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Show SMOKER IT CLUB " PROVEiPOPM Snappy Bouts and Keen Wrestling Match Thrills Huge Audience in First Entertainment of Fall Season The Gemmell Memorial Club house opened its fall season Tuesday evening eve-ning of this week with a high class smoker that thrilled a large athletic audience. Much credit should be given the athletic committee for its part in choosing the different bouts, for as a whole they were the best seen at the club in a long time. Although boxing formed the opening open-ing feature of the evening, the wrestling wrest-ling match between Ira Dern of Salt Lake City and Joe Hackenschmidt of Chicago, provided the real action of the attractive card. On Labor Day at Lyndall, Utah, these two men met, in one of the fiercest bouts ever witnessed wit-nessed in this state, honors being about even, with each man having a fall. They met at the Gemmell Memorial Club house Tuesday evening, with blood in their eye. It was a question of do or die. For 54 minutes both men worked with might and main for the coveted fall, and although both were victims of several wicked holds, honors remained about even throughout through-out the bout. "Hack" was the aggressor aggres-sor for the greater part of the first half hour, but was unable to do much with the wily Dern. After 54 minutes and 50 seconds, Dern ripped "Hack's" tights, and when the Chicago grap-pler grap-pler reached for the ripped spaces, the foxy Dern got a step-over toe hold on the Dutchman, and sensing trouble if he let his tights slip off, Hack gave up, although he declared after the fall that Dern could never have held him if it haden't been for the tights falling. After a 10 minute rest, the grapplers came back for the last six minutes and Hack put forth every effort to even matters but without much luck. The bout was fast from start to fin-ish, fin-ish, and Hack won many friends with his cleverness. He is by far the toughest opponent Dern has had in Bingham Canyon. Getting back to the boxing bouts of the evening. The opener between Bobby Gannis of Denver and Lester Hughes of the Utah Copper electric shop proved to be one of the best bouts of the evening. Both lads started with the opening gong to mix it and continued this policy for the four rounds. There was plenty of'ac-tion of'ac-tion in every round and not a dull moment marred the encounter. Kid Davis who refereed the bout called it a draw. It was a popular decision. Ralph Mondt of Salt Lake City and Johnnie Woodmansee of the Utah Copper were the next two in the ring and with Woodmansee still suffering from rope burns as the result of his clash with Bloc -Valdez Saturday of last week, the bout was rather tame. ' Plenty of love taps were exchanged during the first three rounds, but in : the fourth round Woodmansee open-' open-' cd up, and easily earned the decision. 1 An exhibition by the Rowan broth-1 broth-1 crs was followed by a shower'of silver for these mute stars of days gone by. t Goldie Snyder of Salt Lake City lost a four-round decision to Sam Wright of the Utah Copper in the next affair. Wright led all the way, severely punishing Snyder in every round, and Referee Garity's decision was popular. . Music for the evening was furnished by the newly organized Utah Copper Club Orchestra, and their efforts were roundly applauded. ! Joe Berger and his famous hot dogs also had much bearing on the suc- cess of the entertainment. |