New Haven, Connecticut:  Wednesday, January 15, 1902
(Polo Rink) ... World Lightweight Champion George Bothner b. Jack Harvey (3-0) (7:30,
second in "about 50" (seconds?), 1:21) ... Henry Knoll b. Miller (2-0) (Knoll was a
substitute for Klund, who was injured during training) ... Jack Fox and John Roach drew
(30:00) ... (matchmaker:  Charles Roberts) ... (referee:  W.F. Alcorn) ... (small crowd)
Notes:  The facility was on Chapel Street.  Harvey was the assistant football trainer at
Yale, and had not been defeated as a featherweight wrestler.  Roberts was the
matchmaker for the New Haven Polo Club and Alcorn was the Yale gymnasium instructor.
Harvey was said to be the featherweight wrestling champion and weighed 125 pounds to
Bothner's 138.  Bothner was from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club of New York.  There
was a rest of 10-minutes between each fall.  Roach was from Waterbury and Fox was
from New York.

*In early February 1902, John J. Little challenged Prof. M.J. Dwyer, a physical instructor
and wrestler in New Haven.  Little was Harvey Parker's wrestling partner and the
"champion of New England." [searched through February 15, 1902]









Research by Tim Hornbaker
September 30, 2010
New Haven Wrestling Results 1900-'20