New-York tribune., 1921-11-28
Challenger May Resort to
Deadly 'Heddl0ck' to Vim Bout
Mat Season To Be ssUshered In'' Again bv Heavv-
weight Stars in Madison Square Garden:
All Kinds of Holds Are To BE Allowed
BY Jack Lawrence

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The wrestling season will be ga
Stanislaus Zhyszko and Ed ("Strans
son Square Garden for the heavyw
title now held by the giant Pole. TT
or twice before in the last few weel
climate arranged for it by the New Y
authorities have since then pumped a
denatured pastinae, snd there are th
and even thrive after Messrs. Zbyszk
process tonight.
II The Garden is we'll populated with |
sAeptics this evening it will not be- at /
Ell surprising, as wrestling played ac-
cording to the words and music i'm
rrovised by the state authorities was !
something akin TO knitting bee Of the |
Girls Friendly Society Of the North /
Baptist Church.
.~ Our athletic commissioners, In fact,
were practicing disarmament long be-
fore President Harding ever thought of
the arms conference now in session at
Washington They started out to dis
arm the wrestlers, and they did it so
well that many of our prominent bone
crushers felt like arrnless soldiers The
n1atadors OF the mat discovered that if
they were to observe the rules OF the
game as laid down by the commission
they couldn't do mere than giggle fool
ishly at each other without being dis
qualified and tossed out into the night
Vetoed Furnishing Holds
The commissioners vetoed the toe
hold, locked out the deadlock, cut out
the scissors and even went so far on
their spree of limitations that they
prescribed the language, repartee. dia-
logue, dialect, colloGuy and other forms
o. oral intercourse 10 be- used by wrest- !
lers.
For mat artist TO alluds to his op-
ponent casually as a "big bum" would /
result in his instant banishment to the
salt mines OF Siberia, or at least to the /
canneries of Canarsie.
Followers OF the game took one look (
a. denatured wrestling and declared /
that the idea Of limitations might be all (
right for Secretary Hughes ard Arthur /
James Balfour, but for them it was less /
than one-half of one per cent by vol /
ure and entirely lacking IN the nee
essary quality OF exhllaration. Their /
yowl OF disgust reached the ears of the I
New York State athletic commissioners I.
and the latter revised ths rules; and it is
the new code that viii be given its first
workout tonight at Madison Square +
Garden.
Toe-holds. headIocks and scissors
holds will not be barred, the commits
sioners say, but neither Zbyszko nor
Lewis will be permitted to use them
until it hurts. They can use the holds (
until one or the other cries TO the com
missioners:
"Ouchl This egg is hurting mel"
Offender Might Be Exiled
Then, as we understand the revised .
code, the bird whoGs doing the hurting
must lay of or tun the risk of in
curing the displeasure OF the authori-
ties, which might lead to q thirty-day !
term In Woru1wood Scrubs, the Tower |
of London or the Black Hole of Cal |
cutta
II the commissioners let Zbyszko and
Lewis alone this evening their mat
meeting will probably have all the ele-
ments Of pep that are needed TO re-
store wrestling to the public popularity
it once boasted The champion stated
e few days ago that he was serving his
last bone crushing campaign and would
retire at the end OF Il year. He ex-
poets to retire with the championship
crown still set rakishly on his intellec-
tual brow. Lewis, according to what
he said yesterday. has totally differ
ent idea Of the latter part OF Zbyszko's
program. He thinks that the afore-
mentioned crown will be transferred to
his own dome no later than this
evening.
Lewis lost the title to the masta-
donic Pole last spring, and ever since
then has been trying to devise ways
and means Of recapturing it. He says
that the old deadlock is still working
nicely and that in addition to this he
has invented a number Of new holds
that will cause the champion to take
a long look at the Gardens rafters TO-
night.
Lewis appeared at the Lexington
Theater about a month ago as the op-
ponsnt Of Joe Polk, who was adver-
tised as holding the inter-allied title, /
whatever that may mean. Joe looked /
as though be had been run over by a
Lenox Avenue local when he was finally |
peeled off the floor by the use of gaso-
line torches and scraping knives. He
has occupied position of magnificent
isolation" and obscurity ever since.