| Show YOKEL OKEl EASY Ai PREY lOR YOUNGER 7 OPPONENT oj I E former mer Champion No Match H. H t for Harbertson Harbeson at Ogden i i By Br BEN E. E HARKER Physical Director of the Deseret Gymnasium Before BJore one of the largest crowds that ever attended a wrestling match in this state unbeatable beata le leby Mike Y Yokel one time by wrestlers wrestlers' many pounds heavier than he went down to defeat at Ogden last night be before ore a younger young young- er and as they stood yesterday a vastly better man in hi Jack Har Har- bertson Yokel at times tunes showed flashes of his old time tune form but these ese exertions seemed only to take the st steam stam am out of his boiler and really only hastened the end i Although Mike was behind more tim times s than Harb Harbertson erts on he did not appear able to bother Jack Jacket at all At no time during the entire match was the Ogden man in the least bit of danger while Yokel got in b bad d twice before the end came Because the first fall came cams at the end of one hour and sixteen minutes minute's as s a result of a double arm roll while Yokel Yokel was working over Harbertson from fron om the front many present th thought it H. H a a. a chance fall Such was not the theca's cas ca's case however The Salt Lake grap grape pier had shot his bolt a few seconds before in a last effort and was merely hangi hanging on With Mikes Mike's strength gone and Jack Jackst st fresh and strong Yokel fell an easy to the vigorous roll which Harbertson executed by locking both bothof bothof of ot Mikes Mike's arms under his The fall undoubtedly undo dazed Mike for he lie was still groggy when he returned after ten minutes minutes' rest for lor the second fall which was gained in nothing flat with an over hip lock Harbertson came on to the mat at and was given a big ovation Mike followed a a. minute later and re- re if possible a bigger welcome welcom The weights given out were Mike ey started in the center of the mat wrestling head to head neither willing to take a a. chance At the end of t ten minutes Harbertson broke a away way and complained to the referee about it grease which he accused Mike Mik-e of ot havIng ing on his body The referee ordered a ten minute halt during which time Mike was rubbed and scrubbed much to the displeasure of the fans who shouted their dis approval When the men ret returned to the mat I Mike seemed very much peeved and had Jack decidedly on the Defensive for fora a no few seconds Had It been the Mike of old things night might have gone badly forn As it was Mike appeared lost for he seemed to wear himself out nd he really worked as if he had los lost heart rt and fully realized that his old zip had failed him From here on Mike actually appeared easy prey for his younger and s opponent After the match Yokel admitted that with this defeat he f felt lt himself about abou through with the mat game In th the dressing room and while one of the started to unlace the strings Of his wrestling shoes Mike said Boys Boy take a knife and cut them for Im I'm through anyway I have felt for tor a year or more more that Mike like was not half the great athlete he heS S used to be and after last nights night's S match I became all the more convinced that he is through as far as any more mOll championship aspirations are con- con ern He has lost his old vim and 5 zip wind above all all he hasn't the pep pepS pep'S S 'S an spee to put the finish to his holds S th he ha used to have He hasn't had 5 those qualities for over a a. year one he T he big Alhambra theatre which was as prepared to o seat about 2500 peo peopled peo peo- pl pled was filled and the promoters therefore took In the guaranteed guaranteed guaran guaran- teed teel the wrestlers with considerable to Spare pare g 2 Sott ott Wallace Vallace and Tory Campbell wi wrestled a minute fifteen exhibition preliminary showing a good deal of class J se Singh and Billy Mo Mohler ler were booked to wrestle thirty minutes best tw two in three At the end of ot seventeen minutes Mohler fastened a lovely toehold toe toehold toehold hold on n the but Billy forgot th that important matter of ot keeping hisS his S own shoulders off the mat while he hewa wa waa tugging away and therefore he 5 vv thre w himself Berl Ben Petre of Green River was the ref referee ree in the main match and Eddie EddieS I S Connell of Ogden had the same Job in inthe inS S th the h p preliminaries |
