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Show HARBERTSGN THROWS BOTH IN IN 4 SHORT CONTEST With the probable exception of those who saw tho second Harbert-son-Irslinger match, a better satisfied crowd of "fans" never left an Ogden ringside than that which witnessed the handicap bout at the Orpheum theatre last night. Il took Jack Harbertson just twenty twen-ty minutes to keep the agreement he had made to throw Arthur Chester or Pocatello and Tom Long, the south ern wrestler Each opponent staid with the local man an even ten minutes, min-utes, Chester being thrown with a head and leglock and Long's shoulders shoul-ders were held to the mat with a reverse re-verse arm and body cross There v ab no question of doubt about the falls either, for Harbertson held each man until ho could have counted out T. B Kelly acted as referee for all tho bouts. Harbertson chose Chester Ches-ter for his first opponent and the two were introduced at 9.20 o'clock. Choster, every muscle showing, as usual, wore a confident smile, but probably for tho first time the "fans ' got a glimpse of Harbertsou's strength which, in the past, has not been noticeable no-ticeable except In his work. He was in real championship form, for which Ketonen'e training waa responsible Jack never wasted any energy In smiling, but kept the same businesslike business-like look on hla face from the time he came on the mat for the bout with Chester, until he went off winner af ter defeating Long in the second fall In both bouts Harbertson used some ' punishing holds, taught him by Ketone Ke-tone that would have strained the endurance of any hardened wrestler, and. owing largely to their use, both falls came early At 9:30 time was called and the two wrestlers went to the middle of the mat They wrestled head to head lor about four minutes when, in a niixup, both went to the floor, Harb ertson coming up on top. The local man began !mmedlatelyr to use his punishing arm hold and in breaking it, Chester showed remarkable strength in his arms. But the punishment punish-ment told and Harbertson, getting a scissors hold a minute or so later, made his opponent lay flat on the mat to save himself He then tried a toe hold but failed to make it work. In the struggle the wrestlers had worked over to the ropes and Harbertson Har-bertson took his opponent back to the middle of the mat. At 9:39 he secured se-cured a quarter-arm Nelson, punish ing the Pocatello man so Beverely that when Harbertson got a head and leg-lock at 9.40, Chester was unable un-able to break it and his shoulder . were put to the mat, with his feet In ! the air. After a ten minute interval, the second bout way called Long, the southern wrestler, appeared, not eon- , fident, but willing to do his best. , They went to the middle and tried for three minutes to get a hold. Long then' got both arms around Jack's body and was thrown instantly over the latter's head, going to the mat with a crash, with the Ogden man on top. After standing for some punishment. punish-ment. Long tried to get to his feet brought him down again Jack then tried his arm hold and. in a struggle to break it, Long worked to his feet but was quickly thrown again and the two went out of the ropes. They went to the middle and Harbertson tried a double Nelson, but Long worked work-ed out. After nine minutes of wrest ling. Long surprised everybody, including in-cluding his opponent, by working to his feet and throwing Harbertson to I the mat He then secured a reverie hammerlock, Jack blocked it by getting get-ting an arm lock, which he changed a few seconds later to a reverse arm and body cross and from his defen sive position twisted Long over and put his shoulders to the mat. The southern wrestler was pretty well spent, but recovered. After the ! excitement following the quick finish, he made a short speech, praising tlu local man and expressing a desire to see him and Mike Yokel In a finish match. He also said that he had brought a challenge to Harbertson from George Glon, the light-heavy weight of Canada. In the interval between the two bouts Tom Scanlon, manager of Chris Jordan, conferred with Manager Joe Goes of the Orpheum and D. C. Ec-cles, Ec-cles, the proprietor, relative to again matching his man with Harbertson In the local house. Scanlon proposed to put up a forfeit of $500 to Insure a clean match, but the local men absolutely ab-solutely refused to consider the proposition, pro-position, saying that Jordan and his crowd had broken faith so many times that it would be unfair to the Ogden "fans" to give him another chance. Prior to the main attraction of the evening. Earl Preshaw and Lewis Roberts, wrestled a fast fifteen minute min-ute draw, and a battle royal between Harold Parry, Bill Belnap, Edgar Holmes, Clarence Preshaw and Alfred Al-fred Bizette furnished a lot of fun. The latter five went three rounds, blindfolded and wearing hobbled trousers mado of burlap. |