The Washington herald., 1922-06-29

UNDEFEATED GALA
MEETS HUSSANE IN
FINISH MAT MATCH
Both Big Fellows Ready
For Bout in Capitol
Theater Tonight.

George Calza. the wrestling idol
of Italy and the only heavyweight
wrestler of any consequence who
has yet to meet defeat. will wrestle
his last match tonight In the Capt.
tol Theater before leaving for
Italy next week to be gone until
October. when he viii return to
New York and begin his campaign
for the heavyweight wrestling
championship Of the world.
Calza will meet Yussif Hussane,
the Turkish, Bone Crusher." in a
three-fall finish bout as the feature
OF the wrestling program which is
being promoted by Joe Turner, To-
cal wrestler.
The Turk arrived in Washington
last night He appears to be in
great shape and his hard campaign
through New York State and
Massachusetts, seems not to have
hurt him. He wrestled five matches
in four weeks In the Bay State,
winning all of them.
Hussane has been on the heels Of
Londos since the Greek was de-
feated by Calza in the Boston
Arena about three weeks ago.
Londos. however. SO far has refused
to name his terms for a match.
he pleads that his left arm, which
was slightly injured In his match
with Calza, is still bothering him
and that he won't be able to
wrestle until September. However,
Londos is meeting second raters
around Boston, which gives the i'm
preston that his arm doesn't hurt
as badly as II might.
The fact that Londos is going
out of his way to pass up Hussane
merely shows what the Greel,
thinks Of the wrestler who will at
tempt to pin Calza's shoulders tn
the mat tonight before the Italian
leaves for Italy.
Hussane was not particularly
anxious to meet Calza in the first
place but when his numerous at :
tempts to force Londos into a match
failed he signed up to meet the
italian probably in the hone that
ne could defeat him and thus prove
his superiority over the Greek.
Pete Dallas and Young Stecber
viii meet In the curtain raiser To-
night Dallas has met most OF the
men in the middleweight division
and mas always given a good ac-
count OF himself He has lost to
Joe turner twice but still thinks
ne can take the present holder of
the middleweight belt IL given sur
ficient time in which to get ready
for the match.
Young Stecher is a Western youth
VINO mas only recently started
wrestling in the East He is only
a youngster. less than 81 years old,
and though he has lots to learn. has
man.
Turner and Bobby Mainfort win
meet in the semi windup. startinp
at nine o'clock Mainfort was for
merly wrestling instructor AT ths
University of Virginia and In now
occupying that position at Ohio
state University. He is one of the
best men in the middleweight di-
vision and while Turner should heat
him the match is sure to be inter-
esting.
IL tonight's card proves success
ful. the promoters have arranged TO
bring all the big fellows in the
wrestling game to show in wasr-
ington before fall. Stranger Lewis.
present champion of the heavx-
weights, has already agreed to
come here during the summer. The
elderly Zybszko has also signified
his Willingness to wrestle here. One
OF these men will probably be
matched to meet Londos IL the
Greeks arm has recovered suf-
ticiently to allow him to take on
a real match.