| Show Boxing and Wrestling Bouts Monday l Nite Were Vere High Class Opening Its summer season i boxing and wrestling programs the I I Cedar Post of the American Le LeI Legion Le- Le I gion glan In conjunction with the lo local local lo- lo cal post of the Veterans of Foreign Foreign For For- eign Wars staged one of the best mixed cards seen here In some time The card was a feature of the entertainment of visitors at Annual Encampment of the Utah State Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars held In Cedar Katy ity Saturday Sunday Monday and Tuesday Although Allbough the program was one of the best the crowd was very disappointing The main event of the wrestling l part port of the program resulted In Hy fly Sharman Shannan of Salt Lake City winning from Kenny Mayne of Idaho in hi straight falls fails both falls faits secured with punishing hammer- hammer locks However Mayme Mame defeated himself by diving out of the ring on an attempted flying tackle the fat and paunchy Sharman losing favor with the crowd by re resorting retorting re- re sorting to crawling to the ropes to stave off defeat Mayne had aUthe all aU the best of the going until he dived out of the ring and crashed onto a bench Ills His right arm was so badly badly badly bad bad- ly Injured that he was an easy mark for tor a hammerlock and lost both falls quickly In the other wrestling bout Wally Thompson won two out of three falls faits from Dave Reynolds Both Doth are from Salt Lake City Thompson won the first fall me m in 6 e minutes with a hammerlock and the final fall In hi 4 minutes with an Indian death lock Reynolds won the second fall In three minutes minutes min min- utes with a In the main boxing event Arcade Pearce of Provo was victorious In to Ina toa nR a R real slugfest knocking out Bill Howard of Los Angeles In the round The first round was fast but uneventful but In the second round the fire works start start- ed Howard connected with a right to the jaw and Pearce took an eight count he got up and put Howard down for nine with a right and left to the body then Howard arose and floored Pearce again Tills This time he would probably have stayed down but the bell rang In the third Pearce was again down for a nine count and al- al he was staggering badly he kept up a barrage of wild swings In the fourth he was still jigging around on very rubbery legs but still throwing punches ina in ina a R desperate effort to land a hay hay- maker He lie finally landed one and Howard went down lie He came up twice only to be knock right back down and out In the other bout Smiling Dick Diamond of Salt Balt Lake Lake- knocked out Jack Mayer of Montana In hi the third round Dick was vas down foran for foran foran an eight count In n the second but connected with a vicious left to the jaw In ln the third to win the bout Mayer came up a couple of times but butIS was S an easy mark af after after atter at- at ter that left hand swing swung |
