New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Mat Champion
Gains Victory
On Third Fall
Pole Rallies and Defeats
Opponent After Being
Thrown by Half-Nelson
By Jack Lawrence

Stsnislaus 2byszko successfully de-
Tended the heavyweight wrestiinp
championship last night at Madison
Square Garden after one of the weird
ct contests this game has ever known.
II there was anything resembling
legitimate fall Il was the last and de-
eidng one. in which the champion.
rising out of perilous armlock which
Lewis held over him, threw the latter
back over his shoulders until he was
momcntarily In the position which
undes the queer rules now governing
wrestling was enough to give him the
fall zbyszko weighed 223 and Lewis
Isl pounds.
The challenger won the first fall, ac-
ccrding to Johnny Fleeson, the referee
IN II minutes 81 seconds. In gaining
the fall Re surprised himself as much
a. he did his opponent, as Zbyszko's
shoulders barel. touched the mat as he
writhed safely out of a mean predica-
ment Under the old rules this fall
would never have been recognized.
The next fall was won by Zbyszko
after II minutes and 26 seconds of the
most bitter sort of milling. 1t was a
new tangled flying fall" in which the
Ssranglers shou ders. like those of
zeyszko a short time before, barely
touched the mat. Fleeson. the referee.
slapped the champion on the back and
declared him the winner of this round
while the crowd booed.
Joe Humphreys said that Zbvszko
took the last fall on a double arm.
lock. but he seemed as bewildered bv
the proceedings as the wrest ers and
the crowd. The time of the last fall
vas IL minutes and 56 seconds.
Calza Wins in Straight Falls
Elmer Johnson. husky BROOKLYN
youth gave Mad son Square Garden its
Arst wrestling thrill when he put up
agame but futile fight against Georg a
Gaiza. said to be the heavyweight
champion Of Italy. Elmer struggled
valiantly for the honor of Flat6nsh
but t e Italian was not to be stopped
georgia looks like wrestler with real
possioiiitles. He is young. fast end
ttlever. The action was fast, as might
be expected between bantams. Calls
won straight falls after he had
broken down the heroic defense of the
Breo.lsn matador.
Tee first fall was gained in fopr
minutes and fourteen seconds "a 81 re.
suit of what the referee called a "ro,l-
ing arm lock. After Elmer had taken
mas hrst look al the ancient Garden
fafters re seemed to weaken and was
ngaih mat victim few minutes later
lLis throw was announced by the
Ieleree as also rolling arm lock"
in three minutes and twenty-three sec
onds although Elmer's shoulders nm.
peared to be only momentarily on tho
mat, s's
In the preliminary to the Zbyszko-
Lew struggle two stout gents. who
seemed In favor of disarmament. en-.
gagged in a sort Of Elizabethan waltz
IN which neither ach ieved ANYTHING of
niose IN this affair, Ivan Linow. weigh
ing Z59 met Armar Laitener who dis
sur6ed the scales at 2O9. They worked
WIN perspir ng sincerity. but they
achieved no more action than can be
seen on Brooklyn Bridge at any rush
hour. A' '"'''
There were lots of photographers on
9. nsho "hen lbyszko and LIE Wis entered
me ,oped arena. They all seemed to aim
81 the "Strangler,' which may be due
to the fact that he wore one of the
most aesthetic bath robes seen in Mad
ison Square Garden in many years. It
wa the real deep purp e.
The conference cf the powers In
Washington had nothing on the head 20
head stuff that was pulled when
lbyszko and Lewis were called up to
near what the Commissioner had to say.
Joe humphreys announced that the
iesu would be determined by the best
two falls out of three. with no hold
barred but the strangle.
An elderly bird who looked good
deal like Disraei and apparently rep
resented the New York State Athletic
Commissioner interferred and read all
hands lot of Albany law before hostil-
tiles actually were started. Joe Hum
nhreys announced in q clear contralto
that Tex Richard would award another
diamond belt to the winner.
Lewis Gains First Fal!
Zbyszko and Lewis took the mat at
$500 and milled about viciouslv for
ten minutes. when the champion
brought the Stranger down momen-
tarily, but was unable to keep him
there. Lewis wriggled out like fash