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Show TITLE RETAINED BY 'STRANGLED Lewis Takes Second and Third Fall, Allowing Zbyszko First. ST. LOU1Q. Mo.. Dec 15. (By the UUOCiated Press) Youth triumphed lover a;e and toduy Ed (Strangler) Lewis ol San Jose. Cab. champion, re-tained re-tained nis laurels, having defeated 31 :.:s.:.iiis Zbyssko, former champion n a match for the "heaVyweUlht hamptonehip of ths world." her-I her-I burada) night. Lewis won the sec-oi)d sec-oi)d and third falls after losing tho rirat 1 Zbyszko. 43 years old. a native of ; Poland, and prominent mat man for th past 15 years, attempted to re-ealn re-ealn ti,.- title. Lewis won from him 'ul Wichita, Kans.. from which the Champion won possession of a diamond dia-mond studded belt, presented bv Tex Rlokard Of New York. Lewis had been 1 1 torious In tbreo contests in which the emblem of wrestling supremacy had been at stake The Challenger found an opening and obtained the first fall by turning turn-ing Lewie over his shoulders and pin-ninx pin-ninx him to the canvas. The champion's painful headlock , laid Zbyszko low for tho second fall. The challenger previously hud suffer-. suffer-. r i dislocation of th.- right shoulder as a result of several toe holds applied :byLevvisS won the third and decisive fall with an arm lock around the ln-iured ln-iured shoulder of h!s opponent The men wrestle-1 before tho largest crowd that has ever witnessed a sport-ing sport-ing event at the Coliseum, approx -matolv l'.'.ftOO persons attending. R -cetpts Twers around the OOwtrk. Lcwla received 17309 and Zbyszko s share was 5-RU- |