest to be given by the Waterbury Athletic club under the management of William l.. Crowley was also announced and now came the first contest of the evening.
 James MagIar of the Brooklyn Ath' letic club consented to go on in the preliminary with Mort Henderson. Magner was fat, but strong, and the two gave a very neat exhibition. Hen derson showed that he was lively and well acquainted with the wrestling . game and he contented himself with slipping away from holds and work ing a little on Magner's neck and head Magner did as good as anyone could under the circumstances and the fifteen minutes passed by without a fall by either.
 In the big contest Wittmer won the toss and selected Graeco-Roman style at once. When he stripped it was seen that he had trained faithfully for the contest for he was in the pink of condition All the extra fat that was very noticeable when he appeared be- fore was missing and he looked the trained wrestler that he proved him.
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