WRESTLING.
“MAN MOUNTAIN.” A message from Los Angeles says that the 317-pound bearded phenomenon of wrestling, Man Mountain Dean of Brooklyn, announces his retirement from the mat. For all except movie purposes, said Dean, he will wrestle no more after lie clashes with Vincent-Lopez, California recognised heavyweight champion. “I've got enough socked away to live in luxury for the rest of my life,” declared Dean. “I’m not getting any younger —40, to be exact. So win, lose or draw against Lopez, I’m through.” The, Man Mountain said his immediate work was the role of a Russian wrestler in a new film. “After that I intend to shave oil these pesky whiskers.” Yet it was the foliage on his face that turned Dean from just another fat man into a weird drawing card that helped promoters gross more than 11,000,000 dollars in the last four years, according to Dean’s figures. He estimates his own fortune at nearly 300,000 dollars. . H© grew tlie beard in October, 1902, when lie was signed on to double for Charles Laughton in the British movie “The Private Life of King Henry VIII.”
“I have grossed more rponey m four years than Babe Ruth, Dempsey, Londos or anyone else in sport over that same period,” boasted the bearded one.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 2
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