Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-08-22
47TH ANNUAL
FAIR IS PAST
Event Attracts Good
Crowds at Afternoon and
Evening Programs.
Wrestling, r evue, Pills
bury's Band and We'd
ding are Features.

The 47th annual Pine county fair
is now history. The fair was held
Friday and Saturday with good feat
ures and grandstand attractions. Mil
lers Jewels of 1885 consisting of a
musical revue featuring a pretty
chorus of dancers and singers, with
instrumental and specially numbers
vue were clever and entertaining.
The outstanding event for Friday eve
ning's program was the wrestling
match between Otto Pat" Kuss, Pine
City boy, and Bobby Stewart, the
heavyweight from Alabama.
For Saturdays program the Pills
bury Flour Mills Company band of
Minneapolis, consisting of about 40
pieces, entertained the large crowd
with afternoon and evening concerts.
The evening program terminated with
the public wedding at which Mr..
James L. Stepan, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. w. Stepan of Willow River, and
Miss Judith Dockan, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. C. Dockan of Willow River,
were the principals. Although Il
storm was threatening and a slight
rain had begun to fall, the wedding
was performed and the program fin
ished for the day and the year.
Pine County Lad Wins.
The wrestling match Friday eve
ming was in line with the big
regulation shows put on in cities
the size of st. Paul and Mime
apolis. 1t was contest between a
Pine City lad, Otto (Pat) Kuss, who
has been winning fame as a grappler
the past year, and Bobby Stewart.
from the state of Alabama. Kuss
weighed 220 pounds and Stewart 265,
both pretty good sized boys.
In the crowd was few regular
wrestling and sports fans but gen.
orally speaking it was a regulation
county fair crowd. Amongst them
many women and children who came
especially to see the home county
boy who had been winning a name
for himself. The crowd was not ac-
customed to the grunts and groans of
many other twists including also eye
gOuging" which goes with a regular
wrestling show of today.
So therefore many of the OnlOOkerS
thought Stewart was taking chances
when he started his rough stuff on
the popular local wrestler in his home
bailiwick. He cracked Kuss under
the chin with his knee, later Kuss
paid him back with some good
healthy body slams, much to the de-
light of the large audience. Pat re-
taliated to toe holds with several
body scissors in which he gave his
opponent plenty squeeze and made
him gasp for air anyway it looked
that way. At one time after Stewart
had roughed it up again Kuss threw
him into corner, tied him up in the
ropes, and then pummeled him with
open hands. Following that, Stewart
tried to punish Kuss, who is COM
monty known as Pat in wrestling cir
cles, by rubbing his thumbs into Pats
eyes. The referee, who apparently
knew his business, warned Stewart
twice against those tactics. After
the third "eye-gouging" attempt by
Stewart, the referee dragged him
away from Kuss and then raised Kuss'
right arm in token of victory, much
to the delight of the on-lookers.
Too Rough for New Fans.
Those who have seen wrestling be-
fore rather enjoyed the encounter for
there was plenty of action through
out the 90 minutes but women and
others who had not witnessed wrest-
| ling matches before were not so taken
up with the sport. They thought it
was too rough and every now and
then during the contest screams could
be heard from the ladies, especially
when the contestants were Keeling and
apparently on the verge Of being out.
All in all, the grapplers put up
good show and they did pretty nearly
everything but bite and kick. How
ever, after the thing was over, neither
one appeared to be hurt and no phys
zeal examination was necessary. They
are likely as good friends as ever and
ready to be on another show any time
the purse is there. To be sure the
pride of Pine county in the wrestling
game is a clever man. He has
strength and ability and is very fa-
miliar with procuring as well as
breaking the various holds.
Clint r. Boo did the announcing
Two exhibition boxing contests Of
three rounds each were put on by
men from the Yellow Banks and Dux-
bury CCC camps. All four were vel
Iterweights, scaling about 1852 pounds.
The boxers were amateurs and their
exhibition was rather tame" in com
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