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Show TO Kill M Pat Connolly Makes Frien for Himself and (or Mat Sport. Special to The Tribune. BUTTE. Sept. 15. Wrestling fori first time in ten years is again a pc sport in Butte and the sucessof the is jitributed to the dearth of sports to the popularity of Pat Connollj, Irish grappler. The smaller wrestloi not take well with the wrest Hn? fans hut the miners have taken kindly ;o big fellows. The hope of the promo is to match Connolly and Stecher for Thanksgiving dayevent. No fights are allowed in Butte, aliti 'boxing matches" are allowed in pru ealiy y il other towns ot t he state. Ru is h dead i.'sue because of legiBlath; nm and baseball is waiting lo in vi-.-ed. Ak an experiment Connolly, rame to Butte from Vancouver, whin war'piit : lie wrestling game on tlieij was given a handicap match with Ht Trsiinger, whom he threw in Jig time, won from big .less Westersaard' in hour and 10 minutes and took twostn falls from Duncan Gilles, the Britlsi lumbia champ. Govederica. the pound champion of the Balkan fti drew a big house because of the p.atio ity feature, and lost to Connolly, t1 the two last falls. The Irishman was then matched i tiu- veteran Yankee Rotleer?, who thrown in two straight fails of ill and eight minutes, respectively. Da ral, the Greek, lias been signed for a late this month. It is WestenU 'opinion that Stecher and Toufiff ! sane, the terrible Turk, are the wo most likely to throw Connolly. wi i rles around 180 pounds, which meani he is giving away about twenty orti pounds to almost every grappler he m here. When the Butte sports back any of sport they generally go th limit, if the game is kept as clean in thefi as it has been in the past the promt wili probably make -a good thing n the sport. It looks like a busy i ahead for, the big grapplers. |