St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-31
AMATEUR ATHLETES
Furnished an Exciting Evening a,
DayidsOu's Hall.

Furnished an Exciting Evening at
Davidson's Hall.
The athletic evening in the hall in the
Grand block developed series of ex-
citing events. There were tugs of war
and catch-as-catch-c can wrestling
! matches for medals offered by the
| management.
The first event was the heavyweight
tug of war between Hamine and a
Y. NJ. G. A. team, constituted as fol-
lows:
HAMLINE. Y. M. C. A.
Wallace, anchor. Helme anchor.
1aSkee, ID. Iinde. Sd.
Falcon, I'd. Holmes. I'd.
Daniels, 1st. kienholtz, 1st
The Hamline boys secured an adj
vantage in the drop of scant inch, but
then the gallant Y. NJ. G. A. crew set
tied down to earnest work, and the
mark stood stationary. The rules gov
erning limited the pulls to five minutes.
and just before the expiration of that
time, with mighty heave, the Y. NJ. G.
a. regained lost groutd, and then the
rickety apparatus failed to stand the
strain and the cleatS loosened. Time
was called with the mark in the center
and the referee called it draw. This
created considerable feeling and
aroused the recalcitrant element among
the Hamline boys, and prOdigious
kick made things unpleasant for time.
The HamlineS. r. insisted that they
were treated unfairly and should
have. been given the decision, because
they had had the vantage in the earlier
moments of the struggle. An attempt
was made to get the teams together
again to decide the question of SUI
periority later in the evening, but to no
avail.
Linde and johnson. of the Y. NJ. c.
A., gave an exhibition of clever tum-
Y. Nj. c. A., wreStled two bouts, catch
as-cateh-can style. The former won
both falls, in 5:45 and 2:lO respectively.
Jimmy Murphy. OF Minneapolis, had
an easy thing Ill defeating Jimmy Hor-
i bert. of this city. They are light
weights, and both are clever, but it
soon developed that Murphy had much
the greater skill and proves.
He won the first fall in
scant four minutes with hiplock. and
| then he repeated the dose in less than
| minute in the second bout. W. ID. Ellis
was referee, and he performed an inno-
walton that surprised everybody familiar
with wrestling rules. Murphy seized a
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| him to break the lock. Thereupon the
| referee, thinking 1t was his duty, pos
sibly. to assist the p!ucky little amateur
in complying with the precautionary in
| junction of the second, deliberately
walked on the carpet and took Murphy's
| arm away from Norbert. But it made
| no difference, and Murphy was not in
| the least disconnected.
There is now talk of getting up
| match between Murphy and German,
the lad who defeated Herbert at the
| armory short time since. under the
aupiceS of the National Guard Athletic
association.
The final event was lightweight tug
of war between Hamline and volunteer
team. The Y. Nj. G. A. should have
furnished the team, but, for some rea-
: son not explained. only one member of
the team was present, and that was
Olson. He came all the way from Owa-
tonna to keep the engagement. The
Hamlines won by nearly six inches.
The other team did not seem to care to
cover themselves with glory, and it is
suspected that it was their intention to
placa.e the Hamline boys. ANYHOW. AS
it was, all parted on most friendly
terms.