Arizona republican., 1920-05-15
5AUER TUMBLES OLD MASTER IN
 Z IF 5 FALLS
Match Best Ever Held in This City, Developing Sensational Wrestling on Part of Both Men - Mo Adoo Wins 85-Pound Title of State

The mastery Of a Gotch, the strength f of a Hackenschmidt and the cunning | of Stecher combined to make the [ Pete SauerDr. John Berg wrestling | match last night one of the greatest | sporting events ever held in this city. | The Lincoln Giant won two of three | falls from the old master after some of the most spectacular bit of mat work ever seen in any ring, in which ! youth and strength was matehed9 against experience and ring general l ship and craftiness. The program con- sisted of four events, two boxing bouts and two wrestling matches, and all were far above the previous Phoenix standard. The American Legion staged last night $ card ana the local Prank Luke, Jr., post will be directly in charge of all similar events in the future.
 There was but one drawback to make the evenings entertainment complete. and that was the size of the crowd. Less than thousand fans were within the big, spacious, cool 1 open air arena when the big fellows were called together. Considerable eX- i pense was attached to bringing Sauer l and Berg 10 ths city and they de- served far better support than was l accorded them. The entire program, 1 in fact was worthy of capacity I crowd.
 tr EerQ w ants ANOTneF DOQI
 Although he declared he did not want to, dull the glory of Sauers victory I last night, Dr. Berg asserted that he ! still felt confident of winning over his opponent in a return match, which I he is anxious to enter into. He also l declared his willingness to put up side 1 money, which he would forfeit in the ] event of his defeat. Dr. Berg arrived | in Phoenix at late hour yesterday after a 72-hour journey, to the effects of which he attributes his failure to floor Sauer twice.
 The first II minutes of the match i were uneventfuL but interest grew to fever heat when Berg got Sauer to the mat with q hammerlock- Only the youthful vigor of Sauer saved him from the terrific pressure applied by : his opponent. Berg maintained the of fensive and at 12 minutes was using a strong toe hold. which was broken by Sauer after an agonizing effort. Sauer was again in precarious position when Berg pinned him with a. com hined crotch hold bar arm and head lock At 24:3 B minutes Berg won the fall with a headlocI1 and arm scissors.
 Sauer Takes Offensive
 With the losing of the first fall, Sauer took a strong offensive, which he maintained to the end. Berg had Sauer in sore straits at six minutes with a toe hold. Sauer then managed to get a similar hold on Berg, and after a short tussle both came out of it. At eight minutes Sauer secured a firm headIocS and placed Berg in a pre- carious position.
 Then. with q succession Of fast tan gling, Sauer brought the crowd to it's feet, and at 19:15 minutes won the fall with a toe hold
 Interest in the match was at it's height at the opening of the final struggle which Sauer opened on the Inf fnY0c SsrFa F5t.eE ,sr, utes had passed Sauer got a toe hold which for some minutes appeared to be too much for Berg. With a combi : nation of toe hold and half Nelson, Sauer brought his opponent to the mat, Sl and at S:I2. after taking terrible pun ishment, Dr. Berg's shoulders were forced 10 the mat for the final fall. Katazennaras and Myres, both light heavit S, have challenged the winner to matches, the date of which will be am nounced later
 MeAdoo Wins Title
 The preliminaries to the big event
 which consisted of a four round box ing exhibition by Terrible Brusso and Rufus the Second, which was won by the latter; a wrestling match between Ralph King of Glendale and Kid Carl | of Phoenix, which was won by the ] Glendale entrant; and a snappy four ) round boxing match between Bobby \ McAdoo and Young Dougherty for the 2 S5-pound championship of Arizona 7 won by McAdoo. were received with : great interest by the spectators. IT all three of the preIims the partici- . pants put all their energies into the game, adding greatly to the interest of the occasion.
 Before the coming out of the prin- cipals of the evening, a straightfor- ward talk was delivered by Captain
 Hardy of the Salvation Army, who . | anT1Ral lad 577
 drive for funds. A gratifying sun
 was collected from the fans when the
 hats were passed for contributions.
 Lieut.. lake Erhardt of the fire de-
 partment, representing the American
 Legion, acted efficiently in the capac-
 ity of referee.
 Alexander Baker of the Frank Lux, post addressed the crowd at the be-
 ginning of the evening on the pur. poses and aims of the American Le-