Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-09-18

A well satisfied but somewhat DIS
appointed crowd left Wilder Hall at
80 O'Clock last night. They had
inst seen one of the best wrestling
matches that has ever taken place IN
this city After hard struggle
Charles Leonhardt downed II. +.
Hansen, of this city, in the last two
bouts. The first fall was won by the
local man.
The main bout, which was In
Graeco- Roman style, the best two
falls out of three, with the strangle
hold barred and the pin falls only to
count. commenced at g. 80, when both
wrestlers appeared on the mat. At
first both tried for the old neck hold,
neither one wishing to fall to the hoor
first. Suddenly Hansen put all his
strength into the battle, and. grabbing
Leonhardt by the waist, threw him
to the floor Charley was all there
and as quickly as he struck the mat
he was on his knees, and then slowly
but surely the little middle weight
champion worked his way on ton OF
Hansen. Then commenced fierce
struggle. Leonhardt got hold OF
Hansen's head, and tried TO throw the
Danish champion on his back. Han
sen escaped, however, and both wrest-
lers were on their feet again. Hansen
then grabbed a neck hold and gave
Leonhardt's head two or three good
pulls, but Leonhardt was wire and
gave Hansen several of the same kind.
Hansen tried for the body hold and
again threw Leonhardt to the mat.
This time he followed the game up
closely and before Leonhardt could
tell what was up the Dane had gotten
the quarter Nelson and arm lock and
over went the Newark man, the time
being just fifteen minutes and thirty
seconds.
At the end of the first bout Hansen
looked pretty we'll played out, and
went out for few minutes rest
At the start of the second bout both
wrestlers refused to fall to the mat
and thew gave each other all kinds of
neck holds in their efforts to tire the
other out.
After fifteen minutes of this kind of
work Hansen threw Leonhardt to the
mat, but Leonhardt was like creased
pig and seemed to slip through the
hold with ease. They did not stay
very long On the mat for both jumped
to theil feet at the same time and
again began the battle for the neck
hold.
Again Hansen threw Leonhardt and
again the middle weight broke away.
Hansen tried for the head hold and
arm lock. Int il was useless, for Leon
hardt would not have it so, and easily
liberated himself Suddenly, before
Hansen could tell what was doing,
Leonhardt was on top of him. He
tried the body hold and quickly slipped
his arm to the half Nelson and arm
hold and over went the Dane as quick
as a flash. Laonhardt held him There,
and nut his shoulders to the mat, the
time being thirty-seven minutes and
fifty seconds. At tho end OF the Sec
ond bout both wrestlers were pretty
we'll done up, but both had one all IN
their favor and the crowd was happy.
After brief rest and a good rub
hing down, the wrestlers again took
their places. Leonhardt tried to get
a quick hold of Hansen's neck and
throw him to his knees, but the Dane
broke away and grabbed Leonhardt
by the neck. He could not hold,
however, and both sprinted about the
ring for fifteen minutes when Hansen
pulled Leonhardt to the mat by a
ouick movement and held him, turn
ing him over until Leonhardt' S should
ers nearly touched the mat, but just
as the crowd had decided in favor OF
Hansen, Leonhardt sprung a big sem
sation and broke away. Hansen was