The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-09
JOLLY BAT TIE
FOR RECEIPTS
Peter BuzukOs, Near-Wrestler.
and His Friends. Land i'm
City Jail.
TOM POLITE NOT LIKELY
TO BE HOODWINKED AGAIN
Greek Candy Merchant Victim
of Misplaced Confidence in
His COuntryman.

porar RuzuIios, Tom Chucukas ano
Alex Thoros werc arrested At the SAT-
Lake theator wednesday night and taken
Ia rho poIicc station immediately aitor
tbe BuzuLos- ol>cl wrestling match, wheh
the ,noucy had been peid 10 ;hc wrsst'trs
bv Manager Heagron. Tom PoIitz'
CANDY merchant. charged Peter Buzukos
and Tom Chucal<as with obtaining money
under false rreteuscs. and Alex EheroS
was arrested for interfering with sn cl-
licer.
Tom Politz SAYS he backed 5uzu!ios
.o, $3.50 against Mike Nokel with the un-
iersrandinc that If Buzukos lost ih'
match. he Poli,z) was to take ku%uko
share Of the gatc receipts as tedemp-
lion for his wager, and II the receipts
resulted in more than the wager Then ha
and Buzukos were To split the money.
POLITE saws that Buzukos had represented
himself as a Greek champion WreSueI
md NJ herricndcd his Countr!mah. nuSn
IN his sorrow. But when PoiltZ appeaIcu
at tho Salt Lake theater, Buzuhos
fused to keep his part OF tnS cOrs 'Ita, po-
Before the mon Went on tle mat -
iuZ andeayorcd To make arrangements
with Manager lIeaGren TO pay pNci III, LII
money 10 him, but IeaGrch sdl9 n tnp, -, a.
contract was with Suzuhos ana IN or1St
10 protect himself lie was forced 10 CIV
iuIukos his share OF The receipts.
Scramble for Money,
Polite Immediately procured the serE-
irss M Ma ior Samuel \. King. his at
torney. When the none! was oeiHs 49, 49,
10 BuZukus at the box oiIlCe, buZulN"e
turned Il over to Tom Chucakas- NlIlS;
in the meantime. hailed an ollCet, an. an
when Buzukos and Chucakas stepped ou'
into Jhc oDcn air they were at once az
reeiad and taken TO the station. on Ihc
wav- Alex Thcros stepped up anG
Chucakas made an effort TO pass IIle
money to the former; but Au,G,mgy ainnd >, >tT the
rear following the men toward the STA
ZION. Near the corner OF First south an'
State streets, There's made another Az
tempt TO get the money, and IN the M MhllN-
M some of il WAS spilled out OF the sack
in which II was placed. and there was
general scramble for the rolling S2o s9lG
niaces There's was then placed under
arrest for interfering with an Officer
Buzukoss share of the gate receipts
WAS SlIi5o.
Greek Money Quickly Gov cred.
The match was made at the Y. NJ. {.
Yokel was in Idaho at the time.
Buzukos was a visitGr at inc associa o,,d LII
said that Yokel could not thro% MN
three times in an hour. Robert hark-
ness who happened TO be present Noi-
unlecred 10 cover any amount VI H'oneA
EIiZukos cared 10 wager on himself ana
the men finally put up S2oV eacu'
HarLness then wired Yoiicl 10 come here
10 yyrestle and told Yokel he could have
Tho nurse II he won IL. Hardness sald
af tbc time that he could not understand
p,l,y Ruzukos was so anxious TO meet
YokeI. but as the Greek put mp his none!
he did not go into details. but was VIII
iug 10 cover all the Greek money IN
town. ~,
Before Mike Yokel left the city Eu-
zukos tried To secure a match WIN 'ne
champion but Yokel said that he would
not wrestle Buzukos for gate receipts. rs
me considered it no match az al, out WAS
willing TO wrestle FOR a side bet.
Countrymen Rally Round Buzukos.
In the meantime Buzukos got busy
while Yokel was away, convincing his
Greek friends that he was lit. BuZukos
and Tom Politz called at The Tribune
and Euzukos was anxious to post 500
forfeit but the sporting editor refused
10 take the money and another stake
holder was found. The two men re-
turned the next day and said they had
made a. side bet OF $3.50 with 1okel- III
was then that the sporting editor told
Politz. in the presence of BuZutos. that
Yokel had thrown BuZu<os In about NJ
teen seconds at the y. NJ G. ~ one ar
ternoon. but Buzukos said that he was
playing horse" and Politz seemed to he
satisfied.
Politz said Wednesday night that he
had befriendcd Buzukos and had been
fooled
At 3 o'clock this (Thursday) morning
the three Greeks were still prisoners
having been unable TO find sureties for
their bail.