Seattle Times – January 10, 1933
Ed (Strangler) Lewis, heavyweight wrestling champion half a dozen times, and storm center of a wrestling war being waged in New York City, arrived here by United Air Lines plane from Los Angeles last night, intent on wrestling – but not in Seattle.
Tonight he meets Bob Kruse of Oswego in Tacoma; tomorrow night he wrestles in Portland; Thursday night he wrestles in Vancouver, B.C., then hops back to California. On January 23 he tops the Madison Square Garden program in New York.
The huge heavyweight has not wrestled here since he met Dr. Karl Sarpolis in the famous “I’ll throw Lewis or retire” series. Shortly afterward he began his invasion into the Land o’ Londos which resulted in Londos being ousted as heavyweight champion by the New York Athletic Commission and the placing on top of the New York pedestal of the “Strangler.”
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