FLYING TACKLES AND ELBOW JOLTS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 174, 20 April 1937, Page 3

FLYING TACKLES AND ELBOW JOLTS

Stein Beats Mclntyre JEWISH WRESTLER’S DEBUT Versatile and entertaining. Sammy Stein, Jewish professional wrestler, in his WelliuL’ton debut at the Town Hall last night, beat Don Mclntyre by a single fall taken with a series of flying tackles and a body press. Stein showed great speed and a wide range of holds. The bout, however, was remarkable more for flying tackles and elbow-jolts than for science, the wrestlers spending a great deal of their time clambering baek through the ropes. The contestants were well matched, Stein stripping at 1/.10, and Mclntyre at .16.1. Stein, before the bell, indulged in the horrific muscle-stretching exercises so appreciated by “fans.” At the bell both danced round the ring trying the elasticity of the ropes. The opening exchanges were mild, and went rather in Mclntyre’s favour. Stein applied a short-arm scissors, which Mclntyre by sheer strength untied, and he then distressed Stein with a standing splits. Mclntyre first tried elbow-jolts. For some time Stein took them good-humour-edly. Then, early in the second round, he eent home his shoulder to Mclntyre’s diaphragm. When he had regained his breath, Mclntyre, scowling, came back swinging his fore-arm. But Stein returned jolt for jolt, and before Mclntyre could dodge tripped him cleverly. Throughout these early rounds Stein showed himself an exceedingly adroit and wily matman. When Mclntyre put in his elbow, Stein twice plunged with him into the audience. Referee and spectators had to help untangle them. Rocked by repeated jolts, and a headlock throws, Stein tried a flying tackle off the ropes, but fell through them. Mclntyre tossed him with headlocks, but a shoulder-jolt put a stop to that> just when the crowd were beginning to think there was a fall in the offing. Mclntyre tied Stein’s arm in the rope, and when referee A. Jenkins intervened Stein fastened on him by mistake. But he gave him a friendly pat on the head afterward. to show there was no harm meant. Then, as poetic justice, he inserted Mclntyre’s head in the ropes in a “hangman’s hold.” Mclntyre reciprocated by jolting Stein through the ropes on to the Press table. When Mclntyre formed an indian deathlock Stein freed himself without difficulty. But a moment later Mclntyre knocked him through the ropes once again. Slapped His Face. And then Stein tried a jolt. It wn; not a bad jolt at all. He followed tip by leaping into a flying body-scissors. Holding a crucifix, he slapped Mclntyre’s face. “Look out! He's slapping my face,” McIntyre pointed out. Stein slapped it again. When the gon gbrought release Mclntyre seemed annoyed. The referee declined to listen to protests. Stein’s flying tackle brought the wrestlers' heads cracking together like croquet balls. Both seemed dazed. A stand-up battle of jolts went without casualties'. Stein was ordered to let go a strangle-hold. "Mclntyre had him baffled by a powerful head-scissors. “Stop that! Leave that finger alone,” ordere dthe referee, when Mclntyre tried a finger-twist. Stein Takes a Fall. From a headlock, Stein sent Mclntyre into the crowd. The bout became willing and rough. At 2min. 52sec. in the fifth round, the first fall came. It was spectacular, but simple. Mclntyre bowled Stein over repeatedly with flying tackles. About the fourth time Stein, kneeling on the mat, dodged, tripping Mclntyre, who plunked headlong. Then Stein showed him how flying tackles should be executed. When, after half a dozen violent plunges off the ropes onto the groggy McIntyre, he tired of the display, he was able to pin Mclntyre without difficulty. Undeterred, Mclntyre again attempted tackles next round. His first was very effective, but at the next attempt Stein slipped away. Mclntyre went headlong through the ropes. Whqn Mclntyre persisted in putting his fingers into Stein’s mouth, Stein bit him. Mclntyre examined his finger solicitously while Stein grimaced as though he had disliked the. flavour. Mclntyre fastened on Stein’s hair, and they rolled through the ropes, the referee separating them with difficulty. Stein pulled McIntyre’s ears. Mclntyre in turn dodged Stein’s rush, and Stein hurtled out of the ring. When he returned, Mclntyre hurled him round the ring with flying mares. He tried to dump Stein over the ropes, but the referee would not have that. So, although the crowd were shouting at him to take a fall, he deposited his burden and applied an arm-stretch. From this Stein escaped. Mclntyre had lost his chance. Although in the last rounds he treated Stein roughly and had an advantage on points he did not again look like obtaining a fall. The closing stages of the bout were marked by increasingly rough and at times questionable tactics, but it was clear that there was unlikely to be another fall, and the interest of the crowd waned.