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

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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
interesting as the two bouts between
the Indian an dthe Scotchman and
there wasn't a man in the house who
did not feel that he got more than his
moneys worth.
1t was a fight from the first call
of time and up to the last 10 minutes
of the wrestling it looked much as if
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 a veteran who, in his prime,
was pretty nearly king of the mat.
Time and again the magnificent
strength of the chief would give him
a temporary advantage. always block
ed, however, by the shrewdness and
thickness of the big Scot.
The chief stripped to about the
average rotundity of a lodge pole and
alongside of the canny Scot he looked
like 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
dian would pick up the burly white
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 a 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 vise
Two Feathers showed a speed and
strength rarely e1ualed in the ring
and his endurance was on par with
the rest of his work. At no time did
he show even the slightest sign of
distress,bu went at his work with a
stolidity an dcalmness 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 half Nelson or try 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
time, too, his lightning quickness
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
after a hard tussle In which the hon
ors were all to the Indian. He took
the offensive right along but when
the tricky Scot would slide cleverly
out of bad hole, he would land on
the bottom with Mcmillan on top.
Then would come desperate work on
the part Of "Dunc" 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
1t was impossible then for Mcmillan
to put down the two shoulders.
With an extraordinary display of
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 a seconds time,
would again be fighting for
his life in the terrible embrace of the
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
which made 1t impossible for the
brave to escape. With a mighty ef-
fort the chief broke the fearful lock
and with a 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
1ne unlucky instant. That was
enough for his undoing. In flash
Two Feathers dragged Dunes" arm
For a hammer lock an dwith a mighty |
eg lock on the Scots head settled |
Town In a crushing turn which put |
points to the floor swiftly |
md irresistibly and scored the first
'all for the redskin. !