Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
WRESTLING ALL WANT TO
 GET A MATCH Many Grspplers Who Would Like to Tackle Alex Swanson-
 Other News.

There are several wrestlers who are anxious tor break into this city during the winter months and all are after the scalp, of Alex Swanson. One of them appeared in person and said he was M0ntagna of the Broadway gymnasium, New York. He was likely looking, chap at that and look ed the part of a, wrestler. Kunkle of Canada is another who wants a crack at Some of the boys at l45 to 15O pounds. He and Swanson ought to make a good match at that. Then comes letter from Joe Murphy of Lynn, who claims to be the manager ofS Young Prokos, who will tackle the best of them at 14S pounds. Swanson may take on one or all of them. before many moons.
 John Perelli, the Italian wrestler, defeated Fritz Mohl in twenty-three minutes in their match at the Colum- bia theater, Boston. It was the fast est bout of the season and Mohl was not put down for fall. Perelli se- cured toe hold on the German and he was obliged to give up. There are so many Fritz Mohls, Charley Olsons and Hlalmar Lundins wrestling that l it is difficult to keep track of them. The Fritz Mohl who lost the match in Boston is the man who lost to Hjalmar Lundin last winter. Lundin said when he was here that his name was frequently used in the west by wrestlers and he said 1t was rather odd some mornings to read in the pa per how he had lost match in Kala- mazoo when he had really won one in Boise City. In Sweden, about every other wrestler or weight litter is named Anderson or Johnson and in this country nearly every baseball team has Wagner.
 | Charles Olson of Indianapolis has returned to that city from Chicago, where, he met War Eagle, the big In- dian wrestler, in finish bout. Ol- son was booked to meet Demetral. the husky Greek grappler in Indian apolis last night. In recent match Demetral gave Olson the hardest tus- sle of his career. Demetral charged unfair treatment after he was beaten and said that Olson would not dare ito give him return match. The Swede took up the challenge and a !side bet of $500 was posted by the men.
 George Kennedy, the manager of Eugene Tremblay, said when he was in Hartford that Carl Pons who wrestled two Graeco-R Roman matches with Hjalmar Lundin, did not make good in Montreal and the sports up |there failed to see anything in him. The Hartford experts were well pleas ed with the showing made by Pons. He was in Louisiana when last heard from but whether he was wrestling or at work upon perique plantation was not known. The match that EPons had with Demetral in Chicago was as bloody an affair as was ever seen on mat.
 The biggest hit at the Bothner- ETremblay match in Hartford was made by the referee, Kid Burke of Springfield. By the way in which Burke examined the contestants one would think that about .s14,000 and a diamond belt was at stake. Burke had probably read about the charge made by Hackenschmidt that Gotch had oiled his body before he went on the mat In the championship struggle at Chicago and Burke was manifestly trying to discover oil upon Bothner and the Canadian. Fortunately, he did not discover any trace of oil and the men were permitted to go on. This was the biggest grandstand play ever seen at match here. l