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Show POST I HOT IT TIE i WRESTLING MATCH LIST NIGHT ) ) For an hour and fifteen minutes last night a crowd of wrestling cn-) cn-) thuslasts that nearh filled the Or-I Or-I pheum tliatpr, witnosed a match i that was worth going a Ions way to I Fee Soon after that, however, the l" fans got .more than they expected, when Jordan, coming out of a bar ' and single arm headlock which had almost put him hors du combat." started the iahbing tactics that ha 8 m.ule lilm notorious. Harbertson, after af-ter standing for the rough stuff for several minutes, retaliated and the match from then to the finish was more of a boxing contest Referee Tom Iong, after warning both men seven or eight times, finally fi-nally dlso.ua llfled both of them and called the match a draw, with all bets off In an instant pandemonium reigned, the entire audience on Its feet, and the calls to finish the match or to refund the money became insistent, in-sistent, but neither was done and It was nearly an hour before the crowd dispersed Manager Joseph Gors took the stand that the decision of Referee Ivong had been a legal finish to the match and that th fans had received their money's worth The match In detail follows: The men were Introduced at 9 20 P. m . and were photographed a minute min-ute laier. They shook hands and worked a minute head to head Tor dan rushed a little and then they worked each other to the knees but wero up again They worked head to head for about three minutes and Jordan went to the mat with Jack on top Harbcrtson punished Jordan a little during the next six minutes when Jordan turned the tables and Jack went on the defense Jordan labored the next three minutes for a toe hold but Jack broke away and both men straightened up again head to head with Jordan grinning At this juncture Jordan worked his thumb and fist stunt under Harherf- son s armpits and Keterco iong had to stop him. The crowd cheered the referee. Jordan got mad and rushed Tack out of the ropes near the footlights. foot-lights. Jack retaliated and droo Jordan to the Topes on all side? of the mat At 0 4S. Chris went down agalu with Jack on top. Jack secured a further-arm nelson that made Jordan iTingo. but the latter worked out. Jack then tried a bar and arm lock twice but Jordan worked out of them. Both men were slick with perspiration perspira-tion which made it hard to get a hold. At 9:51 Harbertson had the Greek In a tight place with a bar and single headlock, Jordan escaped again but was caught with the same hold an Instant In-stant later but again broke awa with a grin Jack punished him a litUe with a further arm nelson and Jordan got to a sitting position and tried his old method of escaping but Jack proved too strong, turning him over again, obtaining another single arm headlock which Jordan worked out cf. struggled hard and came up on top, with Harbertson on the defensive defen-sive Jordan punished a little with a single arm bar lock Jack worked out Kaeh got a toe-hold and in the struggle Harbertson landed on top. In quick succession, the Ogden man gained n further arm nelson and a I single arm bar lock. Jordan worked to nis leet aiyi went down again du' struggling hird, got up again ajid both men went out of the ropes, then In again. Jack went on the defensive defen-sive with Jordan on top The Greek secured a toe hold which Jack broke, but he fell into a further arm bar lock, and worked out again. Jordan tried for another toe hold, failed, and Harbertson riiuo up. both men going to the center of the mat head to hend. Both did some punishing with Jordan grinning, but Jack as usual, Intent on the work I before him. At every opportunity i while the men were standing. Jor dan w orked his thumb and fist under Hsrbeitson'B armpits. At 10 17 both wrestlers were on their knees; an Instant later they wero up and out of the ropes Jack went to the mat with Chris working on him At 10:19 Jordan got a toe hold and Jack a reversp hammer-lock. hammer-lock. In the struggle, Jordan lifted his opponent bodily and carried him against the ropes on the east side of the mat when both men broke p.nd Iong brought them to the center cen-ter of the mat. The ilrst hour found the men working work-ing head to head, Jordan smiling. Jordan secured a head lock, which Harbertson broke, amid the cheers of the crowd Both rushed and went out of the ropes, worked in again and Jack secured two successive head-locks head-locks which worried the Greek considerable con-siderable before he broke them. Jordan Jor-dan backed Harbertson to the ropes and they were again brought to the middle of the mat by the referee At 10:87 Chris forced Jack to the mat and tried a little punishment which Jack evaded At 10 4L' Jack got on top for a second and both came up and were working head on. At this point Harbertson got the headlock that made It apparent to Jordan and to the crowd that the Greek could not win by clean wrestling wres-tling for when he finally worked out of it he began the rough work by jabbing his opponent, getting Jack s bead down nnd coming up on his face with his arm. The local man did not stand It ery long and. urged on by the crowd, came back with the same kind or methods Time and again Referee Long warned both men and, finally, he disqualified them both and called the march a draw. Long said that he thought the match would end up that way and that he would never referee a match again It was the consensus of opinion that had the contest gone to a fin- j Ish, the local man would have won. but that the Greek, fearing such a result, had worked for dlsqualiflca tlon rather than defeat At the close of the match Jordan posted $300 for a return match, public pub-lic or private. Harbertson stated that he was willing to meet him again either way. There were two good preliminaries, the first between Rill Belnap and Art Smalley and the second between Ray Christopherson and Chester Sharer Fred Freshaw refereed and called each event a draw. |