The Washington times., 1938-05-13
Redl Wrestling Match
Novelty to Arena Fans
Behave
As Brown Pins
Bob Bruins
BY BOB ADDIE

They gave wrestling back to the
performers at Turner'S Arena last
night and for the first time in
many weeks the amateurs, com
monty referred to as the cash Gus
toners, refrained from taking part
in the contests.
You must be a regular patron
of Mr.. Turner's rejuvenated auto
mobile dormitory to appreciate
this turn of events. Things were
getting so bad, Uncle Joe was
thinking of putting up a sign:
Not responsible for customers
left over 80 days"
REAL RASSLIN'
The reason the paying portion
of the local citizenry did not en-
gage in battle was due to the head
liners or the card, Bobby Bruins
and Orville Brown. These gentle
men must be expatriates Of the
wrestling union because for the
greater part of the match they
omitted the usual histrionicS and
confined themselves to the tech
nical part of their profession.
Of course, later on they re-
sorted to the same old tricks and
were cutting each other about the
premises like a couple of water
front hUodlums. Bruins has thel
best scissors seen in these parts
for a long time and moved Joel
Turner to recall the days of theI
peerless Joe Stecher whose legs
shipped many an opponents bud
ding career when wrestling be-
longed on the sports instead Of
the drama pages.
Browns best hold was a ham
merlock with which he crippled
Bruins left arm. Bobby broke
that one time and again and to
bring back circulation to the limp
arm did a couple of laps around
the ring! No kidding! It's tool
had the American Medical ASSo-
citation didn't have a couple Of
spies up at the Arena last night.
1t would have learned something
ABOUT the human oooy.
WINNER COLLAPSES
Near the end of the match,
both boys looked as if they we're
acting a scene in slow motion.
They were so groggy they couldn't
stand up and they took turns atI
Hopping on the canvas - when
they weren't bouncing out of the
ring. Referee Benny Bortnick con-
sidered it quite a feat when he
got both contestants in the ring
at one and the same time.
The match ended with Brown
slamming Bruins to the canvas
and lying on Bobby long enough
for Benny to count three. Then
the winner passed out while the
loser sill was ready for action.
This was most unusual turn be-
cause the wounded loser usually
has to be scraped with a vacuum
cleaner.
Brown lay as limp as the Mon
day wash and when he was re-
vived took a practice swing at the
nearest target which happened to
be a police lieutenant. The cop
per, unused to wallop-weary ath-
leteS. almost created junior riot
by trying to haul Brown out of
the ring. Order was restored and
Orville Shadow-boxed his way
peacefully to the dressing room.
ZAHARIAS WINS
Almost the same situation oc-
CURED in the semi-final when
George Zaharias, the wrestling
golfer, pinned Jake Patterson.
Only, in this case. it was Patter-
son who was strolling down Queer
Street and after some hefty belts
at Mr.. Turner's sanctified oxygen,
was carted to his dressing room.
The burly Zaharias didn't need
any of his golf clubs to subdue
Pat. George drove Jake halfway
into the rough with a flying tackle !
and from there it was only a
mashie niblick and a putt to pin
ming Patterson.
Some mild excitement enSued in
the Frenchy LaRue- Chief Thun-
derbird encounter which ended all
square. Frenchy pulled a new one
by crawling under the ring when
the Chief went into his famed war
dance. It took Joe Turner's cad
dies about five minutes to locate
Frenchy playing softball with the
mice. When LaRue did come up
for air, he grabbed some furniture
and tried to part Thunderbird's
hair with a healthy Swipe.
The other matches went off
without incident. Boris Demitroff
pinned Eddie Erich and Ed King
threw Bobby WendiSh.