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Show 1 j I mmBEHisan defeats j CLAPHftMIW GREAT if! WRESTLING BOUT II n i Years of experience with tho great- ll I (31 I est wrestlers and physical culturists W I of the world, marvelous streiifitn. (U speed and cleverness last night fa led i f I to prevent the defeat of Sain Clap- ! 8 ! ' hum, champion middleweight and II i hght-heavyweight of England at the Ll i hands of Jack Harbertson of Ogden, Hi champion middleweight wrestler or if I I ' the world. So evenly balanced were ; I ; the two men in all departments of the t I game, Including strength, that, for the HI 1 first time in the history of the local PI H t. wrestling game, it took three falls to i H 1 decide the bout. Clapham took ( the i f H 4 first ono with a step-over toe hold In m 331. minutes. Harbertson took tho -In R ' i second one with a like hold in it J 3 . minutes and the third, with a reverse If a ( hody hold, In 6Vt minutes. lillw c After the first fall, the majority of ji ll I the crowd expected the winner to 1 Mi i take the second ono as is the usual jjjl , j course of events. But when Harbert- I II il son kept the defensive for two-thirds I f If I ;! of the time, with lightning agility and . HI I a strength that lew could believe he IJjP i possessed,-and then won out with a f i , I punishing hold that made his heavier i Mr-' I r,r,anf wnvn Mr hand frantically Jffl in token of defeat, then pandc- J 1 I '' monlum broke loose. Virtually every L i man and woman and there was a HI ' large number of the latter in the ji a , theatre arose and the announcer ji fl could not makel himself heard for j 1 I i nearly five minutes. A similar scene 111 n ( I ensued when Harbertson took the A I i-1 Lhird fall and his work was evidence Sfl 8 i ' t0 local fans that Pet Brown Turner rJI.S or an' other middleweight would M&if i I haV0 a struggle to take the title away iffli ' iTcm him- His deeat of Clapham, ' w as aEL iQternatina reputation Vtmk it of no mean degree, after giving him ttM. I XthQ advantage of 4& pounds in w 'l( weight, is easily the greatest feat he jw !, has yet performed and now local fans jiff J jj are ready to hack him against all ill j I comers. Mr I From all points of view, the bout Wi ) J; was the best ever seen in the city, ijKi ! flying falls and. breaks, head plvot-jM plvot-jM ' j Ing and bridging out of dangerous Wt ,( j holds, fast foot work and remarkable If ' displays of endurance being the order throughout the entire S7 minutes of jlf -wrestling, jl , j Tho two principals and Pete Vis-Ira Vis-Ira ll! ' Ger le reeree appeared on tho mat iljUj at 0:08 o'clock, with a promptness lyBuj ' that was accredit to Promoter "Rube" K 1 jl . Saunders "management, and were in-nil in-nil troduced hy Announcer Carl Poulter. m I I 'rne Perfunctory handshake came 19 S j shortly afterward, the time recorded lf a by "Heinie" Eckhardt, official time-(t time-(t i Jj keeper, being 9:10 o'clock. Within jj 1 , less than auother minute, the fans rf 1 U -were avare that they wore to wit-I wit-I neas a battle of gladiators. Clapham lljJi started the trouble by getting a .i 1 4B j vicious headlock and holding it for y ji i more than a minute. Jack then jl . broke loose and retaliated with the I jj J same hold. This work and sparring II U! J took up about seven minutes of time and then Clapham, with unexpected cleverness, pulled the local man's hands up high and, grabbing him low, threw him to the mat. He stayed behind be-hind for a short time and then Harbertson Har-bertson worked out of his plutches. A fast mixup followed x and Jack was again put on the defensive. For tho ensuing fifteen minutes, the challenger challen-ger kept the advantage, administering severe punishment, which Harbertson withstood gamely. At 930 o'clock, by a desperate effort, ef-fort, Jack got out of chancery and both went to their feet. There was no let-up on speed, however, and in a lightning-like mixup, In which some spectacular miuair ureaKs were staged, Clapham again won the advantage. advan-tage. Ho worked on the local man's wind with a vicious leg held, but Jack worked clear and a moment Liter the tables were turned. Both wrestlers then secured too holds and In this position staged .four spectacular rolls in an effort to get out of each other's oth-er's clutches. Jack finally gave up his toe hold for an arm and head hold and. Clapham broke out of these and wont on top. In the next two or three minutes, the positions were changed several times, with the English Eng-lish champion finally securing the advantage. ad-vantage. He secured a" body scissors which Jack broke by desperate pushing push-ing with his foot in his opponents arm-pits. Harbertson was struggling desperately, but at, this point, the finish fin-ish of the first part of the bout could be seen and it came a few seconds later when Clapham got a step-over toe hold. The local man struggled against tho excruciating pain for a number of seconds, and then wisely gave up, the fall going to the visitor in 336 minutes. Clapham appeared on the mat for the second fall, after a five-minute rest, looking confident' of the victory the crowd fully expected him to secure se-cure in short order. Harbertson took the advantage of the full rest period j and came back looking as good as his opponent. For fifteen minutes following fol-lowing the handshake. Clapham followed fol-lowed his previous tactics, getting the local. man on the mat in less than five minutes. He secured a body scissors scis-sors and worked . it" for all it was worth, until Harbertson managed to flip him over and reverse positions The local man's advantage was short lived, however, but In spite of Sam's best efforts to hold him on the de-t fensive long enough to secure a good hold, his defensive ability kept him safe though he was compelled to-take considerable punishment. At 10 "25, Jack broke out of a body ohancery and wont behind, but a moment mo-ment lator the positions of the two men were again reversed Ten-thirty found Clapham with another step-over toe hold, but even this was not enough to hold his agile opponent who was plainly beginning to predominate predom-inate In strength and speed. Within a few seconds, Jack was behind again and from then on, he worked like a tiger, putting on, hold after hold In a way that onlya display of strength aud endurance tho like of which has never Deen seen equaiea on a local mat, kept him from a quick victory. Tinally, he clamped his favorite hold, a reverse qody, on tho English wrestler, wres-tler, but even this was "broken by strong bridging. At IU'55 o'clock, Clapham broke away and while trying try-ing for a reverse body hold, fell into a step-over toe hold and this Harbertson Har-bertson clamped on so hard that he wasted no time In acknowledging defeat de-feat in the second fall. The third fall came quickly, Harbertson Har-bertson securing the advantage In a flying upsei within a minute after the handshake. He kept after his opponent oppo-nent like a whirlwind, islng head scissors, head locks and other holds faster than Clapham could withstand -and a reverse body hold finished the bout in 6J minutes. When the cheering crowd was quieted, quiet-ed, Clapham made a brief speech stating that he had been beaten by a better man and offering the excuse that he had been weakened by making mak-ing tho required weight. He then challenged Harbertson for a return match at catch wqlghts. Harbertson's statement was characteristic, char-acteristic, "All I can say is that he was the hardest sucker to hold that I over met." Three good preliminaries were staged by Promoters Saunders with Carl Poulter as referee. Chris Skoons, ambitious for a match with Harbertson, Harbert-son, struck a tartar in the person of Harold Parry and ended his chances with the champion by failing to win over his less experienced opponent He had agreed to throw both Parry and Sam English fn a half hour, but at the fifteen minutes point of the bout, Parry flipped him over and broke his thumb. That ended the strjggler Lou Roberts and Scott Wak lace ravf thf fnno rnnri -., . for 15 minutes with honors, even and Parry and English did likewise for ten miriutes. |