Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-23 | Page 11 | Russian Star Gains Draw with Navajo Injun Chief

Russian Star Gains Draw I With Navajo Injun Chief I IB B By BILL McCREA 1 Pat learned Friday night at McCulloughs McCullough's arena that the road of a ma mat referee is paved with boos and idle threats and after 33 minutes of the most voc vociferous crous hissing heard in a long time the thc good good- natured Irishman made a hasty exit It all hap happened in the main par par- between Matros Kirilenko and Chief Little Wolf which bit o of grunting and groan groaning ng was won by bythe bythe the Navajo The famed Indian deadlock dead lock gained for the Indian chief chic the only fall o of the hour encounter Pat didn't mind being called a better beller door than window a nasty nasty- man robber thief an overgrown jellyfish and a palooka palooka palooka pa looka This was all right but when some leather lunged customer began calling him a dirty skunk that thai was too loo much It seemed that in Pats Pat's youn younger er erda's days das he had the unfortunate experience cx- cx of mistaking a skunk for fora a kilt kitty and now whenever er anyone mentions the word s-ord Sir Patrick gets ets goose rOoe pimples all aU over oer his pound frame And that's a lot of oC goose pimples So Promoter R. R Verne McCullough took over the officiating duties and the fracas continued The Chief Chiel showed very little H His s de deadlock hold was a constant menace all evening but he did more l perspiring than Ulan wrestling Whether the perspiration was the honest kind that comes from hard work or from making faces Is ls a moot question Matros plied his customary tactics of bowing to the crowd and waving his arms like a a windmill but he turned in a clever bit of t tussling On several occasions he had vicious hammerlocks on n his foe After the Indian had won the first fall in 43 minutes the pair shuffled on for the remainder of the th-e time with no fall being gained As was vas expected the best performance perform perform- rm ance from a wrestling standpoint wes the hours hour's draw between H Hy Sharman Shar Shar- man of Salt SaIto Lake City and Bobby Sampson of ol Los Angeles Sampson wo won the first fall in 23 minutes with witha a flying ning scissors and Hy the second I in 21 minutes with a back body drop I This fellow Sampson Is Js a swell wrestler He is agile ts as s a wildcat and bounces around on the mat like lUbe a rubber ball Sharman is Ls gunning for a scrap with the notorious Lord Lansdowne and is well deserving of ofa a chance at the d Everybody expected to see aee Leo draw drav his usual cation but the tables were ere tun turned ed and Sherm Christensen was dis disqualified els- els qualified for tor tossing Leo out of the Inclosure and then socking him for good measure when the Greek attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to climb ba back bak k By this time Sherm's Sherm buddy Tally Burbidge had climbed in the ring and was engaged in going through the motions of ot a fist list fight with Leo The fans went for all this in a big bie wa way As far as as wrestling went between between be be- tween Leo and Sherm there wasn't any In two preliminaries Dan defeated Don Donin a lighter opponent Mathews in eight minutes with a body drop and Ned Taylor downed Buzz Reynolds Reynolds- in 23 minutes with witha witha a giant swin swing