Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1911 — “Mysterious Waffies" Lost Wrestle And Broke Chair Over Head. [ARTICLE]

“Mysterious Waffies" Lost Wrestle And Broke Chair Over Head.

“Mysterious Waffles** deserves his name. He pulled off a stunt here Saturday night that no one seems able to know the object of. He says he to a Turk; he don't 1004 like it but he is a foreigner and h;A an element of both comedy and tragedy in him. He was no match for Charles Olson as a wrestler. He asked to have it announced that he was a rough wrestler and very nervous and that he did not want the crowd to laugh or holler because !t annoyed him and made him worse. Jfe sailed in after Olson like a madman and Olson strung him along, giving the big fellow a chance at several different holds and then breaking them with ease. Olson won the first tell in 14 and a half minutes after considerable roughness at which the mysterious one was the aggressor. After his fall he stepped up the ropes and bellowed like a mad bull at the audience, told them they were a lot of fools and madeliim sick. The second fall only lasted a minute and a half. Waffles again ran after Olson like a bull, but Olson smoothly dodged him and all of a sudden sprang at the feet of Waffles, catching him with both hands by the ankles and throwing him on his shoulders and head. Quick as a cat Olson was on the shoulders of Waffles and pinned him down. Olson stepped out of the ring and Waffles stepped out to the ropes and bellowed, “Call that wrestle, call that wrestle, he no stand still, he run like he coward, grab me by heels, that no wrestle.*’ And then he let out a prolonged “Bah” as he shot his fists into bis hair and pulled it like a madman. He was still bellowing as he stepped from the ring, and there he raised a solid bottom chair as though he was going to throw it out into the audience. Instead he caught it firmly with both hands and brought it down twice with great force on his own head, smashing the bottom out and then threw the chair out into the middle of the ring and with another “Bah” he ran up the steps to his dressing room. Many got the idea that Waffles was Sam Murbarger and it was necessary for Manager Ellis to announce that he was not a betting man but would wager 31,000 that it was not Murbarger. At close range there was no resemblance between the two men. What the chump wanted to impress upon the audience by his demonical act is not known, but perhaps it is a stunt he pulls off to give the crowd their money’s worth. He says he d<*es it because he gets mad and that he can’t get in good humor again until he bungs himself up some and as his head is the hardest thing about him he beats himself over the head. Harvey Myres, the Parr grappler, received much favorable comment because he defeated Freddy Beal, a lightweight from Logansport. Myres bandied himself in good shape and Beal was not heavy enough to win. even with his superior science. Myres can probably get some good matches if he wishes to and it is quite certain that Rensselaer people will look favorably upon him if he deports himself properly, which he is quite certain to do. He won his match in two straight falls, 14 minutes and 12 minutes.