Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-23
ON THE MAT
Dwyer and Jack Munroe to Meet at
 Glens Falls To-Night.

Glens Falls To-Night.
 While waiting for someone to take him on in the ring, Jack Munroe, the pugilist, is going to try his skill on the mat. The big miner has arranged a match with NJ. J. Dwyer of Waterbury and the pair will come together at catch-as-catch-can style tonight at Glens Falls, N. Y., for $20O a side and purse. The conditions are best two in three falls.
 Nick Elliott, the New York heavy weight wrestler, has made another match. Next month at Saratoga he will meet Leo Pardello or Charley Leonhanit of Newark. Elliott Is. in the best of condition and is improving every day. He says he has abandoned his trip to England to wrestle Jack Carkeek because the necessary expense money was not forthcoming.
 Tn letter to the Norwich Bulletin, Charles Leonhardt of Newark writes that he will arrive there Friday for his match with Prof Dwyer. He states that he Is s@re he can beat him and that he will N in the best of condition to face him. He realizes that Dwyer is one of the best wrestlers in the coun- try, but despite that he will do his best to defeat him.
 In the event of a victory oyer Jim Corbett, Jim Jeffries will make his ap- pearance in a wrestling bout. Billy Roache, Tom Jenkins nfanager, is ar- ranging a match Between the two, the same to be decided at Cleveland in Oc- tober. Jeffries is credited with know ing a lot about wrestling. His forte is Graeco- Roman although he Is ac- uuainted with the catch-as4catch-c rules.
 Antonio Pierri. the Terrible Greek" who discovered Yousouf and other Turkish wrestlers, in "a letter to a friend in New York writes that he will leave England for America the latter part of August with a Turk who he thinks can defeat any wrestler in the business. tPierri in his letter says he is not at liberty to divulge the name of his protege, but assures the public that his man is neither Hali Adali nor Nouralah. Pierrf is at present in Lon- don, where he is managing two Arab ian wrestlers.
 Negotiations for match betwee George Hackenschmidlt and Jack Car keek, to be decided in London within a few days time, are now on. A few days ago CaTkeek in answer to Hack enschmidt's challenge to throw him ten times in an hour at Graeco-R Roman or as-catch-can style, wrote to the London Sporting Life that if Hacken- schmidt would post n forfeit and bet $500 on the side he would sign articles at once. This Hackenschmidt has done, and all that is necessary now to make the match binding is for Carkeek to cover the money. Carkeek has promised to do so this week. KILN
 Pop Bikes. who is arranging a wrestling carnival to be decided at Saratoga next month, is trying to bring about match to a finish between Max Wiley of Rochester and George, Both ner. Wiley has been anxious to meet Bothner for some time, but the barrier in preventing a. match in the past has been the weight question. Wiley is nominally welterweight, while Both ner can reduce to 1855 pounds without much of an effort. Botlner says he will be only too pleased to meet Wiley, provided the Rochester boy will get to 13S pounds. Wiley is xepected to ac- cept under these conditions
 Harvey Parker, who after this year will quit the wrestling business. is to make another trip to England He will not go until next January. When Par ker was abroad two years ago he creat- ed mild sensation. owing to his size. After he had defeated all of the best wrestlers in and out of his class in England, he met Bull Dog Clayton, the supposedly great wrestler at that time, and threw him in hurry. Clay toms manager, a wealthy English book maker was so impressed with Parkers style that he asked the latter if it was true that he Parker) had thrown Er- nest Roeber. Parker said it was true and then Clayton's packer laughed. "1'll honly believe hit hif if you throw a French wrestler I'll manage said the Englishman. Parker told Clayton's S representative to produce his man. The Frenchman weighed 24o pounds and had a good reputation. Parker, with a few delft strokes, put the Frenchman on both shoulders twice, the whole bout not consuming more than eight cen minutes. When the struggle was over Clayton's 1baclSer took Parker by the hand and after shaking 1t impress sively said: ''Me boy, hime mighty glad t meet you. say you're a deucedly clevah fellow and take this if pun note as a present" After that Parker found a good friend during his stay in England.
 NEWS OF THE WHEELMEN.