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Show F.rtGER" LAID OUT; YOKEL WINS DOUT Champion Defeats His Opponent In Fifty-three Minutes Fort Collins, Colo., March 24. Mike Yokel of Salt Lake City, middle weight champion wrestler wbb forced to uso a flying armhold, throwing Con Albright of Gloversvllle, N. Y., so heavily that ho was unconscious for half an hour to defend his tltlo here tonight. Albright was thrown to tho mat in 53 minutes after tho bout started, was unable to como back and forfeited tho match to Yokel. Albright wrestled under the assumed assum-ed name of George Ileeman and said ho was from St. Paul and Minneapolis. Minneap-olis. Only a fow In tho audlenco who had seen him In action know ho was Albright, and Yokel himself after tho bout stated that ho would llko to know who his opponent was. Tho match hnd not gono far until Albright went through tho ropes and cut his arm on tho footllght sockets. Yokel's noso commenced to bleed nnd from then on It was Indeed a gory battle. When Yokel secured his flying armhold an J threw Albright over 'his head the bock of Albright's head struck tho floor with much forco und ho strobched out unconscious. It was at first fearod ho had been seriously ser-iously Injured and physicians wero summoned to tho ring to attend him. Yokel weighed 158 pounds and Albright Al-bright 157. |