Montreal Bouts

The Evening Times & Star – December 7, 1911

Montreal, Dec. 6 — Wrestling fans saw some good bouts at Sohmer Park tonight, Cazeaux the Frenchman took two straight falls from Emile Maupus, a countryman, and Eugene Tremblay, lightweight champion of the world, duplicating the feat against Chicago Sandow, a welterweight. Cazeaux and Maupus wrestled at Graeco Roman style. Cazeaux had thirty pounds advantage in weight, Maupus was fast and clever, but had not the strength to hold off his opponent, who took his two falls in thirty minutes and seventeen minutes respectively, in each case breaking his own attempts to bridge. Tremblay was together too clever for the Chicagoan, taking the first after forty-one minutes wrestling with a crotch and arm hold, and the second in eleven minutes with a three-quarter Nelson.

Started A Fight At Sohmer Park

The Gazette – September 28, 1911

German Wrestler Demanded a Match With Cazeau and Had to Be Forcibly Ejected.

TREMBLAY WON EASILY.

Billeter Lost in Two Straight Falls – Cazeau Was Too Good for Shad Link.

John Paul Abs, a German wrestler, with an European reputation, started a free fight at Sohmer Park last night previous to the Raymond Cazeaux-Shad Link bout. Stepping onto the mat when both Cazeau and Shad Link were ready to come to grips Abs demanded a chance at the French wrestler then and there. He refused to move when ordered out by the referee, whereupon George Kennedy, manager of the Canadian Athletique Club, jumped through the ropes pushing him to the side. The big German resented this treatment, and used his fists. In less than a minute, Cazeaux, Shad Link, George Kennedy and John Birks, the referee, were in the midst of a melee, the Teuton finally being ejected.

Sohmer Park Wrestling

The Gazette – September 27, 1911

The Season Opens Tonight With a Double-Header.

The Canadian Athletic Club have arranged a double header for the opening of the wrestling season in Montreal tonight at Sohmer Park, when Cazeaux, the French champion, will meet Shad Link, the southern wrestler, and Eugene Tremblay will again defend his lightweight title against Billeter, of Cleveland.

Bouts At Sohmer Park

The Gazette – September 26, 1911

Double-Header Marks Opening of Wrestling Season Here.

The Canadian Athletique Club will open the wrestling season here with a double-header at Sohmer Park tomorrow night. The Frenchman, Cazeaux, will make his appearance here after an absence of two years. Cazeaux is strong, clever, game and not afraid to rough it, and when he runs up against the Southern bullfighter, Shad Link, he will meet a rough-and-tumble wrestler of the first water.

Tremblay, the lightweight champion, will be called upon once more to defend his belt, and as this is Billeter’s third endeavor to beat the French-Canadian he will make a stern effort to turn the tables. The championship depends on the result.

Wrestling At Sohmer Pk.

The Gazette – September 23, 1911

Cazeaux, the heavyweight wrestler, will make his first appearance in two years at Sohmer Park with the opening of the season next Wednesday night. He will be pitted against Shad Link, the sensational rough and tumble mat artist from Texas.

Eugene Tremblay will take on Johnny Billeter, of Cleveland, in a contest, the best two falls out of three to contest, for the lightweight title and the belt. Tremblay is in fine condition, but Billeter says he is better than ever, and will make the French-Canadian fight to beat him.

Both contests will be at the catch-as-catch-can style.

Wrestling Match Off

The Gazette – September 20, 1911

Tremblay-Billeter Bout Postponed to the 27th.

Cazeaux, the French Hercules, whose clever and vigorous wrestling made him one of the best drawing cards in Montreal a couple of years ago, will be here again this season. In fact, he left France by the steamship Provence on Saturday last and will arrive here next Saturday. He has travelled all over the world since leaving Montreal and though he has engaged in innumerable tournaments he has been returned the winner in every instance. This should make him a better drawing card than ever, and he will mix it up with Shad Link, the Southern bull-fighter, when the two meet at Sohmer Park next Wednesday night, the 27. Both these men are hard workers, powerful, and without fear, and may be depended on to put up an interesting contest.

The Tremblay-Billeter contest was postponed from Thursday this week until Wednesday, the 27, owing to the latter being unable to make the weight. The double-header should bring, a big crowd to the park.

English Bantam Weight Makes Good Impression

The Evening Times – August 5, 1909

News of the Sporting World of Local and General Interest — Ring, Athletics, and Baseball Matters For Times Readers

George Kennedy, the Montreal sporting man and particularly known as the wrestling promoter at Sohmer Park, Montreal, and who imported Cazeaux and Raoul de Rouen, the heavyweight French grapplers into America, is now in Europe seeking a wrestler capable, in his estimation, of winning the championship of the world from Frank Gotch. He will return home in a month or two with the aspirant, and a match with Gotch will be sought. Kennedy, by the way, will accompany Eugene Tremblay to St. John in September or October, when the world’s lightweight wrestling champion will meet Le Page or Charlie Ackerman. Tremblay was incapacitated recently in a bout.

Just Like Gotch

The Gazette – April 11, 1908

Perelli Gave Practical Demonstration of Rough Wrestling, With Cazeaux as Willing Assistant.

FRENCHMAN WON IN 43 MINS.

Made It Two Straight Falls, but Was Given Lively Time by Plucky Italian

An illustrated lecture on just how nasty Gotch was to Hackenschmidt a week ago, with Dr. Gadbois as the master of ceremonies, was followed at Sohmer Park last night by a much more practical and illuminating demonstration, with Raymond Cazeaux and John Perrelli occupying the centre of the stage. If Gotch forgot to use any trick that either wrestler from time to time brought into play last night, then he was careless, and deserved to be beaten. No one expected to see the big Frenchman lose to the Italian, and everyone looked forward to a lively go. Few, however, were prepared for just as hard a time of it as Perrelli gave the winner of eighteen straight matches, and quite a few for the open rough and foul work that the two wrestlers provided for the big crowd.

Won Two Straight

The Gazette – March 14, 1908

Eugene Tremblay Defeated Young Munday in Fast Match Last Night.

CAZEAUX THREW THREE

Finished Handicap in 24 Minutes but Refused to Take on Fourth Man.

Eugene Tremblay, the lightweight champion, defeated Young Munday, aspirant for welterweight honors, at Sohmer Park last night before the largest crowd of the season’s wrestling. Tremblay won a fast match in straight falls, the first in 25 minutes and the second in 15 1/2.

The Park was packed from end to end. There were three features on the bill, and this probably accounted for the large gathering. After the usual preliminaries, Cazeaux, the new wrestler from France, started out on his task to throw three local men inside of an hour. The match proved interesting enough, although Cazeaux was fairly tame and did not indulge in the usual display of fireworks. Viger, the first man up, he threw in 7 minutes. Beauchamp was the next and he lasted 5 minutes. The third was Simard, who made the best stand of the three, staving off the big Frenchman for 12 minutes.

Double Wrestling Bill

The Gazette – March 13, 1908

TREMBLAY-MUNDAY MATCH AND CAZEAUX’S DEFI FEATURES TONIGHT.

There are two features on the wrestling bill to be presented at Sohmer Park this evening, one being the match for the lightweight championship between Eugene Tremblay and Young Munday, and the other Cazeaux’s challenge that he can throw any four local men in an hour. Young Munday, who will clash with Tremblay, will have the advantage of about eight pounds in weight. He is said to be as clever and as strong as Ackerman, who made such a good impression here, ad is likely that he will force the champion to the limit to retain his honors. It is some time now since there has been a lightweight match, and as the little fellows usually provide more exciting wrestling than the big ones there will probably be a big crowd. Cazeaux, for all his greath strength, has a big contract before him in offering to throw four men in an hour. Gotch made a mistake when he undertook to throw four men in an hour. Gotch made a mistake when he undertook to throw Rogers five times in an hour, for the reason that a man wrestling on the defensive entirely offers a much different proposition to a man who is on the mat to take his chances of winning.