The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-04-16
biggest Night Of the Season in
Wrestling World.

o-NIGHr - the biggest night Of
Ahs season In the wrestling
world. and that's saying some
ming when We recall some OF the
nlghts that have gone before.
champion Joe Stecher. he Of the
powerful Ices which have won him
mmo and I'm a measure revolutionixed
ne mai game. win pit his nationally
Known human scissors against nd
LeWiA whose head lock IL almost a.
deadly as the IonE-since barred
gfraugiehold. About Of equal weight
@nA strength, they are perhapa the
mostly evenly matched pair OF vvregt.-
.eE1 before the public to-day.
btecher. cool and deliberate IN his
movements ON the mat, with an I'M
en.n9lng expression on his face NO
uiAttee what the tide OF battle, a about
the most interesting Of an athlete from
physical standpoint Looking At him
above the waist he seems altogether
700 man for such gruelling and
strength sapping business an wrestling.
his shoulders are comparatively mar
row and his chest gives no sugReation
o. extraordinary lung power. But he
Wioen9 as he goes down in just the
oppomte manner In which old Bob F1tz-
summons Widened from the legs up.
IRON me hips down stecher IL a
Superman. with a pair OF won
derfully developed legs that one
might expect 10 see on a Willard, a
Jeffries or other giants OF the ring.
And Il IL on these legs that stecher
almost solely depends TO win wrest-
hing matches In fact, he has won
few bouts otherwise He has an
mcAnny habit OF Glipping them
around the TORSO of hin opponentsI
Then when he applies the squeeze
n scissor fashion it's the beginning
OF the end OF the other fellow.
Lewis is unlike Stecher In wrest-
holds, is like a cat on his feet and
has remarkable powers OF endurance.
physically no d almost a perfect
npecimen OF the well developed ath-
leoe q model worthy az a subject Tor
any sculptor.
Stecher beat Lewis, who. when
they met before went down in what
seemed a moment OF over confidance
sn9 careaessness. just when he
looked Inc the winner.
a READER asks our opinion m 20
"A who would be the better man
60 test the ability OF Georges
carpentier-Gene Tunney or Battling
LsvinslEy. Neither u likely 10 get
q chance TO do this a. the
trencman has said he will dght ONLY
Dempsey, and q defeated by him win
retire; but for the sake Of argument
and that's what our reader evidently
Want9 20 start, we win say that n Is
almost a $3.50 proposition. Pittad
against each other, LevinslEy's expe-
rlence might prove too much for
Lunney, but each against Carpenter
II different question LevinslSy's
expql ence wouldn't DO worth quite
20 mach TO him in such battle and
the haftler wouldn't be likely 70 hurt
the brencnman with his punches. He
prooebiy would move around and have
q BET terd Tense than TtInney could Of
Ter, Nue ~ would ind In Carpenter
man SptsAy enough 10 catch him or
af least keep UP with him. Tunney,
'on the other hand. would lack the
experiences and probably the neces-
pary speed TO cope with CARPENTER
hut he would certainly sting Georges
and sting him good n he ever CON
ncctcd With that right Of hla A
yOumgsterf with the fundamental
knowledge of boxing which Tunney
certainly Possesses, who has seen
knocking out most OF his opponents
IN short order, isn't TO be despised in
any company. Don't take It from this
that we think Tunney q better man
than LevinSlEy. We don't; In fact we
thinls he isn't quite ready 20 80 against
the Willy Battier.