Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-12-03 | Page 12 | Yokel Throws Portland Man

i YOKEL THROWS I PORTLAND IN 'v' Defends Eddie OYonnell in .Straight Fulls, A Tier an Hour ami a Half. H CHAMPION TOO STROXG EOR MULTNOMAH WRESTLER n o t h Men Work Hani for Mas-terj Mas-terj During Long and Some-what Some-what Tedious Struggle. Mike Tok"?. world's chsmplou welter H nolght wrestler, again successfully do- fended tils title Friday night at tint Halt B .iUo theater in it luud-foUKhl wrestling matel) wit It Eddiu O'Conncll. Uio star H .Multnomah club wrestler. Yokol won the match in straight falls, the first In one H liuur and thirty-two minutes and the H second in seven and one-half minutes. H II was Yokel all the way from the time tho two wrcstlera went, on iliT innL until Rcfcrou Bcnu awarded tho llrsl fall to the champion. The result was over np- H pa writ and the question wa.s only how long O'Connell, by liia clever defensive work, could prevent Yokel from throwing The match was somewhat tedious and B lacked tho speed and tho spectacular fca- turea of tho match between tho two a j year go. Neither was in a hurry and j . Jt was noon evident that both men wore j prepared for a Ions', hanl struggle. O'Con- hell was content to remain on tho dc-tensive dc-tensive throughout the match and wa.s J never tho aggressor at any tlnir. Yokel was patient and worked hiu long wenr-1 wenr-1 ing-down process with telling though Hl gradual effect. Only oneo or twice did ho mnko-nny serious attempt to sootire a hold that might result in a fall. O'Con-nell O'Con-nell was Uepl rather busy watching Yokel j and displayed unusual cleverness In H " breaking holds. ' First Fall for Yokel. The first fall came at n time whoiuit i was rather unexpected. Tho men had wrestled for an hour and a half with-out with-out a gToat dcul of progress and the opln-ion opln-ion of tho spectators appeared to be Unit Hj It would continue another hour and a half. Finally Mike Vokol secured the hold he had been waiting for, and, with an unbreakable far Nelson, he forced ' O' Council on his back and held lilm sc- eitrclv there whilo the referee awarded him the first fall in one hour and thlrty-Hl thlrty-Hl i two minutes. Hl The second appearance o,f the two men on tho mat was productive of faster Hl wrestling. Both went after each other from the starL and after five minutes oL H( fast spinning ami slipping in and out or holds, Yoke secured a hammer-lock and J then a far Nelson, with which he a sain placod O'Conncll on Ills back. O'Con-ncll's O'Con-ncll's shoulders Hipped off tho mat and j ho protested against the fall being- counl- 1 e(j against him. The referee gnvo the 1 fall to Yokel and" O'Conncll accepted the Hl decision good-naturedly. O'Oounoll Praises Yokel. Eddie (X'Connclt took his defeat philo-B philo-B :,ophlcally. "I have no oxcuscs,"ho said. "Yokr.I is a wonderfully good wrestler and It Is no discredit to be beaten by a man of his class. Ho is much better and stronger than when I mot him a year H ago. 1 was in excellent shape and felt I certain that I -would heat him. Soon H after I was on tho mat I found that he B was loo strong for mo. Ho was much heavier and much stronger than I was and tho handicap was too rcat for mo to overcome. I believe that Yokel can throw any man of his weight in the Hj world." i "O'Conncll Is a tough man and I took no chiinces." xald Yokel. "1 might have B . thrown him duleker, hut L wanted to wall until I was sure. ITo Is the hardest 1 of the welter weights whom I have inol." ' In the preliminaries. Valtcr teffens and Tom Powell wrestled twenty minutes without a fall. Danny Keith won a fast and Interesting match from Hilly Lang In ( thirteen minutes.