05.06.2004, 17:40
Wednesday, June 20, 1934
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis Journal
Sonnenberg Scarred After Years of Bouts
Boston (UP) – Gus Sonnenberg, the wrestler, is a “marked man.”
The former Dartmouth football star, whose famed flying tackle made him champion for more than anything else to modernize wrestling, bears almost countless relics of his years inside the ropes.
They include two cauliflower ears, a twisted nose, several dents in the head, many broken bones that have since healed, and eyes that have required treatement many times.
Gus has made at least haft a dozen trips to hospitals for serious injuries. He suffered a fractured collarbone at Toronto; was treated for a severe case of blood poisoning in Minneapolis; and was in a St. Louis hospital for 10 days with internal injuries suffered in a bout with Jim Londos.
Friday, April 20, 1934
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis Journal
French Wrestler Back Seeking World Title
Montreal (UP) - Henri DeGlane, giant French wrestler, returned from his native France the other day and warned all claimants to the world's wrestling title that he is read (sic) to prove that Henri DeGlane is the only one who deserves to be called champion.
"It will not be very long until I am champion of the world again," said the one-time titleholder in an interview here. "Before I'm through I'm going to show them that they're all out of step but Henri DeGlane. From Don George right down I'll show them all, not forgetting Jim Browning and his phoney wine-barrel airplane."
Here's what he will do to the various title claimants when he gets them in the ring:
Joe Malcewicz: "I never can spell his name and nobody will be interested in trying to after I wash him up for keeps."
Jim Londos: "I'll twist his nose into his ear."
News Journal
Mansfield, Ohio
Friday, August 29, 1969
Wrestler in More Trouble
Lancaster (UPI) – Jerry Graham, a professional wrestler arrested while trying to take his mother’s body from a hospital in Phoenix, Ariz., was held in jail here today on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
Graham, a native of Buckeye Lake, Ohio, was held under $200 bond after leaving the scene of an accident after his car hit another near here Thursday.
Fairfield County sheriff’s officers said there were no other warrants out for his arrest.
Graham was held for mental observation and then released after he was accused of shooting at a doctor and biting a nurse as he ran from a Phoenix hospital with his mother’s body over his shoulder about two weeks ago.
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis Journal
Sonnenberg Scarred After Years of Bouts
Boston (UP) – Gus Sonnenberg, the wrestler, is a “marked man.”
The former Dartmouth football star, whose famed flying tackle made him champion for more than anything else to modernize wrestling, bears almost countless relics of his years inside the ropes.
They include two cauliflower ears, a twisted nose, several dents in the head, many broken bones that have since healed, and eyes that have required treatement many times.
Gus has made at least haft a dozen trips to hospitals for serious injuries. He suffered a fractured collarbone at Toronto; was treated for a severe case of blood poisoning in Minneapolis; and was in a St. Louis hospital for 10 days with internal injuries suffered in a bout with Jim Londos.
Friday, April 20, 1934
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis Journal
French Wrestler Back Seeking World Title
Montreal (UP) - Henri DeGlane, giant French wrestler, returned from his native France the other day and warned all claimants to the world's wrestling title that he is read (sic) to prove that Henri DeGlane is the only one who deserves to be called champion.
"It will not be very long until I am champion of the world again," said the one-time titleholder in an interview here. "Before I'm through I'm going to show them that they're all out of step but Henri DeGlane. From Don George right down I'll show them all, not forgetting Jim Browning and his phoney wine-barrel airplane."
Here's what he will do to the various title claimants when he gets them in the ring:
Joe Malcewicz: "I never can spell his name and nobody will be interested in trying to after I wash him up for keeps."
Jim Londos: "I'll twist his nose into his ear."
News Journal
Mansfield, Ohio
Friday, August 29, 1969
Wrestler in More Trouble
Lancaster (UPI) – Jerry Graham, a professional wrestler arrested while trying to take his mother’s body from a hospital in Phoenix, Ariz., was held in jail here today on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
Graham, a native of Buckeye Lake, Ohio, was held under $200 bond after leaving the scene of an accident after his car hit another near here Thursday.
Fairfield County sheriff’s officers said there were no other warrants out for his arrest.
Graham was held for mental observation and then released after he was accused of shooting at a doctor and biting a nurse as he ran from a Phoenix hospital with his mother’s body over his shoulder about two weeks ago.