The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-14
 WILL WHISTLE
 FOR TIE TITLE


 world will be decided at the Madison Square Garden in New York on Fri day, March 21. WIadek Zbyszko, the Pole, who claims the title will defend the Iaurels against Ed "Strangler'' Lewis. The struggle will be to q fin ish, one of them must secure a fall or the gate money will be returned to the spectators. This startling in novauon in the grappHng world will compel each man to strive at top speed, otherwise he will not receive 8 single penny for his services
 At present Zbyszko and Lewis dis pute the championship title. When Earl Craddock announced his retire ment the mantle fell upon the shoul- ders of the deadly Joe Stecher, the
 man with the scissors hold" Sev- eraI weeks ago Zbyszko received a ref eree's decision over Stecher in Sioux City and therefore claimed the cham pionship. A few weeks later Lewis met Stecher and threw him in 2:13:S7 after one of the most gruelling con tests ever held in the West. Lewis immediately challenged ZbyszIo to meet him in 9 match with the title at stake.
 RenaIdi Gardini, the Italian heavy weight wrestler, has arrived in New Haven and has already started train ing for his match with WIadek Zbyszlo at the Arena in that city on Monday night. The fact that this is the first time an Italian wrestler has been given a chance at the title has resulted in a record demand for re- servatiOns by his fellow countrymen of whom there are more than 3Os00O in New Haven.
 zbyszko will arrive in New Haven Sunday morning. The heavy weight title contender is extremely popular in that city, but he will have to give a, remarkably clever exhibition to win over next Mondays audience Indi- cations point to the biggest crowd of the season Monday.
 The funeral of Patrick Connolly, heavyweight wrestling champion of Ireland who died Tuesday at his home in SibIey, North Dakota, was held yesterday at his home in Boston. Connolly was on his way to Boston from Butte, Mont, where he had been for the past five years
 Connolly Is well known to wrestling enthusiasts of this section. He won | the heavyweight championship of Great Britain from Alex Cameron of Glasgow four years ago and since ! then has wrestled every heavyweight l of note, including Americus, Joe Stecker, Lewis, zbyszko and others 1 of note.
 ] Mike YolzeI defeated Joe Turner in 1 two straight falls in Boston last night. : The match, however was interesting | throughout. Turner halls from Wash ! ington and is considered one of the 1 best grapplers representing a Wes- ] tern State in the ring.
 A better showing was made by the ] Harvard University wrestling team in 1 the preliminary matches for the l graphing cham mpionships of Harvard. ] A class Of 122 candidates reported | for the first matches last night at the l Harvard gym The seni-f1nals will be held tomorrow night. The finals will be held March P.
 The New England amateur wrest- ] ling championship tournament will again be held in Boston this year. 1 The bouts will be staged in Me ! chanics' Hall the largest auditorium ! in the Hub city beginning on Monday, March 31.
 Jack Curfey, who manages W1adek
 Hybszko who meets Ed Lewis for the heavyweight championship in New York week from tonight said that he has accepted the wager of s5,0O0
 from the ''Strang1er's'' manager.