Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-04
WRESTLING
O'CONNELL IN
 QUEER MATCH
He and Ol.en Ordered Off the Mat in Hartford = Lundin
 Beat White.

l1dFJIOTO, Apfll 4. lJdimol Lundin threw White two straight falls at the Auditorium last night Kid Olson and Kid O'Connell had fifty-two minutes of work on the mat of the kind that game bantams employ before they start in to do real damage. Referee John c. Long or dered them of the mat for slugging. Kid Hanson got two falls from Kid Kelliher,
 The Olson-O' Cornell bout was the strangest affair ever seen here. When the match was first broached, the idea was to have side bet of S1O0 and there was trouble over referee. o. Cornell kicked on having John C. Long officiating, while Olson wanted Long. It was finally decided to do away with side bet and offer O'Con- nell $50, win, lost or draw. He ac- cepted this and agreed to have Mama ger Anderson or the sporting editor of the Hartford Courant, select the referee.
 When the men were out on the mat, Manager Anderson announced that Olson was not in good condition. For forty minutes the two men stood up and boxed with open hands. They pushed each other away, grabbed wrists and necks but no hold was se- cured. Of course the spectators did not like this kind of work and all kinds of sarcastic comments were made. As is usually the case the sympathy was with the lighter man and O'Connell was fully thirty pounds lighter than his opponent. The New Haven man was in fine condition and trained to the minute. There was a good deal of shaping while the men faced each other and when they got worked up well the men doubled up their fists. O'Connell gave Olson the elbow number of times and also pushed his finger in the boil on Ol- sons left arm at every opportunity. 7 Olson got a punch in the nose once that drew blood and he breathed with difficulty. O'Connells friends in one of the boxes urged him to go in and polish off Olson and they sh~ lted out that the Hartford man was quitting. O'Connell had the better of the slap ping contest but when the men went down, and they were only down twice, Olson was on top. If O'Connell could not down Olson last night it is doubtful if he will ever throw him. Olson was unable to use his left arm to any advantage and it appeared that O'Connes missed the chance of his life to throw the Hartford man. Referee Long cautioned the men in the early part of the bout about their failure to get together and eight min utes before the hour was up he order ed them off the mat for punching. MT Long said 1t seemed as if each man was afraid of the other and he hoped that the main go would give better satisfaction. Lundin and White were given a hand when they appeared. White was very fat while Lundin ap- peared to be hard. For such big man, he weighs 235 pounds stripped, White was very active and his leg work was superb. He had a scissors hold on Lundin at one time that prom ised to be successful but Lundin wriggled out of it. Lundin gave an exhibition of his strength by taking White by the knee and swinging him around several times clear of the floor. After twenty-four minutes of work. Lundin secured a half-Nelson and crotch hold on White and pressed both shoulders down for q fall.
 The men had rest of five minutes. White went to his dressing room and had a rub down but Lundin sat on n chair at the ringside and needed noth- ing but glass of water. When they came together again. White showed to little better advantage, but when he apparently had hold on his opponent. Lundin would break it. Finally Lun- din secured jackknife hold and se- cured the second fall in twenty-three minutes.
 Most all of the wrestling experts in the state came to see the matches. Mir Carroll, the Waterbury referee was early on hand. Senator Mct;ov- ern and number of other members of the general assembly were present, as we'll as Michael Kenealy, chairman of the republican state central con- mittee. Ex-Mayor Harbison had an important engagement and could not attend, so for his benefit Referee Long showed some of the holds used. demonstrating them upon Ex-Mayor Sullivan