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...Strangler) Lewis, called upon to guard his world's heavyweight wrestling championship from the brawny grasp of Stanley Stasiak in Boston, was enraged to find Stanley perched upon his heaving chest after 34 minutes. Two falls in three being the match, "Strangler" controlled himself for 10 minutes and then hurled Stanley bodily out of the ring. Stanley was boosted back in, embraced powerfully about the head, sat upon by his huge antagonist. Two minutes later this operation was repeated. Lewis stalked to the shower, his frame, dignity and title unimpaired...
Married. Robert Fredericks (Ed. "Strangler" Lewis), 35, world's heavyweight wrestling champion, to Miss Bessie McNear of Kansas City, Mo., in Chicago. During the ceremony the champion's manager broke out of the room, in which Mr. Lewis' friends tried to lock him, shouting: "It's the first time Ed ever double-crossed me!" Lewis was under contract not to marry while champion. Mr. Lewis was divorced last summer from Mrs. Ida Scott Fredericks, a woman physician in San José (TIME, July...
...cyclopean shirt, large enough to fit such a man as "Strangler Lewis," the wrestler, has been placed on exhibition in the display window of James W. Brine's athletic goods store at 1410 Massachusetts Avenue...
Engaged. Robert Fredericks (Ed "Strangler" Lewis), world's heavyweight champion wrestler, to Princess Marie Traivaska, formerly of Petrograd, now of Wiesbaden, Germany. Charging cruelty, he divorced Mrs. Ada Scott Fredericks last Summer...