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Show co MAY il If OLD USED BY SALT LAKE MAT STAR Airplane Hold Held Too Dangerous for Use Many Believe The "airplane" bold, on" of the famous fam-ous holds -if Ira Dcrn. World's champion cham-pion middleweight wrestler, may be barred in Offden In future wrestling matches If the action of some of th' fans of the city who attended the re-cent re-cent Dcrn-Logas match at Salt Lake can be taken for face value. Many rrotcsts against such a hold in the future fu-ture have been listed and the city commlrsiun may be aid.cd to aid 1 putting a stop to this sort 61 torture. The strangle hold has been barred for years. '1 he toe hold, the head-lock head-lock and others have come In for their share of public censure but whether or not tho aetion of some of tho fans will result In the Ivirrin: of the airplane hold in Ogdeo remains to be seen. ai Hestmark, athletic commissioner, commission-er, is onv of 'he men opposed to thu hold. '1 he hold 10 the opinion of Mr. Hestmark is one that should by ai means be barred. "The airplane hold, in my oplhhiou, is just no bad If not more punishing than the strangle hold," Bald Commissioner Commis-sioner Hestmark last night, "In fact, this hold is bound to result fatally for some wrestler in time and 1 for one am anxious that it be barred in Ogden. Many' belli ve that a wrestler cannot be thrown with t M r .-. hold. It is merely used to do bodHy injury which may result fatally. In cases where injuries are rendered the opponent op-ponent naturally is unable to return to the mat. j "The recent match at Salt Lal-e in which Dern was tho victor over Jlmmle Logos, bettor Uhowfi In U sports world as Young Gotch. has s.-t the public in that city to thinking about the hold. Logas was render! d unconscious when he was slammed headfirst to the mat. He was in a hospital for over a week recuperating from tho effect of Lh hold "For the go vl of the Kume not only in Salt Lake and in Ogderi, but in all sections this huhl should be barred It may. as 1 havi said, result fatally for one of the opponents and the mat fans who are loyal sports do not want to see any such exhibitions They want Wrestling ol tne late order and good, clean sportsmanship." The action of some, of the fans Is expected to be presented before the city commission during the coming week. 00 |