Show Bolt Loses Battle Royal But Proves Laugh Getter By BILL McCREA l Jerry Marcus New York middleweight today holds ds the dubious honor of being Utah's battle royal champion but Benny Bolt remains remains remains re re- re- re mains one of the grea greatest est little sh showmen and c pleaser crowd to ever perform at McCulloughs McCullough's arena In a scrambled up affair Friday night at the local mat emporium Marcus played a hit and run game to win the brawl and he would still be waiting in the ring making speeches if It some kind hearted soul hadn't turned out the lights There was more moro genuine amusement amusement amusement amuse amuse- ment and laughs on Fridays Friday's program program pro pro- gram than has been present on all aU combined shows this season and one of ot tho the largest throngs since last fall faIl roared approval at atthe tho the nonsensical battle royal roal I Although gh he failed to tn successfully defend his title Benny was the best laugh getter of ot the six maulers assigned the tho task of ot entertaining Once when things were a little dull Bolt pulled his old slipper sUpper trick and went around hitting his grumbling foes Coes Bennett Goes First George Bennett popular Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa City mauler was the first victim He succumbed at the two- two minute juncture when th the other five began to hamstring him Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my Murphy rough Irishman from Boston only lasted about a minute longer Next went Bolt and then Hy Sharman Sharman Sharman Shar- Shar man of Salt Lake City It looked for Cor a while as if Sharman were going going going go go- goI I ing to survive but after John of Detroit gave him a couple of knees in the tummy Marcus finished finished fin tin the tho work by pouncing upon the hapless local bo boy This was about tho the first time anybody noticed Marcus Everyone knew he was one of the opponents but he survived the final inal round by doing as little as possible which after all was a a. darn good idea Marcus and Felios Fellos began the final fall and for tor three minutes stuck to lean dean wrestling Then Mr Felios began kneeing and slugging Th This was a sign for tor all the other maulers who had previously been eliminated to return return all all except Benny Bolt The Indian was conspicuous by his absence Wields Slippers Then with a whooping Sioux battle cry Benny emerged from the rear of the arena armed with two slippers Sharman grabbed one of the implements and as Benny was wielding the other on Felios Hy began getting revenge for a past defeat by socking Bolt Pretty soon some of the more faithful and rabid fans began climbing climbing climbing climb climb- ing into the ring to mix in the free- free for-all for but lights flickered out anc and the ring soon cleared Thc Tho crowd left the arena arena- but Marcus was stil still making a speech Danny former University of Utah conference all guard won wona a a. two three from Balk Toots Estes clever grappler from Hawaii winning the first fall taH in 3 30 seconds with a flying tackle anc and the third in 14 minutes with a body press Estes won the second chukker chuk- chuk chukker ker her In 26 minutes with a a flying tackle assumed his new role of ot ofa ofa a 3 villain and the boo boys were able ablo to get good vocal exercise as 85 asDan asDan Dan slugged his opponent several ti times les Despite frequent tendencies des cies toward roughness the bout was vas marked with sweet bits of Jack McDonald kept his pledge by tossing two opponents within one hour It took the Spokane lumberjack lumberjack lumberjack lum lum- only 14 H minutes to dispose of ot Lou Mueller of Salt Lake City and 15 minutes to eliminate Ned Taylor of ot Jackson Miss |