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Show YOUNG WOMAN ATHLETE . ENTERTAINS PASSENGERS ' - ' H1W TOSK, July 7. Mis Bertk Kaap, an afhletie Anwreen girl of Otrmu paraitac and !! of eailsthsnics la Cincinnati, wu the chief Scar ia a aniqao rovth of July celebration oa too steamship Adriatic, J art In from Southampton. Tho Jonng woraae i aboat S feet 9 ineh tall and weigh about ISO pounds. Hn specialty Is wroetling and ah ehallaaged any mti aboard hip to bout of a ' minute each, eatch-aa-eatck-aaa. Two eoeond cabin passengers, on an Anterieas bieyel rider, Arthur Llhhr. who weigh 14Q, and George Lahrmann, a German who weighs 1 W, accepted the ehalleng. The bouts took place oa part of the deck dividing tho arst from the second cabin and all passengers axrept those in th steerage crowded about the gladiators. Miaa Rapp wore a sweater and a short skirt aad th men were stripped to undershirts. Libby held out against the young woman in the Bret bout, but she put hi shoulders to th mat ia the third minute of tho eeeond bout. Thea she took on tho stoat German. He proved a tough propoaitioa. Thy wrestled twenty minutes, with interval of rest between th flve-mimit boat. Th German had some science and much muscle, which combined with his weight, resisted the gallant effort of the young woman to pat him down. He also could do nothing wtth her; in fact, hla chief object seemed to be to prevent himself from being thrown. The referee called the contest a draw, at the end of the fourth bout, when neither wrestler seemed St to eon. tinue. . |