Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-07
WRESTLING.
JAPANESE A LOSER
Expert Japan Wrestler Goes Down Before Bothner- C0tch Wants a Go With Hackenschmidt

Hackenschmidt
 Rarely. if ever.. has New York wit messed such wild scene, born of ex- ultant enthusiasm, as greeted George BOthner in the Grand Central Palace last night when he gained the first fall from Katsuguma Higashi ill their test of the relative merits of wrestling and jiu-jitsr. Fully four thousand were in the house.
 Police Commissioner McAdoo occu- pied box, and when half-hOur had passed without fall in the second bout, he decided that the cops would need something quicker than that with which to subdue disturbers. Joe Hum phreys, who sat in the next box, sug gested that wallop in the jaw was more effective, and the commissioner smiled in approval.
 Harvey Parker, the Little Demon. failed to show up for his match with Aleck Swanson. after being apparently eager to wipe out the sting of his re- cent defeat by the Swede. Charles Wiley, announced by Harvey as the champion of New England, went on with Swanson i'll place of Parker, and the little Swede dOwned him in min utes and B seconds.
 The second card on the bill was a match between Koga and Roma, who illustrated the Japanese method of wrestling.
 At this style a fall is gained when ever either man is thrown on his back, KGga secured two falls and Roma one, or vice versa: they were as alike as two peas, and only close observer could tell who won.
 Tim Hurst was the referee. There was a slight delay at the start over a wrangle as to the rules. Finally Both ner gave in to all the Jap wanted, m- cluding that flying falls were to count. The match was for best three falls out of five.
 For the first minute it must be con fessed even BOthner was scared.
 With all the confidence in the world the little Jap walked up to him inl- mediately time was called and gave q sassy tug at the nape of Georges kl- mona.
 The Jap merely smiled at his failure to gain q fall in an instant, but clunS to Bothner's canvas balloon jacket, all the while chewing his gum with the utmost sangfroid.
 A short tussle and they fell to the mat. with Higashi on top, where he remained until Bothner thought it was time to gain fall.
 For IF ore than fourteen minutes the Jtfb Ifst,l been the aggressOr, ,'yafnly try ing to twist BOthner's kimOna across the front of his neck for a choke:
 He varied this at times with a strangle hold that had George blue Ill the face before he broke out.
 On these occasions the ui~ crowd was breathless. fearing some one or the calamities of "jiujits' might befall their idol.
 The one man in the hall who was not worried was BOthner. He quietly bided .his time. allowing Higashi to go as far as he liked in exposing his al- leped bone-breaking stunts.
 Suddenly. when all was so quiet that a falling snowflake would have sound ed like an explosion. BOtllner gave twitch, snatched up the un- Hagashi with hall Nei- son and body hold, and slammed nm over on his back.
 For an instant Higashi bridged, put mick as a flash Bothner switched to n leg and neck hold and pinned him down.
 Rothner won the first in IA minutes, 35 seconds. and the second m one hour' D, ,,,;nutac and IS seconds.
 Bothner won the third fall ana the match in 15 minutes and 20 seconds. The match was for the best three out of five falls.
 On the first fall Bothner used crotch hold and half Nelson and m the two succeeding falls used the crotcn hold. .
 In the course of the second bout Uiposhi threw Bothner twice over hls head for flying falls. but neither was allowed as both shoulders failed to touch the mat.
 GOTCH COMES NEXT.
 Buffalo. April 7.-When Frank r;otch was told that Hackenschmidt had agreed to wrestle Jenkins catch