Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-26
WRESTLING.
Trying to Get Hackenschmidt For
 Another Match.

AnoLner M4tcn.
 Kansas City. Feb 26.-As an in ducement to draw Hackenschmidt, the wrestler. to this country the Kansas City Athletic club will offer a purse of $5,000 for meeting be- tween him and Fred Beell previous to the match with Gotch. for which a purse of $10,000 has been put up.
 All details have been completed for the wrestling carnival in the Hart ford auditorium tonight, in which Hjalmar Lundin and the Terrible Turk will meet in the main bout. There is great deal of interest, too, in the intermediate contest between Charles Olsen and Gilbert Moison, the Hartford representatives of Little Sweden" and Little France = The manager of the Royal Athletic club has deposited with "The Courant the forfeit money put up by O'Connell and Bonefant for their match in Hartford on March 14.
 Harvey Parker won his match at catch with Edward J. IO'Connell of New Haven. wrestling instructor at Yale, at Fall River Fri day night. He lost the first fall in four minutes on a scissors hold. The second he got in an hour and two minutes with a hammerlock and half Nelson. O'Connell was on the de- fensiye nearly all the time in this bout, and at the close was like rag. The third fall he was barely able to come on, and he was turned in 30 seconds with a cross-buttock.
 While 600 men and two ladies leaned forward watching intently and yelling like mad when occasion pre- sented itself. Alex Swanson. the lSwede ex-champion welterweight wrestler of the world, and Demon" Bartl, the Canadian, wrestled for two hours and three minutes at the Nash vile Athletic club gymnasium, Thurs day night last. After one of the most exciting struggles ever witnessed in the south the Canadian aspirant by his superior strength and endurance finally forced one fall.
 So late was it that the match was declared unfinished. and the winner will be decided by another round, the fall made counting as one for Bartl. The crowd was almost twice as large as at the previous match.
 For the first hour Swanson kept the offensive, while Bartl on his hands and knees waited to see what he would do, and what he did was enough to have downed any other man not possessing the Demons" strength and vigor, which come to his aid in every emergency. Once when the men were standing up Swanson got the old-fashioned under-holds, and the crowd thinking that they were as sure as in ordinary wrestling, yelled with delight, but when Bartl went down he lit and rolled over on his knees. Then Swanson tried pun ishing Bartl's legs by twisting, but as far as could be told it had little effect. The Swede lacked the strength to punish severely. Here he got the scissor lock over Bartl's head, but the Demon broke away easily.
 The wrestling became fast and furious and the spectators were hard ly able to keep up with the rapidly changing holds and positions. Bartl was on top. when suddenly the Swede writhed and twisted and the two men went rolling over the mat to the edge. When they stopped Swanson was on his back on top of the Demon" whose shoulders were about to touch. The crowd arose and yelled. but then saw that the wrestlers were of the mat According to agreement, the fall was not counted.
 Swanson tried the bar-lock, but Bartl bridged out by using his head as support and throwing himself bodily away from the Swede. For the next twenty minutes the Swede had Bartl very much on the defensive. Once, while they were sparring. Bartl slung him into the crowd. Swanson apparently staggered as he came back to the mat. Bartl was on him in an instant, but it was merely a ruse of the willy Swede's, and the next i'm stant the younger man had to make a supreme effort to save himself from being pinned down on a quick half Nelson.
 At the end of seventy minutes Bartl began taking the offensive.
 Then came the thing which prob- ably decided the fall As he had done before, but this time with greater success. Bartl raised the Swede from the floor almost above his head and threw him heavily. The Canadian sought to follow up his advantage, but despite the severe jar he had re- ceived Swanson rolled away easily. It was not without effort. however, and the Swede was noticeably becom- ing "groggy."
 The Canadian began working on his man rapidly. He kept him to the floor for the most part. trying every- thing he knew. but the Swede was game as we'll as clever. and blocked every more. This lasted for ten minutes. Then the play became more rapid and open. After much sparrinR and many holds half carried out. the Swede went down with Bartl on top. Bartl is powerful in his arms and it helped him here. Gradually he be. gan working for his grips. Then thara ~-A