Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-13
WITH TIE NRESILERS.
Articles of Agreement Signed
 For Dwyer and Wittmer.

For DWyer and Wlttmer. It will Take Place at City Hall Next
 Thursday Night-Henderson, 'The
 Butcher Boy" May Meet Atlas in
 the Preliminary-Bot Men Have
 Started In To Train-Wrangle Over
 the Parker and Bothner Match.
 Charley Wittmer, the American Graeco- Roman champion, resumed training this morning for his three style contest with Prof Dwyer, which is scheduled to take place at City hall next Thursday night. Wittmer is in the best of shape now and is lighter than when he was here before. He has been wrestling steadily in the west and the result is that he is almost on edge at all times. He is very conf dent that he will turn the tables on Dwyer this time, as he confesses that he held his opponent too cheap on the occasion of their last match.
 Wittmer will have the benefit of the fastest kind of workouts, as he has with him Mort Henderson, the Roches- ter Butcher Boy" who has met all the crack wrestlers in fifteen minute bouts and has made credfIable show ings with them all. Henderson is only 20 years of age, stands ! feet 9M inches and weighs 205 pounds. He is one of the handsomest specimens of physical culture in the country. and q ia,Jr ,,l .. AL. champion at catch-as-catch-can Hen- derson has held such good men as Jen- kins, Mcleod Parr, Atherton and oth- CTS even up in ffteen-minute contests and had all the better of "Butcher Boy' Fleming at Buffalo recently.
 T will be 50 per cent faster next Thursday night than I was when l met Dwyer before,'' said Wittmer this morning at the Democrat office, .sand as 1 have good line on him now I cannot see how he has chance to win l thought so before. however. and he may fool me again, but I hardly think so'
 The following is q copy of the arti cles of agreement under which the men will wrestle:
 Articles of agreement entered into this 12th day of March. 1902, by and between Charles Wittmer of Cincin nati, o., and M. J. Dwyer of Water bury, Conn, whereby they agree to en gage in wrestling contest in the City hall at Waterbury, Conn. on the nigh of March 20, 1902, under the followins conditions:
 Contest to be for $100 q side. bes two falls out of three, one bout eacf at Graeco-Roman, catch ch-as-catch-car and Cornish styles: the winner to talk, fo per cent and the loser to take ?: per cent of the net gate receipts. EacI side to post forfeits with D. T.. Ma loney of the Waterbury Democrat. wh, Is selected to referee the contest
 All falls to be pin falls, and should Ine contestants roll or be pushed iron the mat they shall return to center anC resume wrestling in as nearly the sam, position as practicable as when or dered to break.
 Each of the principals to have repre- sentatlon at the doors of the hall an, 1t IS further agreed that points at issu, not covered by these. articles shall h, determined by mutual consent by ant With the approval of the referee.
 GEORGE V. TUOHEY,
 For Wittmer
 M. J. DWYER
 Manager Tuohey is anxious to shoy Henderson against anybody who care to meet him in preliminary to the bi: match, and an effort will be made t, secure Atlas, the big Bridgeport wrest Ter to meet him. Failing this Tender son is willing to agree to throw Kell, five times in an hour at any style Kell, may choose.
 1 Max Luttbeg of St Louis and vii liam Lawrence of Brooklyn have beer matched to meet ill catch as catcl can style wrestling match for tn, l lightweight championship of Amer l ica. The bout will be decided il l Mannerchor hall, in Fifty-sixth street New York; on Monday evening next The winner of this match will stant I ready to meet George Bothner or liar vey Parker. This will be Luttbeg 1 first bout since coming east. Stev, l O'Donnell says he has q champion il his man Lawrence, and with both mel l confident the contest should be an in l teresting one.
 To strangle or not to strangIe is tn, l question which is agitating the liar vey Parker and George Bothner camp at present, and it threatens to prove stumbling block to their wrestlin. match scheduled for March 22 ill tn Lenox Lyceum. When the articles O agreement were signed this importan point was overlooked. Parker in sists that all holds be allowed, whil Bothner contends that the strangl hold usually leads to objectionable tao tics and is unfair, particularly wher one man has an advantage in weight and he will not go ahead unless thi l hold is barred.