Show HENRY JONES GRASS GRABS middleweight BELT ALBANY ore mar ilar 19 11 henry jones ot of provo utah returned to his headquarters here today with the worlds junior middleweight championship to his credit the utah mat ace won the worlds title from wildcat pete of 0 eugene ore in a sensational match staged in eugene before the largest crowd on record in that city always a hotbed of wrestling enthusiasm A sizzling sonnenberg straight into champion wildcat solar plexus and the worlds junior middleweight championship had changed hands and the belt was in the possession of challenger henry jones provo utah strawberry grower who came out to eugene with the express purpose of getting that bolt it took just 11 seconds from the time the gong rang till jones had launched that terrific butt at pete but the actual wrestling time was waa a split second it was after both men had bad taken one fall apiece and the men returned to the ring tor for the deciding fall As the referee chet wiles went between the wrestlers wrest lers signifying the match was on henry dove at pete taking him and the entire house by surprise pete grunted and went to the mat with henry on top A few desperate kinks kicks and the champion was pinned to the mat after a cautious start pete and jones went to the mat for or the first time after seven minutes of 0 milling around the ring henry received a cut over aver the nose and the blood bothered him so somewhat but hot enough to seriously hamper his lightning like movements from hereon here on the match was one rapidly applied hold atter after another after about ton ten minutes wrestling jones got a punishing too toe hold on pete bending his right leg so BO the joint at the knee was nearly twisted clear around it was a punishing hold and hurt pete considerably but he came out of it with a bad leg split spilt on jones after a series of holds janes got the he champion on tile the rove rope with neck hanging over th top rope jones planed him there with a full nelson wiles iles trying to get them into the ring ing cave gave several lusty jerks on the ropes against petes neck choking pete ete so that he was gasping for reath when he got back into the ring where here he was easy pl etAngs tor for lenry anrys lunge jones pinned him to he 0 mat for the first fall in 37 min ates tea in the second canto pete started ut more aggressively and soon had bad ones ina in a leg split jones retaliated ith a bad crab hold bold but pete reached his own legs and tripped lenry enry throwing him to the mat hard Is 0 jumped up and clamped several ead locks around jones head and ana hen hell the challenger was getting agy pinned him to the mat for ie 0 second fall in 11 minutes pete tracked tr acted himself from a bad position el eitl tully when he bo flipped jones to 0 mat when he was in that crab old both men were in excellent condlon pete coming in the ring at and jones at jones at apted his whip several mes jut ut pete peta managed to io break ill era each time before they became ceroua Ilg erous ge roua herb owens promoter Drenen presented ted nes s with the belt t er tho the match and Henry refused to make a speech saying he was no fio speaker but believed he could beat any man in the house bouse its taken me a long time to get it but ive got it now and im going to hang onto it grinned jones after the bout ill be back later if they give me the dough has two championships jones will return to his home town with two championships tucked under his belt the western welterweight belt of pounds and the worlds junior middleweight championship belt of pounds lie he also has haa won 34 of his 36 bouts on his tour here thus far the tremendous interest evident in the bout Is hown by the fact that standing room sold tor for at this match and every available inch of standing room was sold jones meets young joe Ste chOT friday at eugene |