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Show bout ended, the audience applauded ap-plauded tor more. These two lassies las-sies gritted their teeth, and flew at each other as though life depended on their actions. They applied headlocks. toeholds, scissors, scis-sors, and even airplanes. The stronger Miss Mortensen twice hoisted Miss Nelson and spun her in the a:r, only to have the wily brunette frustrate j completion of the deadly airplane fall. The crowd roared once when j the champion lifted the referee ; by tne legs and dropped him very hard on the seat of his pants. The Original Red Shadow out-wrestled out-wrestled and outroughed Ben Harben to win with a flying" headlock and body press in 19 minutes. Harben was dead on his feet, and walked right into a score of holds. The only action he showed was when he tried , to unmask the Shadow, lie faiied. I LADIES STEAL SHOWATARENA Two pretty grappling girls and a galaxy of giant bozos, termed in polite language as professional wrestlers, packed Park Ro-She arena with customers Monday night, and with the exception of a couple of gentlemen who sampled Bill Longson's mean right hand uppercuts, a good time was had by all. Longson was shoved through the ropes by his brutal little opponent, op-ponent, Leo Papiano. One of the gents figured the dollar he paid for a ringside sent was a guarantee guaran-tee of peace and safety, didn't like having William fall into his lap. When he protested with his hands and feet the wrestler slapped slap-ped him none to gently on the face. That started the fireworks and a dozen men climbed Longson's frame at once. It looked like a riot, but W. T. Lewis, Utah county deputy, and Sherm Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, Salt Lake's wrestling cop, soon halted the melee. Longson won the bout when Papiano was disqualified for felling Referee Ole Olsen, of Norway with a right to the jaw. Lopez Wins Vincent Lopez, former world's champion, won the headline bout from. Sherm Christensen. After each had won a fall, Christensen dived through the ropes when he missed a flying tackle. He was knocked out. and failed to get up before the referee tolled the count. Chris won the first fall in 22 minutes with n flirmr scissors; Lopez the second with a body press in 10 minutes Clara Mortensen, shapely blond and world's feminine champ, pinned Martha Nelson, of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, a pretty little brunette, in 13 minutes, with a perfectly executed flying scissors and double flip-fiop. This bout stole the show, with every customer thoroughly enjoying en-joying the proceedings. When the |