The Seaforth News, 1949-12-01, Page 6HURRY l
ONLY TWO
MORE LEFT
The last two of
a big litter of
kittens at the
home of Elmer
Gifford,
wait patiently
for a passing
motorist
to pick them
up and take
them to a
new home.
Gifford had
no trouble
disposing
of the whole
family
thanks to the
sign and the
pleading looks
on the faces of
the kittens.
„ORT
SLXBITC
To a greater extent 'than most
athletes, wrestlers have their ups
and downs, both professionally and
financially. Right now, we are happy
to say, some three thousand or so
huge men actively engaged in the
wrestling game are looking forward
to their most profitable season in
20 years. And that "we are happy
to say" was not written with fingers
crossed or .tongue in cheek either,
as we are extremely fond of pro-
fessional grapplers, both individually
and as a class, even though we
seldom get around to seeing them
in action these days.
* d• *
;lust a feu years back you could
count the profitable wrestling
centres in Canada and the United
Staters on your fingers, and have a
few left over at that. But now
crowds of cash customers number-
ing from 10,000 to 15,000 are not
unusual, even in comparatively
small towns.
• *
The principal reason for this sud-
den outburst of popularity seems to
be television- for video viewers,
who not only get a Closeup picture
of the grimaces and contortions, but
also an intimate earful of the groans
and grunts, have gone for wrestlers
in a large manner; and it is reported
Turnabout - When photo-
graphers lined up in the White
Rouse to snap President Tru-
man opening the annual Christ-
mas Seal Drive, the President
pulled out this miniature
camera and focused it on the
cameramen. "I can really take
care of you fellows now," he
said.
that the perfumed fan mail received
by some of the more horrendous
performers is coming to equal that
of a popular moaning baritone or
tearful tenor, radio variety.
*
Feature writers for some of the
big -circulation magazines have been
taming the wrestlers apart and try-
ing to find out what makes them
tick -the latest of these being Sam
Boal, in the New York Sunday
Times magazine. Mr. Boal's picture
of the wrestlers themselves is
neither intimate or very revealing.
"He studied", the editorial blurb
states, "wrestlers at ringside and
over television at a number of pri-
vate and public houses." And this,
you may take it from one in a posi-
tion to know, is no method at all
of getting the real low-down on the
wrestler as an individual.
* * *
However, some of Mr. Boal's
observations are of considerable
interest, "A wrestling show doesn't
reveal a great deal about wrestlers,"
he states, "but it does reveal a very
great deal about the audience,
People burst out in real anger as
the villain of the piece apparently
is crunching the hero's neck to bits.
Women who would normally be as
and cry out wild curses at wrestlers.
gentle as lambs, shake their fists
Others mutter at them as they enter
and leave the ring. And in homes,
families sit before their TV sets,
completely enchanted."
* * *
Yet how, Boal wants to know,
could anyone ovr the age of 12
believe in such a figure as Gorgeous
George with his platinum hair,
scarlet and golden robe, his English
butler and the atomizer with which
his corner is hygienically sprayed
before the show? Or the Gorilla,
who is wheeled to the ring in an
enormous cage whose bars he rattles
with roars o>; tortured rage? Or the
wrestler billed as the Bat, whose
wrestling technique consists in
flailing his arms up and down like
wings and who appears to be about
to suck the blood of his victims,
as a vampire is supposed to do?
* * *
The article also mentions Mute
Mike, who purports to be deaf and
dumb and signals to the referee in
deaf-and-dumb language, and points
helplessly at his mouth to indicate
that he cannot ;howl in protest at
the terrible agony his opponent is
causing him. Also "Mr. America",
a nobly handsome youh, stow the
reigning favorite with the bobby soxers, who swoon when they meet
him, just as they once did on en
t05:i,'Sa' L ` : rl �:' - e,!r r", .".R+`efPfebtte:
Playing In Japan -Frank "Lefty" O'Doul, manager of the San
Francisco Seals baseball team, now touring Japan, shakes hands
with Prince Akihito and Prince Masahito before a Tokyo game
with the Eastern All -Stars of the Japan Professional League
The Seals, who have won every game of their exhibition, shut
out the Japanese club 4-0.
countering Frankie Sinatra or Mel.
Torme. * * *
Boal tells of the two questions
c, ntinually put to wrestlers by their
fans - then, himself, tries to give
the answers, the latter making -
well, about as much sense as most
stuff written about wrestlers. The
two questions are: Does all that
punishment really hurt? - and - Is
every wrestling match fixed?
geueral, those dolorous moans,
corning from a wrestler are not
caused by pain, any more than the
moans of an actor playing Richard
the Third are caused by real pain.
If either wrestler or actor suffered
as much as he appears to be doing,
neither could last a week. That
ghastly thump the audience hears
when a wrestler is thrown over
another wrestler's head, doesn't kill
him, as plight seem certain. On the
other hand, it isn't exactly a caress.
The wrestler simply knows how to
hit the deck. His feet hit first, mak-
ing the prineipal noise,, and then his
shoulders hit.
* *
His head never hits, unless .lie
makes a mistake, in which case he
could be seriously hurt. As it is,
a broken ankle from just such a
performance is by no means un-
common. The fact is that if a
wrestler picked an untrained man
from the audience and hurled him
to the floor, maybe that man would
get up again and maybe he wouldn't.
Wrestlers do get broken ribs, lacer-
ated ears and other wounds, but
these may be regarded as industrial
accidents.
* * *
In general,
wrestlers do not inten-
tionally
n-
tionally hurt each other. They don't
try to, moreover, becausethey can't
afford to. Some wrestlers may work
as many as six shows a week, so it
stands to reason they have to be
seasonably certain they will wind ,up
a given show snore or less in one
piece. Some of the wrestling holds
which appear positively, gruesome
are almost gentle. And if, by chance,
a wrestler is really being, hurt by
another, he uses, a signal that is
universal in the business. The
squeezes his opponent's arm or leg
with two rapid motions and the
painful hold is relaxed instantly.
*' *
We went along pretty much in
agreement with Mr. Boal so far in
his article, but when he attempted
to answer his second question, we
thought he skidded slightly off the
rails. "The only honest answer to
the question, "Are all wrestling
bouts fixed?" he says, is 'Yes and
no.' Many wrestling matches are
planned, but some are not. The
wrestlers in the preliminary bouts
get the same money, win, lose or
draw. Often they are told who ie
going to win, and specifically by
what hold." -
- * * *
Then he goes on: "It is in the.big
bouts, with names that draw crowds,
that the fixes do not apply so gen-
erally. This is not a moral issue,
but an economic one. A case in
point is Primo Carnera, who up
until a few months ago, made so
much money out of wrestling that
he cannot be compared with any-
one else. Camera was such a suc-
cess because of his size and also
because of his skill. He drew huge
crowds and naturally shared much
snore of the profits than a less pop-
ular lean. As of May 20, 1949, Car-
nera had never lost a show. He
had won 321 bouts, an unequalled
record. On that night, however, he
wrestled with Antonio Rocca - the
current sensation of the sport. Rocca
beat him. Since that time Carnera's
earnings have decreased consider-
ably because fans know he was
beaten."
k k *
But in his next paragraph Mr.
Boal shows signs that he should
have - in order to get a real under-
standing of wrestling -got a mite
closer to the core of matters than
a televison screen or even a rings,.
side• "It was obviously to Camera's
disadvantage to lose. Yet he did
lose and it cost him a lot of money.
Would Carnera have taken orders
from somebody to lose when he
knew that his position as a drawing
card would give him the power to
refuse?" .
* * *
Mr. Boal obviously thinks that
the answer to this is a loud and
ringing "No". We would hate to
disillusion even a sports expert, but we might just gently hint to him
that Primo Carnrera, besides being
a wrestler, knows the value of a
dollar. And he knows that plenty
of bouts, even at a reduced figure
per appearance, will buy far more
macaroni and spaghetti than silting
idly on the sideiines, getting no
bouts at all,
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