The San Francisco call., 1908-05-09
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JACKI[S DISPLAY
SCIENCE ON MAT
Wrestlers Of the Fleet Entertain
Big Crowd at the Naval
Pavilion

Sailors, soldiers and civilians crowd
ed into the pavilion last night to. wit
ness the semifinals and the finals of
the wrestling tournament that was be-
gun SO successfully Thursday night
The matches went through promptly
and the sailors expressed their ap-
proval by loud cheering after the
matches were over and the cups for the
winners were awarded.
Enthusiasm ran high during the
close bouts between the navy men.
Cheer after cheer went up from certain
parts of the section when the favorite
of one ship triumphed over the favor
| ite of another Gloom at the same time
spread itself over the section in which
| sat the comrades of the loser.
Aside from the wrestling matches,
boxing bout. between two 5S pound Lii
| liputians. refereed by James Edward
Britt, was given. The tiny boxers, one
10 years old and the other 9. proved
clever and the crowd was on its feet
! cheering when the fourth and last
round of their go was completed. Britt
made a speech and was cheered by the
! sailors. to whom his words were ad-
dressed.
The greatest rivalry and the hardest
| contest was afforded when Sailor CAL
len of the Washington and Sailor
! Wright of the Kansas came together
! in the finals in the 145 pound class
Both men had previously disposed Of
! their man in the semi finals with ease
and were confident of taking home the
! cup offered the winner. The sailors
bleaehers divided itself equally as to
partisanship, each bluejacket roofing
for one or the other of the two men.
The bout went the limit Of eight min
! utes Wright early taking a full Nell
1 bn1 jch Ca1I fn
| break, but which he stalled the entire
bout, Wright not being able to bulge
! him off his knees.
Tiv Kreling, who refereed spent al
most eight minutes with his nose to
the floor waiting for the fall which
seemed due. but time was called with
4 Callen smiling and still unbeaten. The
| judges declared Wright the winner be-
cause of aggressiveness. Wrights fol-
/ lowers went wild with joy and Callen's
| friends were ready to make 1t a per-
ksonal fight, with the disinterested spec
| tators about equally divided, when CAL
len accepted the decision by raising his
hand In approval and then challenged
| Wright to bout for aside bet of $3.50,
! the match to take place any time dur
ing the stay of the fleet.
The Introduction of George White,
sailor from the Tennessee. brought
down a whoop from the jackies' side Of
the house where part of a Tennessee
company was seated White wrestled
we'll but lost a hard fought match to
! w. Brown of the West Virginia. who
/ bore away a handsome trophy to take
/ to his ship.
| Besides the sailors, a number of To-
cal wrestlers, mostly members of the
! Olympic club, wrestled for the cham
pionships of different divisions. After
two clever bouts. both of which went
| the limit of eight minutes, and the first
/ of which was declared a draw. Her
| bert Duncan defeated Emil Tschumi
and was awarded the ribbon for the
1853 pound class. Tschumi appeared to
| have had the better of the first bout,
but in the second only by a phenomenal
show of grit and skill was he able to
keep his shoulders off the floor when
Duncan threw him to the mat with
! toe hold
With but fraction of an inch be-
tween his right shoulder and the floor
Tschumi fought the man on top for two
and half minutes and finally. when
1 the match was all but over. cleared
himself and eluded Duncan's grasp.
Tschumi entered a well founded pro-
| test against the decision, claiming that
he should have had a draw.
| Otto Walfsch easily won the heavy
weight championship OF the club by
throwing Donald McKinnon. McKin-
non tailed the first fall. but was un-
able to plant Walfischs shoulders on
! the floor. He attempted a half Nelson
/ and apparently was succeeding when
! Wallfisch accomplished the arm ROLL a
difficult feat. breaking his opponents
hold and sprawling him fiat on his
shoulders almost with the same move.
Charles Theirs, a good wrestler. beat
A Cohen of the Y. NJ H. A.. but sue
cumbed to Duncan. who later won the
championship. Sailor Schindle of the
Maryland beat sailor Taber of the
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the dancing floor. She said they were
gently led into side room and put to
sleep on the floor. She did not say
whether knockout drops were used or
not.
A provost guard established quarters
in Portsmouth square, but UP to mid
night did not have to hurry many
/ sailorssto the tents. An officer and sew
eral sailors promenaded the streets and
warned thexsaloonmen TO look out for
the health OF the boys.
1t was gaia night for the rehabil-
itated BarbaTy coast. Everybody was