New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Old Head Lock
Gives Stranger
Another Victory
DIR. Roller Succumbs to
Favorite Stunt of Lewis
After Game Fight
By Louis Lee Arms

incy are All kOluR IN ioF INC hto"
lock at the Lexington Theatre. Wrest-
lers high and low. lean and fat, civi-
lized and-well, they're all trying il.
Even Sula Hevonpaa, our favorite
wrestler. attempted it last night. Sula
Owed for his man, missed him and hit
the floor. But Sula has the right idea,
and, as STRANGER Lewis says, it's
only a matter of practice. suls is so
impetuous in his quaint Finnish way
that he wants 10 DO a thing right OF
the bat.
DR.. B. F. Roller, Of Seattle, was az.
ficted with the head lock at the Lex
ington last night. It came upon him
suddenly like cramps at the end or
thirty-three minutes and one second OF
deep and scholarly wrestling.
Doctor wiggles Fingers
That is, there were thirty-three min-
utes of mastery milling and the extra
second was consumed BY the good doc
tor in wiggling his fingers aloft, indi-
eating that he was through. Referees
George Bothncr tapped Stranger"
Lewis on the shoulder as token OF
victory, and that's all there was to V.
II doesn't look now as though any
thing can stop the stranger" and his
pet little head lock unless IL IL the
Humanitarian League and Miseha APP
pelbaum. Up to the time Lewis sprang
the lock on the coed doctors cerebei-
L. l..fe inc hn hat
ter of it. In fact, the physician from
the far reaches Of the Pacific was doing
nicely. He had Lewis trapped with
his feet in a body scissors and he
was proceeding with all the skill and
poise of clinical shark to bend the
"Strangler's" brawny shoulders to the
cushions.
Lewis is funny about those things.
He will let his opponents go just so far,
then he breaks out like an earthquake.
DR.. Roller tugged and hauled in his
scientific way, and Lewis's shoulders
verged nearer and nearer to Louis Ney-
ers's canvas mat.
"You almost got him now, Docl"
howled q president gentleman In the
gallery.
The gentleman was conspicuously cor
rect. The good doctor almost had him.
The next moment he had him complete
ly-about his head.
Lewis Twists Free
Lewis twisted free from the physi-
clans scissors with one OF his ire
nfendous body lunges, and as the men
came to their feet he diYed at the
Westerner and for the first time ad-
iusted the head lock to his liking. The
good doctor sank to the mat with the
hatulent grunt that invariably accom-
panies this hold.
Lewis bore down harder and harder.
and presently the good physicians
hand arose behind Lewis's back, indi-
eating that he would like to get out
of Jail If possible. So there was moth
ing to do but let him up.
After the match DR.. Roller made a
speech, in which he said he believed
Lewis was now the king of them all
and that none could withstand his
famous head lock.
"Only five years ago." said the good
doctor, "a could pick Lewis up and carry
him around in my arms"
IL was clearly indicated last night
that the doctor couldn't pick Lewis up
with his head and carry him very FAR.
Earlier in the match Lewis had APP
piled his punitive hold, and II seemed
then as though the doctor would have
10 resign. That he didn't was owing
TO the fact that Lewis was out OF posi- !
ton 70 get the best results from the
hold. The good doctor was lying on
top Of him, and in that posture Lewis
couldn't manipulate the laughing gas,
or whatever il is he uses in the head
lock.
Look of Relief
The doctor wriggled free and look
Of great relief crossed his face. For
that matter. he was somewhat relieved
at the terminus Of the second and con-
GLIDING head lock.
Ii was a good match, and, barring
Lewis's original hold, it is doubtful II
he could toss the Westerner. At the
most approved tricks of the cstch-ss-
catch-can game the medico was
superior and slipped out of Lewis's
arm and leg holds with ease. II was
only when the STRANGER" grabbed
him about the head and shut of the
sunshine that the doctor wilted.
In the final finish match Wladek
Zbyszko defeated Joe Rogers, the
American Apollo, in AZ minutes and
seconds, with a body hold and half
nelson. IL was the first time these
men had met since Zbyszko got a de-
cision in Paris.
Sula Hevonpaa, Of Finland, and
Pierre lie Beige, of Belgium, furnished
an entertaining preliminary match.
They introduced novel style Of mixed
boxing and wrestling. Sula is by no
stretch of the Imagination a champion
wrestler, and his boxing is beyond or
binary words. But he stopped every
thing Pierre had besides sending in
few good body punches himself Sula
is running out of ideas as the tourna-
ment progresses and some one should
write new words and music for him.
The match was a draw.
Ivan Linow got a good Russian draw
with Freberg. He had somewhat the
worst of il, but his shoulders were still
waving proudly aloft when the twenty
minutes had finished
In the first match Yusif Hussane, the
Balkan Bone Crusher, turned John
Heracle on his tonneau in IL minutes
and 35 seconds, with a neck and head
lock. Goodness only knows how many
Of Johns bones were crushed. The off,