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Show LEON 10SES II CHAHPION GOIGO It required Just thirty-six minutes of actual, wrestling for Frank Gotch to demonstrate that his title of the world's cnamplon Is In no immediate im-mediate danger at the hands of Jack i Loon, the game young Russian. The demonstration took place In Salt Lake city last evening before a crowd which packed every available inch of space in the Colonial Theater. t In spite of his 220 pounds of bone and muscle, longer reach and bulldog gameness, Leon was no match for the Iowa farmer Gotch gained his first fall in 25 minutes and the socond in 11 minutes. In each Instance tho Russian fell a victim to the champion's never-failing half-Nelson and crotch hold. Leon was tho aggressor for not more than one minute throughout the entire 3C minutes ot wrestling. In the preliminaries, Mike Yokel failed to furflll his contract by throwing Danny Keith and Adolph Lindros In a half hour. He succeeded in disposing of Keith in the short space of eight minutes but Lindros succeeded In keeping his shoulders off tho mat for 22 minutes, thus defeating de-feating Yokel. Alex Swanson and Ross, his mauager, furnished a rath-or rath-or tame preliminary, Ross going to the mat in 15 minutes Floyd and Clark Zimmerman, aged about five years, furnished a whirlwind three-round three-round boxing contest in which the decision de-cision went to Fioyd. The crowd which gathered to witness wit-ness the athletic events prepared by Promoter H W. Heagrcn, was the largest that haB over assembled in the Colonial Theater. Long before the scheduled opening hour every seat was occupied and Btanding room sold at a premium before Champion Gotch and Leon went onto the mat. The crowd, while orderly, was quick to notice no-tice and protest the customary rough laotlcB of Gotch The Russian wreBtler entered the ring at 9:56 and. was qurckly followed fol-lowed by Gotch Referee Wlllard Bean introduced the wrestlers. Gotci received an enthusiastic ovation. After announcing that strangle holds were barred and the agreement as to pin fallB, the wrestlers opened the first struggle. This was on the stroke of 10 o'clock. There was very little preliminary sparring for holds. Gotch carrying the game to his man and during the first five minutes Leon succeeded In freeing free-ing hiniBolf fronT many hard holds. Atthe end of another five minutes the Russian had freed himself from a severe se-vere hammer-lock which looked dangerous dang-erous for a time. Gotch Beomed to enter Into the bout with renewed determination and made several tries for a bar-lock and head-scissors hold, but Leon succeeded In saving himself by main strength. Before 16 minutes had been announced an-nounced tho foreigner won great applause ap-plause from the audience by breaking from Gotch's famous too hold. He next oscapod from Gotch's half-Nelson and crotch hold. It was for one minute at this time that Gotch was on the defensive. Leon secured a hold on Gotch's foot and worked desperately for a decisive clutch, but the champion quickly freed himself and at the 20-mInute announcement an-nouncement had Leon in a dangerous hammer-lock. At this point Leon demonstrated dem-onstrated his pluck The champion pushed Leon's wrlBt back with all his strength in his arm and, asslstod with his knee, but tho Russian was game. To the spectators spec-tators It seemed as though Leon muBt break, but finally his wrist turned under un-der and he escaped from the hold Immediately afterward Gotch securod a half-Nelson and crotch hold, pinning his opponent's shoulders to tho mat After 12 minutes of rest they entered en-tered the ring for tho second round At the opening Gotch stood back and stared apparently in bewilderment at the great reach of the Russian wrestles wrestl-es Within three minutes Gotch had obtained another toe hold, but Leon again escnped this torture producer. During this round Gotch displayed some of his rough tactics and ho wa3 promptly hiBsed by the crowd. After eight minutes of wrestling the champion cham-pion secured a standing toe hold on IiIb opponent and said. "Come on." a3 ho applied the punishmont. Leon refused re-fused to give tip and would not pei-mlt pei-mlt tho referco to declare Gotch the winner Finally, tho champion, unable to make the Russian give in, released his too hold and, securing the half-Nelson half-Nelson and crotch, gained a clean fall at the end of 11 minutes' wrestling The decisions were satisfactory to the ciowj. |
