The evening times., 1911-08-21

Perkins Never Knew What
Hit Him When Sullivan
!. Got Busy
Some time in the far distant future
one certain Vim. Perkins, now of Park
River. N. D., and who. according to his
own declarations, came to North Da-
kota to "get" Doran, the Crystal
wrestler, may be able to look back to
the events Of Saturday night, August
10. and smile-but that time will be
long in coming. Just at the present
time it is no laughing matter for Mr..
VIM. Perkins-whoever he may be or
wherever he may have come from.
The joke is all on Perkins-and it's
too good to keep-and that is the .rea-
son that Park Rivers wrestling fans
and the Crystal wrestling fans and
a few others who have been wised up,
are holding their sides today.
Challander, the Mysterious Conduc-
tor" played the role of the "un-
known" opponent Of the aforesaid VIM.
Perkins-and he did it so gracefully
and SO successfully that it was sew
eral hours after the wrestling bout
of Saturday night that someone got
onto the joke-and the cat was out
Of the bag. But-for the story.
The Deep Plot Laid.
Perkins reached Park River several
weeks ago and he had been there only
a short time when he made known his
presence to Observation-Disclosures the
latter to finish match. But Doran,
who handles wheat, felt that this was
no time of the year for him to lay off
and train for wrestling bout, SO he
matches "W. E. Sullivan" for go
with Perkins, the event to take place
August 10.
1t was when the Challender handi-
cap match was pulled off in this city
tShat the plans for the Park River
event were definitely worked out, with
Challender scheduled to go to Park
River in the role of "W. E. Sullivan"
and meet the mighty unknown.
Saturday morning Challender hied
himself to Crystal, and that evening
Doran, promoter of the match, es-
corted Challender and number of
Crystal fans to Park River for the
fun.
Sullivan Unsophisticated.
The meeting Of the two men was
interesting, as was the laying Of the
preliminary arrangements. Intro
lduced as Sullivan, Challender had lit
tie trouble indicating to his opponent
that he didn't know much about the
game, and when 1t came to a question
of dividing the cash, that was left
entirely to Doran, sullivan" declar-
ing that he knew little about the man.
ner in which those things were ar
ranged.
So Doran and Perkins conferred
i with the result th1t the winner was
\ to take all the gate receipts. They
amounted to only S27. =
And SO the men went to the mat
Just what struck Perkins that gem
tleman probably is unable to explain
even at this time, bat the match had
been going only few seconds when
he found himself down with his
shoulders pinned to the mat. The
referee, however, failed to give the
fall Immediately, and Sullivan look
ed up to see where the referee Was
In doing SO he allowed Perkins to
raise one shoulder slightly, but he
was Immediately sent back again. The
same act was put on once more, but
on the third occasion the referee call
ed the fall. The match had been on
exactly one minute-sixty seconds.
The double crotch and bar arm had
been used on him.
Another Minutes Work.
Perkins was not satisfied and ref
erees were changed, and the second
round was on. A half scissor and
face lock-and Perkins once more
was star gazing-and one more min
ute had sped by
Two whole minutes of wrestling had
been given the Park FLYER crowd, and
Perkins evidently felt that they were
entitled to more of it, making objec-
tion to the face lock with the result
that Sullivan" conceded to give him
a third fall.
And one more minute of wrestling
was given the crowd-for it required
just sixty additional seconds to put
the Park River aspirant for mat hon
ors on his back. A crotch and scissor
on the head did the work.
Then the Revelation.
And then came the unveiling.
Naturally the Park River crowd be-
gan to wonder who this Sullivan"
was. A short time later when Chal-
lender was seated in safe with about
thirty or forty others in the place,
we'll dressed, smart appearing young
man entered the place and walked
straight up to Challender.
Pulling forth a newspaper repro
duction Of a cut Of Challender and
laying it before the latter, the new
entrant wanted to know "who that
fellow was''
why" replied Challender, cant
you read? 1t says there that he is
the Mysterious Conductor"
HUI" replied the Investigator, che
looks to me as though you and he
might be the same person and guess
that is the fact. Good night"
Going to Pull His Head on.