Show says wrestlers Wrest lers do not equal fighter during bis sojourn in cleveland last week john L sullivan said that in hk opinion wrestlers wrest lers were as a rulo not QS game as lighters he went further and said that he believed thai seven tenths of abo wrestlers wrest lers of the country word not game men jf they wore gamo they would bo fighters in chead of wrestlers wrest lers bald john L 1 I mean those of them who arc not topnotch wrestlers wrest lers and who nover will bedfor they are balat moro anthe lines of fighters 1 I have seen dozens of fellows in my time who followed tho wrestling game who had not a ghost of a show to make good in that calling whereas if they wore game and not afraid of a punch in the nose they would have made groat pugilists A wrestler should bo stocky and muscular very strong and pos messod of a powerful grip he Is built more on the elnoa of the weight lifter heavy of arms and heavily limbed with a good well proportioned trunk ho should havo massive shoulders and a great chest dan mchood was my ideal build for a wrestler and to my way of thinking he was the greatest the world ever produced at his weight jenkens is wen put up for a grap alar and frank gatcha build comae pretty dose to filling the bill although I 1 really believe gotch would have made a better had he begun in time he is too old to learn now of course I 1 dont know how well gotch would like the wallop that a fighter is frequently obliged to take he may or may not be game but you can take it from me that seven tenths of the wrestlers wrest lers are not gamo I 1 have won borne of them undertake to be fighters and a punch or two stopped them although I 1 have never been an admirer of jack obrien I 1 know he could alok every wrestler wre atler in this country as fast as you could bring them along meeting about two every night they are bound and never could reach the shifty obrion while he could cut them to ribbons with his aba hooks and maybe may be correct regarding ane orsome members jo ho wrestling fraternity but ho certainly has overlooked many a grappler who is dead game dan mchood would take his death on the mat before he would quit he demonstrated this in his famous contest with tom mcanerney Mcl at san francisco back in the when the rough going irish champion broke his nose and three of his fingers jim corbett was referee and ho said afterward that mcleod gave the greatest exhibition of grit he over witnessed on any mat or in the prize ring handicapped as he was with three broken fingers andi broken nose from which the blood gushed all through the con eat the plucky little scot went along wrestling with the fury of a demon for over two hours finally defeating Md after losing one fall by a strangle hold with which maln erney rendered him unconscious for ten minutes dan was still dizy when camo out for tho second bout and after taking another terrible grueling for half an hour or so he took the aggressive and wrestled ill around tom and beat him down had or indigestion for year no appetite and what I 1 did eai distressed me terribly burdock blood cured me J H walker ohio |