Sport: Muscle

Strangler Lewis and Joe Stecher, a farmer boy who once made a mule lose consciousness by locking its ribs in a scissors hold, met on a mat in St. Louis and pulled at each other's heads for one hour while a sleepy newspaper man snored loudly somewhere near them. After a while Lewis put Stecher down, then put him down again, winning the world's heavyweight wrestling championship.

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