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...Titanic column of brawn astounded sportsmen, last January (TIME, Jan. 19), by downing the mighty Ed ("Strangler") Lewis in Kansas City, thus acquiring the world's heavyweight wrestling championship...
...cries out today against sex books reveals himself as a strangler in the march of progress, who is manifetly far behind the best, enlightened thought and knowledge of the age. Sex is no longer a dark forbidden subject? hidden, yet finding its way surreptiously and smuttily into every talk and revenging itself by tragedies of ignorance...
While demonstrating to his audience the various wrestling holds which he had employed in defeating Strangler Lewis two months ago, Munn lifted Eastman into the air, and tossed him about his head with little difficulty...
Then, taking up various of his holds, Munn explained them to the crowd, one by one, demonstrating the while on Eastman. After illustrating the "Three Point Contact Hold," the "Double Wrist Lock," the toehold, and the headlock, he reproduced his famous bout with Strangler Lewis, showing how each one of his three falls was obtained...
...shook hands on a mat in full view of 15,000 Kansans. One was Wayne ("Big") Munn of Kansas City, local hero. The other was Ed. ("Strangler") Lewis, world's heavyweight wrestling champion, whose unpopularity was evinced by squalls of boos...