Free State Soldier

Because most wrestling addicts firmly believe their favorite sport to be dishonestly conducted and because Heavyweight Champion Jim Londos was scheduled to climax his season with a widely ballyhooed charity match against Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf"), no one paid much attention to Londos' bout with a young Irishman named Danno O'Mahoney last week except O'Mahoney and 30,000 Bostonians who crowded Fenway Park to watch it. An agreement between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain a fall would be the winner. After one hour, 15 min. and 16 sec. of groveling, grunting, groaning and grimacing, Londos applied the "flying mare" with which he usually ends his bouts. Instead of tottering into a collapse, Danno O'Mahoney retaliated with his own specialty, the "Irish Whip," and a flying mare of his own; banged Londos on the canvas so hard that after the bout doctors found him suffering from two broken ribs, a broken bone in his forearm, torn ligaments and a minor dislocation.

The bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states in the U. S.

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