The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-22
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By, WILLIAM BRAUCHER NEA Service Sports Editor.

have helped to revive wrestling. The decline of boxing interest also has been a factor. But there is another cause perhaps as great as either of these. It is showmanship.
 Part of this showmapship is ex- pressed in such rough-house tactics as the flying tackle. flying mare and airplane spin, which have largely supplanted the immobile pulling and tugging of the tiresome past. Part of it is expressed in straight slapstick comedy. A great deal of the quality that Barnum worshiped is in the cast of characters of the act itself which provides that one man must be a conpiving, interruptions villain and his adversary the righteous, gracious, triumphant hero.
 Take the fellow George zaharias, Denver collegian. He is one of the villains of the cast. One minute he Is dringing in a corner against the ropes, his face expressing abject ter TOT of his opponent. Then suddenly he is flashing out with a vicious blow that resounds through the hall as 1t bounces from our hero's manly bos- om.
 Villains also take every possible advantage of a situation, crawling along the floor to the ropes so the referee will break a painful hold once the villains head is outside the ropes. Rs the rules specify.
 At one time or another during the conduct of match, the villain has the upper hand and the hall resounds with boos and jeers as he goes about his seemingly sinister business.
 At another time the sneering rascal is being foiled at his own game. Thus one night I watched Zaharias make seven slashing flying tackles simed generally in the direction of Jim LOndos. Londos nimbly side stepped @ ach crude plunge, and the rafters trembled with applause. Again, the evil one, obtaining a cruel hold upon your hero, exhibits almost superhuman wickedness in pressing his torture to the utmost while Handsome Harry bravely and Stotcally submits to the punishment without whimper.
 It is the sheerest sort of stiffness but 1t brings a crowd to it's feet like no display of dispassionate sci- entific skill on the mat ever could. In fact, skill in wrestling to-day, the wrestlers themselves will admit, is almost entirely unappreciated.
 The credo of the wrestling people to-day seems to be that the public likes to be fooled, belief not denied by the generous patronage the mat game is receiving from people in all walks of life, including the so-called intelligentsia.
 Exposure Jack Curley. master l of herd of pachyderms told me re- gently. "You can't expose anything 1 nowadays. Rather, mean you can expose and expose and expose and what does it get you? | "Chicago writers called the turn | exactly on the recent Lewis-George match in Los Angeles in which the ] championship changed hands. Lewis | was going to win back his title as matter of expediency. The match turned out exactly as they prophe- sled"
 | You understand, of course. that Mir Curley was referring to the Bowser- Sandow wrestling enterprises when he thus scathingiy spoke. MT Cur lev, who presents Jim Londos as his world champion, would not want 10 throw cold water on Mir Dowser or MT Sandow or the Bowscr-sandow | champion, Strangler Lewis or course not!
 Added to the showmanship of vil- lain vs hero, there appear at nearly every wrestling show in the prelimin- aries at least. a couple of mopumen- tai mountebanks whose playful an- surdities roll dear old Gus Phann right out of his seat.
 stars of this branch of the trade are such men as Sergei Kalmikof. ! AAa pAAA Gthartnn The nreHent stunt is for his adversary to pull his whiskers. Another Is Ferenc Holu- ban. who has no neck but manages to support in the style to which they have become accustomed seven sep. arate and distinct stomachs, One of the villainous clown types ,rnd sure crowd -pieaser, boys) is Rudy Dusek, the rough and rapacious roughneek rascal.
 Even n a so-advertised champion. ship match. there is a grcat den! of whoop-te-do about nothing before inc serious business of throwing be. gins. There is much aoing and heaying of bodies--often n wrestler is pitcheh through the ropes Into the press box or to the floor outside the
 When the men really get down to huslnese ono of the favofite falls ts inc airpiane spin. Your champion seises his man. hoista him high over hIs head whirls rapidly . couple of ilmes and bangs the old hoy to tho mat with resoundinE crash Hoorayi
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