The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-04
HORSES AT BELMONT PREPARE
 FOR THE SUBURBAN HANDICAP

had an exciting session with a full sized "musky'' are likely to agree.
 June is the month of all months for going after this mammoth of the pike species, for then he is at his best, fresh and vigorous and able to put up a scrap that is the delight of all true
 fishermen Only a salmon can com
 pare with muskallonge as a fighter,
 and, at his June best, the latter is entitled to the shade. A salmon will
 often lie still for hours, trying the
 patience even of an angler, but the big pike is on the go from the mo-
 ment he feels the hook and there is
 no rest for his captor until one or the
 other has been declared victor. It is said of the muskallonge that he will take seventy-five feet of line
 without a check, and the man who
 has him on the business end of his
 line has little time to think of any thing else but the business in hand. An experienced angler tells of the de- lights of bout with such a fierce denizen of the rivers and lakes as follows: The grapple between human being sound in wind and science and a muskallonge informed with the temper of Satan is some thing to wrse epics about The
  and deep lakes or clear and swift streams, which makes him the aristo- crat of the pike family, as his cousins and uncles and aunts delight to wal low in mud.
 No other brand of fish in the wa ters he haunts dares tackle muskal- longe, having learned discretion from
 bitter experience, and the musksl- longe is the foe of ala veritable
 
 A MATCH for the heavyweight championship of America was made between Tom Hyer and John Morrissey on this date in 1849, but the latter repented of his bargain and forfeited s1o0 rather than meet flyer. Earlier in the year flyer had become ! the acknowledged champion by de- feating Yankee Sullivan at Rockport, Md, having previously whipped Country McCloskey. Hyer was the first generally recognized American champion, and was the son of Jake | Hyer, who figured in the first ring battle in America in 1916. When Hyer and Morrissey were matched 9 second time the champion, alleging that he was the victim of a frame-up and that Morrissey had a big gang at the ringSide who would stop the fight if it went against their man, refused l to fight, but offered to meet Morrissey in a duel with revolvers. Later Hyer challenged Perry, the English cham pion, but his offer was not accepted, and Hyer retired, while his old enc my, Morrissey, became the champion. TgSHE revival of interest in wrestling recalls that the ninth anniversary of one of the late Frank Gotch's greatest will be remembered by mat fans today. It was on the night Of June 1, 1910, that the Iowa farmer defeated Stabislaus ZbyszkO in Chi cago, breaking all worlds champion ship gTappling records by pinning the Pole to the padded canvass in six
 and two-fifthS seconds.
 Before a big crowd of fans which filled the Coliseum, Gotch seized the Polish gladiator with a reverse half
 nelson and bar arm and sent him down before the spectators realized what was coming off, Zbyszko was wary when he faced the champion the next time, and they wrest1ed fur iously for several minutes. At times the big Pole, who had a great advan- tage in weight, seemed to have the edge, but Gotch by sheer strength
 held the upper hand most of the | f tj,,on