Word: zbyszko
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he, Wayne ("Big") Munn, then the greatest wrestler in the world, faced Stanislaus Zbyszko, 58-year-old Pole, who weighed 50 pounds less (210) and stood not higher than his shoulder. In days that were, Zbyszko himself had been a champion, but those days were past. Philadelphians gathered to the match with the steadfast mien of people attending a wake. They admired Zbyszko's courage* but deplored his bravado...
Munn was revived in his dressing room. Zbyszko went away in an automobile with a police escort. Said sport correspondents, according to their dispositions : "Able Zbyszko," "Unable Munn...
...THIRTY YEARS OF BILLIARDS-Willie Hoppe. Edited by J. E. Crozier-Putnam ($2.00). * Other famed brothers in sport are: Robert and Emil Meusel, Stanley and Harry Coveleskie, Jesse and Virgil Barnes, James and "Doc" Johnston, baseballers; Howard and Robert Kinsey, tennis players; Stanislaus and Wladek Zbyszko, wrestlers; Benjamin and Joseph Leonard, Peter and John Zivc, Thomas and Michael Gibbons, boxers...
...Manhattan, Joseph Stecher, one-time heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, lay for some time in a warm but uncomfortable posture beneath the body of Wladek Zbyszko, powerful Pole. Grunting, he wriggled out, looped his legs around the abdomen of Zbyszko, pressed until the latter, in agony, permitted his mountainous shoulders to touch the mat. The bout lasted...
...days previously, Zbyszko wrestled Ivan Zaikin, Russian. Thrice 265-pound Zaikin lifted Zbyszko over his head, tossed his 217 pounds through the ropes. After 22 min. 49 sec. of wrestling, Zaikin refused to continue. Why? asked the referee. Zbyszko, Zaikin explained, had been secretly sticking his large forefinger into his, Zaikin's, ear-a method of attack which he could ill brook, since the ear had recently been operated on. The crowd, eager to believe itself cheated, booed. The referee gave the decision to Zbyszko...