Varsity Wrestling Tournament
@ Madison Junior High School
Thursday & Friday, April 10-11, 1924

Final Results

First Round in Mat Tourney to Be Held To-Day
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY
Thursday, April 10, 1924
 

Full Text: Copyright © 1924 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Reproduced with the permission of Gannett Company Inc.

The individual interscholastic wrestling championship preliminaries will be held this afternoon at Madison Junior High gymnasium. East High, West High, Technical High, Kodak High and Charlotte High have entered their best mat artists in an effort to make a creditable showing. The finals will be held to-morrow night.

About twenty-five men from East High and about fifteen each from West High and Technical High and a representation from Charlotte and Kodak Highs promise to make the affair the most successful individual wrestling tournament ever staged. The meet is being conducted by the city department of physical education.

Some of last year's champions are still in school and they will be forced to step the limit in order to hang onto laurels they won last year. Pete Bartholomeo, of Technical High, who won the heavyweight honors last season should meet some real opposition when he tackles Krepack, the East High heavy. Should these two come together in the finals which seems almost a certainty, a battle will be provided the fans. This meeting would be the third one this year and would be the rubber match. Krepack won the first tussle and Batholomeo the second. Another attraction should be the fight for honors in the 147-pound class between Meyer, the East High captain, and kress, of Technical High.

Barons, of West High, who was interscholastic champion in the 108-pound class last year, seems destined to lose his laurels this year unless he shows a big improvement over his form this season. The matches will be to a fall if gained within nine minutes. After nine minutes a decision will be rendered by the two judges and the referee. In case of a tie at the end of the first nine minutes the grapplers will wrestle two extra three-minute periods to a fall or decision. Fred Weismuller of the Central Y.M.C.A. will referee.