Arizona republican., 1910-06-12
SPORTS WANT TO KNOW"
ABOUT WRESTLING MATCH
An Evening Paper Stamps the CHS
tensen-Basz Match a Frame
up"-Just Why 1t Wasn't.

The only topic of conversation yes
! terday at sporting headquarters in
| front of Eddie Doyle's cigar stand was
the Basz- Christensen match An ar
ticle in an afternoon paper limiting
| strongly that the affair was a frame
up was discussed, analyzed and crit
! icised. Christensen and his manager,
| Delzell, were both indignant at the in
situation. Delzell said that he spent
most of the night with Christensen.
| that the man was undoubtedly injur-
ed and that yesterday he passed part
of the day in bed.
The question that the local sports
want settled is Was the match a fake
or was 1t not a fake"
Christensen has wrestled three
matches since he came to Phoenix a
few weeks ago. The first was with
Jeffries at the terrific odds Of five
throws in an hour for Christensen.
Jeffres is no amateur and Christensen
is not a national champion, and the
feat of throwing Jeffries five times in
an hour was all but impossible. He
failed in the attempt. winning two
falls while Jeffries got one.
The men were then matched evenly.
The shrewd prophets said that Chris
Jensen would win because it vas his
turn. and ne did, getting two falls to
Jeffries one.
1t seems To have been Christensen's
intention to leave Phoenix after that
match but the great interest shown in
matches by the crowded houses made
il look as though third match would
prove profitable even though held the
same week as the second. BalsZ then
challenged him and he accepted
1t seems to be clear that Christensen
had no intention-and still has none
OF going into any more matches in
Phoenix for a long time at least. and
therefor he could have no reason for
throwing the match to BalsZ TO create
interest i'm a subsequent contest with
him. II those who cried Fake" at the
close of the Balsz- Christensen match
when Christensen walked off the stage
before the hour was up, had paused
for a moments thought they would
have realized that a frame-up perpet-
uated in such Il Grass manner was well
nigh inconceivable If a definite agree
ment had been made beforehand that
would have lost by being thrown and
thus escaped the censure of the crowd
that always jeers at one who quits
whatever the cause may be. There
were plenty of opportunities during the
AZ minutes of wrestling in which
Christensen was i'm jeopardy and the
easing of q muscle would have meant
a fall. To BalsZ' credit. But nothing Of
the sort happened. Christensen faced
the odium he knew was coming and
walked off the mat There is no other
except that he was unable
to continue on account of injury.
The public wants a contest and not |
an exhibition-and there is a distinc- |
tion and a vast difference. In the |
latter case the result is known to a |
select few before hand but in a contest |
no one knows the termination. Which |
Of the categories either of the first
two matches come under is not under |
The final match was pal
pably honest.
one local sport expressed his belief |
IN the squareness of the Balsz- Chris
Jensen match by saying, Il know it
vas straight because Doyle lost ten
dollars to Sam Dunlop on the match"
Come to that Booster show. Air
lone.
We deliver the goods Therefore the
nvil chorus. Airdome.
The Booster" show Airdome
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