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Show DERII FEATURES ; FISMiiSP ' f Salt Lake Wrestler Win Two Pail , From Jack Swan of Canada in Fine Card at Gemmell Memorial Club. it ; ' nother 'one jof those smokers was . . .Iwld'at the Gemmell Memorial Club . r House Saturday evening of last week, , ,V and although Jt.was not the best the y entertainment committee baa offered, -.:. it was far over the average and the ' : 1 huge crowd went home in a happy 1 frame of mind. . ., t . ' - To the .entertainment Committee "' .. goes the honor of bringing together fV V fwh an-.artay of athletic talent,"11' ',"" v ' it must be aid thaA the wrestling I 4 j matches were among the finest ever ' '' .. seen here.. : ' . " ' . , . ' The entertainment opened with two jV , selection by the Utah Copper Band, t ' followed by a musical duet by Bessie i ' and Bertha Kappelle, which met with ' ' .. t , - instant approval. , Their first number, "Rock-a-bye My Baby. Bines." was --'. ' " Well given, both girls being in fine i voice. ' Their encore number, "Doodle i " ' Do Do," was also appreciated and the J " crowd was reluctant to have the clev- . . r sisters leav the platform, y' . Another selection by the band was f. ' followed by the Utah Copper office quartet, who gave two pleasing selec-i selec-i . tions. this quartet is fast rounding f . ,; Into a real harmony four, and are well ble to bold their own with any in I , 'm " ne state.'' Vi," !' - , , Owing to a slight delay in the f , ;v ' scheduled program, the band played ( - . . another selection, followed by anoth- - ;r selection by the Kapelle sisters. . . " Starting with the opening of the s. " athletic card, which showed Imey ' . Garfinkle and Frankie Buffington in 1 ' r r . " a four found mix up, the rest of the jt ; V v entertainment turned Jrom music to v '-' thrills, and that the crowd enjoyed ev- ery minute was shown by manifesta-,.""' manifesta-,.""' ' lions of approval after each number, i- -., The Garfinkle-Buffington bout was Y i rather slow, neither fighter seeming " i. to want to mix it with any force. . This bout was refereed by McGar- v Vity of the Engineer office of .the .1 ffifiH Vayr pa-ags aasssMw&wWj? -1 . f Mas Glover, of the machine shops ' . '--. was then introduced by John Ken- .""'. r j ', nedy as being willing to go 20 min-$1 min-$1 '"':. - ntes th Martin Zikov of Salt Lake V " V City. After 20 minutes of fine mat k -'V - work, Glover was given the decision on points by Referee Arthur Saxon, . 'the decision being rendered in favor I' of Glover through his aggressivenes. ,5j. 2ikov outweighed Glover by 20 1 . pounds, but was unable to hold the i local man. - ; -. - "The four-round tilt between Wes l.r. Ketchell and Roy McCarthy, both of t 4 Salt Lake, started off with McCarthy J; i - doing all the leading during the first 1 ' two rounds, Ketchell contenting hinv ' . self with keeping out of the road of .v McCarthy's wicked right. In the third .'. . " Ketchell opened up a bit and after Slapping Roy on the bugle a couple ,-V v - of times drew considerable gore. The i- : last round was also Ketchell's, with i . k honors for the four rounds about even. V . Referee McGarrity gave a draw decis- ?: ' ; . r; , ion;. ' - - , ' . ' ' " ' ' The main event of the evening was t' 4 "... . a wrestling match between Ira Dern , ' . and Jack Swan, of Canada, Swan fill- b ; ing in for, George Gustavovich, who j j j.-- - took some run-out powders on Tues- . - day and left this section of the coun- f,tY:i-'toyl - .. ;' ." . ; "' : ;:;."' i Dern) conceding about 20 pounds to ' , Swan, had considerable trouble hand- V v4 . . ling the Canadian, as the visitor was ' the. aggressor throughout the first f " - " part of the match. ; After 23 minutes I v " -' and 50 seconds of stellar wrestling, in i v -. Which both contestants tried divers ' ' holds,, Dern pinned Swan to the mat k ' with a head scissors and further arm. T Coming back after a 15 minute rest, f" ; the two men started hostilities again, i- v , "" t Dern winning this fall with a short I'!.... arm scissors in 25 minutes and a half. . That Swan is a clever man was shown f ' l in his ability to get out 'of Dern's ' . ' holds, and his knowledge of the wrestling wrest-ling game was made manifest during the second fall, when Dern, made a dive for him, and he outguessed the ; ' ' . . Salt Laker by getting a head hold v that brought Dern considerable pain. , - . During this fall Dern managed a pow- r f - , erful headlock on Swan, but the clever Canadian broke loose after one and i one-half minutes of hard work. "" : : All in all the matches were better 1 ' . than the average and with the know- ledge that all present went home well satisfied, the entertainment committee may well rest until the. next smoker, '" ' for what more is asked than to know that all members of the club are-sat-i . r isfied? . ... f ' j. ..... '. . ... ........... .- -tt- ... . " - ' i' . !' . -' i ' ' "; .., . ' , " - 1 |