31.05.2006, 11:55
24 March 1933
Minneapolis Tribune
By George A. Barton
"Mat Fans Prefer Clever Wrestling."
It is in my opinion that the wrestlers would help their own business in Minneapolis by giving the mat enthusiasts of the city more real wrestling and less of the roughhouse and clown stuff.
Wrestling followers of Minneapolis have been educated to appreciate good wrestling in which skill and good sportsmanship dominated. After watching such starts of the past as Frank Gotch, Georges Hackenschmidt, Yussiff Mahmout, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Fred Beell, Henry Ordemann, Jess Westergaard, Charley Cutler, Dr. B.F. Roller, Joe Stecher, Earl Caddock, Strangler Lewis, Marin Plestina, John Pesek, John Freberg (before Freberg sacrificed good wrestling for acrobatci work and acting), Joe Carr, Walter Miller, Johnny Meyers, Max Luttbeg, Harvey Parker, Mike Yokel and Charley Olson, it is disgusting to local grappling adherents to get much enjoyment from the clownish antics of the present crop of wrestlers.
It may be all right for the stumblebums of the wrestling game to punch and maul one antoher around, but I happen to know that Joe Stecher, John Richthoff, Jimmy Londos, Ray Steele, Jim McMillen, Allan Eustace, Fred Grabmeir, John Freberg, John Pesek, Marin Plestina and Charley Hansen who will appear here from time to time, are really very fine wrestlers. Such being the case, the promoters should see to it that they do some legitimate wrestling in which holds and various other tricks of offense and defense are given the preference over hitting and kicking.
In the two shows arready held, Richthoff is the only grappler who gave the fans what they relly want - scientific demonstrations of wrestling.
Minneapolis Tribune
By George A. Barton
"Mat Fans Prefer Clever Wrestling."
It is in my opinion that the wrestlers would help their own business in Minneapolis by giving the mat enthusiasts of the city more real wrestling and less of the roughhouse and clown stuff.
Wrestling followers of Minneapolis have been educated to appreciate good wrestling in which skill and good sportsmanship dominated. After watching such starts of the past as Frank Gotch, Georges Hackenschmidt, Yussiff Mahmout, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Fred Beell, Henry Ordemann, Jess Westergaard, Charley Cutler, Dr. B.F. Roller, Joe Stecher, Earl Caddock, Strangler Lewis, Marin Plestina, John Pesek, John Freberg (before Freberg sacrificed good wrestling for acrobatci work and acting), Joe Carr, Walter Miller, Johnny Meyers, Max Luttbeg, Harvey Parker, Mike Yokel and Charley Olson, it is disgusting to local grappling adherents to get much enjoyment from the clownish antics of the present crop of wrestlers.
It may be all right for the stumblebums of the wrestling game to punch and maul one antoher around, but I happen to know that Joe Stecher, John Richthoff, Jimmy Londos, Ray Steele, Jim McMillen, Allan Eustace, Fred Grabmeir, John Freberg, John Pesek, Marin Plestina and Charley Hansen who will appear here from time to time, are really very fine wrestlers. Such being the case, the promoters should see to it that they do some legitimate wrestling in which holds and various other tricks of offense and defense are given the preference over hitting and kicking.
In the two shows arready held, Richthoff is the only grappler who gave the fans what they relly want - scientific demonstrations of wrestling.