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Show STtCffiR ess KTLII TITLE Douglas Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Makes Plea for Sending Send-ing of Sonora Mail NEW YORK. April 16. Joe Steelier Steeli-er successfully defended his heavy-j weight catch-as-catch-can wrestling! ' title here tonight by 'tnrowlng Ed ("Strangler") Lewis of Lexington, Ky., In three hours, four minutes and fifteen seconds with a head scissors and arm lock. The match was one of the most ex-j citing seen hero in the last year. ; Shortly before the third hour marK1 I was reached, Lewis obtained three! flying headlocks on tho titleholder in such quick succession that it ap-j peared as though the champion was weakening. Lewis held each Cor about a minute, j but on the last one Stecher aurned quickly and obtained a body scissors,' which he held for three minutes and I four seconds, while Lewis bridged.! When free. Lewis made a wild attempt at-tempt for another headlock. Steelier broke the hold, lifted his opponent up' In his arms and threw hlni heavily to the center of the mat on hs back The champion then pounced on him and I in 15 seconds pinned his shoulders Stecher was unusually aggressive, IH forcing the pace for cho 'first half- IH hour, con3tanx.lv worrying Lewis with IH a rove -so arm hold. The first good hold was oDtained by thrj challenger after A?, minutes' wrestiiu-. when h. got his cavoiite headlock, which lasc-ed lasc-ed 42 seconds. Stecher retaliated with a similar hold, combined with an arm scissors. Lewis was in jeopardy for 55 seconds. Lewl3 became more aggressive after the first hour, obtaining sevoral head- , JM locks with a flying motion. A half-hour half-hour later the champion held Lewis i for more than two minutes with a l body scissors that nearly ended the . match. He struggled fiercely before getting out and got a too hold, from which Stecher kicked himself free. Just before the end of the second hour Steelier twisted out of a leg scissors and brought his opponent to the mat with a reverse arm hold, but the men rolled off the mat. Later the champion got a punishing side body scissors hold, which seemed to weak-en weak-en Lewis, who then resorted to at- JM tempts at a flying hold. IH |