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...junior college, I couldn't avoid running across the somewhat handsome faces of several robust blubbering behemoths of the grunt and groan industry appearing under the box-caption, Sport. The reason for my writing is Harry (Arteen) Ekizian, better known to fight fanatics as AH Baba, the Terrible Turk. Because...
Across a wrestling ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week two men growled and glowered at each other. Squatting in one corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged...
...other corner was his opponent, Dick Shikat. One of the few professional wrestlers whose repertoire includes some genuine wrestling holds, Shikat was diligently working up a great hate with which to defend his "world's wrestling championship" against the Terrible Turk for the second time. Two weeks before, Baba had trounced him in Detroit in what was billed as a world championship bout. This billing was not recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission which demanded another bout, this time in Manhattan, to prove the Turk's rightful claim...
...last week's bout began, both wrestlers yammered, screamed, snorted, grunted, growled, moaned. Shikat's nose dribbled blood from Baba's crushing headlocks and resounding slaps. Each diligently tied the other into knots. Shikat stood the Turk on his head, bounced him up & down. When, after 53 minutes of mauling, Shikat began to lose enthusiasm and the shoe polish from Baba's mustache dripped onto his hairy chest, the latter pinned Shikat with what Announcer Joe Humphreys identified as a flying crotch hold and body press. With this hold, Ali Baba became the fifth person...
...Maloy, Lewis H. Mills, Robert H. Morse, Henry S. Mowbray, Robert D. Nuner, Schuyler Pardee, Constantine W. Patterson, S. Allen Pendleton, George W. Phillips, Benjamin Pitman, Jr., Edward P. Richardson, Jr., Edward H. Schoyer, Paul P. Selvin, Willard P. Sheppard, Jr., Edric B. Smith, Jr., Gray Taylor, Elkan Turk, Jr., George S. Viereck, Jr., Hugh G. Williams, David B. Wire, Richard Witkin...