Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 13 | Strangler Lewis to Live on Coast

ISTRANGLER LEWIS TO LIVE ON COAST CHICAGO, May 21. Ed (Strangler) Lewis announced today that he would fill a fow minor engagements in the east and then go to San Francisco to make his home henceforth. Lewis ; said he has been training ainiost continually since his discharge from the uruiy, and that he feels he has earned a rest. According to the officials of the club which staged the Lewis-ZbyszUo wrestling match, won by Lewis, oh Monday night, the receipts were 511,000, of which GO per cent, or $7050, went to the contestants. The winner's end was 75 per cent, or $5287.50. while the lostr's share, 25 per cent, was $1762.50. Wladek Zbyszko, the loser of the match, said 1 before leaving for his home at Old Orchard, i Maine, that he was much overtrained and had j cancelled a number of matches in the east. I He purposed resting, he said, until a week be-I be-I fore his match with John Pesek in Omaha, S Neb., on June 14. and then put in seven days j of active preparation.