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Show I WRESTLING BOUT I IDS RIDDLE H I NEW YORK, Dec. 25. Tho wrost- H ' Hng bout between Zbyszclco, tho Pol- H I lsh wrestler, and Raicevich, the Ital- H Ian champion, broke up in a muddle' H ; tU Madison Square' Garden tonight- H ; Most of the 4,000 spectators loft tho H j garden thinking tho Itnlian had won, Hj but tho rofereo. Tom Jenkins, award- H cd tho decision to Zbyszcko. R ' The Polish wrestler had agreed to H ' throw Ralcovich threo timea In 90 H j minutes. It took him 37 minutes and H 50 seconds to socuro tho first fall, Hl ( which was by a forward double arm H j hold. In tho second bout, after three H minutes' wrestling, Raicevich got just H such a hold on the Pole, as ho had M boon floored with. One shoulder, how- H ever, was off the mat and Jenklnr M ' tapped tho top man with the Idea o' H giving him warning to get his man to the mat. He said he also shouted the warning, but tho uproar from tho crowd drdwned. his volco aud the Ital- ian, thinking ho had. been tapped as the winner, Jumped up and rnn.to his dressing room. Tho crowd thereupon moved out of the garden without hearing the announcement or the rcf-ereo rcf-ereo that Raicevich had not got his man altogether on the mat and therefore there-fore there was no 'course to take but to award tho decision to Zbyzcko. Americus Loses to Burns. BOSTON, Dec 25. Gus Shoenlin (Americus) of Baltimore, champion light heavyweight wrestler, lost at Mechanics' hall tonight when ho fall-od fall-od to throw Cyclone Burns of Boston Bos-ton twice In an hour. He was noar-ly noar-ly thrown himself at the qlose of the bouL |