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Show - FRANK K. BAKE a 1 TELEGRAM SPORTS fDITOA. - 1 1 i m m J Maybe it's because it's election time. Anyway, the "rasslerj" are getting down to earth and adding a real old-fashioned mud-slinging bee to their repertoire. ' It's in old Hindu custom, so tha stnry flnrs, " wrritla in the mud. Sandor Szabo and Prince Bhu Pinder introduced the ancient art to American mat fans at San Francisco recently at the Bay City promoter cast about for something that would pack the customer into his arena. The fans went for it in a big way. That is, all of them did but the front row customers, who sought refuge somewhere back near the galleries after the mud began to fly. Ordinarily, ' Los Angeles wouldn't have anything to do with an innovation, which began in San Francisco, but this mud-slinging business proved to be an exception." Los Angeles, wanted to see the fun, So Szabo and the Prince repeated their number in a ringful of goo in the southland. Now Promoter Jack Washburn proposes to bring a similar act to Salt Lake City Friday night Washburn has obtained Arjan Singh to demonstrate the Hindustic atyla In the local presentation. His opponent will be the mighty Tiny Roebuck, tha six-foot four-inch 300-pounder 300-pounder who ought to make a tremendous splash if he's " upset in tha mud p""1"'!.. The mud battle will be the last number on the program. Workmen will dump an ample supply of mud into the ring and pour a lot of water on top of it. Then other workmen will grab a few rakes and shovels and mix it up to a nice " sticky goo, a lot thinner, it is said, than tha kids use to make their mud pies. After that, the wrestlers will be poured into the ring and mixed thoroughly. It ought to be something different, to say the feast. According to the original Hindu version, a restlcr ws ruled out the moment his foe forced him to sink a knee into the mud. The Americans have put a more spectacular angle to their version. They require the shoulders to be pinned, which gets the ears, eyes, hair and noses well smeared with the sticky good. I think ' fans may like this addition of goo to the grunts, groans, growls and grimaces if they're far enough back not to get splashed on. A pop fly dropped safe in one of the Brooklyn Dodgers' last fames of the season . . . When it was returned to Pitcher Waite Hoyt ht hurled it in disgust into the outfield. . . Burleigh Grimes rushed out to confer with him. . "Did you fine him Burley?" tha Dodger manager was asked. . . "Hell, no," said Burley, "I congratulated him upon his restraint. If it was me I'da thrown on of the players out there instead of the ball." Pitcher Orville Jorgens of tha Phillies picked iw runners off first base this year. . . . After Kenny Keltner, Minneapolis in-fialder, in-fialder, heard that he had been sold to the Cleveland Indians, he failed to hit a ball out of the infield in 17 straight times at bat. |