Word: sandow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill's show? was that of manager of the college. In 1892 he went to Europe to get orchestras for the Chicago World's Fair. On their failing, he went to New York. There in 1893 he found "the most perfect human being I had ever seen"?Eugene Sandow, the strong man. New York had laughed at Sandow. Ziegfeld took him to Chicago, cleared as high as $30,000 per week exhibiting him after he had inveigled Mrs. George Pullman and Mrs. Potter Palmer into feeling his muscles. After Sandow his "most perfect human beings" were all women...
...third group, specializing in wrestlers of more advanced age like Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, Joe Stecher, the Zbyszko Brothers, John Pesek, is operated on the Pacific Coast by Billy Sandow, onetime circus strongman. Its champion, until recently, was Strangler Lewis, who last winter became an independent performer and engaged in a match against Champion De Glane in which he was disqualified for biting...
...Montreal bulky Henri Deglane wriggled out of a series of headlocks and clapped a flying mare on bullet headed, cone houldered old Ed ("Strangler"; Lewis, "world's champion" of the Sandow-Bowser group of wrestlers, and flapped him over. Loudly cheered Canuck partisans, for no one had expected Deglane to get a fall. Again they wrestled. Lewis threw Deglane. But when the French-Canadian got up he grimaced pitiably, held out his right arm, showed toothmarks, swore that Lewis had bitten him. Indignant, the referee conferred with athletic commissioners, awarded the fall, the bout, the championship, to Deglane. Indignant...