Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-28
WRESTLING.
TOn JENKINS
 CRATES SOME
Compares the Rules Here With Those in England Lays Down Some Good Suggestions on Game.

Tom Jenkins, the American wrestler WHO was recently defeated in London Dy Madrall, the Terrible Turk, made lalk at q meeting in the English me tropoiis the other day on comparative styles ln the catch as catch can meth ods as practiced in England and Amer ica.
 me meeting was an influential one ard was held in the offices of the Lon don Sporting Life for the purpose of arriving at more definite understand
 ing and the placing of contests under catch as catch can rules on a more equitable footing.
 Jeuklns criticised the American catch as catch can rules as compared With the English. They differed in this respect, that in America only inc strangle hold was barred. The strangle hold, ne said, is hold to punish plan, and that is not what is wanted in wrestling. If wrestler cannot win without causing excessive pain and bodily harm to his rival, then it could not be called wrestling. He ar gued that a referee ought to have it ln his power to compel a competitor to release lock which could not lead to fall, and which was put on mere ly for the purpose of punishing an op- ponent.
 The effect of the strangle hold is that ln time 1t puts man into an un. conscious state. He did not know of any other kind of hold that he could not get clear Of. Jenkins then pro- ceeded to demonstrate the force of his argument. The hammer-lock, he ex- plained, was used to upset an oppo- nent and not to inf1ict injury. He de monstrated several blows that Madrali put upon him in the recent match that the referee should have disallow- ed. He thought the full-nelson should be barred also the lacing of the fingers. In America they do not bar the double nelson but he thought they ought to. Another thing was the securing of holds while off the mat When wrest- ling with a much heavier Continental opponent he invariably found that he was being continually forced off the mat which was one of the tricks of the foreign wrestlers to gain a better hold They held their opponent in a certain position until he cried content, and then when his strength was ex- hausted he was turned over. The Jap had gone to England with his native style but one could not call that wrestling. It was purely rough and tumble show.
 As wrestling is on a higher plane and is more popular sport in Eng land than in this country, the follow ing rules adopted will be of interest:
 l. Every contest or competition shall be decided by not less than two, and preferably four, judges and referee. the latter to be appealed to if the judges disagree; one judge shall not be empowered to give a decision. The decision of the referee shall be final and, further, the referee shall have power to decide any point not provided for in these laws.
 2. The wrestlers shall take hold how and where they please, subject to the following restrictions: The hair, flesh, ears. private parts or clothes, may not be seized, the twisting of fingers and thumbs is forbidden, nor may such a hold be obtained that the fear of breaking or dislocation of a limb shall induce the wrestler to give the fall. It shall be unlawful to butt or to kick. but striking with the side of the foot shall not be deemed kick ing. The following chips are barred; The double-nelson, the arm or foot mp the back with the bar on, the strangle, the half-strangle, the hang. the flying mare with the palm uppermost and the foot twist.
 3. A fall Is obtained when a wrest- ler's two shoulders shall simultaneous ly touch the ground to the satisfaction of the judges.
 4. If no fall be obtained within ten minutes any two points, e, both ! both buttocks. or one shoul- l der and one buttock-simultaneously l touching the ground. shall constitute fall: if within the second ten minutes | neither competitor obtain a fall, the l wrestler first touching the ground with l pny part of his person other than l hands or feet, shall be declared the i loser. If. after wrestling thus for ten . minutes-thirty minutes in all-no fall be obtained. the judges shall de- 1 eide which wrestler be declared the | winner.