South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-02-10
M|SHAWAKA MAN
FLOPS MA SUDA
lap Secures First Fall, But
Ross Comes Back
Strong in Others.
BY JUNO KINERK.

Adrian Kid" Ross effectively
demonstrated his superiority over
Matty Matsuda. the Jap wrestler, on
Monday night in the Century the
dter the Mishawaka man winning
two out Of three falls. Matsuda won
the first fall but the Mishawaka
man came back and won the next
TWO falls In the short space OF 10
minutes.
After 40 minutes OF hard wrest-
ling, with neither having the ad-
vantage over the other Matsuda
obtained a head scissors and wrist
lock which won for him Several
different times Ross mad the Jap In
bad shape but the Jap wriggled out
of these holds after he apparently
was as good as down
Second Fall a Surprise.
The second fall was a surprise
TO everybody. the Jap included.
Hardly had the men reached the
center Of the mat when Ross got
Matsuda down, and succeeded in
applying a double arm lock which
pinned the Jap's shoulders 20 the
mat The next fall was won 10y
Ross after Il minutes of graphing.
lie got a good toe hold on the Jap.
and after squeezing and twisting for
three minutes Matsuda gave w.
The main bout was good all the
way around. except that the Police
Gazette belt which was at stake was
not given to the victor Ross
W ighed in at 151 - pounds at six
o'clock. but Matsuda was not there
when Ross weighed so ne refused TO
put the belt up. After the bout
Ross weighed again in order TO
show the Jap that he was down to
weight. and he tipped the scales
at exactly 149 IA pounds, stripped.
One Boxing Bout.
Only one boxing bout was held.
Welch's opponent failed to show VI.
so just the Fray Hess bout was put
on. Fray put ROllo TO sleep ere the
middle of the second round rolled
in. The first round was about ever,
but the next round the Niles man
became a little peeved at a grim
ance that Hess made at him and
ne opened up. A left hook closed
one of Hess eyes, and a second later
another left put him in the land
OF nod
In the wrestling preliminaries
Miltenberg of Niles threw Kid
Bothner. OF South Bend. twice H. 10
minutes. and Speedy Steve threw
Luzny in the same time. Sam Tun-
das. who was scheduled TO appear
against Young Jordan, of Elkhart
had to be satisfied by watching the
other men perform. His OPT Onent
was taken dangerously III and is
now in the hospital with the flu"
!. II. HOlley acted as referee in
the preliminary bouts, and his de-
cision in one of the bouts was far
from fair Dr. Millstead made his
initial bow TO the public as a ref
cree by acting in that capacity for
the main bout. and his work, al
though a bit amateurish, was bet
ter than Holley's
TaIabcr Next.
A week from next Monday night.
Feb. %. Ross will meet Lou Tala-
Der, the Hungarian middleweight
champion, in Mishawaka Talaber
has already won two decisions over
Ross. but the Mishawaka man is
confident that he is now at his top
form and that ne will reverse the
decision. II is 10 be hoped that at
the next bout the number OF pre-
liminaries scheduled 10 be put on
vill be run off. If necessary the
men should be forced TO put up
a forfeit for their appearance, and
If they fail TO appear they should
lose their money.