The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-22
World of Sport


match ever seen in Spo-
kane Dune" Mcmillan, the veteran
all around wrestler won the handicap
match from Chief Two Feathers at
the Auditorium last night. Nothing
in the way of athletics has proved as
the Indian an dthe Scotchman and
there wasn't a man in the house who
did not feel that he got more than his
worth.
1t was a fight from the first call
of time and up to the last 10 minutes
the Indian would be the winner. But
the youth, suppleness and wonderful
strength of the Indian was pitted
against the experience and general
ship of veteran who, In his prime,
was pretty nearly a king of the mat.
strength of the chief would give him
temporary advantage, always block
ed, however, by the shrewdness and
thickness of the big Scot.
The chief stripped to about the
alongside of the canny Scot he looked
like a sapling spliced to a cottonwood.
But there was an extraordinary
amount Of strength in those lean
arms and that slender body as was
evidenced occasionally when the In
man, lifting him bodily from the floor
and hurting him down with a force
which would have made an ordinary
man look like the remains of a falling
water pitcher. Mcmillan today is
paying for his victory with badly
bruised side, injured in the terrible
embrace of the chief an dis also nurs-
ing a dislocated thumb joint which
happened to remain too long in the
Indian wise.
Two Feathers showed a speed and
and his endurance was on par with
the rest of his work. At no time did
he show even the slightest sign of
distress, but went at his work with a
stolidity an deafness which con-
trasted strongly with the nervous
painting efforts of his white opponent.
The snake like wriggling of the
Indian saved him time and again
when Mcmillan would get him into
dangerous positions. The Scot would
clamp on q half Nelson or try a ham,
mer or cross bullock an dit would
look as if the Indian was tied up in a
knot. All of a sudden there would be
a sharp wriggle, a flash an dthe big
Scot would go up in the air and
Two Feathers would land half way to
the other side of the mat. All the
was used to force the struggle and
he never lost the fraction of a second
in keeping at the white man and cut
ting out the pace.
The first fall came in 20 minutes
ors were all to the Indian. He took
the offensive right along but when
the tricky Scot would slide cleverly
out of q bad hole, he would land on
the bottom with Mcmillan on top.
Then would come desperate work on
the part of Dune" to win the match
with his one necessary fall. He
would jam the brave over with diff
ferent locks generally ending in a
half Nelson which would force Two
Feathers to the mat for a point But
it was impossible then for Mcmillan
to put down the two shoulders.
With an extraordinary display of
strength Two Feathers would bridge
and with a wriggle and a slide he
would go out from In under and once
more, in a fraction of seconds time,
Mcmillan would again be fighting for
Flathead.
The first fall came following a
clash in which the Indian was borne
down, his head locked in the white
mans muscled arm In a manner
brave to escape. With a mighty ef-
fort the chief broke the fearful lock
and with marvellous head spin arose
in the air an dlanded on top of Nc
MILAN.
The white man was used up with
his magnificent burst of speed in roll
ing over the chief and wavered for
one unlucky instant. That was
enough for his undoing. In flash
Two Feathers dragged Dunes" arm
for hammer lock an dwith a mighty
leg lock on the Scots head settled
down in a crushing turn which put
points to the floor swiftly
and irresistibly and scored the first
fall for the redskin.