Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-08
WRESTLING
GEORGE WAS NO
 MATCH FOR GENE
Tremblsy Dowusd Bother in Easy Fashion But It Looked
 Bad.

play of Montreal defeated George
 Bothner of New York two out of
 three falls, at the opera house last night. The match was advertised as for the lightweight championship, Tremblay being the holder of the ti- tie, but Bothner was in no shape to battle for championship, and 1t is extremely doubtful If he entertained even the remotest dream of rega!ning the belt he lost to Tremblay two years ago. He was never seriously in the running, despite the fact that he cap tured the first fall in three minutes and a few seconds. That was owing entirely to the Canadians careless ness and a flash of Bothner's old-time quickness to profit by an adversary's mistake. It merely served to make Tremblay more cautious in the suc- ceeding bouts. Tremblay won a clean fall in the second, in "A minutes and 20 seconds, and he forced Bothner to quit in the third bout after r min utes and 45 seconds, toe hold turn
 ing the trick.
 The preliminary was between Am herst Theroux of Springfield and Charles Stevens of West Springfield, the former winning two out of three. Stevens was heavier and cleverer than Theroux, but he was in no condition. Theroux won the first and third fall in II and minutes, respectively. Stevens took the second fall in 3 minutes. It was after g o'clock when the preliminary was finished and the crowd was impatient for the main match, but there was a long wait, during which the crowd kept up in- Ecessant cat calls.
 It was 9:55 when Referee J. E. Bourque came forward and introduc- ed Tremblay and Bothner. There was little difference in the reception ac- corded the men when they were in- troduced, but the crowd was unmis- takably for Tremblay, when the men buckled down to work. They fiddled for minute and then Tremblay reached for Bothner's leg, the former champion dropped to tlfe mat with Tremblay on top. They rolled around for three minutes, working in and out of holds with delightful abandon, until Tremblay started a body roll and then before the crowd realized the me were down to businss. Both ner had three-quarters Nelson and Tremblay could not break could not break away. He was slowly and surely borne to the mat.
 Bothner's manager claimed that his man aggravated an. in njurysto, shis knee at this time. Whether or not he did so. it is fact that he slowed up great deal in the second and third tussles. He was only on the defensive practically all of the time and when he did wriggle on top, he did not seem to know what to do and quickly allowed the Canadian to regain the upper position.
 Bothner put up a magnificent de- fensiye battle, working out of hold after hold, that seemed to be booked to mark his finish. He stirred the crowd up time and again to enthusi- asm by his marvellous defense. but that was all he had. There was ab- solutely nothing to his offensive game. Finally, after the men had been going 24 minutes, Bothner fell into a three-quarters chancery and leg hold, which he could not get away from. Manager Dunn, who was holding the watch for his man, kick ed strenuously at the award of the referee and the and Bourque had a lively argument during the rest of the period. Dunn sought to address the crowd, but they booted and re- fused to listen to him. Dunn was very bumptuous while the third bout was on and he had several tilts with Bourque, the latter devoted a good share of the time to moving Dunn away.
 While Dunn and Bourque were having it hottest, Tremblay secured toe hold and while Bourque was signalling for policeman to put Dunn of the stage, the latter saw the handwriting on the wall for Bothner, and gave up the match. Dunn said after the match that Tremblay had a hold on Bothner's left foot. which was broken by Shad Link in Balti- more last year. and he was afraid the foot would be put out of business again. Bothner was clearly out classed, although he put up a game fight