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Show II VOKELWINS I MAT TITLE Utah Wrestler in Two Falls Wins World's Championship Bali Lake. Feb 5 Mike Yokel or Bait Lake defeated Henry GcbrltiR of Cleveland In a middleweight wrestling lout here tonlsht Yokel won the championship from n man who waa at least five pounds and perhaps Jon pounds over the 158 pound limit Gehrlng forfeited $200 rather than weigh In It was a wouderful match and It took brains as well as brawn to win it. I Both men used their beads. lagpinR) at times to deceive the opponent and, then coming with a tremendous rush ; They were as wily, tricky, fierce and I at times as cruel as panthers, yet lt was a clean match with no suggestion sugges-tion of fouls . Yokel won both falls with the same hold which Referee Ben Harker pro-! nounced a reverse bar and bead chnn- j eery The first fall required 1 hour 47 minutes 10 seconds The second! fall was gained In SO minutes flat, according to D. A. Callahan, official; time keeper In the second bout Yo-' kcl had a close call but bis quickness saved him. After the second fall Gehrlng rush-i ed to the footlights held up his hands' and when two minutes of chetrlnc mingled with hissing ceased he cried out: They put resin on the mat. It was a dirty, mean trick.'' When ho said that he was labor- 1 ing under great disappointment an-d excitement, hence the statement should not be remembered against him. There was resin on the mat. because it had been used for boxing, box-ing, but Yokel had as much resin on him as Gehring. It was n representative audience, tco. Professional men, riu officials, business men, church dignitaries and Others rubbed shoulders. The cheering cheer-ing was tremendous when Yokel won! the first fall, but many had taken that for granted after the first fall was won. Tbe athletic entertainment began promptly at S.I.V when a strong man known as "The Great Morton'' lifted lift-ed a barrel of water said to weigh 600 pounds. Following this was a 2i minute wrestling bout between Ray Met arroll of, Idaho Falls and Danny Keith, the fireman. It was a draw. Gehring came on the stnpc nt ' 20 o clock and was given a rousing reception. re-ception. Yokel arrived a minute later and the Cheering was not much louder loud-er than that which had been given his opponent. James A A. Stanley the announe-l announe-l er, introduced Referee Ben Marker and performed the same office for both w r - i l r- Stanley then explained that Gehring Gehr-ing had forfeited $200 rather than weigh In as he agreed to do at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Gehring did not dispute the statement that his weight wn:; a secret He weighed weigh-ed between 162 and 16j pounds. ( hallenges to wrestle the winner were read from Harberison, Turner and a number of others. Yokel ami Gehring were culled to ihc renter of the ring and were Instructed In-structed by the referee. Tbey grappled at exactly 9 SO o'clock. Both were cautions and appeared ap-peared to respect the caliber of the toe. It was almost ten minutes before be-fore Yokel got behind Gehring for a moment, but the Buckeye grappler easily broke away. When they had been going fifteen minutes Gehring made R quick dive for Yokel s ankles ami he tried thlB expedient a score of times during the first bout vvtlhout once succeeding in getting hold of Mike's underpinning. underpin-ning. Both men seemed to realise they were m for a long, gruelling contest con-test and appeared to be conserving themselv es Gehrings long reach showed to great advantage From the very first he began putting one hand over Yokel's Yo-kel's eye and passed the other back and fourth before Mikes face, hoping to mar his judgment of distance After Gehring fancied fan-cied he had Yokel bewildered by these methods he would dive for Yokel's Yo-kel's legs Yokel was aggressive from the start, but during the firet 45 minutes he was cautiouslj aggressive Gehring amazed the fans by the ease with whlch he broke loose from holds that seemed to be dangerous, but Yokel showed the same ability Before the first hour elapsed Yokel had shown more head work and general gen-eral cleverness than In any other match he ever wrestled. Fans wer surprised to see that he was just as quick as Gehring and the widely heralded her-alded Clevelander did not stem to have any tricks that were new to Yokel. Yo-kel. Just before the hour expired Gehring assumed ihe aggros -a: e .-' t-ling t-ling behlud Mlko and making things very lively for a moment or two. From then on until five minutes before the first fall the honors were' even, although It could be seen that Gehring was tiring much faster than Yokel The westerner seemed to possess pos-sess more real muscle and had a trick of twisting Gehring half round and tossing him several feet away, that amused the fans. On these occasions oc-casions Gehring looked Mike over dubiously, du-biously, apparently wondering bow so much power could be Inclosed in so; I small an envelope. fter one hour and fortj minutes of wrestling Gehnng was getting very tired For 15 minutes preceding this he was noticed to go down easier and Ins legs seemed to drag There was none of the springiness or playfulness 1 that he exhibited earlier Ills face, was drawn and lined Yokel. Impersonating the cn.e man type, seized the Buckeye, hurled him to the mat and tried a half nelson Gehring got out of this with some difficulty and was just beginnlug to breathe easier when Mike clapped on a hammer lock and in a trice almost al-most had Gehring on his back. One hold followed another with such ra- j pldtty that everybody. Including Gehring Geh-ring was bewildered Yokel's clever change of tactics and his amazing speed comprised as clever work as has ever been seen here or elstwhere, perhaps. Mike closed this series of surprises with a reverse bar and head chancery and Gehring. who had slid out of so mnnv dangerous predicaments predica-ments in the last hour and three-quarters, three-quarters, was compelled to yield. Mis shoulders were pinned flatly on the mat and Yokel apparently could have held him ihTr Indefinitely Pandemonium broke loose when the I fans saw Referee Marker slap Yokel's Yo-kel's back in token of victory. The I cheering lasted fully two minutes and only died down because the funs were eager to tell one another what a great man Yokel was. Dr. C. G. Plummer, who was slt- ting with Timekeeper Callahan, sawi ihe end of this first fall with great relief, re-lief, not only because Yokel Is his; protege, but because he feared that, Gehring might strain his heart so he( would never recover. The surgeon's practiced eye had noted the contraction contrac-tion of the muscles of chest and ab-dr ab-dr rneii and he was afraid Gebri n : s admitted gamencss might cause physical phys-ical disaster. This went on for half an hour, with Yokel always on the aggressive and Gehring only occasionally appearing to take the defensive. Then after minutes of wrestling in the second bout, Gehring suddenly dropped his pose. He went after Mike like a whirlwind The fatigue seemed to have dropped from him. Me picked Yokel up. 6tood him on his head, pounded bis head on the mat a half dozen times and tried to crush hlmt to the floor Mike's great neck raus-l cles resisted the onslaught M- did a head spin, but Gehring grabbed him round the body and flung him to the I floor violently. Before Mike could recover his equilibrium Gehring al- ' most had a head scissors In fact, he rolled Mike onto his back and ! if he i ould only have held him there, and applied a little force at that moment. mo-ment. Gehring would have evened up the falls, but Mike was too speedy Me bounded like a rubber ball and ' was as elusive as an eel Gehring. still trying for the fatal scissors, bore his whole weight on Mike and tried to crush him down, but the resllieno of Yokel was wonderful. It was slm-, ply impossible to get his shoulders to the mat Presently, with 8 tremendous ef-' fort. Yokel escaped from this, the i closest call of the whole match for him. Me looked a trifle flustered b ll this soon gave Wffy o anger Mike again became the Irresistible aggressor aggres-sor Me grabbed Gehring and tossed! him about the mat. punishing him severely at times by working on his wind and the Clevelander was now all In in earnest. Me was not Bham mlng weariness now and fans began to reach for their hats, because they saw It was merely a matter of Yokel getting a suitable hold Alter ex-actly ex-actly 50 minutes of the second bout Yokel had again applied the reverse bar and head chancery and won ih- championship of the world Gehring. staggering and miserable, rushed to the footlights and held up his hand for silence, Instead, min- i gled cheers and hisses came for almost al-most two minutes when he was al-i lowed to speak. He then made his remark about resin having been put on the mat and called It a "dirty trick " Later on be said he had been hasty and dbl not me?n to Insinuate thai tbe resin had been put there to defeat de-feat him, but he insisted It bothered him s srent deal just the same. Yokel was the recipient of man congratulations until he hurried off to his dressing room Kiro Chief Bywnter invited Gehring Geh-ring over to the lire department gymnasium gym-nasium to cool off and he went World's Champion Yokel said he hud no plana yet tor the future and ' would make none for a day or two , yet Gehring did not ask for a return! match, but It is probable that he will if be thinks he can make the 158 1 pounds required in middleweight contests |