New Britain herald., 1919-04-05
NELSON IS VICTOR \ OVER Al. VENTRES
Unsatisfactory Ending Of Wrest-
 ling Bout at Turner Hall

Another step toward the killine, of sport in this city, was taken last Ave Aln2 by Ava Nentres of Berlin. who quit colo in his bout with Louis K. Neison. of Brooklyn, N. Y.,.after one hour. of uninteresting work. The ac- Hon ot the Berlin boy came as a Surprise to the fans, and was, like a lh H undefpott to his loyal friends who R9aVe followed him faithfully before he attalned the fame that made him popular. There has never been a time in this city as far as is known. when it was necessary to hang ont fhe S. r. to. sign at wrestling bouts. Needless to say, more empty seats will be in order in future bouts when a performer who has attained the stie- ma Of quitting performs s " entres had 8 hard bout Monday night, probably one of the most gruel- ing that he has ever worked in. This q9 course, had it's effect on him as he stated when he concluded his one 1lour on the mat. Ventres in explain Ng his action in quitting told the f#ns that they may call him a quitter r. they desired, but he did not feel like killing himself for 8 measly 50 per cent. of the receipts
 NopSh NelSo1, worked live hours last Friday in North Adams, Mass. and on Thursday night in Brooklyn. he wrestled one hour and thirty-four minutes. At the conclusion of Ven tres talk, Nelson told the fans that Vantres had given him the hardest one hours work he ever had. He was warmly applauded for the decent xRanner in which he treated his ad- versary.
 The bout if it should be so termed failed to create much enthusiasm other than among the Ventres' root CTS who continually rode Nelson with various kinds of remarks. Some of the attempts at being funny, were la mentally weak.
 E Making It Worse.
 In connection with these testers, it may be said that one young man at the ringside continually reminded Ventres about the Moose smoker and about free feed. It is evident that Ventres attended the Moose smoker and that he further showed very poor sportsmanship by criticizing Nelson's work. An attendant at the smoker is the authority that Ventres said, ''it was the poorest bout he ever parti- pipated in and owing to the fact that Nelson did not force him, he stalled
 He is also reported as having said that Nelson had but two holds
 P The Bout
 feIt was S;47 o'clock when both wrestIers appeared on the mat. They went through the usual formalities with Referee i''Smiler' Livingstone of Hartford At 6:53 o'clock they went to grips. For 20 minutes the men pulled and tugged at each other be- fore they both went to the mat with yentres on top. The Berlin boy had what looked like a hammerlock, but Nelson slipped away from it, and inn mediately assumed the aggressive. For the remaining 40 minutes, he was on top of his opponent. Only one time during the whole work did anything that aroused the crowd occur, this taking place toward the finish, when
 Nelson secured a. scissors, but Ven
 tres broke away from it.
 a1 J. Ventres Wins.
 In the preliminary bout John Ven
 tres brother of Al, downed Jimmy Mccarthy in 12 minutes and 30 sec onds with a half Nelson and body hold This was a fairly interesting match.
 Ivan Mickailof, the manager of Nelson, stated after the bout, that he will at any time agree to allow Nel- son to wrestle Ventres. providing that. the latter does not engage in any # matches for at least 15 days before the bout. MiCkailof asks this proVi- A sion so that there will be no repetition of last nights mess. The manage nent also states that anyone holding tickets for last nights affair will be adrn1tted free if the proposed bout is