Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-17 | Page 10 | Kunkel Wins Battle Royal in Mat Show

I Battle Royal RoyalIn In Mat Show Sho By BILL MCREA r Del Kunkel can swing awing th the bat baton n nat at the head of ba batt batti tle royal par parade de in Utah following Ii HIS s victory Friday night at McCulough's McCulough's McCu McCulloughs McCullough's lough's arena in an elimination cortest contest con cor con I test which saw uw five heavyweight i fall by the wayside or ringside e. e It must be said however that there is no parti particular ular distinction in winning a 0 battle royal because within five live minutes' minutes time four of the six contestants are usually eliminated by the process of ganging up S Bill BUl Longson mat pride of Sugar Sugarhouse Sugarhouse Sugarhouse house was the first victim to b be be submerged In a heap of threshing legs and arms That the other boys boy were all out to yet Willyam was was- was wa clearly evident even evident even to Front Row Roi Aunt Emma j Bald Jack Burns was the next to fall being followed by Fred Popeye McKenzie This left Ed Glover Wally Thompson and Ku Kun kel In double quick order Mr Glov r was hamstrung by the two Lakers So after a minute five-minute respite l Thompson and Kunkel who have met a number of times before In regular bouts toiled for forS S 38 minutes until Kunkel pinned Wally with a reverse body drop Thompson had the rapidly rising Kunkel in a number of tough holds but the squirming Del was always alway I able to elude a fall It was a nice nic exhibition of wrestling without th the I usual rough stuff Sharman Winner Vinner j Hy Sharman's Shamans homecoming per performance er gained him a victory over ove Lou Mueller whom he defeated In 38 minutes with a hammerlock There was was' no second fall taU in th the remaining time Uncle Hyrum now weighs weIgh 16 pounds but his graduation from welter to middleweight ranks has hay not decreased his speed Mueller was the aggressor during much of f the bout but Sharman's long standing standing stand stand- ing experience and mat lore turned the trick I During this bout a a. number of the fans continually rode Referee Sherm Christensen who was pinch pinch- hitting for Promoter R. R Verne Mc- Mc Cullough The policeman took it all pretty well but finally became becam J exasperated and made a speech reprimanding reprimandIng rep rep- the hecklers N No Demosthenes But Christensen is no Demosthenes Demos Demo thenes and his utterances went for tor naught In the curtain raiser Al Boyd or of oil Salt Lake City and Danny Milligan of Ogden tussled to a minute 20 draw Brother Jon Jonathon a tho n Mormon n Flash was Introduced and probably will appear on a card in the near future It was this same Brother Jonathon who used a rattlesnake the other night in Los Angeles to frighten his opponent and severa nver several 1 hundred spectators