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HURRY! ONLY TWO MORE LEFT The last two of a big litter of kittens at the home of Elmer (JifTord. wait patiently for a passing motorist to pick them up and take them to a new home. GitTord had no trouble disposing of the wdiole family thanks to the sign and the pleading looks on the faces of the kittens. ^ A SixBirO To a greater extent than most atJilctes, 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- fes5ic>nal grapplers, both individually and as a class, even tliough we seldom get around to seeing them in action these dajjs. * « * Just a few years back you could count the profitable wrestling centres in Canada and the United. States on your fingers, and have a few left over at that. But now crowds of cash ciistoniers number- ing from 10,000 to 15,000 are not unusual, even in comparatively small towns. * * ♦ The principal reason for this sud- den oiitl)urst of popularity seems to be television â€" for video viewers, who nut only get a closeup picture of the grimaces and contc)rtions, but also an intimate earful of the groans and grunts, have gone for wrestlers in a large manner; and it is reported Turnabout â€" When photo- graphers lined up in the White House 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 taking the wrestlers apart and try- ing to find out what makes them tick â€" 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 (Jthers mutter at them as they enter and leave the ring. /\iid in homes, families sit before their TV sets, completely enchanted." » * * Vet liow, Boal wants to know, could anyone over 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 atonlizer with which his corner is hygienically sprayed before the show? Or the Gorilla, who is wheeled to the ring in an enormous cage wliose bars he rattles with roars of 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? 4 * * The article also mentions Mute Mike, who purports to be deaf and dumb and signals to the referee in deaf-and-dumb language, and pomts 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, now th« reigning favorite with the bobby SQxers, who swoon when they meet him, just as they once did on en- Playing In Japanâ€" Frank "Lefty" O'Doul, inaiiagcr of the San Fraiicisio Seals baseball team, now toitring Japan, .shakes hands with Prince Akihito and Prince Masahilo before a Tokyo gatne with the I'.astern All-Stars of the Japan rrofessional League The .Seals, who have won every game u\ their txhil)ili(>ii, sliul out the Japanese club 4-0. countering Frankie Sinatra or Mel Torme. » * ♦ Boal tells of the two questioni f ntinually put to wrestlers by their fans â€" then, himself, tries to give the answers, the latter making â€" well, abcuit as much sense as most stuff writrbn about wrestlers. The two questions are: Does all thai punishment really hurt? â€" and â€" li every wrestling match fixed? * * * In general, those dolorous moans coming 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 might 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 principal noise, and then his shoulders hit. * * * His head never hits, unless he makes a mistake, in which case he could be seriously hurt. As it is, a broken ankle from just such a performance is by nr 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 Vvounds, but these may be regarded as industrial accidents. * * * In general, wrestlers do not inten- tionally hurt each other. They don't try to, moreover, because they can't afford to. Some wrestlers may work as many as six shows a week, so it stands to reason they have to be reasonably certain they will wind up a given show more 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 liis second <iuestion, 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 arc not. The wrestlers in the preliminary bouts get the same money, win, lose or draw. Often they are told who it going to win, and specifically by what hold." * * * Then he goes on: "It is in the b;g 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 Priino Camera, 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 more of the profits than a less pop- ular man. 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 â€" the current sen.sation of the sport. Rocca beat him. Since that time Camera's earnings have decreased consider- ably because fans know he was beaten." » * ♦ But in his next paragraph Mr. Boal shows signs that he should have â€" in order to get a real under- standing of wrestling â€" got a mite closer to the core of matters than a televison screen or even a ring- side. "It was obviously to Camera's disadvantage to lose. Yet he did lo«e and it cost him a lot of money. Would Camera 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". 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