The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-27
WRESTLING BOUTS Al GARDEN NOT
 THE LEAST. TAME
Grapplers Maui One An other in Aid of War
 Work Fund.

New York, Nov. PA few odd tons of wrestling talent tugged and tussled on the mat at Madison Square Garden Ia st night for the United War Work campaign. The crowd was small but select. and the wrestlers were large but hardly as exclusive as the gather ing of spectators.
 There were grappEers with strange names and stranger faces from the Balkan sections of Jersey, and masslVe fierce, looking, bone crushers from the Czechoslovak provinces of the Bronx. The primitive manner in which these abvsmaI gladiators mauled and bruls- ed one another was a severe setbacK for all theories about the brotherhood of man. and within the 24-foot con- fines of the wrestling mat, the world was not safe for democracy or any i thing else. The wrestlers spared neither ribs nor facial beauty for the fund, and 1 some of the bouts caused such high temDerature in the OnlOokers that ! tnev were in a continual state of tur- moil.
 Such a bout was that between ''Cy- ! IZilonis of Norfolk These two hot bIooded scions of the Southland ap- preached each other without restraint George Emerson was the referee Of 1 this bout, but most of the time he was 1 ore of the contestants. The Cyclone 1 created some alarm at the start, and l it looked as if Kilonis would have to hurry to the storm cellar, but the ! ferceness of the Georgian abated as i the Virginian started to change the location of Reiss' nose and push his eyes and ears to new locations on his l head.
 ReIss stood Kilcnis on his head and did everything in his power to push said head through the floor, but well | directed mule-like kick from KliOni's
 foot against Reiss' face entirely upset
 the Georgian's plans. They grappleC
 for 30 fierce minutes to the most tor
 rid draw of the show.
 Carl Johnson, wrestling instructor
 of the New York A. C., threw Otto
 Samson of the Bronx in 4:5O with 2
 scissors hold Jack Munroe of the Princess Pats refereed the bout.
 Gene Bruce of Brooklyn threw
 John Smithson of the navy in 10:2I
 with 8 full Nelson. Gene Wester.
 gaard and Leon Hood of the United
 States navy contributed a heated halt
 hour draw.
 A little argument arose between
 Will Bingham and a stranger named Al Gross about the Far EasterT
 problem of jiu-iitsu. Gross boldly
 proclaimed that he could beat Bing.
 ham in 10 minutes. Bingham said he
 couldn't and Gross said he could ant
 so on for several minutes Finally
 they put on Japanese kimonas anc
 went at it. It was a cOrking bout
 Bingham, although much lighter 1T
 weight threw his heavier opponen
 around like a sack of meat. It wal
 very rough on the kimonas. Nothing
 was barred in this bout but a black.
 jack. Bingham was declared the win.
 ner after 10 minutes of jiu- -jitsl
 by Referee Benny Leonard.
 Tommy Draak of Holland was fal
 gentle with Fred Pilakoff, who uset
 to live in Ukraine. After the me1
 had polished the canvas with eacl other for awhile, Draak made PIIa , koff quit with a toe hold. Hereafte Pilakoff says he will wrestIe with hi boots on.
 } A brand new hold. the thumb hold was introduced by the Greek, Dime [ trius Tufalos, in his bout with Harr, Stevens of Delaware. The Greel } placed his 290 pounds squarely O, l Stevens thumb and mashed the poo . thing until Stevens cried Uncle" Tn = Greek won the bout in 13 minute
 with a leg hold. Y