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Roundy SaysThe Crowd That Left Monona . Park Sunday Was the Most Satisfied That .Ever Saw An Event ThereThe largest ' crowd that ever has everything a' champion needs to imrcrf a tmnrtinff event in this be one as far as I could see he ithe trreatest wrestler I everviewed a sporting event m city, jammed Monor.a park, arena Sunday tosee • • Johnnie'Meyers and Jimmie ’ Demetral put up a match that no .doubt was the best that• ever .was staged • in the wrestling game hero or any other place.**eyes on.islaidEvery town” in the Ur S, of shy fcize should have Meyers and Demetral wrestle in it, and the game. would be bought up where most people and hammer throwers would be convinced that there are some square men in the game—If there only are only two men thrfc are -square in the game then Meyers and Demetral are the ones I will say that are.To thew r i t c r’sguess there must have been at leust 4,000 fans in. seats when the bell started them on the way to the title. The gate took in over $5,500.lie f* lrTo view the large crowd alone was worth the price to get in, and view that place. With 4,000 sitting in it is a nice'sight to look at.* * * •Demetral had his ankle broken in two places and is still in the hospital His nose also carries a cut that is far from a slight injury. I w*sh to state ,:hat both injuries were purely and simply accidents...tH * *Jimmie broke his angle hi* own self—most people, thought that one ’foe hold Meyers did it—wrong, people wrong, Jimmie did it going dawn to the mat after: Meyers* removed his shoes. Did you not see Jimmie standing there waiting like a tiger and spry as a -cat waiting to jump on his victim/'but in that scufflo right after going , down is where Jimmie turned.'-and broke his own, ankle.* * - *9Jimmie wrestled at least 10 minutes on the mat in agony no other man could stand. Meyers had a deadly hold on him and Jimmie simply broke it with great Science—not Strength and had one hand rubbing his .ankle ali the tijne. It was.easily seen from the look on. has face tbat there was something ' wrong with him—I noticed it at once while lots of others did also.£ * «It w?,a the biggest satisfied crowd that ever dwindled out of the Mo-•nona -park arena to see a yporting event in Madison. I havt* viewed sporting events for many a ’''moon but outside of a football game that wrestling match was the greatestthing I ever saw for speed andholds and endurance.* * *The whole town was talking Sunday night about the match.It no doubt removed a large black mark from the game. It won thousands of backers over . there Sunday. Men who have had their doubts -about -wrestling in this city were around today, tooting thetr horn as saying that it was the greatest , sporting event Madison .. everhad in is borders.* # *Jimmie Demetral • is the, one who should get the greatest Of .credit. He •wasjai.his best. Sunday, The^e never was a wrestler who broke' the holds on Mcyere that Demetral did, He also had Meyers in a -few tight holds but lacked the punch* to put-it over. Demetral could have gone down to defeat under a lot of; those holds and no fan in the wide world would have suspected that he was not thrown, -But not Jimmie Demetral; he simply* is there'- as a defense wrestler—at that Meyers says he is the world’s greatest./ * * ♦Meyers stated that it, was the greatest match, he was ever in for speed and great sholds.N ‘He stated that He-won the world’s .title with, a softer match than ’that .,one. / -He said Demetral simply slipped'TiiriL a surprise party. He ran into, a Tartar in Jimmie—he said .Demetral has improved more than any lt;ither wrestler he has ever met arid it was a match that was gruelling as they make them—there were holds-there that Meyers said would- have■ ■■ ■ + T CThis column has gave this match more publicity than any other sporting ‘stunt .ever pulled^ off—Why ? because I know that these two men arc the best two wrestlers in America today at their weight and above all they have played the game square, Meyers the World’s Champion because he earned it after many years of hard wrestling,, and the writer is proud it' rests on his shoulders seeing Jimmie, did not win and Jimmie has won every match he took part in for the last two years and deserves to he the runner , ud for the title. That is why I gave them the pub-i-j city and wanted the fans to see the * match,* * *When I urge fans to see a wrestling match' I mean that I know what is coming off- I know that These two men are wrestlers and the best the game has in its borders—and furthermore knew that the match was for blood and both men were out to win. that is why I boosted so much and strong. I said the fans would see the best thing Madison has seen for years in the sporting line—my dope ran true 'again. AIM said came out true and if there is any praise comming ithe wrestlers get it-OV|Demetral won hundreds of inns er to him with this great match, Jimmie sure was in there and at him and.his gameness alone was worth the- price'. Why, Meyers had holds on him that other wrestlers have thrown the white flag” up in. ■ a hurry to get Meyers to let them out of it. Meyers was beginning to get womed after seeing Jimmie break holds' on him that other men never j came close to doing—it was getting Meyers goat. ' I thought Meyers had ' thrown every wrestler ’in the game with holds he had on Jimmie, but he simply met his master yesterday in t'-at department in Jimmie Demetral. .* * *The refereeing of Larrey Lee hen stein of Chicago was as good as the match. He is the best' the city ever saw.* More men of this type is also good for the game—he is one of the “white men in the sporting game” and Madison wants to see Larncy Locher.stein do more refereeing in this city. His work alone caused as much fine talk as the match. Lechcnstein said it was the greatest and most gruelling and. still mannerly match he ever worked in the ring at and it also goes as the greatest match he ever saw as rcfeering or a spectator. .'. . . - * * *..My way. of thinking that Meyers-cannot throw Jimmie in.-'no two] hours and maybe not in four, that is my idea—I know that Meyers has more stuff than Jimmie .and is the class as* far as wrestling goes and’ is the beat man 3 ever saw—but I have my doubts if. he can throw Demetral and I' have more- doubts if Demetral can throw him-—of course, if there is any falls Meyers has the best chance' to -.get them. -____Ask City to Purchase Lake Shore Park Site'• A resolution re commending-that, the city purchase- a strip of land between -Groveland ' and Lakeland ave/ was introduced at the council meeting last night by Aid/ R. F,. Elver.-' The land is to • be used for, park'purposes and to‘preserve tha right, t'o'the lake shore* The reso-’ Iution was -referred, to the street committee, V.
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Madison, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Sep 25, 1922
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