The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-21
.DRAAK IS VICTOR
 OVER KANDRAT IN
 STRAIGHT FALLS
Fast, Spectacular and Clean Cut Match at Athletic Club Last Night Pleas
 ing to the Fans
By JACK BETHEA

By JACK BETHEA
 Those sport lovers of Birmingham who saw the Draak- -Kandrat match at the Birmingham Athletic club last night re- ceived the worth of their money in full measure-heaped up and running over. Possibly there have been matches in Birmingham in which it required long CT to reach a decision but certain it is that there has never been one which was so thoroughly enjoyable as an ex- hibition for red-blooded men.
 Draak, as had been forecast, won the match in straight falls-32 minutes and 16 minutes-but he had all that he could attend to to pin kandrat to the mat for the required length of time. For the winner it must be said that his like has not been seen in Birmingham before and for the loser that he put up a game fight and made numbers of friends by his work.
 Both men are to be commended in that their work on the mat was clean, that there was no stalling and that it was work, work, work, from the call of time until the winner was proclaimed. Both men for their size are wonderfully fast and their recoveries bordered on the marvellous. Draak was the stronger and the more finished wrestler and that Kan drat was able to stay with him as long as he did and give him as much trou- ble as he did speaks volumes for the latter.
 START WORK EARLY
 When the gong rang, both men went at it full tilt. Kandrat broke ground and for the first 20 minutes forced the fight ing Draak was hard pushed at times and was worried by the frequent use of the scissors. Kandrat clung like leach and the men worked from one hold into another almost without a pause. It was this that won such enthusiastic com mendation from the 400 fans who had
 ed to witness the bout
 As time pa assed the work became more strenuous with precipitation pouring from both wrestlers to attest the labor which they put into their work. Kandrat grad ually gave way under terrific punish ment of Draak who refused to give him a minutes rest, but kept after him continually.
 Times without number it seemed that hold had been secured which would bring a fall but each time it was broken by clever and spectacular work. Draak has a trick of jumping out of hold which is all his own. Kicking straight into the air, with h.s shoulders as a base and his legs as a lever, he wriggled out of holds that seemed unbreakabie. This feat must be seen to be appre- ciated. Kandrat said last night after the match that it was impossible to hold the Belgian once he got his legs free and began kicking. There was, he said, such terrific force behind his jumps that there was nothing to do but let him go.
 The first fall came with dramatic sud- denness. Kandrat, although growing per- ceptibly weaker, by a sudden rally se- cured full nelson on Draak, which grew into a body hold. With tre- mendous heave Draak reversed the hold and from the bottom came to the top pinning Kandrat fast.
 SECOND COMES EASY
 The second fall required but half the time for the first and came with the same hold which Draak secured by lit erally throwing Kondrat over his head.
 That it was a popular victory. the en- thusiasm of the crowd attested. Draak, by his clean wrestling, his hard work, the absence of .'stalling" from his mat work has won many friends in Birming- nam WnO VIII pc Bldu lo see HloIe ol him as the bouts which have been planned by the Athletic club continues.
 And, as was said in the beginning, no matter what the outcome of the match was, the fans got value received for every nickel which went to the club.
 The preliminaries were very enjoyable. The first match between John hoberts and Fred Jones was the best of the two Jones won the match with two falls to Roberts one. Both youngsters were busy the entire time on the mat, and in that only Il minutes was con- stunned in the three falls shows how fast it was. The match between Morris Reinfeld and Jonathan Roach ended in draw after 20 minutes of wrestling with neither appearing to have an edge. The battle royal was the best present. ed in a long time.