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Show Gotch is Still Champion. Salt Lake City. In two straight falls, Prank Gotch, world's champion heavyweight wrestler, defeated Jack Leon, the Russian giant, in this city Monday night. The match was. for the world's championship, and was witnessed by a large crowd. The first fall came in twenty-five minutes with an inside nelson hold, and the second in ten minutes with a toe hold, but the champion generously declined to count this fall on account of the prejudice pre-judice against the hold and allowing Leon to wrigle out of the hold, pinned his shoulders to the mat for the third time with a reverse nelson. |