Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1906 — Tom Sharkey Gets the “Mon,” [ARTICLE]

Tom Sharkey Gets the “Mon,”

Chicago, April 27. Torn Sharkey, the heavyweight pugilist, wou a handicap wrestling match here at the Coliseum. His opponent was John Rooney, the "giant gripman’’ of Chicago, who undertook to throw Sharkey twice in forty-five minutes. Rooney couldn't do it.