Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-27
WESTERCAARD HAS DECISION
Rough Tactics Of Big Frenchman Had
No Terror for Westergaard.
GIANTS BATTLE FOR AN HOUR
Instead of Throwing WesterRaard
Twice In an Hour the Frenchman
lie Not Able to Throw Him
ut All.

lie Not Able to Throw Him
ut All.
Jess Westersaard was given the decision
over the big Frenchman. Raoul de Rouen.
Monday night at the Auditorium In the
toughest and ~liveliest match ever pulled
off in Omaha. Neither won a fall. but the
terms Of the match were that the French
man should throw Westergsard twice in an
hour. When the hour was up Westergaard
had not gone down once and was still MAX
ing life a burden for his 245-pound antag-
onist.
For rough tactics and rough house"
work the Frenchman takes the cake but
1t did not gain him any advantage over the
big Dane from Des Moines. At the very
first Of the match de rSouen started his
rough work and thus put the majority
of the 1000 spectators to roofing for
Westergaard. The Frenchman would rush
clear across the ring and butt Westergaard
with his shoulders and his $40 pounds had
some considerable momentum when he
would hurl It at the smaller Dane, who
himself weighed 21O pounds. The French
man insisted on getting the near strange
holds. which did not meet with favor from
the house. When he could get Wester-
gard to the mat he had a habit OF jump
ing in the air and pounding down with his
24O pounds on the Dane He even tried to
pull hair and when w~estergaard tried TO
even up matters In a way the Frenchman
tried several times to protest to the referee
but as all the French known by the Of
ficial is "a votre" it svailed him naught.
The Frenchman had a habit Of getting
Westergaard's head pinioned in his power
full arms when he would bear him down
TO the mat, but even at this game Wester-
gard was able to reciprocate. Time and
again the Frenchman got a half Nelson on
Westergaard, but this was a rest position
for the Dane, who would let him tug
away for a time and would then squlrm
away.
Westergaard was the first to gain the
advantage Of being behind, this being Sc
cured after ten minutes OF wrestling. He
was able to do little with the French
man, who was soon on the point OF van
tage. The Frenchman soon had a half
Nelson but was unable to cash 1t in, and
W~estergaard twispeh away and in the
mixup came up behind.
Men of Different Build.
The men had different sorts OF builds.
Westergaard looked like a spindle shank.
in spite of his 210 pounds, beside the pow
erful underpinning of the Frenchman,
who himself had a magnificent build, be-
ing small of waist with powerful Shout
ders, in fact being OF a powerful build all
over. Westergaard had many of the move
ments OF Gotch and shoV-t many of the
fine points OF the game Nnich have been
taught him by Farmer Burns, who says
there is a defense for every sort of an
offense in wrestling.
At one time Westergaard picked the
Frenchnan, 2n pounds and all, from the
mat, whirled him in the air and came
down behind. At another time Westcr-
gard jumped from a defensive position,
grabbed the Frenchmsn by the legs and
put him to the mat, which was an occasion
for the big frogeater to protest without
avail to the referee.
That there was no love between the con-
testants was most evident to anyone who
saw the match. Both roughed 1t contin-
ually, and both were wiling to quit when
the hour was up, although the gentleman
from Paris seemed to be the fresher of
the two. his extra weight firing Wester-
gard considerably.
On three different OCCASIONS the French
man showed his great strength by rising
to his feet while W~estergaard had him
grappled by a half Nelson. Three times
they went off the ropes in their tussles
around the arena, and on another OCCASION
de Rouen butted W~estergaard through the
ropes
The Frenchman took exception TO the po-
liceman. assisting the referee in forcing the
men to the center OF the ring on one oc
cssion when the Frenchman had Wester-
gard on the mat with his shoulders over
the edge of the arena.
Toward the end OF the fray Westergaard
still showed that he was up and coming
when he twisted away from a good half
nelson and came out on top. westergaard
was on the offensive nearly half the time,
thus lessening the time in which the
Frenchman had to win his falls.
Turk CHALLENGES Winner.
A telegram was received at the ringside
from Mahmout, the Turk, challenging the
winner. Farmer Burns is authority for the
statement that the Turk is the best of all
the present time. although he weighs but
300 pounds.
The preliminary, between Kinney and the
Greek, George seletos. was also quite a
lively affair. and ended in a draw. Kinney
won the first fall i'm IS minutes, but a,
neither contestant could win fall durins
the next thirty minutes. Referee GriswolC
called the match a draw. WniIe these die
not show the skill or. knowledge OF tn,
game displayed by the big fellows, they pu
up quite an interesting exhibition.
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