The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-09
FARMER BURNS
MEETS A TARTAR
Unable to Down Mike I0kel
and Latter Wins the
Wrestling Bout.

ouik Lake !. NJ. &. A.. won MS handicap
match over Farmer Burns at the Salt
Lake theater last evening in the presen e
Of one Of the most enthusiastic crowds Of
wrestling fans that ever gathered in the
city. Yokel won becsu use Burns undertoos
o throw him twice in an hour, but at the
snd of that time Burns had not only failed
10 secure a fall, but failed to come even
lose to it.
Mike was on the defense the entire dis
.anee, and not for an instant did Burns
ct up in his effort to throw the Y. NJ c.
a. boy. lie worked every minute of the
time and tried holds by the hundred, but
none OF them seemed able TO put the Yok5i
al on his back for the required pin fall.
w hen, at the close of the hours work,
inner Brown announced the time was up,
Aokel was given an ovation by the crowd
Coaching from pit to come. lie was quick
~ surrounded by the fans on the stage
sud congratulated on every side Farmer
Burns pushed himself to the front and in
lev words said: Il was afraid to let
myself out at the start and when 7 went
after him I found he was too good and
ne Just beat mo" And this seemed to ut
With the facts of the case.
Start Work After Handshake.
The men dropped 10 the mat almost in
stantiy after the handshake with. Yolsl
1n the defensive For five minutes Burns
NtthAu ldSts taxing various H0iuS
lalt-hedrted Way. evidently feeling Yokel
out, SMILE the latter watched every move
nenJ of the farmer At eight minutes
turns suddenly switched to a toe hold.
ana IL looked like a strong one. A brief
struggle and Mike was free. Then Burns
started for a hammer lock and for fully
tour minutes he struggled 10 pull Mike 5
hand back of him. NOkel fought back and
the crowd was on the anxious seat. Mike
finally broke free and both men were will
Ing to rest a little from their efforts.
Burns started in on the offense again.
and at twenty minutes had not secured
anything that looked dangerous. and after
tWenty-three minutes of wrestling ne sud-
denly switched to a zoe hold, secured one
and tried to turn Yokel over. He did not
come close. but ag; n suddenly switched
TO a double Nelson It was here that
Burns fought violently to turn Mike down
and for a full minute it was Mike s
strength against the Farmers and Mike
won out.
Burns changed his tactics and began
roughing Mikes neck. For full FIVE min
utes he turned and twisted Mikes neck
Into all conceivable angles, evidently en-
deavortng to break down Mikes remark
able defense. At thirty-fvt minutes
Burns again turned his attention to toe
holds and worked for several minutes IN
this manner until the watch showed forty
two minutes wrestling, when he suddenly
grabbed bad double Nelson again, which
looked good.
"a Tough Youngster."
Mike fought his way out and Burns. for
the first time i'm the match. Grew himself
up looked at Mike and gave a shake Of his
head as if to say You are a tough
1 oungster.' Burns began to work dos.
IrcTdtciy from this time on and gave the
most Of his attention to toe aud leg holds.
hut never had Mike in bad place to the
cnd of the match
Both men were perspiriuE freely at tbs
cad of the match. ami 0Uk.l appeared the
stronger of the two.
The match greatly Tesembled the KaUr-
Johnson bout OF two weeks ago. inasmuCii
Burns. like johnson. was on the often
siVe all the time. At that time early in the
match johnson gave up all efforts of using
neck holds and worked entirely for toe
holds. Last evening Burns adopted the
same tactics as johnson, but not until
later in the game Burns frequently
kleeled with his entire weight on Nokel s
Moot or leg as if to force EOkel into a fall.
These same tactics were used by Johnson.
After the match on all sides one could
hear many remarks to the effect that the
match was one of the greatest ever seen
I'm the city il was entirely free from any
fancy holds such as are used IN hippo
droming, but each man was out for blo1ti
from start to finish. Some looked for Y0kei
to so on the offensive i'll the last few min
utes but Mike did not care to take any
chances and played the game to win.
The match was well conducted and han
died, and there vas TO evidence of kick
on any side. one incident happened dur
Ing the preliminaries, In which the rear
sta &c seats fell throwing the crowd to the
stage No one fell more than four feet
and no one was hurt
Burns Makes Talk.
Burns made a hit with the crowd before
the match in his short talk on ''Wrsslen. 80
lie gave a few exhibitions of muscular lie
Velopment that plainly showed ne is far
from being the Oslerized man some would
have him at his age.
Two preliminaries were pulled Off. IN
the first L. A. Smith slipped down on
Alex Floyd i'm 4 minutes and 80 seconds
after Floyd had been the agsressor from
the start
In she second match Dale Deane won
over ID. b. Burgess, the latter agreeing To
throw Desne twice in thirty minutes he
secured the first fall in - minutes and 10
seconds. but could not get the second In
this match Burgess worked hard on the
offense from start TO finish. but was u1-
able to hold his quick and slippery oppo-
uent.
The crowd packed the theater nd was a
well behaved one. The weights We're not
announced. but Nokel weighed about $50
hounds and Burns weighed close to 1sJ
pounds
Try a juicy buffalo steak as served
ct the College Inn.