The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-03
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- A4 HARRY CRIMSON.

New York.-The Egyptiani passed it on to the Greeks, ant then the Turks took it up, and w' still have Jim Londos. We've hat him for almost a score of years and we're likely to have him for z long time to come. Wrestlers seer to improve with age.
 Londos wasn't the first grap pier to learn that the show ]: the thing, but long since ha: proved that he possesses a keenel dramatic sense than any othei behemoth who ever applied ham mers and locks. And that's say ing a lot in field that dowr through the ages has out-Boothed the Barrymores.
 Londos' showmanship unques- tionably has much to do with his being back on top again, which is where his victory over Jim Brown ing in the Sunken Garden the oth- CT night put him.
 Those who saw Londos carry the antiquated dodge to it's finan- cial peak couldn't understand why the Jack Curley and Paul Bowsei forces joined hands three years ago to squeeze out the Colder Greek. It was like Tex Rickard dismissing Jack Dempsey, Colonel Ruppert releasing Babe Ruth while his legs were good, or golf giving Robert Tyre Jones the gate.
 The Golden Greek
 Londos is one of the most phe- nomenal attractions in sports history. Few ever have been able to go from town to town and pack places like he does. Four win ters ago the trade actually broke in the Garden doors to see him practice his artistry with one Ferenc Holuban, and the doors had to be locked and the riot squad called when he tackled Jim McMillen. Gates of $60,000| got to be a common thing.
 It's difficult to imagine promot- CTS ostracizing a bucks office mag net like that, but that is what happened.
 Londos refused to engage either Richard Shikat or Ed Lewis.
 The ruling powers didn't care a whoop what he did in regard to Lewis, who was fat and we'll over 40, but Shikat, from whom Jeemy took his original and somewhat synthetic claim to the crown, then was managed by Joe (Toots) Mondt, partner of Curley, and stood we'll with the union.
 When Shikat demanded another edition, his voice was heard and when Londos stood pat, Lewis had to be dragged in from California to make up the program that opened the Garden Bowl.
 Lewis pinned Shikat, gaining recognition in New York, but re- ceipts dropped with his ascendency, and shortly the leadership was passed to Browning.
 Ideal Show Window
 Not a few of the better cards, such as McMillen, Ray Steele, and Gino Garibaldi, left the fold with Londos, and one of the bit terest mat wars on record, ragged. There was mud-throwing ana crossings" which did neither side any good, until a truce was ar ranged last winter.
 And many close observers sus- pect that Londos would not have been reinstalled as head man, with a clearer title than anyone has had in several years, hd not the busl- ness needed an artist like him as a show window.
 So Londos, the peerless poser again is lowing, throwing out his chest, strutting swinging on the ropes like a big monkey, chuckins rivals out among the portables' staggering backward crazily to be supported by the hemp, dramatic ing pain and enacting the role of the dying gladiator as champion.
 No one ever combined all this with a wide assortment of skill fully applied grips and locks quite like Londos.
 None other ever left the GUS toners quite as goggle-eyed with a lightning like change in the tide of battle.
 Regardless of the authenticity of the fadeouts of his matches, the bronZed son of Argos never fails to turn the trade out into the night satisfied.