The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-18
ROSS HOT-FOOT|NG
ON YOKEL'S TRAIL
No Sense in Any Wrestler Bar.
ring the Lewis Strangle
Hold.
MAKES STATEMENT TO
THE LOCAL SPORTS
Posts Forfeit Money at The
Tribune to Guarantee Q
Match.

Tho wrestling match between Charles Ross of
Salt Lake and Mike Yokel OF Ogden is still
hanging fire. owing TO the principals bcins un-
able to agree ON the articles for the match
Tho following statement by Mr. Ross 70 Tho
Tribune explains Itself:
Now that Mr. Yokcl has emphatically refused
to give me match unless bar the strnnele
hold. It gives me chance TO make known TO
the public few facts. which have been kept
from tho press and subdued BY friends Of 70
KEEL who know the same to be facts
Comments on Strangle Hold.
went to Ogden to see both matches between
barred In tho first match. Every effective hold
Gleason secured OH Yokel he nado to let
go, strangIel Finally Yokei succeeded in
rolling Gleason and secured fall. Any critic
OF wrestling who saw the match verify my
statement Al two different times they nia-ic
a chancery hold, the only good holds secured
by Gleason. Had he been LETT alone tho icsult
might have been different
In the second match, after wrestling twenty
seven minutes Yokel succeeded in IanJing
Gleason tho FIRST fall.
Yokel Bites Opponents.
The same tactics rcsorted TO. only
worse, When Gleason TO his corner he
showed me his forearm, which had been cut In
at least twenty different places. and the mark
of Yokcl's teeth cut into the flesh I'm two differ
ent places. Tho referee did not as much ~
caution Yokel to stop biting but let tho good
work proceed 1 overlooked ono clause in the
articles forwarded Yokel.
That Is. that he be compelled TO wear n muz-
zle. And still he has the nerve TO say. bar tho
strangle and have clean. gentemanly sport
Talking about barring the strnnglc II Is
merely suggestion to protect wrestlers with
out nerve or with an undeycloped neck.
Regarding the Strangle Hold.
There too many OF this type following the
profession Among the top-notcheTs although
| n
suggested, When HaliAdalI, the Terrible
Turk. came TO this country Evan Lewis. tho
| Stranger, of his first opponents. In
making the match. Lewis's manager asked him
| II he wanted to bar the strangle. Hall did
about oil he could say in Engish-out never
| thelcss. he defeated Lewis with the famous
Lewis stranse hold In all the championship
matches held In London in the last few years
they never think OF barring the strangle hold.
| or any other hold.
Package for Yokel
This man Hokel wants all stransle holds
barred, OF rather no wants all holds barred
| The next thing he viii he asking is that stay
| in Salt Lake the night OF the contest and for
ward my money by express
with the privilege OF barring one or tvo on
account OF their weight. l claim the champion
| ship OF tho Carpenters union and tho Eighth
ward In salt Lake. and think II Mr.. lokel
| is all he claims. he ought to jump at tho
| proposition I have made him. i don't think
| Frank Gotch would make me better PROPOSE
| ton and he weighs at least sixty pounds more
| than do.
Ross Dead in Earnest.
! Now II Mr. YoRel means business. let him
| scn articles OF agreement and put up the
| money, but II he wants n game OF pingpong.
he hail better get In communication with come
ono else
| Sokc may have his way OF talking. but L
| will have my way OF wrestling. and IL ho don
| meet me under The conditions hayo ouered,
| we Will call II of. CHARLES ROSS.
| Mr Ross nlso says that he has l6o-pound
| rnun now IL the city who can get backing
| from 500 to 500 that he can trim fokel. and
| less is ready 10 put up the coin at mo-
| ment's notice.
| Ho has already 800 With Tho Tribune -
! bind n match with Yokel for either himself or
protege.