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Show THRILLING BOUTS JT flMITrJTOUIEV YoLing' Demelnil, Acctised of ; Biting" in Wrestling Bee, Is Slapped by Parkins. IRA DERN IS A WINNER Macke Puts Up Game and Skillful Contest, but Opponent Op-ponent Is Too Big-. About six hundred enthusiastin fans watched the opening bouts of tho State Amateur Athletic tournament at the Y. M. C. A. last, evening. The contests wore clean and free from an' disagreeable disagree-able features aud liberal applause greeted greet-ed the participants. O. J3. Gingrich, who is directing tfie tournoy, saw to it that there was small waste of time between bouts and no long waits. When Jra Dern, light heavyweight wrestler, who holds tho Pacific coast championship, and Arthur Maeko, welterweight wel-terweight champion of the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain country, met in the lirst elimination elimina-tion bout for tho local middleweight title, tho audience expected to see classy grappling. Both boys have proved their prowess here heforo. Last night's contest, however, soou resolved itself into a bunting match and neither went to the mat after fifteen minutes of effort. TJorn. who was considerably larger than Maeko, proved too strong for the Y. -M. C. A.'s pride, and forced him about tho mat at will. Maeko, however, tried so gamoly and skillfully that ho earned a draw at tho expiration expira-tion of ten minutes. In the additional live minutos work Dern's size told and TJcforee Rd Forguson gave him the do-cisiou. do-cisiou. Griffiths Is Victor. In the 10i5-ponnd class boxing Lester Grilfiths of the Riverside school, won a hard-earned victory over ISnimott Fowler of the Deseret gym squad. Griffiths Grif-fiths was at least ten pounds lighter than, the bantamweight requirements, while his opponent worked hard to got down to that weight. The littlo fellow fel-low was extremely gamo, fighting back under the heaviest fire from his opponent. oppo-nent. I.n the first round Griffiths fought hard and held, his big opponont to even terms. Griffiths was the speedier, hitting hit-ting and getting away to advantage. When Fowler landed, 'however, his extra ex-tra weight counted. The second round was featured with wild swings by Fowlor with ono occasionally occa-sionally landing. Neither gained an advantage. Griffiths rushed Fowler to the ropes in the .first of the third and had the big boy groggy, making him clinch Tepentedly. Towards tho last Fowlor regained his noise and at the close tho iudges could not agroe on t winner. In the additional round imposed im-posed by tho officials Griffiths started with a rush, establishing a lead which he maintained throughout, enrning the decision. R. McCullough, representing the U. of IT. in the HiT-pound wrestling class, found Lester Jarvis of the Y. M. 0. A. hard to beat, the two finishing the first ten minutes with honors oven. Jarvis lacked experience but exhibited strength in breaking holds, McCullough aftor three minutes nearly got a fall, but Tarvis pulled out of a further Nelson. Tn the second session Menullough gained a rolling fall, but the referee's decision of a draw pleased the crowd. Tn the five minutes following McCullough s spend won the contest. TF. Crawford and A. Nelson, two of .Tnelc "Downer's nroteges, had a lively boxing match, Nelson earning the decision de-cision at the end of three rounds. Tn the eceond round Crawford, who had been sent to the ropes, but over a chance punch to Nelson's jaw that c.amo near ending the contesl then. Crawford, though groggy, was following follow-ing up this advantaeo when the bell ended the round. NeI?on, strong from tho mitiuff reft, came up wiih a rush and soon had his opponent groggy Tho wrestling match between Bill Vnaslopoulos (Youncr Demetral of the Y. M. C. A., and Dan Parkin of tie T)c?orci gym. at lli pounds, nearly caused a fight. Young Domctral attempted at-tempted "onto of the stunts of "Deme-(ril. "Deme-(ril. Parkin daimed ho was biting and claimed him in tho face. TCnmity was evident throughout the match. " Parkin Par-kin got the decision at tho end of ten minutes. When YTilliam Dow and William Wil liain? boxfd three ronnds tp audience saw two of Jack Pownov's best boys together. Dow ji an eccentric fellow, with peculiar fwirt accompanying h! blowfe. rTis punches are terrific and when he landed Williams's head went bach with a jerk. Tho first round was oven, but in the second session Williams Wil-liams by kecpiug oool established a lead. Ju the third round Williams set a kill-iug kill-iug pace aud won easity. Dow, though game, was bleeding profusely from blows on his' nose, and was forced to quit before the round ended. Barry Han-is of tho B. Y. D. expected ex-pected easy victory when ho mot George nalliiigforth of tlfc Deseret gym in tho . 15-pound, grapplers. Tho local boy, howevor, proved a tartar and came near winning. ITallingforth was more aggressive, but at. the expiration of ten minutes a draw was declared. In tho additional five minutes Harris's condition condi-tion enabled him to throw Hailingforth with a revorso bodrv hold after four and one-half minutes. The card was completed with a boxing box-ing exhibition botwoon Neph. Edholm of the Y. M. C. A. and X Boost, unattached. un-attached. Neither of these boys exhibited ex-hibited any science, but both we'ro willing will-ing to mix. They are middloweights but. entored in tbo light heavyweight division, as well, and tho bout last evening was for the latter class. Tloest had no chance from the first, though he drew blood early. Fdholm mado him ouit heforo the expiratiou of tho second round. Tn tho wrestling Rd Ferguson officiated offi-ciated while for tho boxing' Ttichnrd Downs and Walter D. Bratz were judges with D. A. Callahan acting as ' timekeeper. time-keeper. The second uot of semifinals will be run off tonight and tho finals will be held Saturday evening. |