| Show THE STURDY TAP IEEEATS QUI NAnd N-And Then I loses a Hundred Dollars to an Ogden Man An Intensplyinteroit lpg Contest 1 About o hundred men assembled at the room of tho Golden Gate club last evening to witness the wrestling exhibition by Matsada Sorakachi the Jap and VV H Quinn After some delay the athletes were introduced and a three bout contest was announced rh re was a difference of 28 pounds in the weight of the men in favor of Quinii and thus made it difficult for the Jap to handle his man but after one of the prettiest exhibitions of this kind ever seen he won two out of three falls the first in 11M minutes and the last in 73 f minutes Quinn winning tho second fall I in 1 minutes This was followed by a contest of so exciting ex-citing a nature that the audience was not I prepared for it It seems that the Jap had offered to throw Bisti Kane of Ogden in fifteen minutes GnecoRoman style and tho Ogden man was on hand eager to win the hundred which tne unfortunate Jap had hung up Kane weighed fully fifty pounds more than the Jap and after looking look-ing his man over carefully the 3 lap came to the conclusion that he had taken a big contract and remarked solto vncc that Kane was has big as a house Kane was not willing to proceed tntil he learned that tne 100 was in the hds of Ed Kelly who had been selected as referee and who discharged the onerous duties of that position posi-tion as only Kelly can Besides the immense im-mense advantage in weight Kane is no amateur at the business and he stepped on the canvass with the air oC a man who had mado up his mind to win if such a thing were possible The Jap lost eight precious minutes trying to get his hold upon his antagonist an-tagonist and when ho finally forced Kane to the canvass intense excitement prevailed pre-vailed The Jap tried a Nelson and a half Nelson lock and then resorted to squezing in which alt he Jtarned such a profitable lesson from i Evan Lewis They availed him nothing however as Kane resisted all the efforts of his swarthy antagonist to roll him oyer Then the Jap got an arm hold one of the most painful known to the science and the tug of war commenced Kanes brawny arm was drawn over his back and twisted around bis neck until it became as white and bloodless blood-less as that of a corpse Slowly the burley bur-ley Ogden te commencedtto turn and the referee called out Fourteen minutes Then how the sturdy Jap did work The crowd left their chair and kneeled about the canvas and slowly but sure the Jap with set teeth and flashing flash-ing eyes turned his man He had just thirty seconds loft in which to achieve victory or looscf l a last hundred whon the enthusiasm ot the crowd broke forth in applause for the plucky Ogden man This encouragedpKane and he re sisted Vyith all his strength The Jap had his man nearly over when the refree shouted Fifteen minutes and Kane arose 100 richer while the Jap with perspiration pers-piration streaming from every pore and panting from his exertions realized that he had fairly lost his sioq The crowd considered con-sidered the exhibition the finest ever witnessed wit-nessed here and the only dissatisfied man was the unfortunate Jap It was announced that some time about the first of next month thata fifteen round fight for blood would como dfpDetweon the Montana kid and a local pug in the employ of Ed Kelly named Leonard Ed says he has 500 to bet on his man > |
