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Show HARBERTSOH MO 1USM DRAW After two hours of wrestling, tho match between Jack Harbertson and Alex Swanson at tho Armory last night was declared a draw. This was In accordance with an agvecmout reached reach-ed before the bout, which was to the effect that if nclthor wrestler gaineu a fall within the two hours neither should be given a decision. At the end of the two hours both wrestleis were very weak and neither would have been able to go on many minutes longor, Harbertson put up a gamo fight nsninst big odds and at the end of the two hours the Swede from the eustN was forced to admit that tho youthful strength of the local mul arlibl was too much tor him In spite of his science. Ho also stated that ho would not have been ablo to throw Harbertson In four hours. From the spectator's standpoint, and there was a very creditablo showing of wrebtllng fans present, tho match appeared somewhat slow and uninteresting uninter-esting There were only flashes of speed during the earlier stages when Harbertson sought to carry tho fight to Swanson, but tills was only momentary. momen-tary. With tho exception of a few minutes just after the first hour had elunsed and for a few seconds at othei times, Swanson was ou the aggressive at all times The Swedish wrestler attempted attempt-ed every device In his repertoire of wrestling stunts, but Hnrbertson's de-fenso de-fenso remained unsolved. The gruelling gruel-ling tactics employed by Swanson told on the younger and strongor wrestler and he "was weak at tho finish. Tho former champion was also weak as a result of his efforts La trying to break Hurbertson'3 defense and he admitted ad-mitted at the finish that he exerted ovory atom of the strength he retained retain-ed to keep the local man off his foot and away from the aggressive at tho finish. Swanson complimented Harbertson very cordially at tho finish of tho hard go and stated that the young man had a promising futuro in the wistHng game The decisions of Referee Ed Ferguson were entirely satisfactory to wrestlers and bpecta-tors. bpecta-tors. iMIko Yokel was one of the interested interest-ed spectators at the match and negotiations nego-tiations will probably be entered Into It a match between Yokel and Swanson Swan-son or Harbertson in tho vory near future. |