Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-17
WRESTLING
Every Man in the Pink of Condition For the Matches to Be Held
 This Evening.

big wrestling tournament to be held at COncordia hall this evening and four nationallties will be well repre- sented. In the first place the Ger mans will be out strong to back John Welt of this city against Louis Montagnu of Torrington, while the Italians will be loyal to Montagnu, just as they were to Dorando in the recent Marathon race. This prelimi- nary match will be card in itself and will be one of the hardest fought matches that has ever been pulled off Tn this city. There will be quite a bit of money bet on the affair and at the present time there is no favorite.
 In the main contest the SWedes of the city and from Naugatuck will be on the Swanson end of the roofing and they will be there with the goods right from the first call of time. Swanson has been training harder for this match than he has for years, for he realizes that he will be up against tartar, when he begins hostilities against the Fall River Cyclone" Morin. The latter is call ed the flying Frenchman and he will have many of his own nationality right on hand to give him a hand. So here we have four nations represent ed in one tournament and the mat ter of picking winner Is pretty difficult thing to do. It will be really the opening of the wrestling season and as a curtain raiser it could not be beaten. Every man is trained to the hour and will be backed to the limit.
 The final money was posted last night for the match between Harry ShaCkley of Waterville and the "Un- known" which will take place in Waterville tomorrow night. Shack ley is down to 135 pounds weight and the manager of the Unknown says that his man is at his stipulated weight, 1l5 pounds. It is a pretty nervy thing for a young chap like Shackley to go up against an un- known, even with a handicap of twenty pounds in his favor, but those who are behind the lad say that there is no man in the world who can throw him with such handicap. i Both sides seem confident and the identity of the Unknown" still is shrouded in mystery. It ought to attract many sports from all over the state.
 Lynchburg, Va, Dec 17.-Ed Ad- amson, the Boston middleweight wrestler, threw Jack Lewis of Mem phis in two straight falls, catchas- catch-can here last night.
 Antonio Pierri writes that he and Yussiff Mahmout have been royalty treated by the Chicago sports. "Beell is the best man Mahmout has wrestled since coming to this coun- try" declares Pierri.
 Mahmout's next match will be with Americus at Baltimore, who, accord ing to Pierri, is a big favOrite in | Chicago. Perri writes that Joe Cof fey, the Chicago wrestling promoter, is now negotiating by cable with Frank Gotch, the American cham pion, with a view of having him re- 1 turn to this country and meet the Turk in Chicago for the catch-as- catch-can championship of the world.
 Pierri says the Windy City sports | have assured him that match be- tween Gotch and Mahmout would be likely to draw a $50,000 house.
 In view of the fact that the gate receipts for the Gotch- h-Hackenschmidt match out there last spring were close on to s40,000, it can be readily figured out that the estimate set by the Chicagoans is not altogether out of the question. At any rate Pierri is hopeful that Gotch will be in duced to return and give the Turk a crack at the title.