The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-12
VRESTLEO THE TURK
Jack Ryan Stayed Eight Min
utes With Hall.
COST EIGHT SIM0LE0NS
I'm NORRIS GAVE M'MILLAN A
GOOD MIX-UP.

Tr the ncighborhood Of 500 people
took their evening constitutional out in
tho direction Of the salt Palace arena
last evening and dropped in to see the
Terrible Turk" break his Caucasian
brrfhren in thrice pieces and bump
their Anglo Saxon herds on the pro-
safe canvas. This tke man from the
land of the sultan succeeded in accom-
piishinC. ana it all furnished an enter
i3inment that tickled the crowd.
Th, features Of the evenings matches
were those between Jim Morris and d.
Mcmillan and Jack Ryan and Hall
hJaH. the last M med being the Ter
rib.r" himself Perhaps more interest
conferred in these two events than in
I'm. others. because Norris and Ryan
gra local men and they entered on
propositions that indicated that they
were expected To be picked up and
"furn" down and that that was all
There was to- be about it. But they
didn't see II that way. and that's why
tn contests were pretty.
Morris Does Well.
THE first match was between Nc
MILAN and Morris, the proposition be-
ny that Mcmillan would put him down
I'm ten minutes or forfeit S25. Il looked
for time as though the plucly Utahn
would hold out, and the skill he mani
tested i'm escaping tight places elected
hearty applause from the crowd time
and again. Mcmillan tried over and
over again 20 get a hold that would put
Norris on his back. but every time he
thought he had it. Morris was over on
his stomach or his knees.
1..+ after rArCpirinpr q WORKING
hard for seven minutes and thirty-eight
seconds. Mcmillan got a half Nelson
and scissors on Morris, and the Utah
man went over on his back. He was
NJ again like a wriggling eel, but the
required three points had touched. and
that ended il.
Then came the star event of the
evening The Turk made his first APP
uearauce. looking graceful as an ele-
uhant and coy and shy like just-out
debutante Ryan appeared few sec
onds later and the two were introduced
In the crowd by Referee Schefski amid
applause. They shook hands and then
things mixed. Ryan di5rt wait for
the preliminary fddling that usually
accompanies a match. He was 10 re-
ceivp "a dollar a minute f. every min
ute that he kept off his back. and he
assumed the aggressive right from the
start. and his first move was to make
q beautiful football tackle around the
Turks sylph-like knees.
Didn't Know Football
Naturally. Hall was surprised at the
tactics but never for a moment did
RYAN have him disconnected. They
squared off again and once more did
Ryan. who is an old college player.
make one of those tackles thai would
send an enthusiast into ecstacies. But
that wasn't wrestling. and the Turk
soon settled down to business. He scis-
sured Ryan, but Ryan didn't go down,
and all the time the dollars were get
ting more
When IT got up to eight of them the
Turk began to realize the seriousness
Of the situation. and he got Ryan on
his side and gradually rolled him over
until he was down. Ryan was so eK-
hauSted that he had to be carried from
the track. and the Turk glistened from
persyiration like the moonlight on the
lake And the band played to him.
"Tl Leave Ny Happy Home for
Nou-ou-oo-oO.'
other pretty exhibition matches be
tween the Turk, Farmer Burns and
Mcmillan followed. and the evenings
'u'ertainment was voted TO be huge
success.