The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-05
BUTTE News.
HALL ADAL| A MARVEL
Moth Was but Child in His
Hands.
A GIANT IN STRENGTH
The American Champion Displayed tn
Greatest Science, but 1t Did
Not Avail Against the
Turks Great Muscle.

A crowd of 700 or 500 people assembled
at the old Butte skating rink grounds, in
the rear of the library building yesterday
afternoon to witness the wrestling contest
between Hall Adali. far-famed by his pet
nickname, THE Sultan's Lion" and
Charles Moth, the champion Graeco-Ro-
man wrestler of America, and nearly as
many more perched in windows and on
roofs of adjacent buildings and saw the
bout without paying for the privilege
The contest couTs only be called contest
out of courtesy to the man who has
thrown the best wrestlers this country
has produced and won the title to an
American championship for it really bore
NJ semblance to a contest. Moth, as clev-
er as he proved himself when he wrestled
Tony Jenkins at the opera house some
weeks ago, and herculean as he seemed
when he tossed Billy Woods about the
stage like a toy on the same occasion
was in the hands of the Terrible Turk
like a child would have been in his and
yet the exhibition one-sided as it was.
was one of the best entertainment among
the various kinds that were furnished for
crowds, for one felt it worth ones while
in going just to witness such a marvellous
exhibition of physical strength and Prov
ess as the Turk gave.
The Turk was to throw Moth three
times in 80 minutes, catch-as-catch-can.
He was awarded the match after the sec
ond fall, Moth declining to wrestle longer,
claiming a foul, which the referee de-
clined to entertain, and when Moth failed
to come up at the call of time the deci-
sion was given to the Turk. The decision
was very generally accepted by the crowd
fair and just.
The Turk is a marvellous piece of hui
manity, whose title aptly fits him. 1t
was stated that he weighed 293 pounds as
he entered the ring. He looked it, and
barring possibly trife too much girth
did not appear to have an ounce of su-
perfiuous flesh. Moth is a big man. but
beside the Turk he looked like Lilipu-
tian. Moth displayed much the better
knowledge of the game, but his science
awaited him nothing against the great
strength and weight of his gigantic an
tagonist and once the Turk had him on
the mat it was only a question of how
long he could prevent a fall.
Preliminary to the main event Larry
Gleason and William Jones, two local
wrestling celebrities, gave a highly en-
tertaining exhibition of Cornish wrest-
ling, first Illustrating the different holds
and then wrestling two falls, each win
ming one.
At $3.50 Hall Adali and Moth mounted
the stage, the Turk coming first and it
was at once apparent that the sympathie
of the crowd were with the smaller man,
for the Turk received a very scant greet
ing while Moth received an ovation. Jo-
eeph Klaffki was selected as referee, and
the men shook hands. 1t took the Turk
just four minutes to demonstrate to those
who had hoped for at least fairly even
match that they We're disappointed. After
a few preliminary attempts at securing a
hold the Turk brought his man to the
carpet. and, with the utmost ease, turned
him over on his back.
1t took Is minutes for the Turk to get
the second fall, for Moth now realized
his only show to stand his man off was TO
keep away and not allow him to get a
hoIu. Accordingly he worked to the edge
of the mat and cleverly wriggled out of
several close corners by getting off the
mat when the Turk tried for hold. Some
10 or II minutes were consumed in this
sort of tactics, and each time Moth saved
himself the crowd cheered with the great
est delight. At length the Turk gave up
trying to get his man on the mat and
planted himself on all tours in the center
TO make Moth the aggresSOr. Moth tried
but it looked like a feeble effort. The
Turk had too much weight and strength,
and Moth could no more turn him over
than he could a brick house. Then the
Turk got on top and there was a won
derful exhibition of science against force.
Moths cleverness enabled him to escape
from a number of holds but at length
the giant got a grip Moth could not break
Steadily he turned his man over, Moth