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FAILS 10 FLOPhas shoi i.nmts piwkh hi t o\( k in non:.lt; linllenges Pappas to l-'nish Match mihI Is Taken I p WilliAlan-ii y.( By Hud Kidder, tJohn Sandrock, dean of Fori Madison and lam rnunty wrestlers is yet undefeated. After going for a fullhour and perhaps a little more with •lark Pappas, the undefeated Crete, the local lad’s shouders had yet to touch the mat for a second time and he was declared the winner of the handicap so. The bout was held in the Pnion hall Wednosd y night and drew a fair sized crowd.Sandrock. still wearing the hand ages about his waist which are the remaining signs of his Pncounter with Amerieus at the carni\al here recently. found the (.reek a hard man to tussle with and Pappas found the same in Habe. The two men worked rather last for a few minutes tit the start biti soon fell Into the snail palt; e so natural to wrestlers, .■sandrock stayed on tip. defensive through the entire match and watched his enemy itt order to avoid getting into deep places. When the bout ended. Sandrock had been down hut once, the fall coming oil the dot of fortv-llve miii utea. Immediately after the tinip was called, Sandrock had Pappas an nounoc that a finish match would be held between the two as soon as the local man’s ribs were straightened again. Sandrock is thy challenger this time.Stull llinte«|.Whether or not Pappas knew that there would he a return match in the near future is not known but to the skeptic critic it seemed that several times during the encounter. Sandrock managed to elude the hard grasp of the visitor with surprising ease and while the man is slippery enough, it seems that the man from the Isle of ;'rete did not exert himself as he might have for the first half hour of the bout. After the thirty-fourth minute had crept around Sandrock called time and had his bleeding forehead treated. Constant rubbing against the canvas brought forth the ow or red. Pappas, though wet with perspiration, showed no signs of fatigue and even at the end of the hour, which ran something like sixty-three or four minutes, was in the pink of condition.Italic Handicapped.That Sandrock was handicapped by his sore spot on the right side was evidenced throughout the bout. Pappas was considerate and failed to touch the local mat artist on the injured rib. playing away from scissors holds and working toe and crotch throughout. The fall, which came after the three-quarters gong hail sounded by means of voice, was made with a flotch crotch hold and full NelsonThe flye minutes were hard ones for Sandrock who was saved from a fall only by the referee waiving Pappas off and ordering them to the center of the mat. When the last minute passed Sandrock was hut a hair’s breadth from the mat with both sholders.Where and when the next bout will he held is not known but the present quarters are inadequate and a new timer is sorely needed.\\forwhetcult i that1 !♦ J (iProdgalhiPi* -f.HpartKiilltl feet s pow eFatal Effect.“Yesterday afternoon he rend his ,llu copy of the Kagle. Three hours Inter' ln '* lie died.— From an obituary In the llrooklyu Kagle. lll
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Fri, May 28, 1920
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