Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-16
SPORREY PROVES
A TASK FOR TURK
Moline Mat Performer Stays
Twenty six Minutes With
Mahmout.
FINLEY GETS IN ON COIN
Foreigner Fails to Throw Amateur
According TO Promises in
Preliminaries.

With seeming ease Yussif Mahmout,
the Terrible Turk won from Emil
Sporrey, a Moline mat artist last
night, in a match at the Moline the
atre before a large crowd of wrest-
ling fans. Yussif and Sporrey were
pitted against each other for a $500
purse and an additional side bet of
s100. The Turk contracted to throw
Sporrey twice in 80 minutes or lose.
For time it appeared as though Spor-
Tey, a smaller man. was going to make
good. At the end of Is minutes of
struggling and wiggling Sporrey was
pinned down. Throughout the con
test he worried the Turk by creeping
out of several tight places. He used
the head lock and toe hold success
fully. thereby escaping from quick
er defeat. IN the second fall Sporrey.
who had been somewhat worn ont by
the work of the heavier man, lasted
but II minutes and 40 seconds. Both
falls were gained by a body and arm
lock hold.
ONE STAYS LIMIT.
The Turk also got away with the
preliminaries. in which he was TO
throw all corners in less than five min
utes each or forfeit 50 per minute
over five. Seven men faced him, and
only one stayed long enough to get
any money William Finley of Silvis
lasted six minutes and 30 seconds
and so received $3.50 Finley made
his first appearance last night in a
wrestling match for more than year.
He is a clever man and with a few
workouts would have proved hard
proposition for the Turk. John StCnl
lasted five minutes and four seconds,
but that did not bring in any money.
George Nicholson lasted four min
utse and II second. The other wrest-
lers went down in less than three
minutes John Voss did not appear
against the Turk, as was announced.
He would have proved hard propo-
siticn. The other Rock Island man,
Will Gable. was on hand. 1t was Bill 5
first big match. and as he was
the unknown man in the bunch,
Mahmout insisted that he be
: the first 20 be tackled. suspecting
that he was an old hand at the game.
The Turk sailed right in and in
whirlwind tussle put Gable to the mat
in AZ seconds. using d double arm
lock.
GOODWIN FAILS TO APPEAR.
Harrison Goodwin, the Quincy light
weight wrestler, failed to make an ap-
pearance. He was 10 have met Young
Englund Of Moline 1t develops that
Goodwin is III bed, suffering from an
awful whaling that he received at a
prize fight in Iowa last week when he
ran UP against a man in a heavier
class. Burch of Monmouth, lost two
falls to Nicholson On behalf of "Cy-
clone Tommy Thompson of Des
Moines, Burch posted $50 forfeit for
a match with Sporrey. The challenge
was accepted and a match will be ar
ranged for these men. Finley chal-
/ lenged the man who wins the match
/ The one big laugh on the program
was the Elder-Jones match Elder,
though he is not a small man, is con
siderably smaller than Jones, but he
( is faster and knows little more about
the game He put Jones to the mat
twice in four minutes and 40 SECONDS.
This so provoked Heavy Jones that
he refused to go against the Turk as
one of the candidates for the s. for.
feit money.