Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-26
Fighting Bear Downs Irish Giant.
Indian Wins Two Falls Out of Three from McGrath-
Gotch Beats DeRouen With Toe HoId-Fie.der
Jones Says "No.'-ColIins Wins from ewsboy.

Chief Fighting Bear. the willy Red
man wrestler and nrotege of Jim
Barnes of Springfield, lowered the
colors Of the local favorite, Jack Nc
Grath, the Irish Giant, Thursday night
in T. A. B. hall by winning from him
two falls out of three in finish
match at catch as catch can With
each man having a fall to his credit
after As minutes of wrestling. the In
dian Panther caught Jack for the de-
cisive fall with the same hold by which
he scored in their former meeting, a
double elbow roll. and the Giant was
beaten.
A crowd Of about 400 was present
that rooted enthusiastically for Nc
Grath at every clever display Of
streng and defensive work and fairly
fall on the Indian with the prettiest
combination of the evening, a head
scissors and barlock.
The big bout was preceded by two
preliminaries, Joe Costello Of FitchviIe
carrying out his contract to throw
Harry Lewis twice in 10 minutes by
putting him down once in Z minutes
with full Nelson and again IN 10 sec
onds on waist lock.
Costello appeared again in the sec
ond preliminary, going for half an
hour to a draw with Harry BTann. The
first man winning fail was to win the
match, according to the announcer, Kid
Wilson! This was topnotcher in the
way of preliminaries, Costello having
the weight and strength and Brann
showing more science, bue not lacking
in good muscle beside. Although the
under man most of the time, Brann
did most of the work and kept his
larger opponent on the verge Of fall az
many stages. Both Wrestlers were
loudly cheered for their clever bout. iE
which neither could get fall.
For the star bout, Bill Enonds was
referee and the bout was announced
TO be to a finish. best two out of three,
pinfalls % count and strangle hold
barred. Harry Jennings was time
keeper and Jim Barnes had a seat on
the stage to look after his man.
The two heavyweights both showed
in the pink of condition as they Crap
pied for the opening Of the bout. Tak-
ing the aggressive at once, the Indian
had Jack in two bad spots In the first
few minutes, but Jack tore apart an
arm scissors and Nelson and an arm
scissors and farther arm hold. coming
to the top position amid the cheers Of
the crowd. once Referee Emonds mad
to break a strangje hold which the IL
and the Inoian alternated several times
but the Indian was never satisfied un-
less he was forcing it and finally had
McGrath bridging to escape a crotch
hold. Jack ierked the Indian off his
legs, but the Chief was looking for a
fall and landed Jack on his back in %
minutes for the first fall.
Before they went on again Barnes
swept the mat clear of sawdust This
was the most exciting bout of the
three, through the fast work Of the
two men and the frequency with which
McGrath landed the Indian on top of
Barnes, evening up for the same tao
tics played by the Indian. The two
wrestlers also roughed up each others
faces, the Indian starting that game
and McGrath coming back. The Giant
scored half a dozen flying falls on the
Indian. but was not able to pin him
until the end of 20 minutes, when ne
tied him up in a head scissors ana bar
hold.
IL the third bout. considerable bad
blood showed between the wrestlers,
McGrath claiming that the Indian was
scratching him, and the men ex-
changed open hand jabs. till Sergeant
Twomey told them that the rough work
would have to be cut out McGrath's
star effort was in breaking away from
a crotch hold, but a moment later the
Indian rolled him over with the double
elbow roll. winning the fall in l. niiurN
utes, and with 1t the match.