Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-03
HOW PARR CONQUERED ENGLAND
Threw sixteen Men in Big TOurna-
ment I'm London.

ment I'm London.
The story of how Jim Parr came to win
the championship Of England is not gener-
ally known on this side Of the water, but
II is an interesting story, one which the
typical American appreciates whenever 1t
Is told, because Il is the story OF a man
who succeeded against all corners, and
Americans admire winners. When he was
20 years of age-and he is 80 today-Parr
entered a wrestling tournament in London.
There were sixteen men in II beside him
self, and some were corking good ones.
Parr and another fellow had thrown every
other man and when 1t came down to
them the tension of every nerve was
drawn to the breaking point. Both men
were at their BEST They went into that
final tug-of-war TO win. Parr won, but not
until he had wrestled his adversary full
fifty minutes. II was said to have been
one of the most terrific struggles ever
waked in England or any other country.
Like. most European sports Parr. having
won his Supra in the old country, made for
the new world. He has wrestled some of
the best In America, among them Dan Nc
Leod, whom he threw. Parr makes his
home In Buffalo. He is wealthy and is con-
templating a life Of retirement after the
coming summer. Like Farmer Burns,
whom he will meet at the Auditorium
Tuesday night Parr never drinks He
leads the exemplary life. He is ten years
the Farmers Junior, but nearly the same
size. Burns is ssh and weighs from 16S to
ITO, while Parr is SIS even and weighs from
IT. to It's.
Farmer Burns worked out Saturday after
noon at Morgan's gymnasium with Wasem
and Hooker, He is training hard for his
match with Jim Parr next Tuesday night
at the Auditorium. The Farmer wrestled
for quite time with each of these and at
the end was ready for a rest. Hooker is
the 2SS-pound wrestler who appeared in the
preliminaries last week at the Auditorium.
He is a powerful man. Burns at 46 is one
of the best developed athletes now before
the public. He has lived an abstemious
life, He has wrestled .sixty-seven times in
| Chicago and never lost fall In that city.
The Storz base ball team Is preparing Ia
| take a prominent part In athletics next
summer with fully equipped base ball
and athletic park at Twentieth and Popple-
ton. Saturday morning the manager of the
team. Thomas Knapp leased the large
vacant lot at the southwest corner OF
| Twentieth and Poppleton, just north OF the
| government corral, from the Byron Reed
company, and plans have been made for
the erection of grand stand and out
buildings.
The lot has frontage of 400 feet on
Twentieth street and 800 feet on POppleton,
afIording ample space for the sport. 1t ID
planned to lay out the grounds similar tc
those OF the Dietz Athletic club and secure
games during the season with local teams
and those from nearby Nebraska and lowe
| towns
Dusty Miller reports that playing ten
pins has proved very helpful TO him IN
Memphis Many people thought years age
he was more adapted to tenpins and
Memphis than base ball and Omaha,
Jack Chesbro announces his retirement
Retirement Paths of Glory-!" 1t wai
only two or three years ago at the mos
| that the base ball world was announcing
CHESHIRE as the greatest OF all slabmen, and
even yet some of his admirers won't give
II up TO another Wen, at that Jack may