Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-03-20 | Page 7 | Jack Leon is an Adept at Toe Hold

JACK LEON IS AN ADEPT AT TOE HOLD BOflTOK. Marc ..-Wh. it mim-a to l apply in th torn hold faw of th lop-notchcr lop-notchcr ir ny nor xprt than la "Bia; Jack" Lo. lbs Ruaalavn hry I weight. Ootch. who fwrft'M Um hold until tt haa bsxwrna tho burbr of vn tho itiMtt of men. to 00 moro on axtopi j tn I to ddly oppl toot Ion than la the Rua-lon. Rua-lon. In fact, good Jurlgfea of wreath na; believe tha,t tha huaky foreigner uoaa tho bold In greater variety than any ! other moo on tho mot today and that ho hoo won a maortty of hla recent eonteata by Ita uoe la tho boat evidence thai Loon bad tho hold down pat. Tho aaoat effective form In which ho applloo It lar to work froa behind an opponent op-ponent forelna him to the nat faro downward down-ward at full lenfrth it poealbie, then eroaalnf thia lef Aver that of hla proo-trato proo-trato victim, ho naoo tho lee on top 00 a lever whereby the other fellow lea: la IIMed from the knee Itrward. Leon grip- Slo tho too and twist I no It at the oaroe l me with deadly vlror until either hla opponent rolle over Into a fall or eiao re-Tna re-Tna tho bout tn an efTm-t to relievo tho aaony cuoed by I to application. Few of tho men on whom ho haa put thia hold have over broken It and Leon haa won a name for hlmeelf In the out and aouth by Ita uao second only to that borne by Gotch. In a recent match In Boeton 1000 applied the hold with aurh force at a erttiral time that ho waa able to turn what looked like certain defeat Into In-to victory merely by trip pint hla opponent's oppo-nent's toe and then apply In his full power, although at tho time he waa on one shoulder and the other was belns surely proeeed into a fall. It was one of tho areateot pieces of combined defensive and offensive wrestling wrest-ling over soon In tho hub and t hough the toe hold la particularly In disfavor In that enlightened city the crowd went wild over the excellence ef tho stunt. Loon's application of tho too hold differs dif-fers materially from that which Gotch uooa, but both styles are equally effective.