The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-17
|IMAT TRUST MAKES
 FIRST MOVE TO. DISPLACE LONDOS.
Wrestling Tournament in Los Angeles to Decide
 Champion of World"
By ERSKINE JOHNSON NEA Service Stan Correspondent


 Los Angeles, April 17-Another wrestling war has broken about the head of Jim Londos, pretender to the heavyweight throne for the last five years
 Londos won the last one several months ago. The combined forces of the promoters, Jack Curley, of New York, and Paul Bowser, of Boston, were forced to take him back into the fold when recepts fell off.
 Since that time, Londos has established an even stronger claim to the crown with victories over Jim Browning and his old rival, Ed Strangler Lewis.
 Ed Don George, recognized as the titleholder in New England. is the only one disputting Londos' su- premacy at this time.
 But now Londos is under suspen- sion in California for failing to meet Chief Little Wolf, a compara- lively new Indian entrant, which automatically bans him in New York and Illinois, and there are un- tIul lHe uldl powers would like to sec the lead ership in other hands.
 It is with this end in view that Lou Daro, who runs the works in Los Angeles. is staging the na- tion's first professional wrestling tournament since 1929 in Los An geles starting on April 24.
 
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 We are particularly anxious to see compete such wrestlers as Jack Sherry, Everett Marshall, Marin PdeStina. Carl Pojello, Richard Shikat, and others who are con- stantly yelping about discrimina- ti h." say the mat bigwigs. who are working together. 'Londos' entry would be particularly welcome. So far he has not filled out an appli- cation."
 Although he field will be lim- tied to 70, Daro asserts that he al- ready has on file 150 entry blanks.
 The list will be cut down by a series of bouts in a private show ing. for the brain trust which will conduct the tournament in nine nightly episodes under the auspices of the California athletic commis- sion.
 The brain trust Is composed of Daro and Curley and three sother promoters with flair for dra- matics. The others are Bowser: Tom Packs, of St Louis; and Ray Fabiani. of Philadelphia.
 Except for the few months that Curley and Bowser joined hands to war on Landis, these rival pro- motors heretofore have been un able to agree on anything, let alone staging a show together under one roof
 The behemoths able to make the best, or worst, faces and means the loudest are sure to be selected Hollywood film scouts will be on the lookout for talent during the proceedings. t. +stt @ Parade Proceeds Circus
 Daro has arranged to parade his troupe of hairy y-chested monsters through the streets of downtown Los Angeles at noon the first day of the international tournament.
 Children will be kept in the house that day. Already, office workers and clerks are planning to bring their lunches and remain to the security of their desks Seventy mat behemoths, outside the ring, even in broad daylight would scare anybody, even King Kong.
 To the winner of the tourna- ment, reached through elimination, will go the world title, in Cali fornia, at least, and $1O,0OO in cash.
 A weird lot will perform. with not few giving the affair side show flavor.
 One of the latter is Tom Thume, of Newark, N. d., who is bigger than Man Mountain Dean, who also will compete. Thume tips. the scales at $50 pounds. Dodo Ski, the Abyssinia Panther Man., wfll he there, along with Serji Kalmikoff, the bearded Siberian; Jagat Singh, the turbaned Hindu, and Jean Ledous, king of the logging camps. The Shows the Thing
 Others include Danno O'NTa- money, tnc former lrlSli fTee Statc cop who specializes in the Irish whip and is undefeated in this country; Juan Humberto, tho Pampas Gaucho; and the four Dusck brothers, Rudy, Ernie, Emil and Joe, hailed as four-man riot.
 Former world champions who will see action are Browning, Lewis, Gus Sonncnberg, and Hen ri de Glane.
 A good share of the favorites, east and west, will be present, in- cluding Jumping Joe Savoldi.
 Daro will spice the performances with rough stuff, as wished out by Hangman Howard Cantonwine who tangles his rivals in the ropes Roughhouse George aharias, who does everything but pull knife; and Frank Glad Man) Specr, the eye-gouging expert.
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