Word: headlocks
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...entirely different," Pat remarked. "The Roman technique was to work on the upper part of the body, while the Japs and Chinese relied more on tricky leg work. The Roman style is that copied by most college teams today. That's where the flying mare, the hiplock and the headlock come from. As to the hold known as the 'Oklahoma Ride', that was originated by the Romans. The boys from out west just appropriated...
...Washington, D. C. last week Boston's Wrestler Jack Donovan squeezed Chicago's Mike Romano in a scissors, ground him with a headlock, whirled him in an airplane spin, thumped him on the canvas, let go when the referee patted his back, jumped up to acknowledge the cheers of 10,000 spectators, walked to his dressing room. There he was arrested because, when they tried to revive him after the bout, doctors found Wrestler Romano dead...
...Minister of Railways Shinya Uchida cudgel the brains in his bald head for a new publicity dodge to draw the attention of tourists to Japan. Last week foreign editors were printing new pictures of the Japanese Minister of Railways. Reason: Mr. Uchida had had himself snapped putting a jujitsu headlock on blonde Mrs. Sarah Mayer, wife of a British Army officer in Japan...
...boxing, the sides were not quite steep enough to provide good views of wrestlers, particularly wrestlers like Shikat and Lewis, who spent most of their time lying down in a flat impenetrable tangle on the ring floor. Shikat's idea was to evade Lewis's famed headlock, and to tire him with leg holds. Lewis got one headlock, then another, but Shikat broke them both. Presently, he took to cuffing at Lewis's jaw with his elbow. After an hour and six minutes of grunting and thumping, both had reached the crisis of exhaustion in which serious...
...terms. Yale then won the next two matches. Captain Russell defeating Hayne in the 175-pound class, and Allen winning from Captain C.H. Bradford by decision. Russell, who is the intercollegiate champion in his class and who has never been defeated while wrestling for Yale, succeeded in getting a headlock on Hayne and scoring a fall in seven minutes 15 seconds. There was a distinct football flavor about the unlimited match, in which Allen, Yale's star fullback gained a close decision over Captain Bradford of Harvard, who was one of the regular line-men on the University eleven last...