Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 10 | Japanese Mat Man Beats Utah Heavy

JAPANESE !T Mi Hammerlock and Strangle Hold Make Christopher-son Christopher-son 'Holler 'Nough.' Before a crowd of about 1000 persons, fully 800 of whom wero Japanese, at the Grand theater last night, S. Takahashi, a jiu-iitu expert and all-around mat man, won easilv from Alex Christopherson, well-know ii I'tah heavyweight. L'ldcr the terms of the mixed mulch, pin' falls, ihe legitimate fall in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, did not count. Moreover More-over Die terms were such that lie should bo proclaimed winner wno made the. other follow "holler 'nough-" l'1 bllof' 'i was an "endurance contest." Tho match WM divided into three rounds, innings, Irames, periods or howsoever they may be known. In the first period Takahashl applied a hammerlock, from which Chri.Mopherson was unable to escape; the second period was-a draw, and in the. third period the Japanese fastened a strangle hold around Alex's neck and pretty soon Alex said if was enough--ln fact, more than enough. The friends of Takahashi went trail t v with delight at the finish and oroivdcT! about their champion in vast numhers. " C'liristopherson did not display an amaz- ing amount of wrestling skill and repeatedly repeat-edly failed to take advantage of wha.t appeared ap-peared to lie excellent openings. He Invariably In-variably failed in his trials at the toe hold, the nelsons and the hammerlocks, and about the only showing he made was witll the use of a body scissors. In the. second round he used this scissors efec-tively, efec-tively, apparently, but the time limit expired ex-pired before if made a seriotiB dent in Takahashi's ribs. Tlie match was somewhat, confusing to tlie Salt Inke mat tans who have been accustomed to pin-fall matches, and no doubt this Item also set Christopher-son Christopher-son at a disadvantage. The use of wrestling wres-tling jackets also was undoubtedly strange to the heavyweight, while on the olhor hand it served very useful purposes for Takahashi. The Japanese was much the more clever and lightning fast. There is talk of trying to arrange a match between Takahashi and Mike Yokel about February 10. when Mike is expected ex-pected to return to Salt Lake. The terms of a match between Yokel and Takahashi would no doubt have to he more carefully drawn than was the case last night, and would probably be made on a point basis, in which fails counted. Harry Teshirogi wrestled Ed Shell a. cateh-as-ra.tch-oan match to a draw and also won two of three points from Shell at jiu-jitsu. Nakashima beat Yaminiei and Naklyama beat Teteyama at jiu-jitsu. Sieve Stenhouse, an old favorite of the Salt palace saucer track, now a promoter at Provo, announced that he had $500 to "say" that Ira Dern can beat Takahashi Taka-hashi al any style, Takahashi's own style preferred. ,