The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-28
LUMBER TOO HIGH AND LEWIS HAD TO
 USE HUMAN HEADS
By OLD DOLLAR BILL
ry HE rasslers will be busy at the Bir-
 mingham Athletic club tonight

ny OhD JULIAN bAhA
 TTy HE rasslers will be busy at the Bir-
 mingham Athletic club tonight.
 Rassling has been in vogue ever since Wilson rassled with the European
 problem, or even back to a earlier period
 when Job rassled with the boils. Judging
 from the beef on his face in the biblical closeup, Goliath might of even rassled with the humps
 Tonight, how the ever, two modern
 Herculeases will do the rassling. Ed (Strangler) Lewis, from Lewisburg or
 other points west and John Pulaski from
 Pulaski, Tenn, or some other seaport
 town, will do the rassling. Mir. Pulaski
 might not be from Pulaski, Tenn, but his
 general build looks like that of Irwin
 Cobb, and as Irwin got his torso in that hustling hamlet, it is reasonable to sup pose that John the raSsler got his there, too.
 It's been long time since this here Ed Lewis was in Birmingham. The last time he was here he got his perfectly manicured nails in Wladek Zbyszko's gcozie and for few minutes it looked like that would be the last of said google. It seems that the Pole had doubled up his fist in attempt to double Lewis up, and that Lewis had got as mad as a wet Black Binorka hen about it. The police, the referee and several null titudes of fans rushed to the ringside and pulled Lewis off of Wladek's neck that memorable time, and Wladek strug- gled to his feet and said something in Polish. It might of been translated into Thank you" or Dam you" so far as the crowd knew. Since that time Lewis has been as scarce around here as bap- tismal pools in the desert area of Ari- zona.
 But Ed Lewis must of been eating yeast oIr~et l. &t.s. W1adek and him rassled at the Jeffer- son theatre for he has became the cham pion of the world since then. He sent Joe Stecher down to defeat and also made
 Earl Caddock holler "calf rope.' lie done it all with a hold which he calls the headlock. Ed puts on this lock, throws the key away and it would take Kid
 Houdini to get out of it. By eating these yeast cakes Ed has rose in the world, and has got a kick to his headlock. A yeast cake will give anything kick. And now he comes to us as 'champeen- As the knocker said, in effort to kid Birmingham about being dirty town. Welcome to our sooty."
 Of course, Ed is supposed to put Johns shoulders to the mat tonight, and if he didn't, why several hundred rassling fans would fall dead from the shock, but due to the fact that Ed is quite popular here, and also by virtue of the fact that he has became the undisputed world champion since last he appeared in Birmingham, it is quite probable that a house full of wrestling fans will assemble at the Bir-
 mingham Athletic club tonight to watch the match.
 Ed perfected his headlock practicing on a wooden dummy He done this until 1918, when lumber got so high that Billy
 Sandow said to him: "Ed. lumber is get ting so high that you can't practice on a wooden dummy no more, and you'll have to use human heads in the future"
 Ed took him at his word, started to using human heads, and it wasn't no time until he was champion of the world