Show WOUlD BAR SOME UGLY HOLDS i 1 ON MAT j 1 Some Wrestlers W Woul oulI L I fl to See a sors Eliminated 1 Bar the rib-cracking rib scissors ho This is the wail of several Amer Am Amer 1 grapplers in a panic over the tact tactic e Joe master of his python python grip that entwines its victims victims' 1 crushes them into submission More than a decade ago go ano anc young man from the tho farm aided abetted by Farmer B Burns Invented foot-cracking foot toe hold driving a as ads a army of f alleged champions to c cand cand cand and causing a it dearth of available of championship class j The advent of the young farmer fannet from Humboldt Iowa caused a p i among the heavies posing as champ and near title holders These wrest wres raised a cry of ot protest against th hold They wanted it barred at atas rf I as a pernicious institution and a n i Continued on p page ge 8 3 i WOULD LD BAR SO SOME E Continued from sport page o 0 t the human race These grapin grap grap- lin in other words sought to disarm l Ii alby l iy y depriving him of his most weapon of attack was was soon discovered U that t the lad Humboldt was as as powerful in the if other if other weapons of attack as in the toe crushing grip The Tho Thel's Thos Tho's ls l's s 's champion In fact tact has won of his important matches with other grip than the toe hold that is In a class self im-self among the challengers of II nd b believing him to be a one- one man mali some grapplers are eager to toUte Ute the body scissors barred te her could win his matches by byI bys I s of f other grips remains to be iese hese alleged reformers of the wished wished really to boost the game laminating a dangerous grip th they y t tart a crusade against the dou- dou velson elion r wrestlers have bave been killed by bys s of f the double Nelson and the f m mare iare re holds than all the other the mat game combined With lying mare the defensive grappler d. d over the head and shoulder shoulders s opponent and usually alights on ons ons s s dome He Is lucky to come down 1 added canvas and escape conon conon con- con on of the brain d l uble Nelson is a ver very danger danger- h hold 4 inasmuch as an opponents opponent's may ky be broken provided the agor ag- ag or lay refuses refuses to release the grip and ancl andin ih in n applying the pressure A Ae AC e C grappler who perfected Belson elson and uses it against i opponents with effect Is said l caused caused the death of several Hers Hers- tiers Hersby ler by y its its' 0 us use in in- In long his his lon meet mat t mare and the double Nelt Nel- Nel t ot among the holds barred in ss onal nal matches s yet they are far farl dangerous than either the toe or the scissors on the body e uble wrist lock said to have haverj l rj vented ted by Chicago wrestlers s i dangerous grip Waino Ket Ke- Ke t 1 merican middle weight cham- cham perfected the grip and the show how h he has defeated several e best men of ot his weight In the I with the combination Some day lest a ay be a crusade to bar the thele thele theley le ley wrist lock ton en has also discovered an ef- ef e counter for the double wrist It t was this knowledge that l t I the he from defeat reat ret re- re at at- atthe t the Chicago Athletic a F the hands of Louis I 11 caught Ketonen with rl riP the Finn shifted to one side threw his body boby back over that l ber rendering the combination e the e wrestler has as yet discovered an efi ef- ef i ej counter for bone ling scissors hold Perhaps it res re- re s for Gotch to figure It out out |