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Show 1 ISiHADY TRICKS THATi.WIN IN WRESTLING iM hMREASING the Body Is the Least of the Schemes tiui &dbf the Mat .Merc Rio Have Even Resorted to M Soporific Drags in the Scalp i I . v , George Hackcnschmidt WAJ Ml ,; ft B9 I tjyjJJ 1 Cccrrlrht. 1011. br the New York Herald CV. All rlebts rcfcrrttl.) u"2rM ' CIEXCE Is Hue, strength Is a necessity, timfii i few l,llt Il's tne tricks of lilti ,rado tbat wln" titX) declared .i wrestler as lie picked himself lHi ?? y up from the mat in the New York Athlotl' 'Ni Club and an attendant rubbed the dust'oCC aa$ 2 wth shoulders wilh a towel one night last winter. lTMM . "Now," he continued, "if Unit fellow liadu't had $ jreasc rubbed into his pores the last hold of miue Wlg rould not have slipped and he wouldn't have got mo 'to' I rust yet. I was stronger than lie was and knew thn lUrtjij ran,e beltC1' ' feIt tliat p,l,t dm yu ever tri" t0 ittifk Jo!d an eel or catch a greased pig. t : The brawny, huiry athlete went off still grumbling. k tf i ,et lle llful 1)eun 1)Pilton k.v a trick as old as the game Est! tself. Many attempts have been made by rule mnk- Jfil i !rs and r(;fc'l'ePS to do away with these unfair tactics aUjo?! J md their elTorts have been partially successful where ffiijTtfl imatcurs are concerned, but these reforms hare turned KSHn nit to be dismal failures where professionals have been liSjnfil nvolved. As in all other sports where money comes Ha til" nto llii game, much sportsmanship flics out. These rwiM xicks of Uie trade are as persistent ns Tennyson's tnPwl "ook. They threaten to go on indefinitely. jJji I " wrestling It is the man with, the gray matter snlSw! vno w'ns wnen 'ie combines it with some necessary iViim' nalerlal advantages, such as physical development f'Sw ind condition. The latter is more or less n direct re- i,'BIp ,tllt of t,ie possession of brains. It is the man who tdiwf au tulnk Quickly and whose muscles respond almost ,UnTM " nstnntnneously to, the orders sent out from the con- atlafel ling tnwer of liis skull that keeps his shoulders clear "'Cl ' ,c ma" " uiau-v in'ices wrestlers apply their g M ntellect to a wrong end which brings victory never- s'NTSk Jielcss, but which Is a ort of cross lots road to It, lt IrofTSu s the clever man with few scruples who invents the JteJfj ricks of the game. Wrestling legislators may sit up j2t lights to defeat these tricks with cast Iron, reinforced dMr 'oncrete rules, but the win-at-any-prlce exponents of fjHR. 'he game will get around any restrictions or invent TmW'I ,cw ,ncans t0 outguess the lawmakers. $M v When thst old lrlck of greasing the body was In Its L1 i Jifanc. the Inventor and parent of It simply rubbed -J aeavy gieasc oer his naked torso before going onto fwSrl ue n,a'' 'ua- worked very well until referees began jtSJ i lusIst on rubbing the men off with ilowels before JLlSit I ocrmittiug the performers to go on. But the remedy "S J tor this expedient was simplicltv Itself. btt :r jgrjj i One night an Important bout was scheduled. Why ifij . ' mention naiues? The thing has been done innumer- w? able times since. One of the principals appenred shiu- JjHfjj ';'. ing and glisteniug like a Neapolitan barber's hair. ug Here, that will never do!" said the referee, as he attfrfi ( :aught sight of the man after he had stripped off his 3jJP 'l Jersey. "What do you think this Is a greased pig flwtif' :onlest or a wrestling match?" jjJjgjK He seized a towel from an attendant and rubbed fJ the iillilelc dry and rough. Perhaps it was only an 5115 Dluslon of some of the tpectators that a smile plavcd tgl lbout the mouth of the man as he was being rubbed, ggji The bout started. The man whom the referee had Up!) I dried started to perspire and soon was as slippery as liwlS the straight and narrow way. The bout wns stopped, ! and again he was gone over with the towcL Again he JKS5 perspired, and again he was glistening. The referee 9f might as well have tried to stop the tido from rising I Wp ns lliaL Srcase lr0,n hrcaking out pn his body. The Ulv wrestler was as hard to hold onto as is a dollar in Now Ml ; York Klnallj his opponent began to tire,. A hold fljrtjfj: slipped and he partly fell. The greased one took ad- E vantnge of just this Haw In his man's defensive work Bl"; for which he had waited. lie closed In and threw feSr: him. ickML':r It developed later that the victor had had cocoahut 4bCT oil mnpsuged Into his pores by his trainer for two vl&ii) weeks before the bout One might as well try to isjs j. Interfere with an endless chain as to endeavor to stop yj!s$: that oil from exuding from the "pores when a man rtjgj perspires. This man Invented the trick that has been SB' used many times since, the one with which llacken- tffljit behmidt said Gotch defeated him. M&11 much more original trick than that hackneyed feii road to victory, but one which has been seldom used PPI' on account of the danger of detection, Is that of rub- jjr bing an anaesthetic info the Lair It is hard to say !?? I kw luucl1 lnis uas ljocn tlo"e 0UL "Hughle" Leon-llf Leon-llf I ' ard, the coach of the Sew York Athletic Club wres- SflKp tiers, au old professional, who went through many SHy1 hatd bouts in ills day and is as familiar with most of t-jjfl! the tricks of the game ns any successful professional $j0 uceds to be, snys ho knows of at leapt one Important as?5j bout that changed the toiwgraphy of the wrestling tTOj,1' world In which one man, irlie defeated, was "doped" SgSj J becnusc his opponent put a mild anaesthetic In his wffi ( Drugging His Adversary. 'JM -I The wrestler who invented this scheme had hair RrJ that would have made seveVi well known sisters fu- yf ' -nous or their abundant lockjj Jenloun. He rubbed the jfrjjjl ' j dru lnl u's hair and thpn Icpt pushing his hoad ur K under his opponent's nose n every opportunity. Ai ji last his man became groggy, 'and while he did not go ffi 3 under altogether he was dazed) and thrown. JJ!jf J On tiie Columbia University team four yearn agr ' I Was n I,lan Vuo was really 'cbever for au amntcur $2f Ills name was "Johnny" Wisi?. His weight at the oS'j mat s,lle was J-5 pounds. In a meet with l'rlucclon William Muldoon Photo by Hall his right 'liana w.irf badly bruised. In three days the Columbia team was scheduled to meet Pennsylvania for the Intercollegiate championship. The victory for the team hung on Wise's bout. It was to be the deciding de-ciding one. He was badly handlcnppcd by his sore hand and he knew that if he bandaged It the enemy . would attack it and do all that he could to worry It and reopen the old wound. Young Wise started to think. He said thnt the idea came to him the night before the meet, as such things sometimes will. After all, it was simple but effective. effec-tive. ITe bandaged up his good hand meticulously and left the Injured one unencumbered. His opponent knelt on the good one with the bandage on It, he jumped on it, and, In fnct, he did everything but bite it Wise smiled at the success of his scheme. The sore one, which carried no red cross sign, was untouched, un-touched, and Wise won his bout, which only led on to the Columbia team winning the meet. Wrestling used to be a more popular gamethan It Is now. Almost twenty years ago William Muldoon, who now is the proprietor of a health factory in White Plains, where ho rejuvenates overworked, overfed or oordrunk specimens of the human race, met Claience Whistler in Madison Square Garden for the heavyweight heavy-weight wrestling chnmplonship of the world. Tho big amphitheatre was packed to the dome for tho famous bout, and much money had been wagered on the outcome. out-come. The men wrestled for seven or eight hours and then some one turned out the lights. It was a dr.rw, but one of the fiercest bouts ever wrestled, according ac-cording to those who saw it. Many persons have wondered what caused the big poekmarks on Muldoon's chest, still there to-dny, Whistler rubbed a drug into his hair which ate Into Muldoon's chest. Then Whistler kept gouging him with his head, tearing open the skin and letting the drug have a chance to do Its work ou the raw. The Intention was to cause Muldoon to lose his temper on account of the pain that the burning' of the drug would cause, but tho big fellow was too good a IllliPv ;nir ''' ' Ernest Roebcr WS Photo by Willy Vfji wrestler. Like a Spartan, he let the stuff burn Into him and smiled. "I like that perfume you've got on your head," he sSd once when Whistler bored his head In, "but 1 think It's an effeminate Habit." 'As in prize fighting, talking Is a measure frequently resorted to by wrestlers In the hope that it will cause a man to lose his temper. This Is a result to be desired in any sport, for once -a man's temper is gone his chances of victory usually go with it. One wrestler, especially ono of the old school, will call his opponent all sorts of hard names and will often Include a brief sketch of the family back a generation or two to try. to force him to let go the grip on liis temper. These, ft might bo said by way of a digression, were the tactics tac-tics employed by "Young Corbett" when he fought "Terry" McGovern the first time, and the latter became be-came so roiled at the reflections on his family tree that lie lost his temper and waded in. Then his opponent op-ponent simply waited and beat him. Leonard met Matsada Sorakichi for the middleweight middle-weight championship of the world In Rochester twenty-two twenty-two years ngo. The Jap was a eatch-na-cateh-cau wrestler and his methods were rated as more effective than gentle. When the referee cnlled the men to tho centre of the mat he bent down and pretended to tie his shoe. Leonard was. taken In by the trick and stood Idly waiting for him to finish, when suddenly the Jap 1 straightened up with the characteristic quickness of his race and butted Into Leonard with his shoulder, catching him off his guard and knocking him off the mat out Into the scenery and benches. It was a jar that would have put an ordinary man out and was quite a Jolt for a trained wrestler. As Leonard came back to the mat Sorakichi said: "Blow do you like that? It's only a starter." "I like It all right," Leonard replied. "I felt sort of sleepy, and it may wake me up a bit. Try it again." Frank Gotch Photo by Richj'rd , CI This sort of repartee between tho two contestants was kept up for two hours, until neither had breath jnough to talk. Leonard finally got a fall out of the Jap. But each was too wily to' lose his temper. Hackcnschmidt and Gotch. Wrestling Is no parlor game, especially as employed by professionals. Hugh Leonard says that It has been demonstrated time and again that a wrestler can beat a prize fighter In a rough and tumble light where there are no rules and no referee. That Is, In short, In a street or barroom squabble. Tho wrestler knows better how to use all parts of his body. The fighter has to depend on hands alone. Many wrestlers have a habit of butting with the head and shoulders. While this Is against the rules, it is almost Impossible to stop It, and those jolts nro j very bard on a man. This butting, like a bull, is used more or Icsb by all wrestlers. When Gotch, a catch- as-catch-can wrestler, met Hackcnschmidt, of ,tho , Graeco-Roman school, in Chicago two years ago, In a ' cntch-as-catch-can bout, the latter asserted that Gotch i gouged his chest. Again wjlth the authority of Leon- j ard. It is very doubtful If this wns the case. Most ' l wrestlers butt, and It It. considered to be fair. Gotch had a big advantage over his opponent In that match, ns he was a cntch-as-catch-can exponent. In tho Graeco-Roman school holds below the waist are barred "The game Is no child's play," said he recently. "A man to be n successful wrestler, has got to be tough tough Jill over. If there is a ttuvr or a weakness weak-ness in his physical or mental make-up an opponent will find it. A man must be rough to win. A professional pro-fessional purposely' tries to injure his opponent, and In lids' way he finds out his weak places. That is V what he Ls looking for and to conceal his own. It Is . 'V the man with no 'grooves' who wins. That trick o oiling the body spoils almost all the arm and neck holds which are so Important to wrestling. j r "In saying that a man must be rough. I mean that, when he finds out a weakness in the enemy he does everything that he can to accentuate and aggravate and irritate it. Many wrestlers get their cars torn. This broken cartilage ls very painful. When a man meets another with a sore ear he uses what Ls called the side chancery hold. This is nothing more or lcss than cuffing and worrying the sore ear In order to get the man to lose his temper. It is against the rules to take hold of the ear, but one may box it I have seen a man get so irritated at these tactics that he has rushed his opponent like a bull, losing his head and pushing him off the carpet A man might just as well He down when his opponent has worked him up into such a state of frenzy. A striking example of the effect that such an Injury In-jury may have upon a man's winning ability, no matter mat-ter how game he may be, was the case of B. C. Norton, who represented Columbia University in the ltn-pound class last winter. He was not thrown until the team met the Middies at Annapolis. Then a young midshipman in a burst of enthusiasm nearly tore Norton's Nor-ton's left ear off. Norton did not win another bout throughout the season. He was. a quick tempered . young man naturally, and a few cuffs on the sore ear, masquerading under the name of side chancery holds, soon caused hlra to lose his temper on account of the Intense pain caused by the broken cartilage. M-nere was no way In which he could hide this mark for opponents, and the ear wns torn In every subsequent bout. It was simply a case of a man having a weak place and being unable to conceal It Not long after the trick of oiling the body had been discovered some wise wrestler turned up an antidote tbat not only remedied the slippery evil but had u punch in itself. Realizing the non-skid characteristics of rosin, this man rubbed some on his hands when he thought that his opponent was greased They stuck 1 like fly paper wherever he put them. That was the t antidote, but It wrfs not long before this man was j using the rosin as an Initial Impulse. He would put a plentiful supply on his hands and then rub them on 1 the carpet when he had a chance and the referee was ' not looking closely. Keeping his eye carefully on the spot, he would wait until his opponent assumed a crouching position on his hands aud knees and then rub his face Into the rosined part of the mat. This was about as sooth- I ing as sandpaper and was very hard on delicate faces and tompers. This trick has been practised a great j deal, but has sort of dropped out of vogue recently because referees look at the hands closely for ban-dages ban-dages nnd other artificial aids. This precaution Is the reason why fewer mat experts finish their matches with faces looking like rubber change mats now. Wrestling is a rough enough game for the most barbarous members of the civilized races. Frequently n leg or an arm will be broken In a hard bout, espe- 1 daily if It Is between professionals Many regular spectators do not consider it a good go unless some ono Is bruised a little. The one fault to be found with it at present Is the way thnt some bouts string out iutermlnably when two men are evenly matched and neither ono can get a fall. The two men will struggle about the mat for hours without any spectacular features, simply trying to wear each other down. ( What takes place In close contact Is lost on the fans. They even miss the punishment which may be given when the two men are close to the oarpct Then thero comes a flash and one stands up and hurls his opponent several feet It Is like a sprint in the six day bicycle race, after which the two contestants settle back to the steady grind ngaln. . To Eliminate Stalling. Eyen now the Intercollegiate wrestling association Is trying to make rules which will cllmlnnto the stalling tactics that drag out a bout interminably. At the last meeting it wns agreed that a fall should count one point more than a bout won on a decision. In Intercollegiate Inter-collegiate wrestling each bout ls allowed to go only so mnny minutes. It is thought that If more points can be gained from a fall than froul a decision the result should bo livelier exhibitions. Some such provision ls suggested for professional bouts, but no definite rule to make the sport more interesting has been discovered yet. Aside from tho sport nnd physical development to be attnlncd from wrestling among amateurs, It ls a t great means of self-dofence when a man is In a tight ,' place. "Hughle" Leonard tells of an incident in Ids experience that goes to show the value of the game as a means of self-defence. It was when Leonard wns a young man In his prime. He Is naturally a small , man nnd In Ids clothes does not appear to be particularly partic-ularly "husky." He was on the Barbary const in San Francisco once seeing the sights, years ago, when , men were shanghaied there nnd never missed. It was considered to 1A) a legitimate practice In those diijct. ( Leonard had been wandering around alone and stopped . into a place to get something to ent late one nlghl. ' Two men drew him Into conversation by asserting that all Americans were "curs." Leonard dared him to repeat re-peat It. "I'll knock your block off!" declared the author of the .statement "You couldn't blow the foam off a glass of beer," said Leonard. Tho man made a lunge. The lights went out. as they usually do in places of the sort, but not before Leonard had judged the distance, lie hammerlockcd his man and tossed him off his hip over the bar, where he went down with a crash of glass. Leonard was on the second man, whom he could see reaching behind him In the dim light from a street lamp. He threw this man heavily against a table, for "Hughlo" Leonard was quick as a cat In his younger days. Then Leonnrd bolted for the door. "The last thing I heard ns I- went out," says "Ilughle," "was a voice asking above a chorus of oaths, 'Who lot that buzzsaw in?'" Originally wrestling was a means of self-defence. Then tho Greeks Included It In their sports. It Is ono of the oldest members of the sport family, popular because It develops a man all around. It Is great exercise, but to be n champion a man must know tho ''tricks In the trade," |