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Show b!g grapplers ! iutori Stecher and Zbyszko Give Exhibition; Neither in Serious Danger. By Universal Service. NSW YORK, Nov. 26. Joe Stecher and Wladek Zbyszko wrestled three-quarters of an hour or so tonight in the main event of the benefit wrest ling show staged at Madison Square garden for tho war work fund. For the first twenty minutes the men sparred for favorable holds, for the next twenty minutes they feinted and tugged, and for the last five minutes they wrestled. f So the two stars did all they had contracted con-tracted to do they , wrestled m bit and called it a night. During that brief period of wrestling they went to the mat three or four times, hut so far as could be seen from the galleries neither was fver in much danger of being pinned. iatecher gave the customers two pamples of his scissors hold and a couple of head-locks. head-locks. John Smithson, a navy headltner. was pinned to the mat in ten minutes twenty-seven twenty-seven seconds by Gene Eruce, who won with a full nelson. Carl Jansen downed Otto Samson in 4:50 with a scissors hold, while John. Kolonis of Norfolk and "Cyclone" Rose of Macon, Ga,. furnished a roughhouse match which Referee Kmerson had to use physical force to break up. Emerson bumped Rese, the principal offender, sev-- era times on the mat before he quieted down. At Retain, who had promised to defeat "Will Bingham at jiu-jitsu "in ten minutes, was shaded by the veteran artist. Benny Jeonard, who admitted he knew nothing of the Japanese art, refereed. Tommy Draask forced Fred Pilakoff to quit in fifteen minutes when he applied a toe hold, and Demetrius Tafalos, Greek wrestler, won from Harry Stevens in thirteen minutes with a leg hold. John Oiln, the Finn, and Rinnald Car-dim, Car-dim, Italian champion, wrestled fifteen minutes to a draw. Olin was thrown to the boards once, but quickly recovered. |