Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-19
SHOWS UP INSIDE
OF The MAT GAME
PROMOTER WHITE ELAsORATES
ON HIS CHARGES MADE AFT
ER HIS CHICAGO MATCH

. CaIcsEo. IIL. Feb Is.-Jolu FrIauT-
f the wrestler vho turned the mat same
inside out at tie Casino theatre Wed
nesdny night when mo los, tao straight
falls 20 Biu Hoaun and thereby for
feilsd his black mask and hi- title OF
The Mystery" departed yesterday for
. Worcester. Mass. % am an engage
meut last night
Tor q while az least the Erappiers'
game In Chicago SIS shot to pieces. The
charges made by white. FTiburE aad
HoEuG against tine integrity of the
sport as BE- has been conducted here
we're so serious that local wrestling
promoters did not care tD even talk
about future matches. one develop
relr OF the dag was az interview with
First Deputy Chief of Police Schuet|
ricr. .u which la was quoted as ieclar
ms that Waite coul. uci promote any
more wrestling matches iu Chicago
That's interesting. u it's true
white said. "For ziS years crooked
Wrestling matches have been pulled
OF ir Chicaro. and the minute anybody
exposes o. he's barred. Well. IL ! de-
DrLled on wrestling 90 make my liy-
Ing I'd have starved so death q long
time ago. 10 the sport has reached
the stage where crookcduess is an es-
scutili I'm ready 20 quit without any
orders f-om the police
Operate IN a Circle
The trouble with the wrestling
game is simply this. There is a GER
fafa clique OF so-calIed stars. champ
on this and champion that. who
have been working together for years. J
They operate in q circle. One throws
the other !n "a certain city They meet
somewhere else the next year. and the
former loser becomes the winner .
That uccessI tates a third matca-and .
son on Always there IS au alibi. and .
plausible one.
1T became a regular hippodromc f.
j found when was promoting F.
matches here. that the Wrestlers con
sItsrcd the public 50 easy as 20 be
almost unworthy OF consideration. II I
finally got 10 the stage OF handicap
matches which Is the worst form OF
swirdle ever inflicted on the sport pub
lie Anybody who knows anything
about the inside OF wrestling wouldn't
walk across the street 10 see a 'handi.
cap match.
Ambitious youngsters who wanted
20 break into the came found tine door
barred by this inner circle OF fakirs.
To get = match ~ all ft was necessary
20 agree either 20 'hop' or O. stall
through q handicap OF some kind
There wasn't any secret about 10. The
Erestiers recognized taking as an es-
tablished institution. and even had a
language % cover a. 4 rank outsider
might be present when Two wrestIers
we're arranging a 'fop' and be unable
TO understand what they were talking
about. but among the wrestlers them
selves there was little secrecy.
Match after match OF this kind h1E
Jeea pulled OF Ia Chicago. Once in a
While the wrestiers double crossed I
each other. and then the public got .
-ln-
Explains a Riet.
Take In. case OF the two vrestlers
whom you can call r and p. Wen. p.
isresd 20 flop To F. But when they ,
~ere on the mat. p. decided 10 double
Gross. and he got, - toe hold or =. and ,
nearly broke a leg. Wild with rage. ,
Z arose. ciouted the daylights out OF Z
:. with his fists. and broke up about ,
100 worth OF stage scenery. Then they I
and on the second occa- {
ilO1 the curtain had 10 be rlng down /