Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1890-09-19 | Page 3 | The Wrestling Contest

The Wrestling Contest The wrestling match between William Quinn champion wrestler of the Pacific coast and Bish Kane champion of Utah drew a large audience at the novely theatre thea-tre night before last Quinn agreed to throw Kane one fall in fiftesn minutes or forfeit S100 After hard scuffling Quinn succeeded in throwing his opponent in just seven and a halfminutes Col Hayes of the Commercial held the stakes and mounted the stage and counted out 8100 for the successful contestant Quinn then offered of-fered to put 5100 against 30 that he could throw Kane six times in thirty minutes I which was accepted No date for its oc curance being decided upon The exhibition match between the Jap and Quinn was decided in favor of the latter who floored his opponent twice in succession