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Show GEHRING IS GIVEN A BIG SURPRISE Jack harbertson of ogden proves to be the equal of the man who held middleweight championship eight years after two and one -half hours of wrestling, harbertson is in better condition than his opponentyokel oppon-entyokel must again meet the local man lark Hnrberteon, Ogden grappler, t)ot only lost none of blR wrestling laurelf last nlht at the Orpheum the ater In his match with Henry Geh-J Geh-J ring of Cleveland. O.. bnt added fresh j ones to his crown by his clover exhl- , hltion of mat work with the ex-mld- 1 dlewelght champion While the refer- ji ee rendered no decision and no decl- , j slon could p068lbly have been render- I od considering the evenneea of tho j contest, yet It was a pretty match to wltneat and together with the prelim-I prelim-I inarleB formed aa Interesting a card of events for the sport lover a was ever staged In Ogden And there were few who declared thomselvea dle&atisf led, f,fn though a srreat many wished that the match could have gone to a fin ish. This latter desire was evidently created owing to the fact, that none were or the opinion that the doughty Ogden mau could have worn down his opponent if given more time Tho6e who have held to the view that Harbertson is good only on the defense were undeceived Inst night by the aggressive tactics adopted by Jack early in the contest. The local giappler pushed matters from start to finish and kept (.ehring tolerably 1 busy throughout in keeping out of danger. Oehrlng. however, displayed remarkable agility in eluding holds which might quickly have ended matters mat-ters had he been less strong The ex champion at the outset gave the appearance or thinking he had only a short engagement to fill and his stalling methods and general air of conceit and "playing to the stands' added nothing to his popularity in this city After the contest had gone along an hour or so the Cleveland man seemed to realize that he hn.l underestimated the abilities of th-Ogdenlte th-Ogdenlte and brought out his entire stock of tricks in an endeavor to bring things to a focus, but Jack was JubI a8 clever as Tie In slipping out of possible disaster and the end of .the match found the ex champion groggy and tired, with the apparent effects or the gruelling contest show lng In every move he made Harbertson. on the contrary, look ed as rit aa ever at the wlndup and appeared capable of giving a goou account of himself for the rest of the night. The articles of agreement stipula' od that there should be no resting of marked duration and for this reason both or the men were hard at it ev ery minute. This made the contest doubly Interesting to watch, and the places where It looked bad Tor one man wore evened up perhaps In the next few minutes when the other man assumed the offensive and got behind Ths men entered the ring at 9:23 and after challenges had been read from Beveral mat artists of more or less renown and a flashlight picture of the wrestlers had been taken, the emerged from their corners and shook hands at 9 33 It did not take them long to get down to work and they went to the mat a minute or two lat er with Ilurbertson behind This was soon reversed, but nothing of a startling start-ling nature occurred during the flrjt half hour, both the men seeming content con-tent to try out some of their holds in 'a sort or experimental way. Arter 4f minutes (lohrlug secured a half nelson and crotch hold on the local man and sent a few apprehen slve shivers through the crowd, but Jack got out of the difficulty with lit jtle trouble and five minutes later had GobHng In the same predicament with Identical holds. These were broken and nothing further happened to stir the fans" until 10 45, when (Jehrlng pm 8 more took the offensive and put Harbertson In a nasty position with a reverse body hold ami there was 0 worried look on the races or some In the audience. But again Jack slipped slip-ped out of danger and precisely one minute later had the crowd yelling ror him when he had Gehring in the Same position, but the Cleveland man easily escaped At the hour and a half period llnr hertson was on top. but with no ap parent advantage and two hours after the start found both men on their feet From then on until the finish the grappk-rs were on their feet near ly all the time and while there was exceptlonalh fast and clever footwork shown, there was bo little mixing it on the mat that the iout became rath er dull for the spectator (lehrlng, It Is true, attempted to force matters a trifle in the last half hour, but Harbertson Har-bertson kept out of reach and seemed content to take things easy. Referc Chllds at 12 t3, after two hourB and a half of work, held up the hands of both the men significantly and there were none who questioned the fact that honors were even. The commit tee of newspaper men saw no reason for doing other than seconding the conclusions reached by the referee While the contest as a whole might be deemed unsatisfactory because of it having been declared a draw yet it proved that Harbertson must be reckoned with In the middleweight class and be given a hearing in the way of a finish match by Mike Yokel, Yo-kel, the present champion. In the; near future. Gehring, on the other! hand, certainly got a dent In his repu-tatlOD repu-tatlOD by his inability to pin the Og- j den man's shoulders to the mat, for It would seem that even though the J Clevelander did Just recently lose to ; Yokel, yet he should he able to throw-any throw-any man hut one of championship caliber cal-iber In two hours and a half of wrest ling Harberison asked the referee to announce an-nounce before the bout started that he desired all bets declared off as he had been given only a week in which to train. It was also said on good authority that a ligament In one of Jack s legs which had been torn In a recent match had been broken again while iralnlng Wednesday and it was only because of careful bandas; lng and treatment by a surgeon that Jack was able to go on at all While It is doubtful if Harbcrt6on suffered any during the bout, yet It Is manifest mani-fest that the Injury must have weal; ened him As preliminaries. Manager Goss pro vldcd some stunts both Interesting and amusing No. 1 on the program was a soall-ed soall-ed "navy" battle royal, participated In , by five youngsters Brigham Harhert-Bon. Harhert-Bon. Victor Thomas, Leo Halstrom. John Preshaw and Dewey Harbertson They were each blindfolded and with a bell In one hand to designate their whereabouts and a glove on the other were permitted to pummel each other and take sundry "swipes" at the air for two five-minute rounds Harlan Peyton and Charles Rady, both of Ogden, came on next In a 20- j minute wrestling match, and Peyton succeeded In plnlng tho other man's shoulders down In nine minutes for the rirst rail, but was unable to re peat In the eleven minutes remaining William Belnap. FTed Preshaw. Walter Wal-ter Davis. Jack Crosby and I-Ted Denny Den-ny rollowed with a battle royal of four two-minute rounds which ended In a draw and inflicted little damage on any of the participants other than removing the burnt cork which was besmsared over their countenances A large crowd filled the theater rrom pit to dome and rooted consistently consist-ently and encouragingly for the popular popu-lar Ogden WTestler. A special train came up from Salt Lake which brought up a big crowd of Zion fans The special left Ogden on the return Journey at 12 20 a. m |