Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-17
ON THE MAT.
Max Luttbeg Doing Good Work in
 New York

Max Luttbeg Doing Good Work in
 New York.
 Hamilton, Ont, March 17.-Dan s. Mcleod, the champion heavyweight catch-as-catch-can wrestler, is in town again, and will remain here until the eve of his match with Tom Jenkins, which takes place at Buffalo.
 The champion has with him A1exan- der Samuelson, one of the colony of giant Swedish wrestlers now in this country. Mcleod is looking better than in many weeks, and expects to be in the very best condition when he ! meets both Jenkins and Parr. Changes in the dates of these matches have been made necessary because of the liability to secure the Sixty-fifth ar mory at Buffalo on the dates origin ally agreed upon. The Jenkins match, under the new arrangement, will be held on the evening of April 3, and Parr's turn will come exactly three weeks later, April A.
 Mcleod confirms the dispatch from l Worcester, Mass, touching upon his retirement from the game, and declares that after he Is done with Jenkins and Parr he doesn't care a rap what be comes of the championship title. He will leave no stone unturned, however to retire as champion, and to this end l will train faithfully from now on.
 Max Luttbeg of St Louis who began weeks engagement at Miners Bow cry theater yesterday, meeting all | RnTnnrc hod 4o, ,rr1 Schmidt, known as the Russian Gf ant" Schmidt, who is best at Graeco- Roman style, agreed to meet Luttbee at catch-as- -eatch-can and as a result suffered defeat. Schmidt, however was not disgraced. He went on fo1 fifteen minutes for $25, but just mis sed the purse and victory by thirty seconds. Schmidt, although he topped Luttbeg by thirty pounds in weight acted on the defensive He sat on his haunches at once and waited for Lltt- beg to begin work.
 | Ihe St Louis man began by securing half-Nelson, which Schmidt promp+. ly broke. Then he tried for a full. Nelson, which Schmidt also prevented Realizing that 1t was useless to snend all his strength, Luttbeg then acted on the defensive and for five minutes the two indulged in some exceptionally clever wrestling. Firing of this both | began tonrough matters and at the end of the tenth minute Luttbeg was again on top. He had two fine holds on l Schmidt. but the latter was as unsur mountable as the Chinese wall. Lutt beg twisted him severely, but could not budge him more than from one shoulder to the other. Finally. when the spectators expected to see Schmidt stick it out, the Russian Giant" be- came tired. He could not resist anv of the holds which Luttbeg applied his courage alone aiding him to make any kind of a showing. When Lutt beg at the end of 14 minutes placed his hands on Schmidt for a quarter Nelson the foreigner turned complete. ly over and fell on his back in defeat The bout lasted 14 minutes and 30 sec onds.
 Joe Bernstein, the pugilist, who was billed to wrestle this week at the Lon don theater, catch-as-catch-can style could not find suitable opponents ant was compelled to give a boxing exhibi tion instead. Bernstein will, however resume his operations on the mat mex Thursday night when he tackles Pau Kelly of New York in fifteen minut, bout for $100 a side. Twenty-fiv, dollars of this sum was posted by eacl side last nioht