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Show Utah's Mr. Wrestler Compares Mat Sport of Today With 1 920's -1 930's ' ' if ( .AS. ? By Ilollis J. ScoU One of the all time greats of the wrestling world, Utah's 13 year old Henry Jones has made a successful transition from the world of wrestling to the world of farming and business. busi-ness. Today this ex-world champ can give you as many tfips about raising fruit, operating operat-ing a service station, and raising rais-ing horses as he can on the art of wrestling. Semi-retired on a little fruit farm about half-way between Provo and Orem, Henry has watched the transition of professional pro-fessional wrestling from the days of such greats as Jim ; Xondos to the mat performers todav. He likes to reminisce i about the yesteryears when grappling depended more on science and physical conditioning condition-ing than on showmanship. Rated by some fans as the finest wrestler ever produced in Utah, Jones doesn't mind telling you that "they have killed wrestling since 1941." He averrs that at the beginning beginn-ing of World War II there was a shortage of wrestlers due to military calls, but that the promoters went out and tried to put on shows with performers perfor-mers who were not "really wrestlers." When the performers perform-ers started "to pull faces and grunt and groan, show business busi-ness was on the way," Henry declared. "Today people are too blood thirsty. They want to see wrestlers act like they are getting get-ting killed. When they see a college match they are bored they miss seeing those phony holds." Looking more like a gentle retired school teacher than a battered up mat veteran, gained gain-ed quite a name for himself v.-hlle pitting his skills in wrestling rings across the United States, Canda, Mexico and Hawaii. Holder of the World Welterweight Welter-weight Championship for five years. Henry met ahd defeated opponents who were 50 or more pounds heavier. Never weighing more than 150 lbs., he never . "backed down" to middleweights or heavy-weights. heavy-weights. His wrestling career stretched nearly half a century. cent-ury. He started in 1911 and finally "threw in the towel" In 1932. ' . The Provo native was the flnt man to defeat the heralded herald-ed Robin Reed from whom he wrestled the world welterweight welter-weight title In 1930. At one time in his career there was talk of matching Henry with "Jumping Joe Savoldi, the ex -college h e avyweight, at Columbus, Ohio, but the match never took place. Many fans will recall the night when "Hen" as he was sometimes called, defeated Ira Dern, the 165 pound and noted middleweight In 1919 at Logan. Lo-gan. The canny Jones weighed . 145 pounds. After that night Dern never seemed to "get anng" with Henry, although they were always on speaking terms. Les Goates, Deseret News sportswriter, quo ted Dern as saying: "But the prize of all was Henry Jones. . . he took most of the greatest wrestlers ever produced in Utah in any division. At 150 THEY MEET AGAIN Remember the days when Dean Park, the up and coming Orem Welterweight tangled with the sagacious Henry Jones of Provo before the latter won the world title in 1930. These two rivals faced each other four or five times and always drew capacity audiences. Park, it will be remembered remember-ed wrested the Western Welter weight title from Jones in about 1925. Jones, 73, and Park, 60 were brought together for this photo just a few days ago which gave them an opportunity to recall the old days and talk wrestling to Orem High School wrestling team members. Left to right: Judd Humphries, Henry Hen-ry Jones, Larry Clark,, Dean Park d Phil Goodrich. Harry Kuehne at Portland, Oregon. From then on Henry slowed down until his last bout In 1952. For a number of years he was a promoter of wrestling and boxing bouts in Provo. Today Henry's great pride and joy is raising Shetland ponies. When there Is a celebration cele-bration or festive occasion in the Provo-Orem area there Is a good chance that Henry and his wife will be "all dolled up" riding in a pony drawn surrey. Henry also spends time in "the Orem Riding Club and their activities. But what does Henry do when he wants to see a good wrestling match? Chances are you'll find him watching a college match where he can size up the younger crop and maybe give them some tips on the science rather than the the showmanship of the great sport of wrestling. Orem-Geneva Times HAROLD B. SUMNER Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday tt Orem, Utah. Office and iU.nt located at 546 South state Street. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 65, Orem, Utah. Sub scription price $3.50 per year Second-class rosiage tt Orem, Utah.' paid It was Marge Hlnkley of Orem who went on a scoring rampage Sunday and copped first place In the; Maple Lanes morning sweeper by mauling the pins to the tune of 596 scratch series and also took the high game in the Regals ladies jackpot. C.H. Dawson claimed s'cond place at Maple Lanes finishing only a few pins behind be-hind the champ. Mrs. Hlnkley, a former softball star In the State has been cracking a loud whip In bowling circles and seems to have really come into in-to her own and currently Is earring a 176 average. In the Miracle Bowl jackpot Sunday afternoon it was another an-other lady who came to the front, Verda Waycasy shot the men out of the saddle in the warm up game and along with Vanor Brown took a unsuccessful unsuc-cessful shot at the big spare. Again it was C. H. Dawson who was destined to assume the bridesmaid roll Sunday, again came in second, enly two pins behind Verda. In the Monday Morning Coffee Cof-fee time leage at Miracle, Virginia Lindsay had the high game with a 187. She also had high series for the ladies league. lea-gue. Reva Robinson registered register-ed a 449 series, Betty Mad- dox came up with a big one, 179, good for second high game. Alyce Davis lined up four strikes in a row and fin ished with a 169 game. Carma Van Orden register ed a thres game cluster of 535 in the Hits and Misses league Orem - Geneva Times Thursday. Feb. 7, 1963 at Miracle Bowl, Ha Chugg used a 203 game as a spring board to register a 529 series. IGA scored high for the teams, both in series and single gams. The Orem and Provo senior citizens take the lanes at Miracle Mir-acle Mondays and Wednesdays Wednes-days afternoon at 2 p.m. for a learn to bowl program. They are having a lot of fun and welcome any new bowlers or would be bowlers to htelr group. So any of you senior citizens who think you may be too old to enjoy a great sport, don't give it another thought, try bowling you'll be glad you did. Sure sorry to hear about Doyle Warburton's illness, we sincerely hope he is up and around soon. Doyle is now in the hospital and according to Paul, may remain there for a short time. We join all the Orem bowlers in wishing the very best for Doyle and a speedy recovery. Congradulations are In order for Steve Buell, Steve will be hearing wedding bell Friday evening in Salt Lake at his mother's home. He is marrying marry-ing a Salt Lake Lass, will honeymoon in Las Vegas we understand. bV - - '..jf'. ' 1 I - 6 L " . 1 ' WORLD'S BEST FROM 1930 - 1935 Here is how the canny Henry Jones of Provo (now of Edgemont) look ed when he held the World Welterweight wrestling crown. .His wrestling career lasted nearly a half a century and was highlighted with frequent matches with heavyweight opponents, many of whom he defeated. de-feated. Early in his career he gave the 18 year old Jack Dempsey, then a Provo resident, training in boxing and wrestling in the old Mozart building, which later became the Utahna Ballroom where the new Provo post office now stands. pounds, he beat 200 and 220 pounders regularly. He made two Olympic champions Robin Reed and Jack Reynolds look like novices.' The heaviest opponent Jones ever faced was Alex Christo-pherson, Christo-pherson, 240 pounds whom he met early in his career at Lehi. The longest match for the "Pride of Provo" was with Gus Kallio, the middleweight champion, at Homer, Louisi ana. After three hours, Farmer Far-mer Burns, the father of wrestling who was referee, announced: an-nounced: "Gentlemen I am going go-ing to call it a draw because I am too tired to continue re-fereeing." re-fereeing." Another unforgetable bout was with Toots Mont, a 220 pound heavyweight who met Ed "Strangler" Lewis six years later for the world title, in a match that took place in a vacant lot behid the present pres-ent Provo Public Library. Jones somehow threw a toe hold on Toots and threw his knee out of joint and won tha Emu Times True Old-Style Kentucky Bourbon p3 Ibouity Staifht Bourkon Whisky jn Ocroe ieo KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY 86 PROOF EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY match. But the diminutive Jones has had his share of defeats. Before winning the world's welterweight crown, the Utah mat artist had some, mighty lively bouts with lesser known opponents. There was the promising Orem g r a ppler, Dean Park, who captured the Western Welterweight title from Jones. When these two faced each other, and there were four or five such matches there was always a big turn out of frenzied fans from Orem and Provo to "root" for their favorite. Henry will always remember the match with Hy Sharman, a prodigy of Ira Dern, which was awarded to Hy on a foui when it was claimed that Jones "butted" him out of the ring. Jones asserted that he threw Hy over the top rope with a wristlock. At any rate Hy landed on the top of a spectator's head in the fourth row, both being knocked un conscious for a few moments. In wrestling the "big fel lers" Henry soon found out that he would have- to develop de-velop some potent holds. His specialties were the nose dive, flying scissors and the double wristlock Sports writers at one time dubbed the Utah wrestler wrestl-er as "the guy with the mil-Ion mil-Ion dollar legs." Jones always al-ways picked Joe Stecher, the heavyweight who made the leg scissors famous, as the best all-time wrestler. Wrestling Coach John Com-mord Com-mord of the BYU gave Jones his first real training. Then in 1910 Henry was on an LDS mission to Hawaii, but returned return-ed home in about a year due to an ear infection. In 1911 he won the lightweight crown in the LDS All Church Wrestling Wrestl-ing Tournament. Two years aier he won his weight division divis-ion in the AAU Tourney, and in 1915 he turned professional. Before winning the world title the army turned Henry down for having a bad heart. In 1935 Henry lost the world title to GET Y&W BOOTS during February A $50.00 CHAIR or it's equivalent with every Living Room Suite i i ' i , l SOt-M AND CHAIR and includes your extra $50.00 chair or equivalent 100 FILAMENT NYLON COVER "P'us-built" construction, brass-ferruled leas and the ultimate in comfort. A huae selection of other suites included in this sale. VALENTINE SALE LANE SWEETHEART CHESTS YOU SAVE $15.00 on these specials .1 5 .V.M', IT This beautiful $79.95 Valentin Special ' , - , f . f i . . 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