Zbyszko v. Ape

A fine upstanding figure of a man is that of famed Wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko. What was his dismay and rage, not long ago, to observe beside his picture in the New York American, the picture of a beetle-browed gorilla with fangs like clothespins and nostrils like the mouthpiece of a telephone instrument.

The purpose of the picture, he soon discovered, was to illustrate an article on the theory of evolution. His likeness had been selected apparently because it bore so striking a resemblance to that of a gorilla. More, it was possible to derive...

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