Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christopher Theophilus ("Jim Londos"), who considers himself the world's champion wrestler and has a gold belt to prove it, last week advanced across a Manhattan ring and seized the left arm of Joe De Vito, a rubbery Italian with a pork-barrel torso and a door-knob ear. He gave the arm a vicious twist. De Vito, grunting with unreasonable surprise, retaliated by trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt...
...Confer 2L and E. N. Kimball '35 put on the outstanding bout of the day, with Confer, a former Yale grappler, finally throwing the Freshman team wrestler in an overtime period. In the 125-pound class G. T. Wagner '35 threw Morris Gamm 2L in short order, after the latter had won the lightweight division. Albert Aranson '35 annexed the heavyweight crown by pinning H. C. McClees '34 after four minutes struggle...
Martin prepared at Belmont Hill. He is a member of the University hockey team and was Freshman captain last year. Ames, who was graduated from Milton Academy, is an outstanding wrestler this season. Pescosolido attended Deerfield Academy, was on his Freshman football and track teams, and played this fall on the University football squad...
...make them tough, Japanese wrestlers are trained from the cradle, fed on underdone beefsteak when normal children are still milk-bibbing. They grow to enormous size, sometimes are seven feet tall, weigh 400 Ib. Like Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking around looking for a movable mass of stone or wood; when such a mass is sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning...
...even to a wrestler thought comes occasionally. Last week 32 of them including Champion Miyagiyama struck, demanding better pay. shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual aid society, retirement pensions...