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Show I YOKEL-BROWNGO CULLED it DRAW M I Three Hours and Forty-five H I Minutes of Vrestling M I Stopped by Police When H I Both Men Are Ex- H 1 hausted. H I Salt Lake, April 15. Tribune: H ' I After three hours and forty-three H I ivinutes of gruelling wrestling, Mike H J Yokel -and Pet Brown were prevented Hj 1 from continuing their bout at the Salt H Lake theatre this morning. The H match was stopped by the police, Of- H ' fleer Leo Mayhew performing the act. H Both wrestlers were so much ex- H hausted that neither could have suni- H , moned sufficient strength to have 1 rolled his opponent over had the Iat-tor Iat-tor offered no resistance whatever. After the match had gone three hours appeals were made to stop it, 1 as ft was then clear that both con H testants were fast n earing the point Hj where human endurance would break. J H However, the match was permitted to H continue for forty-three minutes long- Hj The match was the hardest-fought H wrestling bout ever staged in Salt H Lake. It exceeded the record of the H okel-Jordan bout by seven minutea H in time, and In point of wrestling it H exceeded that bout Immeasurably. H V In Best of Shape. Hj The men were in the best of shape, H which is amply proved by the length H of the match and by the strength and H endurance displayed. Brown is the I H niddler. eight champion of the world, H liavfug won that title from Yokel' H in a match at Taylor, Texas, two H ' Korp ago For the match tost nlfxhl H P2Sht btipulation was that each H tliotild give or take two pounds. At H 3 ,o?clock yesterday afternoon Brown H "-eighert 159 3-S pounds and Yokel H 159 1-4 While the bout was called H a llh.unplonship match, it was not so H la, fact Since the middleweight hm- H it Is 15S pounds, it necossar'h fol B lows that only a wrestler weighing M that poundage or less can claim the M title, providing he beats Brown H Yokel surprised his most ardent H ar.mirprs by the "come-back" he stag- H eu. jot even nis mosi binceie wcn- M wisher had thought for a moment that m tl;Js veteran of so many body-break- H ing j.nd nerve-Tacking mat battles H could get into the condition which he M showed last night H Skill and Endurance. H A match for "blood," such as was 1 'at night's, essentially calls for skill M and stamina, the latter being the fac- tor mosi needed Following the cus-. cus-. tom in matches of this kind, there was a great deal of "head wrestling," the technical name for which is the "referee's hold. ' It is this hold which tells th sior of which of the op-I op-I oneitt has the greater endurance In last night's match, how ever, there was an astonishing lot of work on the mat. Yokel probably set a record for wrestling in any class when he stayed "behind" Brown continuously for thirty-eight minutes "Staying behind' is wretallng parlance for being on the afgressivo. Neither man was ever seriously In danger of being thrown. Holds were (applied at various times, but they I were broken with reasonable expedl I tion in every case Twice Brown tried to fasten a body scissors, but each ( time Yokel escaped easily It was with the bod scissors that Brown beat Yokel in their former match at the Salt Lake theatre. Half nelsons, combined with the crotch or with the body, were fre quently attempted by both men, but they also failed of result. Yokel triea for a toe hold continually during his long period of being "behind," but Brown's cleverness kept him out of danger. The amazing thing about the match was the strength shown by both. Not until two hours and fifty-two minuteB had elapsed did the first sign of weariness come, and then both seemed seem-ed to become affected almost simultaneously. simul-taneously. Thereafter their exhaustion exhaus-tion became rapidly apparent, anu vithin ten minutes after the first sign of weakness both wore waning fast. It -nas then that the first appeals were made to stop the match. It had gone beyond tho point where skill counted A fall for either almost certainly cer-tainly would have been in a great measure accidental. The spectators took up the cry, "Draw, draw!" but the bout was al lowed to go on. Physicians in the" house declared that both were In so enfeebled ,a condition that a fatal heart attack might be looked for any moment. After three hours and fifteen fif-teen minutes Yokel became practically practic-ally blind, and Brown was so weak that he did no more than fall upon Yokel's neck and Bhoulders when they came together again. Even iri the final minutes there were surprising bursts of speed the reserves of both being almost beyond belief. Yet neither had sufficient strength remaining to make an im- prfssion on his adversary, no matter In what favorable circumstances he lound himself .J tier the bout had been stopped, somebody struck Referee Will Thorn ton In the eye, and another man was knocked off the stage and Into the orchestra or-chestra pit; but, generally speaking, the crowd behaved in an orderly manner, man-ner, all things taken Into account. There were some there, of course, who urged a continuance It was noticeable no-ticeable that these for the most part, were considerably Inebriated The probable effect of last night's match will be a police ruling that wrestling bouts shall bo stopped at the end of three hours. That is tin rule in a great many places, and cer tainly would find favor with wres tling funs here. Georgo NScholsen and Pete Kalos wrestled thirty minutes to a draw In the i reliminary. Brown recovered quickly after the match. He is in doubt as to what he will do in the immediate future. A match between Brown and Jack Har bertson of Ogden has been on the tapis, and It is probable that It will be arranged Harbortson was introduced intro-duced last night as a challenger. |