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Show LEWIS EXPLAINS HEAOLOCK HOLDS Wrestling authorities. Imagined or! real, who try to do av.:.y ullh ' Stran-gler" Stran-gler" Lewis" farnouK headlock, can i prepar.. for vlgirouM opposition from I the champion grappler. bewls. some-1 what peeved beoause of the talk abolft barring tils hold, untnirdeneil himself ! of some Interesting dope on the hond-I hond-I luck during a dlKcupidon In the east ' last week. "I worked for several years to per-1 fed thai hold and I do not Int. nd to i lose it now because fow purists audi Staphs r ii.ostrN muji to hsvg 4e- clared Inhumane." ild Mie hump "Nothing wa ever nild abOUt PrttUl Qotoh'e fsmoui toe hold. si it i.s on record w her.- he prsotlcsJly ruined several ery promising young wrestlers wres-tlers when they refuted to yield upon first pressure "I want to be perfeotly reaSoqahls in all my demands, but I do nut think! this agitation against the deadlock UV fair. Sti-i-her u i i bp body sclswors anrl the leg hold and too hold on Ipe I until 1 lliought 1 would never be able I to stand it another second, but no-j ; body says anything about tho..e holds. "If lh-se so-called wrestling au-i thorltlcs are going to govern the sport I why don'i they gl- nil the Wrestlsrs a fair shake and make their Starting point from the time they organize? Whst'l the idea of making It retroac-l five .' I am w illing io lend whatever j assistance 1 can to the mat sporl, but when thrs- ,(sk u man to dispense wit hi I a bold it roa.ulrsd several years ofl hard work to rl-elop and perfect. I thlOh they arp n..mg entirely too far." Lewis comparps his situation with the headlock barred with that of the .ojltbnll pitcher who has been ordered t.. . ut ou' the moist delivery and finds hinundf almost pushed out of the game. The champion places ihe blame for the agitation against his hold t. the friends of Stechor. who. ho claims, are aore because he beat the Nrbrasi.u lad. "I beat him fair and square and I will defend the title the Same Way," said I-ewls. |