Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-09
ON THE MAT.
Farmer Burns Loses to Lundin the
 Big Swede.

H dTIuGT buTIlS lIOS6S IU LuAubA oAAO
 Big Swede.
 At Miners Bowery tiheater last night two wrestling bouts under catch-as- catdh-can style were decided. The feature contest was between Leo Far deIlo of Italy and Alods Gauntter, known professionally as Carl Pons, of Montreal. This was Pons's first ap- pearance on the mat in New York, and lnhs showing was cr-edEtable- The men wrestled for $25 @ side and a purse of $25. Pons surprised the crowd with his strength and dleverness.
 Alt the ftenHh minute i'm trying for crotch hold PardeGlo visited his leg and could not do himself justice after that. In the remaining minr1tes Pons was the aggTessor and did lhis best to throw ParIeElo. The Italian, however, was crafty and managed to stay 1t out. The decision and tfhe money went to Pons.
 Two featherweights Kid Herne and Young Herman, had an interesting bout. Herman knew more about the art and gained faIl with a half-Nel- son in two dninultes.
 Fully five hundred admirers of the art of wrestling braved Datst nights storm and jo1lrneyed to the New Lon don opera house to witness the return match between .Htalmar Lundin of Worcester, Mass, and Farmer" Burns of Davenport, Iowa. At fihe last meet ing of these men, held two weeks ago Lundin was declared the winner be- cause of tho inability of Burns to throw him twice in an hour as agreed lat tch-as-catch-c style.
 At the call of time both men started in hard and vigorous and each ap- peared in excellent shape. Lunldin had a tremendous advantage in weight, butt was mot as active as Burns, despite the datter's bout the night be- fore with Professor Dwyer. For ten minutes all the work WAS done by Burns and at last l1is efforts were re- wantied for, amid tremendous applause, he secured an English bar-lock hold upon Lundin and while standing be- tween hts legs Burns slowly double barred him ito the ground, forcing both shoulders to touch the mat. The first bout was therefore awarded to Burns after 21 minutes and 10 seconds of hard work.
 The next bot wals at Graeco- Roman style and it was at this style that Lun- din appeared at his best. As an offset to weight, however, Burns agility showed tfaIt 11e dboo knew a trick or two about the art that years of prac- tiice had taught him. His evasions from seemingly faltal hodds by Lundin were remarl1abIe and for nearly 15 minutes nehtSher gained an advantage. Lunddn at this stage of the game made up his mdnd to go in, win or lose, and managed to secure a bar Nelson, changing it to reversed Nelson and laying his whole weight upon Burns chest forced the latter to the mat. Time, IS minutes and 10 seconds. As Lunltn secured his fall in the quickest time it was his choice as to the style of the final and decisive bout anld he chose his favoTite style, Graeco- Roman.
 Tn the wdnd-up Llndin became the aggressor from the start, but clever work on the part of Burns made it diff. ficult for him ito secure good holds Burns was frequently applauded for | his nimb1eness in breaking holds. and | occasionally took c. try alt the lead hm- self, but tFhe Swede was too big fo1 him to manage at this style of wrest | Ming. He tried all the tricks he knew but it was am updhill job. Lundin put forth his best effort and after q min utes and 10 seconds of struggling he secured a half Nelsom on Burns and by "a quick movement threw the latter up on his back and forced him fairly and squarely ito touch both shoulders to the | floor.
 l Referee Rice then awarded the con, test do Lundin.