Show Sonnenberg's Tackling Too Strenuous for Thye The historic Hippodrome theater where Mike Yokel made grappling a major sport in Utah almost back in the stone tone age and where Ira Dern started his us meteoric rise on the padded mat saw aw its first wrestling program in inears years rears ears Thursday evening with Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite Dyna mite PUS us Sonnenberg proving master of ceremonies Before Belore a brimming house of customers custom custom- ers Sonnenberg the Dartmouth foot Dartmouth ball player who brought his gridiron weapons into the squared ring to become become become be be- come worlds world's heavyweight champion t ook took the measure of at Ted Thye of Port Port- L and land two falls aIls to one Gus was faroo far faroo ar I t too oo powerful for his foe I But it it- proved a d disastrous opening I f tor or Dern the Idol of the local mat s ince since he conquered Cyclone Workman Workman Workman Work Work- man in a hour match in 1917 Dern went down to defeat at the hands of ot otan a an an n old enemy enemy Bob Kruse of Seattle GRIDIRON PRODUCT The Thye Sonnenberg match saw the wr wrestling of the old meeting that o of f the new Ted Thye wrestled in Utah as far tar back as 1918 1018 while Gus GusIs Guss i Is s a cauliflower merchant of the modem modern mod- mod e em ern m era Although he is a former champion his entrance int into the mat s sport port is comparatively recent He is t he the heman man who introduced the flying tackle ackle in the world of mat and started the parade of collegians into the hempen inclosure Sonnenberg turned Billy Whiskers to win vin over the veteran Th Thye e. e Ted won won the the first fall in 13 minutes with a body slam slain but twice Sonny sent nt Thye to the mat for the fall with his goatlike goatlike goat- goat goatlike like tactics Sonny's first fall camen came in n 8 minutes and the second came carrie in 7 Jh minutes They call Sonnenberg's deadly weapon wea pon pen the flying tackle but its it's more like a flying block with the dome of the head the shoulder hitting the foes foe's midsection I Gus Gu started but out with wilh an attack upon Thye's l left ft arm First he punished the limb w with th a couple of t and then hen buttoned on a j jackknife Thye successor to the late lak Lon Chane Chancy in the theart theart theart art of ot remodeling the countenance crossed up his opponent nent however and sent him spinning to the mat with a after Gus had come up from the ropes with mo no air in his lw lungs Neither of the gladiators registered many genuine ume holds during the next two frames as they scampered about the ring On each occasion Sonnenberg awaited the opportunity and md then uncorked uncorked un un- the stomach corked his head to Kruse proved a thorn in Our Iras Ira's sid side Bob wrestled Dern twice here last l year The first match saw sa Robert Hobert t tossing Dern ov over e r the ropes and anci the bout w was s called a draw Then in the thc second Kruse was disqualified for unnecessary unnecessary un un- necessary roughness DERN TASES FIRST Thursday Dern won fall ir in in 1 12 minutes with a reverse body flip Kruse von the second in in 9 minutes minute S witha with Japanese and the third thir I with a. a toehold It was a typical Dern Kiuse allah affair Bob was fighting Dern with his hands hand S and fe feet bet t and the crowd with his histon hi S SS ton tongue u Incidentally tall Ira Ifa appeared t to tobe tobe 0 be in better lter condition than he has been 1 for three years He has reduced hi his S midsection some t there is still some size left there yet Alter After each he heavyweight vy had won a fall Dern almost Dern-almost almost t took ok the deciding fall fal 1 with a body cody press Twice he nearl nearly I had the spunky Bobs Bob's shoulders t to the mat but Kruse kicked defeat away oi oh on I both occasions Then he slipped on the toehold Iras Ira's weak knee couldn't stand the pressure and Mr Dern conceded conceded con con- ceded the victory The preliminaries were boring Dean Parks of ot Provo won over Oscar Bird of Omaha in 12 minutes with a series of headlocks The They are middle middle- weights Turp Taylor of Salt Lake and of Ogden lightweights lightweights light light- weights drew over 20 minutes and Heink Van won v over Carl Davis in 4 4 minutes with a half nelson and body twist Both are local boys boS I 1 L BOISE Sept 29 ff Ira JP-Ira Ira Dern of I Salt Lake City and Bob Kruse of ot Seattle Seat Seat- tie tle will meet here tonight in the main event of a wrestling card They arc are heavyweights On the same card is another heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight match between Ted Thye of Portland and Leo of Salt Lake Both matches will be for two falls out of three |