Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-16
WRESTLING.
TOOK COIN
Lawson Defeated Conrad in
Oakville Last Night--Oak-
vile Sports Were Cameo
Outcome of Other matches

A big crowd was present at the
wrestling tournament which was Civ
en- in Judd's hall. Oakville, last night
1t was the long looked for contest for
Ia 800 purse between Henry Conrad
Of Oakyille and Charles Lawson of
Naugatuck. Sports were present
from Waterbury, WATERFOWL, Manga
tuck and Oakville and the chaps from
the latter place seemed to have the
most confidence and wanted to wager
all kinds of money before the match
took place. Conrad became the fa-
vorite right off and hundreds Of dol
lars were offered. but there were no
takers. This was surprising because
from the record of the two wrestlers
Lawson should have been made the ia
vorite The Oakville boys had lots
of fun with the Naugatuckians be-
cause of their lack of sand, but after
the match was over there were con-
gratula tons that the sand was lacking.
1T was said after the match was over
that the reason Lawson was not back
ed very heavily was because of his
being i'll for the past three days and it
was feared he would not be strong
enough to stand gruelling match.
The facts proved differently, however,
for he stood the gruel1ing he received
and gave back much with interest.
It was late when the two principals
came on the mat because the three
preliminaries were not started on
time and the big match was held back.
Both men were weighed in just before
coming on the mat and they weighed
within the required number of pounds,
115. There was but little delay after
they came on the mat, merely an ex-
PLANTATION of the articles of agreement,
and then they went at each other.
| Conrad started in to become the ag-
| gressor. but although he possesses con-
siderable strength he is not as clever
as Lawson and was gradually worn
out. Conrad with little coaching
will become a good man, but he must
| be taught to keep his head out OF
| jeopardy, for that was what helped to
beat him last night. They had been
| working for more than One1half hour
when Lawson. who was on top, Sc
cured head lock and gradually
/ twisted that part of Conrad's anatomy
until a look of agony came on his
/ face and hes looked anxiously toward
| his seconds. Lawson persisted In the
| lock and then suddenly slipped to a
quarter Nelson and arm lock and 1t
was all over with Conrad. As he lay
! on his back, still with the look of
pain on his face, he was called on by
/ his friends to break the hold. L can
! not" he replied. and he was right, for
he could not and slowly his shoulders
sank to the mat and as he felt hlmself
going he looked up at the referee and
/ whispered II give it up" and the
/ first fall was given to Lawson. There
/ had been cries of Strangle from some
/ Of Conrad's friends. but that was &C.
casioned by over enthusiasm for Con
rad himself knew there was no
strangle and his talking while In the
| hold proved it.
The second fall was secured very
! much quicker because Conrad had
| been punished and in less than three
minutes he fell victim to another
Nelson ana arm lock. The best pre-
liminary of the evening was that be.
| tween John Murphy of Oakville and
i Frank Speh of Derby. The OakV1lle
boy, although but a novice at the
game, kept Speh continually on the
run and neither secured fan in the
fifteen minutes of wrestling. John
Harmon Of WATERFOWL easily threw
johnson of Oakville twice in the fif-
teen minutes. Quinn, the Osborne.
town strong boy, went on with lie
| Vote of Fitchburg and there were nc
/ falls In their bout Altogether the
contests were good ones.
|