Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-10
TOM O'ROURKE
 :. IN LONDON
An Interesting Story in Which Joe
 Rogers and Others Figured Other News.

incident occurred With considerable
 suddenness at the Holborn Empire
 last night-and the welkin is stil
 ringing.
 The Holborn Empire has got a pe
 Wrestler-a giant with scow fierce enough to make children scream. His name is Joe Rogers ant
 he comes from America to pulveriZe the Graeco-Roman world. It is un' derstOod that he has issued chal. lenge to the world; anyway, he is going to do great and gorgeous things. When his manager came for. ward before crowded house to in. troduce him last night, it was observ- able that there was large congrega- tion of the fancy" in the stalls.
 The manager made a speech in a soft, twangy, far-away voice, in which he said he had brought Joseph across the waste of waters for the specific purpose of smashing uI Hackenschmidt by means of chal- lenge issued through Charles Coch- rane-that delightful young man who was responsible for so much harmless mirth last winter in run ming the Mammoth Fun City at Olym- pia.
 But said he, unfortunately MT Cochrane and Hackenschmidt had parted company at the time we were on the water. 1 went personally to see Hackenschmidt at Stockport, and he told me he had heard nothing of the challenge, and that he was now far too busy with his engagements to take on MT Rogers"
 And so on, and so forth proceeded the manager. But now Joe, like Bar kis, was willin' to do marvels, though just now he was suffering from the effects of blood poisoning and was about to part company forever with the nail of his mighty left thumb. Sympathetic cheers.) Any way, he would take on that very evening two famous wrestlers, and tomorrow G.e., to-day), at a special matinee, he would vanquish the champions of Belgium, Paris and Berlin, and he would challenge-
 At this moment came, like thun- der bolt, the unrehearsed incident.
 Charles Cochrane, tall, thin, and red in the face, with suppressed ex- citement and enthusiasm, leaped to his feet from back row of the stalls.
 "I have brough wrestler with me-" he piped, who will take on Rogers now-nOw.
 The manager waved a plump hand in the air and cooed that the chal- lenge and the money ( 200) must be deposited at the Sporting Life of flee. Loud and derisive cheers, mingled with misses, filled the exclu- Sive air of the auditorium.
 Playing imaginary diabolo with his long arms, MT Cochrane cried through the storm, "If Rogers can throw three men tomorrow, surely he can throw one man tonight" (Howls, cheers and counter cheersJ. Here Is my man. I have him here-here- here!" Then, prodding something like an elephant sitting on three and 3 half stalls by his side. Charles Reveal yourself!"-or words to that effect.
 The elephantine mass stood up,and linging of disguise of several dozen )vercoats and shawls and things, be- gan to undress with alarming rapid ty. Ladies nearly tainted as gar nent after garment was scattered to he four winds. presently to reveal a Teritable Daniel Lambert, shiny-skin- led, electric-eyed and tremendous.
 Charles stood upon a tip-up seat, which promptly tipped up and de- ,osited him with a shin-scraping jolt O earth again. But, pointing to his anne elephant, and getting redder md redder in the face, he shouted 
 "Zbysco-Zbysco." taking great are, even in the heat of the moment O pronounce the "b" between the 2" and the "y."
 Another storm of cheers, another nd still another as Zbysco plowed lis way to the front of the house 'here was a cry for police" .byscO reached the orchestra and es- ayed to climb the brass railing, tol he infinite terror of the pallid and 1 makers of music. when-in l termed a battalion of metropolitan ! office. Being men of discretion, they | lade for the lesser man. who was he redoubtabIe Charles (still talk ng and gesticulating).
 Touch me at your peril." hissed I 'ochrane. seeking sanctuary behind ! .byscO's ramparts of fat and muscle.
 The police fell back, seeing the ! lint in ZbyscO's eager eve. He Ould have taken any one of them etween a finger and thumb and uelched them,
 The giant wrestler. as near naked s the law of the land allows. tried 9 climb the railing once mOre-and ! alI of Meanwhile the storm ragged.
 Take i'm on Eah. Rogers" yelled he gallery
 Yes. now." echoed Charles.
 The fat gentleman on the stage -agged a pacific hand vainIy. whilst thers of the profession sought tO our oil on the troubled waters -hich were raging to and fro dan erOusly.
 ZbyscO took a pOl1eeman's meas re with that fierce eye of his. and le policeman Ia married man with
 small familyl began to wish that 2 knew more hymns Everything nd everybody wzs on the edge of a laeIs1rOm- Zbyseo was ehaTmingly pod tempered. but there were pro byso0 and pTO-Rogers enthusiasts in se house vhO were just spelling for hat Is yulgarly called ~d1s1 up."l