The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-28
The Match Resulted In
a Victory for Tim
Harrington.
Me Secured Two Straight Falls
uNrSs Fail MADE I'm Four Minutes aud
rive seconds Ztehr Defeated
Dwyer In Catch-As-Catch-C Can.

Dwyer In Catch-As-Catch-C Can.
The wrestling match at the Italia
Hall Saturday evening between Tim HaI
-srington and Will Fisher resulted In vic
tory for Harrington. he taking the frs
'cewofalls. The match was a good on
while Ii lasted and the entertainment
gthst was provided by the manager OF tn,
affair, Martin Messner. in addition to tn,
smesch between Fisher and HarrrinRtor
made very fine athletic entertainment
Mr.. Messner certainly showed himself to
be SHE to get up an event OF that kind
aGnd conduct il in very satisfactory man
ner notwithstanding the many obsta.
Sclea that came in his way. He set about
60 pull off the much-talked-of match and
at the same time assure those Who at
Tcesded their moneys worth aud they GER.
'.tsiaiy got it Saturday.
The first thing on the program was a
Unstch between couple OF youngsters.
They gavea fast exhibition and did some
pretty work which caught the fancy OF
'ttecrowd. Thecatch. as catch-can match
tseeween Ziehr and Dwyer was very good
and proved almost ii not fully as inter-
-ssting as the principal event OF the even
! ing.
.Eiehr rather forced matters from the
start and several times had his man near.
,ly points down when he would wiggle
out. BE himself came nearly going once,
but saved himself by clever turn. After
tsifteen minutes OF clever wrestling Zehr
rdnally forced Dryer on his back and won
the fall
The exhibition given by the Laurium
athletic club was. as all the attempts OF
the club are, ye-y good athletic exhibit
tiou. The tumbling was particularly
ine and some OF the tricks would do
credit TO professional man. Messrs
Harrington, Meyers, Hensle and Martin
doing particularly fine work both in the
vsumbiing and on the horizontal bar.
1t was rather late in the evening when
the match bet xeen Harrington and Fish
ser was called. Messrs. Fred Trathen.
James Smith and George Swinton were
chosen stlcklers. Martin Meesner acted
as dmekeeper. There were three or four
bitches tried before either occurred a fall.
Both men seemed afraid. but Fisher ap.
2esred TO be trying to get a hold all the
time while the other held him off and did
not give him chance to get in. Har-
ringtoa was awaiting his opportunity,
Severe1 times the jackets would slip over
the head OF one or the other OF the wrest- |
iers and they would rest for short time.
After little time Harrington finally got
safsu- 1t took minutes and s seconds.
Alter the first fall both were more care
ful, although Fisher tried several times
Tor an opening, but Harrington was wary
enough to hold off and wait for his
chance again. There were one or two
bitches and then Harrington got his
opening and won the second fall. A
cheer went up from the audience when
the sticklers announced this. Fishers
frieads claimed that it was not fair fall,
that it was a rolling fall.
The match settles a long. talked-of
AFFAIR, for the relative ability OF the two
cinen has been the eubject OF much discus
sion since the tournament last summer
at Laurium when Fisher threw Harrlng-
ton.