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Show THE YOKEL-WORKMAN BOUT . 1 Monday night Mike Yokel, former champion, and pyclone Workman, gave v restling fans one of the best treats which have been staged by promoters Silberstein and Cram. There was a good attendance, and the bout hard fought all the way through, with each man laboring hard in many a tight place. Golden Black and L. Bennett mixed mix-ed the wool sacks as the first preliminary, pre-liminary, three two-minutes rounds, with a draw decision. We. could hardly keep our eyes on the men in action for the attraction of looking at the pigeon toes of Captain Cap-tain Spears, referee. There shouldn't should-n't be a counter attraction like that. Let's have just one thing at a time if athletes as the main event, then nothing else to grab a man's eyes away from it. By garn! we'll have it so. By sheer strength of will power we took our eyes off the amoresaids and shifted our peeper onto the next preliminary Forester vs. Boyack in a fifteen minutes wrestle. The boys did well. Forester got the first fall in eight minutes with a three-quarter Nelson; and at timo-up no other fall. Then came on the big event. Sturdy Stur-dy little Yokel against Cy Workman; ninety minutes as the limit. For the first fifteen minutes there was very little mat work done; Workman applied ap-plied many head locks when they finally got onto the mat, and at times the lanky fellow had Yokel working hard. Two or three times Yokel was being punished with a toe hold. At thirty minutes the fans were cheering cheer-ing the game lustily, as there was' some fast work going on. At forty- j five minutes Workman had Yokel in a bad hold, from. which Mike finally worked out. At sixty minutes Mike tried a hammerlock, but didn't quite make it long enough to get a decision. Then Workman got Mike in a bad hold, body scissors and head lock from which Mike broke, and clamped on a chantry and bar and won the first fall In 68 minutes. It was good work. Both men worked hard. The fans were mightily might-ily pleased. Workman got the second fall in nine minutes with a head scissors and arm lock in which Mike, although al-though not pinned to the mat, was yet in a way to suffer badly, with possible injury, and quickley conceded con-ceded thaC fall. In the eleven minutes then left for the ninety minute limit, both men worked hard; Workman used most of the time with head locks on Yokel, which .consumed much time, and apparently did no damage, and the gong stopped the bout without a decision, each man getting a fall. Tom Mashall and Paul Davis slung the leathers for threo furious rounds of flail-like slugging; Tom would land that old left from a wind-up of an hour and a quarter, and uncork un-cork a wallop with eyes shut, that Davis wasn't quick enough to slip within and do pile of damage with short arm blows. j Silberstein is keen to have a club, where members may come and put ! on a friendly glove, or take down the front to the tatoo of a drur.i , drum beat on the solar plexus. Such j a plan will meet with ready Response Res-ponse from the fans. |