Word: sonnenbergs
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Sirs: Twice now-the times being during the last two weekly perusals of your most excellent and newsy newsmagazine-I have been most disappointed in not seeing in the Sport's division something about "Dynamite Gus" Sonnenberg and his winning the heavyweight wrestling championship of the world in Boston...
...Wrestler Sonnenberg, 29, onetime Dartmouth footballer, butted and struggled with Wrestler Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; threw him once; drove him off the mat so often that Lewis cried quits. Many a spectator adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...