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Show B01E THROWS HIS MAN IN52 MIHUTES The wrestling match between Tommv Dodge, middleweight champion cham-pion of the Pacific coast, and Antioia Mantiiu a acdi.twcichi champion ol California, came off last night at tho Lyceum theater befoie a well filled house. Thore were two good preliminaries, the first between H. Payton and W Belknap In two periods of ten infuutes each and the second between two Jap3 Harry Huva and II. Meeca. In the main event It had boon an- Dodge twice In an hour but as It ultimately ul-timately proved the agreement should have been tinned uiOuiul f.r Dodge threw bis man in 52 minutes Tho two men entr-rei th? rlna at 9:35 and after five minutes wrestling Dodge thiow his man noav'lj to tio mat, landing on top. Dodge could do very little with his man as he seemed too heav After this pnsi"d a half hour's wrostling in which both men had the ad an. age stvoial times of being on top but at no time during the bout was Dodge in nnv danger of bomr; put to the mat Bndlora was at all times clumsy and did not seem to know how to take a.iwmtagu ol his opportunities and several times Dodgp got away from him with apparent ap-parent ease. Finally Dodge got tho scissors hold and held his man for several minutes, but Bandiera succeeded suc-ceeded in breaking It and regaining his feet only to be again thrown bv Dodge who at all stages was faster and cleverer. Dodge finally succeeded succeed-ed In working the tre hold successfully success-fully and after several minutes during which Banilnrn tried valnlv ti brok It, the Italian gave up and tho match wits uwuruuu 10 uouye. If Bandiera is tne wrestler he is claimod to be, ho was sadly out if form last night, for ho showed nothing noth-ing that could even be called good wrestling and necr at any time ex. hiblted the slightest Indication that he was able to throw Dodge After the flist few minutes the sympathies of the audience won clearh w'Mi Dodge who was the aggressor all the way Yousuff Hassen, the Turkish wrestler, wrest-ler, who refereed Uic match, challenged challeng-ed Dodge to a bout and agreed to throw him twice in an hour Dodgo accepted the challenge and the match will probably come off some time In the near future. After the match Bandiera announced announc-ed that he was not in condition and did not consider himself fit to enter the ring as ho hurt his shoulder in Denver a short time ago. He gives this as an excuse for his poor showing show-ing and though he admits Dodge is a stronger wrestler than ho thought, he still believes he can throw him |