| Show YOKEL MIKE MaiE YOEL REGAINS REGAS LAURELS HE 6 lOST YEARS AGO TO IRA RA DER DEk Champion Drops ros His s TiUi On In Spectacular By Steve o OGDEN Jan 11 Quite H.-Quite Quite a few months ago when Yokel tho the Hermit of Jackson Hole came out Hole country to take up a winter campaign of said j ill ii Tl They cy say Im I'm getting oJ old od even thou though h Im I'm younger a lot o of t the champion wrestlers like rt gi Strangler t g r Lewis I Ad Santel n Gus Kallio and others But I know that in this old carcass theres there's at least one good wrestle left and Im I'm saving that for Ira Darn Dern whether I meet him this year or or rive five years from now Perhaps Mike has a lot of Rood good wrestling left In him and Indications Indica are that he has but at any rate I ha ho met Ira Dern at the White City here last night as the feature event I of the annual a stock show and he proved o that the prediction n h he made I when ho he left Jackson Hole was right for tor he Dern gave that good wrestle I And he lie defeated the champion two f falls fails ou out t of three YOKEL GAINS I FIRST FALL Yokel took the first fall In forty minutes fifteen seconds with a step- step over toe too hold but he took It only after aCter one of the gamest exhibitions of wrestling wres wres- ever seen In the state when Dern for tor four tour and nd a quarter minutes fought like a Trojan to Eta e ot off impending im lm- Im- Im pending defeat He finally conceded the fall faU when It was either a case of losing the fall or suffering Injury to his leg as Yokel relentlessly applied full pressure upon the hold The second fall tall went to Dern in eight minutes and thirty-four thirty s after a a. remarkable comeback He HeI Hewon Hewon I won Yon the fall with a headlock after an I amazing series of headlocks which Dern applied from every conceivable position until he had Yokel reeling and helpless less Ti ThA third lr fall and the match the ih title and everything v that t goes with it went to Yokel In six minutes and three forty-three seconds with a a. reverse body which the crafty Yokel obtained when Dern with a taste of victory victor sailed In In to clean the veteran of ot Utah rings The match was easily the most sensational sensational sensational sen sen- affair ever seen on a Utah mat On one side was the old master teacher of Dern and one of ot the best wrestlers who ever ever stepped on a matOn mat mat- On the other side was Dern youthful youth youth- ful tUl clever dever speedy with all the confidence confidence con con- and cockiness of ot youth The fate which guides the destinies of ot wrestlers had made them bitter enemies ene one mies miss the two men who should be such good friends Yokel was determined that at all odds he would beat his former former for for- mer iner pupil who had twice sent him down to defeat and who refused time and again to meet him To Dern It was Just another match with the old man who had been pestering him for years That was the situation when they faced each other With the care exercised by the m men menat n nat nat at the beginnIng of ot the battle It began to look as though the fans were In for forone forone forone one of those hose all al night stand up wrestling wrestling wrest wrest- ling hog matches Neither Dern Bern no noe no Yokel Yoke cared to take lake any chances with the otter e i. i While hll b th seemed anxious to toI tangle on the thi I mat both wanted the I t n n th I went down 1 t. t a the men wrestled fast and were were lIy ily watching for tho first jo 0 o neither was wa able to do o any real age ago during the first twenty or minutes of ot wrestling Then thel log ing be began an both boils of ot the wrestlers a a part In tt ft In the midst of the Ing P Dern e rn secured several it ha finally getting a body scissors th tb nearly fatal to Yokel The Tho veIn out of It It however and as the mt me mt returning to the tho center of ot the ma ina the ropes with l Dern hi his hands and knees Yokel gral gra foot stepped over ever and had hadD D B the grip of ot a toe hold heidi began one of the th grittiest the fans ha have e seen for some sonic tim fought against the th hold without He struggled t to lh free himself bt Ii found n himself f tighter r In Yokel Dern Bern then endured the tortures 1 hold for fully four tour minutes let bi his bis better judgment hold a sw a a. fall fail before hi his leg na wa a In the tho second section of thel the tit fans fan saw one of the faste most moat thrilling periods of seen lIeen In Utah Before the mer mei went to the the- mat Dern lock on Yokel Mike Hilt broke iti turned with an Ineffective he bt which Dern e easily drew out hgO then got another vicious I hOo hold on on I which was almost fatal Jackson Stole Hole Hermit In mighty like a I prize taking hold I couldn't move for some time but buty ly y by a superhuman effort he br when he did come conic out of I til groggy and missed badly In jn tr clamp another step over Dern Bern Then began an amazing of headlocks With Yokel halland hall half and always trying for tor a toe tee hold Y kel with eight sue soc headlocks the last Ian of which wl kel kei nearly out did the trick Doth Both men ame tame back fresh lor tor the third period Dern Bern jJ be I vicious attack upon Yokel fly him with a fury and tion to the winds Here Mikes Mike's a s aa sa 81 a benefit rather than a handler not being affected with the I youth he kept cool under ment only once losing o Ing his tempi temp coming back strongly at the lo tacks of Dern Bern YOREL FINIShES II I STRONG G. G Dun Bern began what probably would probably been another series rips irs of ot victorious locks and damaged Yokel cOns Yokel attempted several headlock missed and Dern Bern secured Yokel was waa again groggy Silk Mike gO got a on Dern Milt and log Ing It one of Dern Decos Deco's s feet I er the ropes p Mike 11 got another hea bea on en Dern Dens and in him to the mat Dern Bern stumbled tumbled the rope and quick as u a flash I had a reverse e s body hold bold o the red rat match was over ever ff I Tom Alley defeated Jack Jsck net fRet two straight falls tails Reed Heed asciI wasll rapped capped by weight and a bad sag hurt in training with YokeL looked good but didn't have ale aleto to show his stuff l Tom rom PaInt Paini r Peed i-eed i the main sod and 1 Art Si-hine-l Si th rh pr i |
