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March 15, 1952 - Chicago Tribune
The following excerpt is from the Howitzer released by the United States Military Academy in 1921. It is the Yearbook of the United States Corps of Cadets War Time Class that entered in 1917 and were recalled on December 3, 1918:
"No one ever gave the Spell Yell for this lad. 'How do you prounce it?' 'Now spell it fast.' 'Red' had them all holding their sides from the minute he stepped into the sally-port.
The Polish Bolshevik is one of our most famous Reds. Who does n't remember hearing him sound off 'all right for the lights' in both English and Polish-sometimes it sounded as though he were using both languages at the same time. Was there ever a night in Plebe camp that some Yearling did n't ask 'All right for those lights, Mr. Szymanski?' It was on of 'Red's' greatest regrets that 'Tweedle-de-dum-too-too' could n't be translated into the Polish language.
Henry is a worshipper at the shrine of Frank Gotch and Ty Cobb and a good imitation of both. tom told him that if he had as much brains as he had muck he would make a wrestler but it remains yet for him to try out the thinking part of it.
Henry's greatest moment was when he formed the twelfth section after the Plebe Christmas. 'The fighting Twelfth had suffered terribly. Of all that goodly array that fared forth to battle, but one remained. Proud and erect he called the roll; not a man answered. The lad faced about and reported, 'Sir, all are present!' That, sir, is the spirit of the arm.
Speech by Gen. X-of the Perusian Army."
Henry I. Syzmanski was a middleweight champion wrestler during his time in the military. After the war was over he would go on to compete in the 1920 Olympic Games for America in the middleweight Greco-Roman division. He did not get onto a podium.
From what I can tell he never did wrestle a professional contest like his idol Frank Gotch, I felt he was still worth including though. Instead he want back into the military and eventually undertook duties in the US secret service during World War II and finished up working for the CIA.
"No one ever gave the Spell Yell for this lad. 'How do you prounce it?' 'Now spell it fast.' 'Red' had them all holding their sides from the minute he stepped into the sally-port.
The Polish Bolshevik is one of our most famous Reds. Who does n't remember hearing him sound off 'all right for the lights' in both English and Polish-sometimes it sounded as though he were using both languages at the same time. Was there ever a night in Plebe camp that some Yearling did n't ask 'All right for those lights, Mr. Szymanski?' It was on of 'Red's' greatest regrets that 'Tweedle-de-dum-too-too' could n't be translated into the Polish language.
Henry is a worshipper at the shrine of Frank Gotch and Ty Cobb and a good imitation of both. tom told him that if he had as much brains as he had muck he would make a wrestler but it remains yet for him to try out the thinking part of it.
Henry's greatest moment was when he formed the twelfth section after the Plebe Christmas. 'The fighting Twelfth had suffered terribly. Of all that goodly array that fared forth to battle, but one remained. Proud and erect he called the roll; not a man answered. The lad faced about and reported, 'Sir, all are present!' That, sir, is the spirit of the arm.
Speech by Gen. X-of the Perusian Army."
Henry I. Syzmanski was a middleweight champion wrestler during his time in the military. After the war was over he would go on to compete in the 1920 Olympic Games for America in the middleweight Greco-Roman division. He did not get onto a podium.
From what I can tell he never did wrestle a professional contest like his idol Frank Gotch, I felt he was still worth including though. Instead he want back into the military and eventually undertook duties in the US secret service during World War II and finished up working for the CIA.
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