The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-05

was willy, as skilled as any man who
| ever entered the ring. He went around
Lewis like a cooper would go around
barrel, and the crowd was with him,
Irrespective of color or nationality.
This displeased Lewis quite as much
as the fact that the Jap was giving
him run for his money.
Right at a point where the honors
were pretty evenly divided, Lewis
cIampcd a toe hold and a hammer-lock
on the foreigner. Now, In all rules OF
wrestling. the objective point Tin
! Graeco-Roman or catch.as -catch-can)
IS to pin the shoulders to the mat at
one and the same time. This consti~
tutes what Is known as two points
down, pin falls
The combination OF a toe hold and
a hammer or half Nelson, is TO exert
that leverage that is designed to
achieve the legitimate results of the
contest. However, Lewis was so
wrought up over the agility of his
much smaller opponent he at once
held the little fellow flat on his stom-
ach. 80 he could not possibly turn,
and then twisted the leg until the
thigh snapped.
The match was off and Lewis had
succeeded in stopping his man.
Then, while we are on the Lewis
topic, is the case where Joe Acton
took high honors In breaking the fam
, GUS Lewis strangle.
| Let us pause moment at this point,
so we may more fully understand
/ what strangle lock means. A stran-
| gle is a hold around the wind (the
I Deck) in which one arm assists the
other. That is, if one wrestler chokes
daylight out of another with single
| arm, that is not technically strangle.
Evan Lewis was built on Bull Dur
ham lines, and was particularly noted
for his strangle lock-slapped on from
the front, with his opponents head
down.
When the strangle is thrown on
properly 1t is n case OF stopping the
air supply and of waiting for the end.
Joe Acton. however, was not going
to let Lewis get away with anything.
and fancled he had a new way of
breaking the hold. He did break it
and with 1t several of the Lewis digits.
Joe reached around, got one finger
after another, bent II back until it
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derstand that brutality was a game
that could be worked two ways from
the middle.
There came o time when Evan was
still at his best. when the Big Turk
lowered in the ofting, took on all com
ers, at six meals day, and would
have lived happily ever after had he
not drowned With his money belt load
ed with gold.
Lewis and the Turk met in Chi
cago. 1t didn't take the Wisconsin
fellow long 10 know what he was up
against, and he was glad TO hang on
to the ropes. The Turk looked for
spot, grabbed Lewis, nearly tore down
the arena in getting him away, and
slammed him down, very much after
the fashion that pile driver does Its
work.
Those were rough old DAYS, and 1t
was in those years the Cornish wrest-
lers flourished up in the lumber and
copper camps of North Wisconsin and
Michigan But Cornish doesn't pre-
sent the facilities for rough work
guaranteed by catch-as-catch-can or
/ Graeco Roman
That. is. the Cornish wrestlers may
get theirs in flying fall but If they
land all right, so long as 1t isn't on
their feet, they lose-saving the
twisting that can so easily be eSer'
cised on the body when the fall is two
points pinned,