Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-02
ON THE MAT.
The Wrestling Game Again
 Worked to Death.


 and Billy Cnaki-Quinn and McMul-
 len are One and the Same Person
 Cities are All Getting a Bit of It.
 The wrestling game is being worked to death in Connecticut again and ev- cry one of the large cities is getting a bit, of it. Waterbury had it first and while there were some good matches here it was very evident from what John B. Kelly said in public print that most of the matches were crooked Kelly himself admitted that he had wrestled but one square match in this city and that was the one between himself and Swanson. If all the oth' CTS were fixed, then there must be some pretty good sports in this city. The plot was disclosed when Max Luttbeg and Kelly entered into a fixed match, but at the last minute Luttbeg insisted on the original set of articles being used. Those articles called for 8 straight match. There was a sec ond set of articles which called for Luttbeg to forfeit to Kelly. When the latter discovered that Illttbeg was going to give him the double cross Kel- ly then owned up that the match was to have been crooked and that he was to win. Some days later he came out in public print and said. that he only wrestled one match in this city that was straight. The writer does not believe, however, that his matches with Henry Keatins, Jack Heating and Max Shack were crooked, but has no proof further than the fact that there was bad blood between Kelly and those mentioned and fixed match could not possibly be arranged Some days ago the Democrat sporting writer hinted at a match in which Kelly was to take part in Bridgeport with Billy Cnaki. That match took place last night and Cnaki won two straight falls, the first one in minutes 45 sec onds, and the second one in minutes 15 seconds. This match also looks peculiar because there is no wrestler in this state can put Kelly on his back in the time mentioned above. Kelly can wrestle when he so wishes and he de- monstrated that fact in the Swanson match. Cnaki could not throw him twice nor once in an hour if he was All SOAu1tIOl, OuI pSIAdpS NCliy was not in condition. That is the most charitable way to look at 1t. It is pe- culiar, too, that in all the matches that have taken place in Bridgeport Dick Howell has been the referee but he did not oficiate last night. Evidently there were some, suspicious, because only a small crowd was in attendance. So much for this end of the game.
 A fellow named Quinn has been dropping into several of the cities and has been making matches with Tom Sharkey, Professor Dwyer, Farmer Burns and others. It now turns out that Quinn is no other than McNIillan of Buffalo, or Scranton, who has wrestled Dwyer any number of times and who is we'll known in Buffalo and Scranton. :a # 2@
 In connection with those affairs it is difficult to tell just when a match is on the level or not. True, faked as some of them evidently were, they fur nished good sport and there are many who liked. to see them because of the clever exhibitions Wrestlers have the habit of changing their names so often that it is hard to keep track of them. You cannot prevent the West ,lers from working the game because, if there is anything. lost they are the losers. There have been but few matches where clubs or individuals aside from the wrest1ers themselves assumed the responsibilities. The Trinity club which organized before the strike had plan mapped out, but the strike interfered with the matches they had in view. Jenkins, Parr. Me- Leod, Pons and other good ones would have been brought here and may yet if everything turns out all right.
 At Miners theater Joe Bernstein met Harry Model Of the Reliance A. c. at catch-a -as-catch-can style. Bernstein es saved to throw Model in fifteen min- utes. He failed, however, but his showing was far from being a dis grace.
 There was a gruelling handicap wrestling match at the London theater on the Bowery last night between Carl Pons of Montreal and Leo Pardello of Italy. The bout was to have been for one hour, and Pons was to have thrown Pardello three times during that peri cd to win. Owing to a defective mat several minutes were clipped off the wrestling time. The Frenchman cut out the work from the start He buffet ed PardellO about at will. The mat. which was simply a layer of thin car pet, offered no protection to the wrest- lers, and every time they landed on it they were stunned. Pardello fell with his head against the floor and cut deep gash. After nineteen minutes POns secured a double Nelson and pin- ned Pardello for a clean fall. From this until the end, Pons worked valiant ly for two more falls, but was unable to secure them,~ so PardelIo was de- clared the winner.