Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-18
BUSCH IS WINNER
German Wrestler Lands M0ehl OF
Pittsburg in Two Straight
Falls at Illinois.
PROVES THE MORE. CLEVER
Although Handicapped in Weight by
20 Pounds, Has Best Of the Ar
gument Throughout.

Carl Busch of Chicago won two
straight falls over Fred Moehl of Pitts
burg in a pretty wrestling match at
the Illinois theatcr last evening.
Busch won The first fall in 20 minutes
and Is seconds, and the second fall in
Il minutes and 20 seconds. The match
was pretty exhibition, and worthy OF
much better patronage than was given
it, Only small audience was on hand
to witness the contest.
As A preliminary match was pulled
off between two youngsters, Eddie
| Utke and Earl Camp. Camp took the
first fall landing Utke in 10 seconds.
The smaller boy, however, tired early
| in the second. and Utke won it in )
minutes and 10 seconds, and the third
after hard struggle in Z minutes and
l20 seconds. The boys both proved
lclever for their years, and gave an in
| tCresting match.
| busch Light, But Quick.
In the main bout, it was soon to be
seen that Busch, though lighter than
|
quicker and more clever man on the
mat and with the handicap in weight
eliminated he was by far the better
Imam. MOehl, however, is a giant, and
| it was by main strength that he was
able 10 prevent an earlier termination
of the match. Time after time Moehl
secured a hold that turned his lighter
Ioppcnent almost to the mat, but each
time the German eXtricated himself,
and in another instant had MOehl on
the defensive. Several times Busch
was forced to elevate himself on his
heels and forehead alone to prevent
being downed.
ii MOchl Does RouShinG.
\ After about 10 minutes of work, in
which Moehl had been on the offensive
the greater part of the time, the Pitts
burg man began rOughing Busch, and
at every opportunity he employed
methods with a view of eXhausting his
opponent This had a tendency tc
( force Busch to harder work, and he
soon was playing his most clever game
Kilt was not long until Moehl was en-
J tirely on the defense, and from the
! time - minutes was called until Ref
cree John VOss finally tapped Busch
as the winner of the fall, Busch had
things all his own way.
Proves Hard Struggle.
In the second it was but few min
, lutcs before both were to the mat anC
} lplaying cleverly for the advantage
MochI tried several times for lee
land shoulder hold, but each time
Busch was able TO break the advan
: Etage. All through the second the tw,
linen employed leg work more exten
< lSively than in the first. At one tim,
) Busch was supporting himself on hi:
( heels and head while he held Moeh
; in a like position, face upward, on toI
( lof him Busch apparently won TIVE
2 falls before he was declared the win
< Iner by the referee, and before he re
Z leased his hold he placed Moehl oil
\ his back twice more. Then in littl
Z talk to the crowd, he said that if Moeh
Z was not satisfied, he would allow hin
< another trial.
VIII Take on DcmctraI.
: Busch stated that he will take ol
( Demetral, the Greek wrestler who ha
!, challenged the winner of the bout, a
! lany time, in Rock Island or else
!, where He will endeavor to secure
x match with the Greek at the Illinoi
= lcarly next month.
al Before the opening of the mattel
* Busch gave an exhibition, shown
3 some remarkable posing and exhibitio
< of his wonderful muscular power. II
s Ishowed his great chest expansion, an
< demonstrated the strength of hi
8 cheek muscles by breaking a heav
5: chain. 1t required six trials to fore
8 the chain apart
= John Voss was referee of bot
g matches, and Mic Christ of Galesbur
. acted as timer.