The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-05
WRESTLING.

ded in New York Next Season.
Unless all signs fail, wrestling will
be very much in evidence the coming
fall and winter as the promoters have
planned to hold a number of important
bouts.
Ireland will be represented on the
mat in America" said a well known
manager to New York Sun reporter.
I have signed contract with prom
inent all round Irish athlete who will
come to America in September. 1 am
not at liberty to disclose tine name of
my protege as yet, but I assure you
that when he gets here he will prove
that he is the goods. He is strapping
six footer and weighs In condition
about two hundred pounds. He is a
crack wrestler and Is very much at
home at both catch-as-catch-can and
Graeeo-Roman. 1t is many years since
Ireland had representative wrestling
champion. Tom McInerney came near
this honor, but he spent the better part
of his life in Liverpool and London.
Il have in mind a lot of bouts.
There will be contests between Fred
Bull, the wonderful Wisconsin man
who met Tom jenkins in private;
Frank Gotch, Dan Mcleod, Jim Parr
and others. may hold a few jiu-jit-
SUI contests and George Bothner and
Tom Jenkins may figure in one or two
of them. I am trying to induce Yokio
TAM, the crack expert Of the Japanese
ttyle of wrestling, to come to America
He is now in London and is creating a
sensation at his speciality There Will
be no matches between pIgilists and
wrestlers if I can help it. Fighters
should do all their wrestling In the
ring in fight while wrestlers should
confine their business to the mat.
u also expect to import a number Of
we'll known champion wrestlers from
France, Sweden, Germany and Russia
1t is said that there is a fellow from
! the land of the Car who is an, even
/ greater man than George Hacken-
, schmidt. The reports say that he is
| very strong and capable of throwing
any man at both Graeco-Roman and
eatch-as-catch-can. won't know
whether he is coming here until about
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confident that I will have a sensation to
offer lovers of wrestling. In the future
all matches that are to be decided at
Madison Square Garden will be on
= large mats. l have agreed to make
3 this change in view of the suggestion
in the Sun, which is a good one.
Wrestling in rings only serves to Gre
ate a lot of disappointments and leave
the matches open to a lot of fouls. In
the bout between Jenkins and Gotch
the men roughed 1t to the ropes and in
this way the contest became drawn
out and monolonous. If the men wres-
tie, OH mat that will give them plenty
of leeway, this unwelcome feature will
be avoided"
! over in England the sports are very
much interested in Lawnty Nielsen, q
sYelever Swedish wrestler. Nielsen Is a
Swapping heavyweight and combines
both the Graeco- Roman and catch-as.
catch can styles Those who have seer
the Swede perform think that with a
little more experience he will develop
4 into a dangerous rival for George
| Fiackenschmidt He is very strong
!. and wiry for man of his build and
1 weight and is as quick as a flash
! Nielsen declares that in about tive
! months he will post a, forfeit and issue
+ a,,schailenge to ,HackenschInidt, who
has expressed a. willingness to meet
Nielsen, = t,z.- .r. ... t..
! Italy evidently has a clever wrestler
in Petre Pieri Of Florence. Pieri made
his debut in England the other nigh
in match bout with Peter Gotz OF
Canning Town at the Bolyn Fail
Grounds, Eastman. The pair agreed tc
meet best two in three falls catch-as'
catch-can style for purse of five hun
bred dollars and side bet of sever
hundred and fifty dollars, Pier
/ weighed two hundred and thirty
! pounds, while Gotz scaled only two
hundred pounds. Pieri made the mos
/ of his weight and took the first fall af
ter a hard struggle in, twenty-sever
minutes and forty-five seconds. Tht
men met again after a rest, but owing
J to the lateness of the hour a time limi
of twenty minutes was set. A rare
struggle was seen, Gotz acting as thu
aggressor. But although he had thu
Italian In many tight places, the lat.
ter's strength was too much for him
When time was called both were VI
and doing. The result was draw
The men have agreed to meet again ii
a few weeks IN London.