Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

not wrestle without bringing every part of
his body into active service. and therein
lies the secret of correct proportion, perfect
health and ideal physical culture.
Wrestling is peculiarl5s adaptable to the
man who has built up fairly good muscles
by means of the simpler forms of exercise.
such as those taken a few minutes every
day without paraphernalia. These muscles
have been developed singly or in groups:
they demand rounding out as whole.
Moreover, their possessor needs to learn
how best to use them and how best to look
his best-in other words, how to carry him
self with natural grace. Wrestling will
give these things.
For purposes of physical culture take up
wrestling moderately. Remember that the
object is exercise, not fall, and curb any
tendency to going in too violently and
thereby OVERRIDING good thing.
Beneficial Effects.
You will not be exercising long before
you will discover that wrestling not only
builds up muscles and gives grace, but
that the incidental squeezing produces a
massage effect, which puts the skin In the
pink of condition; that the eye and the
mind are sharpened; that 1t tends to per-
feet control of the entire body, and that,
as means of self-defense. it is invalu-
able. And because you realize all these
things you will give very little or no
thought to scraped elbows and knees or
other minor diScomfortS.
At the present time the most popular
form of wrestling in America is that known
as catch-as- catch-can 1t is all that the
name implies. 1t is fair to change holds
as often as desired and all holds are fair.
Catch-as-catch-can is largely in favor be-
cause 1t is the most active and the most
natural style of wrestling, owing to the
latitude allowed in holds. For the same
reason 1t is perhaps somewhat better as an
all-round exercise than any of the other
three well-known forms-Greco- Roman,
Cumberland and Northumberland and Cor
nish.
governing the length of bouts and rest
periods. Simply wrestle until tired and re-
sumo again after a breathing spell If you
still feel Ike 1t. 70
hold to it's ultimate issue. If you secure
one and thereby get your opponent in your
power count 1t a point in your favor re-
lease him and begin over again.
Dress for the exercise in an athletic shirt,
old loose trousers and tennis shoes or or
binary rubber slippers Remember that
the exercise can be taken in room or in
the back yard of the home well in a
gymnasium on a mat. If the bout Is held
in room be sure to have the windows wide
open while exercising.
The following are four of the oftenest
employed holds in catch-as-catch-can. From
a little study of them the beginner can
evolve many holds of his own.
The Referees Hold.
In catch-as-catch-can the bout may be
started with any one of the thousand and
one holds permissible in this style of wres-
Ting Professionals, however, generally
waste so much time trying for a hold that
it is now customary for the referee to or
der them to take what is known as the
referees hold. In wrestling for exercise it
is we'll to start in this way, for the average
man hasn't all day before him for muscular
recreation.
To gain this position each wrestler bends
until his back almost forms a right angle
with his legs. Then he places the left Tor
the right hand firmly on the back of his
opponents neck, while his right hand
grasps the opponents left arm at the ell
bow, the thumbs resting on the lower part
of the bicep. In general the feet firmly
planted about three feet apart, with one
slightly in advance, so that they will give
broad base in upright work. The body
and hips are as far away from the opponent