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EIGHT IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE, IRONWOOD, MICH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1955. Superior Five Beats Hurley, Ironwood Trips Ishpeming Midget Drop 72-63 Decision To Vikings in Tense Battle A scoring splurge at the start of the second hnlf carried tho Superior Central Vikings to a 7263 triumph over the Hurley Midgets in tcnso and bittprly fought battle before a capacity crowd ol around 2,000 fnns In the Lincoln gym at Hurley Friday night. In the first two minutes of the third quarter the Vikings racked up 12 straight points to overcome Hurley's 33-28 halftime lead and stayed out in front the rest of tho way to chalk up their 15th victory in 16 games this season. The defeat broke Hurley's 14 game winning streak and gave Coach Mario "Chief" Glanunzio's Cable, Washburn Win Meets MELLEN The Cable High School cagers edged Saxori fi9-B8 in an overtime 1 game tho Mellen sub-district tournament last night to claim the tournoy championship and the right to play Washburn for the district i tonight, The score was tied G3-R3 at tho end of the regulation play, Cnblo scored on two free throws mid two field goals by Walt Pronovmk and George Blanda.

Sax an held 65-63 lead momentarily In the added period but foil behind 89-05 before they rallied. In the regular game, Cabte led 15-13 at the end ot the first quarter, and 39-29 at halftimc. Saxon held a 49-46 edge at the end of the third period. Tom Bott of Saxon was game high scorer with 27 points followed by Pronovmk of Cable with 18. In a consolation contest, Drummond fell to Ondossagon 81-71.

Cable: Pronovnlk 18, Mooro 1(5, Blanda 14, Maciosok 13, Holly 8, Wold 0, Titus 0. Saxon: Bott 27 Bourdngcs 12, Rowe 11, Lahti 8, LcGcault 7, Norman 3, Martlnko 0. WASHBURN Washburn's Castle Guards upset tho highly touted and previously undefeated South Shore Cardinals 45-43 at the Wash-" burn sub-district tournament last night. Washburn will meet Cable tonight at Washburn for the district title. South Shore will play Saxon in consolation tilt.

South Shore tod only once In the contest, midway in the fourth quarter when they held a one point lead, Don Bollilc, Washburn six foot one inch center paced the Castle Guards with 27 points. South Shore scored on only three of 13 field throw Washburn connected on 17 of 23 free throw shots. BUTTERNUT The Butternut Midgets deffeated Glidden GO-48 for the WIAA sub-district title last night and will face Westbovo tonight in the Phillips sub-district meet tonight. In tho consolation contest, Mercer's tigers defeated Iron Belt 53-39. Butternut rallied after Glidden closed to within one point of the Midgets in tho second quarter, 2726.

The Midgets advanced to a 40-36 lead at the end of tho third quarter and continued to add to their lead. Mercer lead throughout the contest against Iron Belt. The score at the end of tho first period was 9-7, at the halftime 19-15, and at the end of the third period 34-27. Larry Leltch of Mercer wus high scorer with 19 points followed by Larry Olson of Mercer with .12 points. Mercer scored on 11 of 22 free throws and Iron Belt on nine of 20 gift Mercer: Laftch 19, Moore 16, Lippert 10, Vaughn 4, Moon 0, Brim- nor 0, Wahner 0, Foote 0, Pickett 0.

Iron Belt scoring: Olfon 12 Kopnick 10, Gari'o 8, Hockin 7, Frandol 2. City League STANDINGS Class Seabpos 12 "I Fubars 10 6 Eivcr a If Trotters 9 5 9 Bandits 1 ls Class A Aurora Ncttcrs Norrie St. James 8 3 3 2 1 CAMKS NEXT WKI5K Monday Notters vs Aurora Norrie vs St, Tuesday River Rats vs Fubars vs Seabees Wednesday Bandits vs Trotters Rangers vs Fubars Thursday Seabees vs Bandits Trotters vs River Rats The Class race in tho Ironwood City Basketball league was scrambled this- with the top four teams still all in a tight lace for first place, The River Rats were toppled out of first into second place tie and the Trotters are only a half of a game behind, The River Rats were pped twice this week while the Soabces, Fubars, and fifth place Rangers won two apiece. Monday night only one game was played in the Class A division with the undefeated Aurora drubbing the Norrie cag- ers 78-40. Next week the race among the top four in Class will be further tightened as the teams play among themselves and against the up and coming fifth place Hangers.

The Seabees and Trotters appear to have the only ing, playing against the Bandits. NEWSPAPERflHCHIVE boys a 15-2 record for the campaign, The game was the last of the regular season for both teams, They will start regional tournament play next Wednesday and are generally favored to meet again next Saturday night In tho battle fov the regional championship. Hurley was far off its usiml form, especially In shooting, and iho Vikings, who are rated as tho No, 1 team in Wisconsin, didn't look the part during most of the contest, Pinyors of botli teams were obviously overly tcn.sc, with the result that iho gfime was a somewhat rasgwl a Each tea played without one of its top players as neither Marion Brignoli, Hurley's tallest player, who had been ill with the flu, nor Don Wicklund, Cential center, who has nn ankle I saw action, Hurley was handicapped by not being able to get full lime service from regular Bob Sbrag- gia, who played intermittently but showed the effects of having been down with the With the exception of the first two minutes oi the' third period the teams battled away on even terms During the first luilt the score was tied (we times and the lead changed hands four times before the Midgets moved out in front at tho outsc'l of Iho second quarter and htayccl ahead dining the remainder of the period. Central hold a 14-13 lead at the end of the i quarter taut as tho second quarter got underway Hurley's Jerry Moiv.cnti dumped in two straight buckets and aridecl a third after Tongue of Central netted two free throws. That gave the Midgets a 19-18 lead and they hiked it to 22-lli as Dave Bartolutti sank a free throw and Mor- zentl scored his fourth fielder of tho chnptor, At one point in the second period Hurley boosted its advantage to 30-23 as, It chalked up six straight points on two baskets by lion LundfU'cn and two charity tosses by Bartolutti.

Central came back to whittle the margin to 31-28 but Jim Patrltto i from the floor to give tho Midgets their 33-28 halftime edge. Starting off tho third quarter, Central took tho Midgets by surprise with a full court press and rang up throe buckets less than 15 seconds to go ahead 34-33 and they wore never headed after that, The Vikings got two of the three baskets oh easy layups after Intercepting Hurley passes mid they added six more points to hike their margin to 40-33 before Patrltto scored Hurley's first points of the period on two free throws. With three minutes a i i in the period the Midgcis narrowed tho gnp to just one point, 44-43, but then the Vikings pulled away again to hold a 54-47 edge at the end of tho quarter. In tho opening minutes of the fourth quarter the Midgets staged another rally to slice tho deficit to 60-56, but once again the Vikings rebounded to score nine straight points and that gave them their biggest lead of the game, 69-56, with about throe minutes to go, Bob Stark of Central copped game scoring honors with 22 points, just one- more than the total scored by Morzcnti in leading the Hurley attack. lamdgren was second high for Hurley with 13 and Pa- tntto added 10.

Stun Ladich was the runner-up for Central with 16 as Ken Rictuirdson tallied 13 and Gene Evens 12. Hurley converted 21 of 35 free throws. Central 22 of 38, Three Midgets and one i i fouled out of the game. Bartolutti left late in tho third quarter and Mor- zentl and Gerald St. Catherine of Hurley and Tongue of Central In the fourth period.

In the preliminary tilt, the Hurley team defeated the Superior reserves by 63-55. Sup. Genlrnl (111) (I! ft I Lndlch 7 2 4 Krlokson 1 8 2 Ki'uni 5 2 2 Richardson Slnrk Anderson Tongue 8 0 0 1 0 2 0 St Cntha'ne 3 (03) MofiPtiU LundKien Pdtrltto If (t pf 5 (I 6 4 5 1 3 4 Bnrtoluttl SblMCK CfUlnn GrnMo Miller 6 (i 0 2 0 a 0 0 2H 22 21 'lolnla SI Zl 34 Sup CorUr.il 'H an IB--72 Hurley la an is--63 Kmlco Hnrl, Duluth, Hurley Gains Tie for Title Hurley's freshman basketball learn clinched at leas.t share ot the Range Freshman League's 1954-55 championship by defeating Ironwood 37-30 In the game played Thursday at Hurley. Tho victory was the eighth in 10 starts for Coach Steve Mrdjenc- vich's Hurley boys. They had to come from behind In the fourth quarter to cop the victory In a nip and tuck battle.

They had a 10-8 load at the end of the first quarter, but Ironwood knotted the count at 17-17 at the half and went ahead 28-24 at the three-quarter point, Hurley copped tho "win by autsaorlng the visitors 13-4 in the last quarter, Hurley scoring: Makl 13, Vacca 12, Bott Gulan 5, Lundgren 2, Moment! 2, Zandl 0. Ironwood scoring: R-amuta 8, PoljFick 8, Fertile 6. Rondeau 2, Mayer 5. Colorado College Beats Michigan Tech Sextet HOUGHTON Ml--George Derap- part scored twice Friday night to Colorado College a 4-1 victory over Michigan Tech and the Western Intercollegiate Hockey League tfctle, The victory left Colorado with a 13-4 league record and wished the Tigers to 17 points the reach of second place Michigan, Early Days of Wrestling Are Recalled By Karl Wirtanen, 'Mysterious Finn' By KAHL J. WIRTANEN In tho early days wrestling and athloiic sports wore in a rather primitive stage hero In the Middle West, I will attempt to give you an account of the spread of wrestling and athletic sports in tho Finnish settlements, I believe that my insight in this is quite authentic tor the renson that I was one of thu originators of this movement.

Somewhere around 1907 a 1908, wo, tho following athletes and wrestlers migrated to the Goldon Wcit: Karl Lehto, a Gronluncl, Knllc Rantala, ZU.rl J. Wirtanen, Tuomlncn, Matt Kangas, Vaino Ketonon and Joosoppi Lehtoncn. All ot the alorc mentioned wrestlers had been trained at the Pyrinto Society of Tampere. At tho Copper Country writer joined the Sunell Brothers' troop. Performances was iirst given at the Copper Country.

From there we came to Ironwood where in December of 1907 I made my debut Into wrestling In a match at the Kaleva Hall My opponent was a Swedish wrestler named Johnson. The match lasted sixteen minutes and I was the winner. It true there had been provjous wrcttllns It a a wrestling" ns usually staged by the British or "cousin jacks" as they were usually called in those days. Then at Hibbing where I performed next I was pleasantly surprised. Three of my boydn pals were nlso slnted to wrestle there, I could hardly believe tbitt they hnd come to Minnesota from Pennsylvania, They were woods workers and camo to town to meet a wrestler from their native laud, These boys were Kfirl Lehto, Karl Ranlala, and Gunnur GronHmd.

Our wrestling thnt evening was not up to par. I separated from the Suncll's and we formed our own troupe known as the Pyrinto company. We began rehearsing gymnastics, feats strength and wrestling, We found quarters over a clothing store In tho village of Spartti. Here we diligently carried on our rehearsals, When we wore sure of our routines we decided to start on our show circuit, First we had a few wrestling matches at Eveleth and Hibbing, I would like to make mention ot. a magazine! named "Urheilu- visti" which 1 published and edited with the assistance of two of my friends.

VVe turned out three issues of tho magazine, the first in the spring of 1909, the second In the fall of the same year and the third in the month of May, 1.911. Each of the issues had a circulation of about 3,000 throughout the United States and Canada. The magazines had pictures and accounts of the various athletic clubs, of individual wrestlers, and ol (he top wrestlers In different parts of tho world. The following is a newspaper account of the founding of an athletic club at Hancock which I joined leading up to my experiences in the wrestling world; J. Wirtanen Is a member of Hancock's "Jante" i which he represented many, many times in a notable manner.

In taking part in these many wrestling matches he has rcsplcndently preserved his title of "Champion pi Michigan's Copper Country" in the midst of a a wrestlers. Already during its existence the Society hat arranged numerous evening socials, summer festivals, athletic etc. Also, the Society has been represented outside of Hancock, to mention a places, at Negaunee, South 'Ranga and Atlantic. The athletes in top place last summer were J. VVir- tarwn and E.

Grondahl. Again wrestling was represented by An- row Nlkula in the light weight class, who always held top honors in his class. His wrestling style Is colorful and sure. In the heavy weight department the Society agnin had J. Wirtanen as its stellar performiM 1 "Lehto and Rantala travelled East After a stay of half a year Lehto relumed to the Country arid started working for a Finnish bakery at South Range where Wirtanen already was employed as well as two other Wir- tanons, Lauri a Richard later owned the Northern Baking Company in Ironwood.

They turned out to be proficient as well as powerful training companions. Often times during the lunch they went upstairs over the bakery and practiced wrestling. "Plans were made lor wrestling events, A certain Jacob Tolonen and Wirtanen turned the plans into action, Huge were arranged to bo held at the Kerrlclge theatre In Hancock for two evenings. There wore wrestlers from Canada, Chicago, as well as a score from tho Upper Peninsula. The matches began ceremoniously, A score of handsome men marched to the scene to the accompaniment of a brass band, The theatre was filled to capacity on both evenings, The matches were fiery.

The results: Karl Lehto took iirst honors, Wirtanen came second in the heavy-weight class and G. Gronlund took first place in the Jight-woight group, "Wrestling was the topic of conversation at the churches, working places, public gatherings and wherever people congregated. The next match to be arranged was with the renowned Jack Rowett ol Bessemer who was at that time the world's Karl Lehto--champion jacket wrestler, He had a great following in Calumet and Bessemer, The match was staged at a Calumet theatre with both the Greek and the eatch-as-catch-can styles of wrestling. The theatre was filled to capacity with as many on the outside. in the sport wan truly great.

"Lehto won the match to i STAR WRESTLER--Here is a photo oC Karl J. Wirtanen, Ironwood, former wrestler, us ho appeared as a young man and star of catch- as-eatcli-can wrestling in the United States and Canada, five minutes the second in four minutes. As a result the Finnish boys came into the limelight, The early type of wrestling was demonstrated by Wirlnnun and Mull Kangas In a 40 minute free type bout. After this the concensus of opinion was I a there never lias been anyone' bel- ter than Lehto, But, nccoidlng to an old saying, evon the best can be outdone, PUins for events began a king shape, Wirtanen and Dr. Hupiiavtiara went to Duluth to Interview the professional wrestler Zbysko to wrestle three of the Copper Country wrestlers and ho suid lie would pin each of them clown within an hour, The trio was Lehto, Gronluncl and Wirtanen.

He was guaranteed $1,500 or 30 per cent of the gale. After this initial bout a guarantee was no longer necessary as the sport had provun to be well established. Advertising began for tho big event. However, the coming match began take on a different slant when Wirtanen injured his shoulder when wrestling with i Persson of Duluth. "Duluth's champion, had challenged to meet C.

Gion- lund and K. J. Wirtanen on January 26, 1909. He boasted that he would In one hour's time in over both of these Finns. The contest between Wirtanen and Person was very lively.

Wirtanen a about 15 pounds lighter than his opponent. After an unsuccessC 1 attempt with an armlhrow Wirl- anen was pinned under his opponent, Taking advantage ol his position Persson employed his most punishing holds, Alter a struggle of about 8 minutes he managed a hamrnorlouk on Wirtanen uncl with his knee and the weight of his entire body to pin him to the mnt, After a brief struggle Pcrsson succeeded in dislocating his opponent's shoulder a piimcd him to the canvas, spectators loudly protested i display of unfair sportsmanship "Npxt Gronlund took his 'turn, Persson Immediately began to attack his opponent who was 20 lighter, but without success. The hour was a i drawing to a close and tho outcome hung in balance, became panicky as he was confident of victory in the allotted hour whether by one means or another, Then began a struggle of bnute strength, Alternately'Persson used twisting arm and leg took his i hmont bravely until Persson throw him out of the ring into the audience, As Gronlund could not immediately Kot back to the mat thu judge declared Persson tho winner! This sort of decision lute! been handed down several times in the past hero in the Middle West. However, the public and the press held a different opinion. They contender! that Persson did not live up to his promise and by that token Gi'onlund and Wirtanen were the winners.

"The Persson-Gronlund-Wirtanen match appears to have ended in a draw, According to the account given us, two of the judges Dr; Ruonavaara and Mayor James do not consider Persson the winner for too reason that Gronlund was willing to continue the match even though the head official Olson and his friends insisted on ending the contest without conferring with the rest of the officials as was previously agreed upon. "As an indirect result of these events Lehto and Wirlanen published a reference book with I), lustrations and dctaJJs on the arl of catch-as-catch-can stllng. Some 4,000 copies of the were printed," The following are further newspapers accounts of wrestling in the early days: "Wirtanen Wins i Match--Virginia, April 1, 1909. J. Wirtanen of Hancock, Michigan last evening was the winner in a match in which he met John Hudson of Milwaukee, There was plenty of excitement all the way thru, Hudson was able to get one Call and Wirlanen had two and in every wa proved to be the most capable performer, "Evelelh April 3.

1808--A. Han- FRIEND AND RIVAL Karl Lehto, friend and mat rival of Karl J. Wirtanen, is shown here in mat togs as he appeared when ready for a bout. Lohto lives in Sudbury, Ontario, 'MYSTERIOUS FINN'--Karl J. Wirtanen of Ironwood, abovt, was known as the "Mysterious Finn" during his career as a wrestler, the story of which he relates here, He had more than 500 matches In this country and Canada His first match was at tho Kaleva Hall here and his last one, in 1937, was at the Memorial Building, He had many matches during his 18 year career tho old Palace Hall and the Pierce Opera House here.

He was born May IS, 1396, In Finland A carpenter, Mr. Wirtanen has been working for Wallace Strand Son on the Salern parish building, Tony Pete Service Station and other local building Globe Photo) cock wrestler, J. Wirtanen last evening was the winner in a match with a wrestler by the name of Tobin. Wirtanen floored his opponent for the first fall In 14 minutes and the second fall In 11 minutes. Last Saturday evening Wirtanen won in match with the Italian wrestler Joe Savin with a time oi 10 minutes for the first fall and 30 minutes for the seo.

ond "The most entertaining matches were the ones between Lehto and and Gronlund There was plenty of action to follow in these contests and it was difficult to be- liev-: your, eyes in following the of these wrestlers. "After the matches K. J. Wirtanen announced that a certain Dr, Boiler has challenged Lehto, Wirtanen, and Samson, Lehto in a straight event and Wirtanen and Samson in a handicap event, "Port Arthur Canada: In a match between Hugo Kareniui Wirttmen, In 19'A minutes Karcnius was so overcome by his opponent's superior wrestling that he was unable to continue, At the same even( there was a demonstration performance between Lehto and Ole Samson as well one between K. Lehto and Wirtanen, "Wrestling Unlawful in Montona --Butte, Montana, July 23, 1910-(by own correspondent) The Finnish wrestlers Karl Lehto and Wirtanen became involved with the police here in Montana through circumstances unforeseen by us, They were forbidden to stage a wrestling match even to hold an exhibition bout on the grounds that the state Inw bans boxing, gambling, and wrestling How Wirtanen did have an opportunity to wrestle a member of the Buttt Athletic A i a lion, Ranta.

Ranta weighs 198 pounds and he grappled with Wirtanen for an hour. "Hoqulam, Washington: Finnish wrestlers Karl to, Ole Samson and i a arrived here at Grays Harbor at the latter part of last month and staged a wrestling demonstration at Aberdeen on the 31st of a month, On Wednesday the 3rd of this month a wrestling match wa's staged between K. Wirlanen and Nikolai Smuragon, the wrcstl i master of Kymi Valley (Finland) who arrived here from i nland but two weeks previously. winner was required to get two falls out of three and was ot the free style or catch-as-catch-c a type of wrestling which Smurago had not previously experi cod, The match began promptly at nine and after 28 minutes Wirtanen was able to pin his opponents shoul dors to Use mat, In the first fall it was Wirtanen who worked the hardest and really deserved the fall," An Issue of the publication "To- veri" tells of a wrestling match in the following manner: "Wirtanen in Tough Competition--Last Saturday K. Wirtanen and Dodan Singha competed in free style wrestling at the A.A.A.A, Auditorium, The match began at 9 in tho evening and lasted until mldnite.

At the beginning of the match Wirtanen fell on his right shoulder which was thereby injured. To deceive the Hindu he tried to be in good humor and laugh and jest as though noth ing had happened, The Hindu was able to get a few dangerous holds but Wirtanen escaped them very beautifully, During the first hour it appeared imminent that neither would get a fall. Wirtanen truly was able to get two twisting falls on the Hindu, one of which was outside the mat but falls as they are known are not considered falls in amateur wrestling, The Hindu was able to get one twisting fall on Wirlanen. In addition the Hindu employed forbidden holds. Wirlanen showed remarkable defensive tactics.

"In town the followers of both had placed bets amounting to around two thousand dollars and knowing this Wirtnnen thought it wiser to stick mostly to defense. It was well accomplished with one hand, Without exaggeration it might be said that the Hindu Ms no slouch and with plenty ot power although somewhat short on actual skill, "From here Wivtanen travel- led to Salt Lake City where he was scheduled to wrestle a certain English wrestler but had doubts as to whether not he could go through with it on account of Ins injured hand. On Sunday morning his hnnd was so bad that he was scarcely lo bencl it backwards. "Ishpeming, February 22, 1909 --Wirtanen Wrebtles Ishpeming on his Wirtanen met In match well known and much publicized wrestler, Tim Harrington' of Butle. At first it seemed as though Harrington would crush his oijponejil but Wirtanen wan not exactly new-comer in the business, He sized up the situation seriously nnd pinned shoulders to the mat.

"In contest wem Kangas, who had just arrived from Finland, and Wirlanen, Tht match was Intensely exciting and i large had gathered to witnesi the action. F'lrst they wrestled in Greek-Roman style. After a graceful tussJt Kangus was able to get a victoiy over hU competitor. The time spent wan 21 minutes, Next the frtc or catch-as- catch-can style of wrestling. Even in thli match Kangas held own very nicely and only after was Wirtantn to icort victory, 'Then followed matches with than Hickensmith "The Russian Arrangements wore made for him to wrestle Lehto at Duluth, Other engagements were at Hibbing, Mai-quette and Hancock, In these wrestled Lehto, Samson, Wirtanen, Gronlund and Kangas and Hackensmith was the winner over all, "We must confesi that Hockensmith and Zbyzko the world's champion mat artists, Gotch was truly spirited, strong and a fast thinker In free wrestling," 1 would like to mention the wrestling school which Lehto and 1 conducted at Hancock, South Range, Calumet and Palnesdale, After moving from these places lo Duluth we had access to a pool hall on First Street.

They had a few pool tables and in the rear a large gymnasium as well as a large mat. At every locality we had around a score of pupils, many of whom developed into excellent amateur wrestlers'. At Duluth we had several pupils from the local athletic clubs, Nexl my destination was Chicago where I arranged mutches between Lehto and the "Mysterious with Pat Galvin at Waukeaan and with Bmsilun a big 'I, Red Devils Play Best Game Of Season in 58-50 Victory The Ironwood Red Devils closed their regular season play last night by defeating the Ishpeming Hema- tites 58-50 In tight basketball game that called for excellent bull playing on the part or both ichools. The win was the third of the season for the Red Devils against 13 losses, The Hematites closed their season last night with 8-8 record, The Rod Devils showed their best iorm all season as they mel the Hemntftes, Guard Bob Mayer, who has been out since January 14, played most oJ the game, Don Cedavslrom led the local cagers attack with 26 points, 16 of them Turk at DeKalb. However, Lehto went on a trip to Finland and I was loft alone to handle the prcvi- oulsy arranged matches.

I won the Waukcgun and DeKalb bouts, the one at Chicago was a draw. I stayed in Chicago for some time, I had several wrestling engagement such as at Finnish summer festival, and also taught wrestling, Here I met the big circus and strong man Fred Pilakoff. He urged me to go along on a traveling road show into Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota as he had just arrived from Finland and had no knowledge of English. I agreed to go along, I arranged the first show at Chicago, DeKalb and Waukegan. From there we went to Negaunee, Ishpeming, Ironwood, Wakefield, Duluth and Hibbing.

We performed at all these places, Pilnkoff demonstrated feats of strength, bent iron rods and the like. 1 wrestled in exhibition with him. This man Pilakoff had more strength than was contained in a village, as the saying went, but in wrestling he was very awkward. Ho yoJJed and carried on like present day wrestlers, He had practi- calJy no knowledge of wrestling holds but hud merely brute strength. By chance only it was that the experienced wrestlers were able to deceive him.

I remember reading 'in the papers that many Pilakoff's matchs ended in a brawl. After about four years I ran into Pilakoff at Detroit. We both had engagements at Detroit's Star Theatre but with different opponents, After a stay of. time in Chicago I travelled to Canada with Ole Samson (Kivimakl). We wrestled at several places.

At Montreal I had my most shining match which was with a Winnipeg wrestler. While waiting for the match I resided at the hotel with the renowned Zbyzko with whom I sparred every day and also there were other wrestlers. From Ztayzko I learned a valuable hold which I used to beat the Winnipeg man and won the $600 prize. The Pole wrestled the French Con- stau Lemasi and won over him. At tills event were were 16,000 spectators, the largest audience in my wrestling experience.

After this match Zbyzko calicd me the "Mysterious Finn" because I won over a good man, The match was for one fall. From Montreal I travelled to Sault Ste. Marie where I settled, I opened a bakery business and wreslted on several occasions, One was witti Martin Cutler and I beat him twice, both times in four minutes, Alter returning from Finland Lehto wanted to go on a wrestling tour, first to Port Arthur where there were a few matches. We came to the Copper Country in 1913 at which time they were experiencing a strike at tee mines. We staged a benefit bout for the strikers at Hancock's Kcrridago theatre.

The theatre was filled to capacity so that the receipts represented a tidy The expenses were negligible and the use of the theatre was free. At Calumet we wrestled a benefit match for the widow of former wrestler, In 1913 we travelled to Duluth whert wt had several matches. From there I went to Chicago where I worked as carpenter and taught wrestling. At Detroit I also had ievern) matches during the years 1916 to 1917, While a resident of Escanaba during the year 1922 1 wrestled a certain circus wrestler named Herman Aikm and won in a match that lasted one hour and 12 minutes. I lived at Bcrgland for 20 years and during that time I had a match at Ewen, Mich, with Charles Peterson in the year 1928, I beat him Peterson was from Milwau- in hot second period.

He scored J2 pf Ms 16 points in the final two minutes and Si seconds of the period, The Ishpeming team took an early lend and the Red Devils came from behind to tic the score at 4-4, 8-8, 10-10 and 12-12. They trailed by one point, 34-13 at the end of the first period. The Luther L. Wright cagers trailed most of the second period from one to three points, Ccdur- strom scored a field goal with 2:35 remaining in the period to give the Red Devils a lead which they never relinquished. The Hematites only scored two points in the rest of the quarter as Ccdarstrom scored on five field goals and two free throws and Lloyd Anderson hit ohe field goal.

The hnlftime score was 37-28 in favor of Ironwood. The third period was a low scoring, defensive period with Ishpeming outscoring Ironwood 9-8. Neither toam was able to hit the basket or find its scoring form. Score at the ond of the period was 45-35 in favor of Ironwood. The Ishpeming cagers fell further behind early in the final period, trailing by 16 points with four and half minutes remaining, They rallied to close the gap to six points, 52-18, with just over one minute remaining but were unable to close in on the determined Red Devils.

The Wright team found trouble bhooting from the free throw line mishing 15 of 27 free throw shots. Ishpeming shot 16 of 28 gift shots for scores. Cedarslrom was high game scorer followed by James Kosonon of Ishpeming with 16 points, Bruce Kelly of Isnpoming with 13 points, Lloyd Anderson of Ironwood with 12 points, and Warren Matthews of Ishpeming with 10 points. The game was the final one of the scnson schedule for both schools. Both teams will participate in Upper Peninsula district basketball week.

it pf 9 3 2 1 4 (91) And'ion BufrO Ballmd 0 0 D. Ccda'm 10 fl Stensirom 1 0 i 3 0 2 0 2 0 Maytr Goortney MuWiewi Kelly Dlorne Zholltit (M) '3111 0 0 1 1 4 i i 1 1 3 0 2 3 At present 1 am living at Ironwood, Here I had my first wrestling match after cominp to America, Also it was here that I had my last wrestling experience in 1937 at the Memorial Building in a 30 minute match that ended in a draw, It is oflen said that wrestling is a lot of "humbug" and prearranged but as an old timer in the business must assert that it it hard work whether the match be prearranged or the real tiling. When one goes before the public and wrestles by the minute and by the hour he must Keep in condition, Several months ago in newts- papers and magazines there were writings about the old Polish Stanlislaus Zbynko. He had anid he is ready and willing wrestle any present day wrestler and promises to the man who can pin his shoulders to the mat. Such a match was arranged at Chicago but the athletic commission revoked the match for tht reason that Zbyzko was 73 years old although in excellent physical condition.

He had operated a physical culture studio in New York and had many pupils. There live here in Ironwood a few amateur, wrestlers, Lauri Wirtnnen, Dr. Kultunen and W. J. Helli.

The last mentioned was the light-heavyweight wrestling champion during and 1922 at the Michigan State College in East Lansing. Other former wrestlers here are 'Doc" James Eddy of Ii-onwood and Jack Kowott of ToUU 11 18 Totals IT Scoring liy quarters: Ironwood 13 S4 13--M Islipcmlng 14 13 15--90 OffldnU: Harold Anderson of Stum- and George Craller o( Gnasln. G-l Tournament leaders listed Some changes were made among the leaders in the GogebSc-Iron Bowling Association's annual handicap tournament during the past week, but the top two teams retained their positions, Tony's Tavern of Bessemer is still leading in the team event with 2831 and H. Garvcy Plumbing and Heating of Ironwood ii second with 2925. Oiher leaders are V.

and F. Johnson in the doubles with 1192, J. Hetkkila in the singles with 661 and also in the with 1837. A new high team game of 1064 was posted by the Machine Shop team of the Oliver League in Ironwood and P. Perlberg of Hurley rolled a new high single game of 283 in the team event.

The tourney is continuing this week end with the doubles and singles being rolled at Bessemer and the team events at the Hurley American Legion alleys. Doubles and singles scheduled for' Sunday, in addition to those previously announced, are the following Jor 7:45 p.m.; Stimers, J. Varalli, Kietaer-A. Lament, Bonacci-C. Kerkovit, and Gorrllla- C.

Tiuiani. Leaders up to Friday of this wocK, as announced by Sec Vio- letts, association secretary, are: TEAMS Tony's Tnvein IB) If. Survey (f) tsvi Abclnnin'd Corsl Slovn Hi zuixi Whlw Birch Inn (B) 5097 Fimt Nal'l. Bnnk (W) sssn Hurli-y Eagles (H) Pcpni Coin IK) 2872 Drewry'n (1) Porky't 3862 Johiwon-P. Johnson n.

1-Jlts W. Nunlmnhcr-A. Tiberl G. Krlckson-J, llelkklln 33, MoDirmoli Borowicpx-H. I'eralll-R.

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Joe MaffemnW 1 Cardinl Itorpl D. Hecor ALL-EVBNl'R ,1. 1KW M. Anlch 180J nerei 1- Stelln stontmnrK 17W John Butter, Michigan SUte sophomore boxer, won the National Golden 126-pound title in 1953. you don't Ihii to liapptn to bring car in for that all around pal.Jy check MOW! At nkiddr a i nhtad.

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