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Show WRESTLING IS JUST AS MANLY SPORT AS BOXING, THOUGH NOT AS POPULAR . M :S y y Western Newspaper Union rf wml &XManwMAa.vk-.w.W... j .1 m J Strange that the reformers never raise a howl against wrestling. They go the limit to slam boxing. They bring out their hammers against Sunday baseball and horse racing, but, as a rule, they never make as much as a whimper against the mat game. Boxing, according to our best little lit-tle reformers, is brutal. Baseball on Sunday, and horse racing are demoralizing. demor-alizing. We have the word of the reformers re-formers for it, which doesn't make it unanimous by a whole lot, but they continue to yelp. Wrestling, when properly conducted, is just as much a manly sport as boxing, box-ing, though not as popular. But wrestling, wrest-ling, as it was conducted in the recent international tournament in New York, was a knock to itself. Still, no one made much of a howl except a couple of wrestlers, who protested against losing los-ing part of their anatomies. "Strangler" Lewis, who was much In evidence in the decent tourney, uses what he calls a headlock. It just manages man-ages to escape being a twin for the strangle hold, which is under the ban, but because there was no rule against Lewis' hold he was allowed to get away with it to the point where he came close to taking Wladek Zbyszko on a personally conducted tour to a world unknown. The head hold is apparently more dangerous than the strangle hold. It Is so dangerous that Zbyszko became unconscious from the effects of it, and everyone who saw the match agrees that It should be barred. Wrestling is very much a man's sport. It requires ability to stand an unlimited amount of punishment and it requires men of great strength, but it should be cleansed of such things as the head hold. It can get along without them, and the promoters should see to it that the game is protected pro-tected by rules which leave no opening open-ing for bone-crushing methods. |
