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Show I ATHLETIC BENEFIT IS BIG SUCCESS; EVENTS PLEASE OGDEN BACKERS Crowd Estimated at 2.000 Turns Out to Aid in Swelling Poor Fund; Wrestling, Boxing, Sineine and Other Entertainment. InpH K gala athletic oarrl.nl staffed 1 a, the Alhambra theatn night by the Associated clubs or )lin Cor the poor of the city was 1 success In even detail. It Is estimated estimat-ed that fully 2.OU0 ugdenites attended at-tended Bo-sing, wrestling the rough an J tumble contest. Jin jftsu singing and other numbers of the first order were offered and each was well i Ived Tom Rav of Omaha ami Lea Da of Offden "put up the keenest contest Witnessed In Ogden In many a day In their four-round wrestling tussle. This event, the star attraction of the mat contests, was fast both men displaying display-ing their abllllv to wiggle from tight holds as well as to clamp them on Late In the fourth round Dn-Vlj . lamped on n toe-hold which looked like "curtains- for the Omahan, but by sheer strength and determination Hie Invading star wiggled free. INTERESTS WOMEN This contest proved especially Interesting In-teresting to the many women In the audbnee. The "wrestling by rounds' ssteni was Introduced In Utah tor the first time. Mike Yokel, former worlds middleweight middle-weight mat champion, was accorde.l a reat oatlon when he entered the ring to meet Paul Ketterer and Jack Devon Yokel agreed to throw both within three round" He clamped on a bodv scissors In six minutes 18 seconds sec-onds on Ketterer Pevora lasted nine, minutes, being pinned with a reverse body. , Jack Barberteon old time igdon favorite, and t one time considered one of the world's best mat men tot on three heavies and trimmed 'em easily. . . I When Jack entered the ring his( friends had to look twice to recognize recog-nize h:rn He tips the beam well over. The 110 mark He defeated Rill Kub-( ler. ur!" Anderson and Harry Wade in four minutes. DISPUTE SETTLED. The boxsr-wrestler classic which hns simulated intense interest, was settled once and for all in ogden with the wrestler showing his superiority. Henrv Jones Of PrOVo defeated Cyclone Cy-clone Williams and Kid Williams ofj Jalt lake, both boxers, :n quick style, lone? dove" at Cyolone W illiams, the boxer failing to land a blow and pin-, rid bs shoulders in just two seconds. Kid Williams managed to auy one - minute and 32 seconds. Jack Anderson of Salt Lnke wis warded a decision over Dick AndM -on of Tremontbn at thw end Of three rounds of wrestling because of his aggressiveness. ag-gressiveness. George Kelson, Utah heavyweight ffhampton. pinned Al Newman of Salt Lake to the mat in the second round f a scheduled three-round affair. George used a reverse body hold and turned t li :r,k after 13 minutes and il2 seconds of mat work. SHI I WINS, Ed Shell of Suit l.uke won . three out of five fall contest With Horea Mora of Salt lake at iju Jlt-su wreal-iling. wreal-iling. four of the five falls being obtained ob-tained bj the use of strangle holds. jThis novel evtrt pleased the crowd. Mora won the first fall with a 08,1 strangle in seen minutes and w Seconds. Sec-onds. Shcij took the second in one minute is seconds with a coat .strangle. Mora won the third fall In ;flvo minutes 82 seconds with an arm strangle. Shell captured the fourth in ; o 1 seconds With a coat strangle ami the final in five minutes with a wrist-lock. wrist-lock. 'Mie of the odd features of the even- mg w; the appearance of Jack Dc-I VOta of Salt Lake In a "muscle" act. He demonstrated the muscles of the 'hack, stomach, shoulders, and arms to, perfection Three musical selections by the vocal vo-cal quartet composed of led Ballan-I tyne rerrj Rlomp, AValter Stephens and Jo, Femeliua tended to give the card the necessary- touch of fineness. DRRF. WrNS V-XSILY. I Frankie Darren. I'tah welterweight champion boxer, demonstrateil his hilltv In the six-round main boxing I event with Frankle Regen of p n bio Colorado. In thix tilt Darren flipped over his left to such an advantage that Rmkph was completely baffled. Darren captured every round a Ibig margin and In the third put over( 17 successive left.s to Tteagen'e face without a return. Tn the fifth round a loft to the Jaw sent I'.eagen to the air. as for the count of eight. In the closing rounds Darren tried for a knockout, but lacked the neces-sarv neces-sarv punch In defeating Reagen Darren adds another victory to his Hal and also evens up on Reagan for a defeat banded to Darren by Reagen some years 'go ( rTHI R R ; RFSl lrs. Batti ng Bill Pflster of Salt Lake tried In vain to land a haymaker in his battle with Kid Andrews, of Og-1 den. Andrews won the decision after; a hard battle, although many btttleved j (he affair should have been a draw Billy Johnson of Ogden tried toj flht Jack VIncllll of Salt IahJh. but the latter endeavored to side-step the Ogdenlte wlth the result that thl bout was termed no contest and hal'-' the end of the second round. Jim Downing refereed h boxing contests, while Harlon rc:.o9i officiated offi-ciated in the mat contests. I Mayor Prank Francis in a hrief ad-..i.j ad-..i.j explained the purpcsa of the jshow and thanked the people for their ,support. Jim Harbertson was the an-'nouncer. an-'nouncer. The judges of the fights, Iwere Oage Rodman. Mark Murphy iitui ; Tom I,eslie. Prof. A. Leaf. Billle o . anil Referee Peyton handled the (wrestling contests. |