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Show FIRST REAL WRESTLING MATCH IN MANY-DAYS In what was the greatest wrestling Match ever seen In this city Charley . Ross defeated D. C. McLaughlin at the .Grand theater Saturday night, winning three out of five falls. Perhaps a thousand spectators spec-tators . were present, but at . least two-. two-. thirds of them went there remembering recent wrestling "matches" that have been served . up to the local public, and. for that reason.lt. took not a little to fully convince the doubting ones that a real wrestling contest was actually In progress. pro-gress. Different Kind of Hatch. It may be remarked parenthetically that the match was entirely different from that Thompson-McLaughlin "exhibition' at the Salt Palace lost summer, and was also quite unlike those "Terrible Turk" fjawoes. The match was advertised for the inter-mountain inter-mountain championship which sounds rather odd In view of the fact that Thompson Thomp-son won that Salt Palace "contest," and waa thereafter greeted as the champion, but McLaughlin and his manager. Shaver, give this explanation of the Salt Palace affair, which while very late 'in coming will nevertheless be Interesting, particularly particu-larly to thone friends of Eugrene Thompson, Thomp-son, who se fondly embraced him after he had won two spectacular falls over McLaughlin. Mc-Laughlin. The Shaver Version. Manager J. E. Shaver, manager of McLaughlin, Mc-Laughlin, said to The Telegram sporting reporter Saturday: "Thompson and McLaughlin went Into' the Salt Palace affair to give an exhlbt. tlon. . There was no side bet made, the iien were offered $100 to give an exhibition exhibi-tion of three falls, none of them longer than ten minutes, and tt was on this understanding un-derstanding that my man agreed to wrestle at that time. McLaughlin only had three or four days to prepare for the event, and it would have been foolish for him to enter a real contest." News to the Public. An extremely interesting explanation It ia, one, however, that no one, save a few, dreamed of at that time. Two sporting sport-ing reporters of the city received an Intimation In-timation the day following the contest that it was only an exhibition, but it was not until last week that the whole affair came out. As to the match Saturday night it looked like the bona fide article. Ross, who has long been considered the cleverest clever-est wrestler in the State won th" conteat by taking the second, third and fifth falls. The winner was the aggressor from the start, and manifested marvelous strength, throwing his heavier opponent high In the air a score of times, and once the unfortunate unfortu-nate opponent went over the footlights into the orchestra chairs. McLaughlin's Full Nelson. Ross lost the first fall after twentv-peven twentv-peven minutes of hard aggressive work, McLaughlin securing a full Nelson which pinned fhe champion firmly to the mat. Ross then took two falls In succession, one In fourteen minutes and the other In twenty-nlue. The fourth one went to McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin in four minutes, and the decisive one to Rons after twenty-two and a half minutes of exhaustive work. J a Ties Donaldson was referee. Preceding Preced-ing the wrestling event, a nun ber of athletic ath-letic exhibitions were put on. |