Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-15 | Page 5 | Harbertson Wins Wrestling Match

HARBERTSQN WINS WRESTLING MATCH Beforo a vory small crowd at the Glenwood saucer track last night Jack Hnrbertson, tho Ogden wrestler, earned a decision over Alex Swanson of Salt Lake, by throwing the latter once In eighteen minutes. Owing to the small attendance It was agreod beforo the bout commenced that tho man who secured the first fall should be decfarcd tho winner of the match Tho fans seemed very well satisfied with tho arrangement as well as by tho decision, and were treated to 18 minutes of tho best mat work ever seon in the city. Tho bout was exceptionally excep-tionally fast whllo it lasted. Harbort-son, Harbort-son, who wrestled to a draw with Swanson a few months ago, was In much better condition last evening and" carried the fight to his opponent almost all the way. During the first ten minutes Swan-son Swan-son gained the aggressive once or twice, but was on the defensive during the last eight minutes, Harbertsou putting put-ting up the most strenuous mat battle of his career His winning hold was a head and leg lock Tho fall was clean and unquestioned by tho fans. The match was refereed by Demc-tral, Demc-tral, the Grock wrestler, and his decisions de-cisions were popular. Two good preliminaries preceded the main event After Arthur Smalley, weight 125 pounds, and T. F. Preshaw, weight 13 pounds had wrestled thlrtv minutes without olther securing a fall, tho decision was given to Smalley for his aggressiveness. John Preshaw nnd Leo Hallstrom, two midgets, neither of which weighed a hundred pounds, put up an Interesting bout, each securing a fall. Tho decision went to Hallstrom for aggressiveness. Tho main event and tho two preliminaries pre-liminaries served to make. up an excellent ex-cellent wrestling card which ucserved far better patronage than It recolved