Rov 34 – Ed Lewis hauv 1913

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Hauv no rov, Peb tham txog lub sij hawm wrestling ntawm Ed “Strangler” Lewis thaum lub sij hawm 1913.

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Rov tom ntej no rov, Peb yuav saib Jack Pfefer raug qhov xwm ntawm kev wrestling hauv 1933.

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Ed ” Strangler” Lewis Using Guillotine on Ivan Linow Before It Was Outlawed from the Public Domain

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Lewis begins the year on January 24, 1913, in Louisville, Kentucky wrestling Bob Fredericks. Lewis wins the two-out-of-three-falls worked match, where they trade falls back and forth.

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Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 31, 1913, Lewis wrestles another shooter William Demetral in Louisville. In a worked match, Demetral wins when Lewis strikes his head on the floor and is unable to continue.

Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 6, 1913, Demetral was supposed to wrestle Bob Fredericks in Lexington but could not get to town, so Lewis stepped in. The men wrestled to a draw but Lewis was considered the loser because he did not throw Fredericks twice in an hour. Promoters were trying to preserve the Demetral-Fredericks match.

Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 19, 1913, Lewis wrestled Jack Stone in Lexington. The men traded falls before Stone suffered an injury and had to forfeit the match to Lewis.

Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 22, 1913, in Louisville, Lewis defeated “Doc” Domer of Chicago in two straight falls in less than forty-nine minutes.

Hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 6, 1913, Lewis wrestled a rough match against German wrestler Harry Faust in Lexington. Lewis primarily worked matches but was capable of handling himself even at 21-years-of-age. Faust may have tried him because Lewis only needed twenty-two and eighteen minutes to pin Faust in straight falls.

Hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 12, 1913, Lewis defeated Gus Chamos in two straight falls in Lexington.

Hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 14, 1913, Lewis wrestled a draw with Young Olsen, who I believe is Charlie Olsen based on the newspaper picture, in Louisville.

Hauv lub peb hlis ntuj 28, 1913, Lewis defeated Charlie Olsen winning two of the falls in the best 2-out-of-3 falls match in Lexington. With this match Ed Lewis matches the total number of matches Evan “Strangler” Lewis wrestled in 1886.

Nyob rau hnub tim 8, 1913, Lewis defeated Eddie Shultz in Lexington. Lewis won the last two falls including using the “stranglehold” or guillotine choke.

Nyob rau hnub tim 17, 1913, Lewis rematched Eddie Shultz in Lexington. The stranglehold was barred but Lewis still won the match by taking two out of three falls.

Nyob rau hnub tim 18, 1913, Lewis rematched with William Demetral in Louisville. Lewis won this match in two straight falls. Lewis used the stranglehold to take the first fall.

Nyob rau hnub tim 28, 1913, Lewis wrestled Charles Olsen for the third time in 1913 in Lexington. Lewis won the match in two straight falls.

Saum ntuj 5, 1913, Lewis wrestled Bob Fredericks again in Lexington. Each men scored a fall before resorting to rough tactics in the third fall. After a warning from the local police to knock it off, the Lexington Police stopped the match.

Saum ntuj 9, 1913, Lewis rematched with William Demetral in Louisville. This time Demetral won in two straight falls because Lewis wassick with indigestion.

Saum ntuj 14, 1913, Lewis lost to Dr. Benjamin F. Roller in Lexington in two straight falls after submitting to the toe hold at 48 minutes of the first fall. Lewis appeared to injured but came out for the second fall, which he lost in a minute.

Saum ntuj 21, 1913, Lewis wrestled a rematch with Bob Fredericks in Lexington. Lewis took the first fall but Bob Fredericks took the last two falls to win the match. Lewis threw up several times and was favoring the leg Roller injured.

Nyob rau lub rau hli ntuj 6, 1913, Lewis wrestled a rematch with Jack Stone in Lexington. After three hours of exciting wrestling, the men agreed to a draw.

Nyob rau lub rau hli ntuj 17, 1913, Lewis wrestled a rematch with Dr. Ben Roller in Lexington. Lewis won the first fall with a stranglehold. Roller won the next two falls.

Nyob rau lub rau hli ntuj 26, 1913, Lewis wrestled a rematch with Bob Fredericks in Paris, Kentucky. Lewis won in straight falls with a stranglehold and a referee’s DQ of Fredericks in the second fall.

Lewis wrestled twenty matches in the first half of 1913. Lewis wrestled 13 times in Lexington, where he and promoter Jerry Walls lived. Lewis wrestled six times in Louisville, Nws yog ib qho 80 miles from Louisville. Lewis wrestled one spot show in Paris, Kentucky. Paris is less than 20 miles from Lexington.

Louisville’s population in 1910 yog 223,928. Lexington’s population in 1910 yog 35,099. Paris, Kentucky’s population was 5,859 nyob rau hauv 1910.

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