A GREAT WRESTLER.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12484, 10 March 1909, Page 1

A GREAT WRESTLER.

■mi+ £ the _i?°st important -wrestling !#,« contested at -Barnes"^ (England), was decided . on 28fh D^. cember wW Tom Rose, the^ known locanvrestler, was matched for £^00 aside against Peter Gote, <i>f Lonn ?n f' il° - de + C i. de the hest of 4e three pmfalls in the catch-as-catch^an style The conditions of the contest were that neither, competitor was to- exceed lOst SlrT^ S in - at U o'clock, -and the hour fixed for the contest was 2p.m. «t« c ? n , dltlon a t allowed ten minutes between each fall, and the men were to wrestle day by day until a devastpn was arrived at. The match car-i ned wrth it the lighfetf&fcl 'chan--' pio.nship of the world. great excitaj ment Prevailed, the officials weighnij turned the scale at lOst 111 b Boz, and Gotz lOst 41b 66zs. The men wrestlfei in stockiiig feet, without any mitt, "to' protect the lr bodies from .conjfcatft witi» the hard frozen ground, Bering ruled at^ds yf about 45 to 4©:'6n Rose, wh> istte younger mafi and less exparieEced westlen began quietly, and. for ten miniites nothing but-spar-ging took.pl&o. Gotz was forcing all the'wrestlin'g at the end often minutes. had his man under, but faQtems clever, and after some hard w-r.e'Stling, in which both- frequently oWnae iii violent contact Avitti the ground, Got?. got Rose into a kind of scissors ' hold j; evidently painful to the Barnsley man, who, quite pinned, yielded, and gave Gotz the first fall at the end of ,14mins 13sec. It was - evident Rose had silifered considerable punishment^ The scissors hold is a leg hold, in \vhich;the knees play a very prominfent part. The German got a fii'gi grip of Rose's body, and by applying pressure was able to inflict.great pain, the holding being one "wiiich is capable of rendering a wrestler' quite -unconscioue in, a verj' -short time. Rose was not pinned to .the ground, but he threw lip his arms lielplessly, and conceded the fall. ..When he walked to his dressing-room 'it was evident that he was in pain> Gotz followed him, and when tile two men were in their quarters a consultation took place between their respective; backers. As a result, it ttas.annotmced that Gotz had agreed tb accept Rose's- proposition that he should concede £15, the match to be declared a draw, and all the bets off. Seen in the dressing-r.;om afterwards, Rose admitted that tlio scissors hold was a perfectly fair one, and that there was no suggestion of a foul abo'ufc the way in which Gotz had him. The hold, Rose * stated, was . exceedingly painful, and practically rendered him unconscious '.'