Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1903-02-21
WITH THE WREsTLERs.
Reinecke Fails to Throw Johnson In
Manchester.

Reinecke Fails to Throw Johnson In
Manchester.
South Manchester, Feb 21.-Many
sporting men We're present at the
wrestling match in the Armory opera
house last evening. The bout between
Madden and an unknown" was hrst
on the mat. The unknown" was
Billy Schellington of Hartford. Com
pared with Madden, Schellington was
of slight build. Madden started in on
the offensive and worked Schellington
up to the last half minute. Madden
got hammerlock on Schellington's
right hand and in about ten seconds
he had him down on his back. The
fall was made in four minutes and
eighteen seconds. David Nelson was
referee for the 60.
The second bout was the star go be-
tween Oscar Johnson, the welterweight
champion Of Connecticut, who has
never been defeated, and Charles
Reinecke, the nlfddleweight champion
of Ohio and Pennsylvania. BY the
terms of the match Reinecke was to
throw Johnson twice within an hour or
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to be declared the winner The strangle
hold was barred in the match. Rein
ecke was of much stockier build than
Johnson, who was the taller. John
son was on the defensive Reinecke
got johnson on the mat and for good
part of the go held him to, the mat. A.
favorite hold with Reinecke was a
quarter Nelson that he used very much
IN .Tn11nSor1sc
work on the mat. Two or three times
during the match Johnson got danger
Gus holds on Reinecke, but he cIeverly
broke them. He came down on Rein
ecke's nose after thirty minutes work
and the mat and both men were in a
very short time covered with blood
The last minutes of the match did not
liyen up much and it had been evident
for some time that there would be no
fall for either of the men, Reinecke
had the science and tricks, but John
son, though twenty pounds lighter, had
the strength. Reinecke was not in
good condition last night. He failed to
throw Johnson the two times accord
ing to the agreement and Johnson did
not throw him, but by the conditions
Johnson kept the side bet of $50 and
the entire gate receipts that amounted
to over 1925. Robert Magonigal of
Hartford and Thomas Raby of this
place were timers and David Nelson
was referee.
A local wrestler of prominence read
the item In the Times yesterday in
which Max Luttbeg, the New York
mat artist announced his intention Of
bringing big Nick Elliott Of the me-
Topolis to Brockton in the near future
to pull off a match with him. IT won
der why Luttbeg went to New York
to look for wrestlers,' remarked the
local light. There are a number of
men in this city who can put it all
over Max at wrestling and then toss
him over seven story building. If
Luttbeg intends to bring Elliott here
for the purpose of pulling off laid-up
match he will get sadly left. Brock
ton wants real matches, and not exhi-
bition bouts conducted on the New
York plan. Elliott is ''neye1
waser" and isn't even as good as
bulky George Burlingame of Balti-
more. IL Luttbeg actually wants
bona fde matches just let him come
right into town and announce that
fact. He will get all the trouble he
wants right here Brockton Times.
Harvey Parker had comparatively
easy thing of it at the Star
theater, Brooklyn, last night. The
Little Demons" challenge to throw
anyone inside of fifteen minutes al
catch-as-catch-can style was accepted
by Eddie Fitzgerald, Brooklyn youth
Fitzgerald acted on the defense from
the start He allowed Parker to gel
on top and once in this position Harvey
tossed his man about at will. Wher
Parker secured half Nelson the strug
gle was over. The time of the bout
was minutes and 30 seconds. Frank
R1chheimer acted as referee. At the
matinee the contest was more exciting
Sam Lutter of Greenpoint met Parker
for fifteen minutes Lutter tipped the
beam at 165 pounds, and was very
agile. Parker, when he made up his
mind to down Lutter, had not the
slightest trouble and accomplished the
trick in 8 minutes and is seconds
Lutter was much used up in the con
test and staggered to his dressins
room. Parker will have two oppon
ents tonight, Teddy litter. who sue
ceeded in staving Parker Off for twelve
minutes the other night and an nm