Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-27
o'CoNNELL THE WINNER.

Ed O'Comell of New Haven had cinch in his match with William \. Madden of Manchester in Hartford last night. The Hartford Courant writer describes the match in part as follows:
 Edward J. O'Connell of New Haven won the wrestling match with Will liam F. Madden of South Manchester at the Auditorium last night. Accord ing to the terms of the match Madden was to throw O'Connell twice in one hour of actual wrestling time. Mad den won one fall in thirty-nine min utes. when he caught the Yale instric- for unawares. To most of the specta- tors the match looked to be wrongly made and it would have been bette" O'Comell had agreed to throw Maf' den twice in an hour.
 "Madden's weight was IFS pounds and O'Connell weighed 13S OCon- nelrs skill and Quickness more than made up for the weight he gave away and he was the aggressor fully half of the time.
 "AIadden was a big favorlte with the crowd. The Manchester men came up in large numbers and cheered for their favorite at every opportunity. The Yale boys who came up with O'Connell did not do any cheering but spent their time in making what few wagers they could. This was more profitable than shouting.
 After half hour of grappling. with O'ConneH having the advantage, n bet of S25 was made that Madden would get a fall. shortly afterwards the Manchester man secured an Eng fish cross-bow hold. one that is seldom used. He put his left arm around O'Connell's neck. heii his head so iic couldn't make . bridge and with his own chest weighting down o'Connell' s chest soon brought him down and the referee declared the fall. The time was 30 minutes.
 "Then there was an intermlssion O. ten minutes for the wrestlcrs to rest When they came together again Mad den had twenty-one minutes in which to secure fall and the match. Dur ing this period O'Connell had his man under the greater part of the time ana made few attempts to get good hold himself. At no time during tb' match did either man have hold | t,lat was dangerous except when Ms' den got the English cross-bow.
 Both men were in good condition at the close and o'Connell made . speech i'm which he said he would agree to wrestle Madden two falls ou of three and he had the money witt him to back up his challenge. l During the intermission wrestlel named La Rett from Washington. ID lC.. was introduced and he said h' would like to meet the winner of thu bout. He did not look big enough t be a wrestler.
 "Younr Hartley of Springfield Wal to have met Dan Pickett of Water bury i'm the preliminary bout. It wa announced that Hartley had misse' his train. as it wouldn't wait for him Izzv Winters of the Regal Atb'ett cIubso this city was substituted 10 the Springfield man. Pickett is consid erablv taller. heavier and has thick CT shock of hair than Winters. but tn larsr is a better wrestler. The wresfled for half an hour. catch-as eatch-can style. and neither secured fall. Pickett had the satisfaction O standing Izzy 0n his head once. bu Winters got the applause when h landed on his pins
 -Therp were about 4S present Manager Lucey said the club los
 mouey. O'ConneII took onehalf Q the receipts and slo forfeit mone. which was a side bet Madden a S2s. which he posted for sppearance-