The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-17
GION WINS MATCH
Threw Jack Miller Twice in
Hour and Eight Minutes.
Bout Was Fast All Way and
Sensational.
LENNETT ALSO WINS.
Too Strong for the Wiry Kan
san, Doctor.
Champion GOtch Will Wrestle
Here Next Tuesday Night.

In an hour and eight minutes of
fast and spectacular wrestling at the
Grand last night, George Gion won
two straight falls from Jack Miller
and DR. Lennett won two straight from
Jim Doctor.
The big bout was that of Gion and
Miller. Both of these middleweights
are very fast and as they sprang onto
the mat and tented for catches, they
resembled nothing more accurately
than pair of tonncats charging to-
gether and rolling on the floor. Around
the ring they went, knocking specta-
tors off the ringside seats and then
diving onto the mat.
Gion has a trick of making a quick
succession of attempted holds to dis
.concert his opponent. He seemed to
have q longing for a toe hold, but
Miller, watching, as soon as Gion
would reach for his toe, would jab him
in the neck with an elbow or rough his
head s7
While Miller was 10 pounds lighter
than Gion and most of the time on
the defensive, still he was the agrees
sor and pushed the bout along at a
slow up, he would throw himself over
and dig. around his adversary's arms
and head until Gion was, forced to
take the upper berth.
The bout looked more like a pair of
acrobats in tumbling stunt at times
A series of overhead fiips, each trying
to land on top at the final flop, land
ed the pair out among the chairs and
brought cheering from the crowd.
Miller, the head spinner, put on a
few good exhibitions of head spinning
in breaking away, particularly during
the first fifteen minutes. Gion began
to wear him out by a trick of grip
ping his arms across Mil1er'S mouth
and nose, cutting off his air. In these
times, the New Workers. wheeling
could be heard all over the theater.
with bar hold and a half-NeIson,
Gion got him over on his back when
Miller bridged. Gion leaped upon his
chest and bounced on his knees there
without breaking him down.
A few minutes later, however. by a
series of maneuvers, he succeeded in
getting a toe hold. with which he be-
gan to pry Miller over Then he add
ed a good half Nelson and slowly
crowded the shoulders to the mat,
after 38 minutes Of work.
The second fall came in IA minutes
with bar and toe hold. Miller rush
ed the bout as fast as before and after
a few moments secured a full Nelson
with which he seemed certain to win
a fall Gion broke away, however,
after a severe effort and thereafter
worked with great caution. The
match was one of science rather than
strength and Gion was master of the
bout.
Lennett Throws Doctor.
In the first match between DR.. Chas.
Lennett and Doctor the work was
mostly exhibitional, Doctor taking
great chances to do a stunt. And he
had some stunts to show. His roper
tory of fiips and fops, head spins
and such was complete, but Lennett
is stronger and better built for the
game. Lennett was the aggressor all
the way, but had trouble in mailing
his wiry opponent in any position.
The first fall came in minutes and
20 seconds with a half Nelson and a
bar.
His fall came in a tangle CT holds
brought about by others. Lennett be-
gan dragging him over with leg hold
and a r;<then he switched to a scis-
sors, hammerlock and strange be-
fore Doctor could recover. The fall
took minutes and 40 seconds.
The preliminary match between Ed
Crafty and William Ginks, local boys,
resulted in two falls for Crafty and
one for Ginks. The first fall, won by
Crafty, took five minutes and the 9TH
err two falls little over two minutes
each.
Champion Gotch Coming.
Referee Abbott announced before
the program began that Frank Gotch,
champion of the world, would wrestle
at the same place next Tuesday night.
Gotch is slated for a handicap
match in which he agrees to throw
Jim Asbell of Kansas City and Carl
Becker of Germany within an hour or