The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-23
PEMBROKE
LOST BY FALL
Was Unable to Continue
Wrestling Match With
Shimkus
LATTER AWARDED
THE $500 STAKE
The Men Had Been on the
Mat for About, rs
Minutes

A fall upon the slippery hardwood
floor of the armory hall in Montpelier
last evening stunned Bernard Penn
broke, the coming young wrestler, sc
badly that he was compelled to forfeit
the match to Joe Shimkus of Barre
This accident happened after the two
men had been on the mat % minutes
exhibiting some clever work The mat
which was nailed down in the center of
the large armory hall, was rather small
and several times the wrestlers worked
off onto the dance floor AT this time
Shimkus and Pembroke were up on
their feet near the edge of the mat
parleying for hold. In breaking from
"a clinch Pembroke lost his balance,
striking head first upon the solid floor
ing and there he lay until assisted to
the dressing room by his father, James
Pembroke, and others.
Pembroke was in semi-conseious
condition for many minutes after being
escorted to the dressing room, where
DIR. l.. A. Newcomb assured, after eX-
animation, that no fracture of the skull
had been sustained The injury was to
the mastoid nerve behind the left ear,
the physician later found at the second
examination at his office This termi-
mated the evenings performance, for
the crowd soon dispersed.
After two amateur preliminary bouts
Shimkus and Pembroke appeared be-
fore crowd of spectators that filed
the armory hall balcony as well as all
the ringside seats, while many were
compelled to stand Pembroke, who
was easily outweighed by the carnival
wrestler, showed considerable science
and on two occasions had Shimkus in
bad holds
The crowd was chiefly cheering for
the Capital city lad until the match
was suddenly terminated by the re-
grettable accident. Dave Spicer an
nounced soon afterward that the match
was a victory for Shimkus, who later
received the $780,
Other Events Put On.
To entertain the large group, Prof |
Albert Shapiro of Norwich university,
an exHarvard champion of the 1876
pound class, consented to demonstrate |
with Shimkus various and world famed |
holds; then he later exhibited other |
wrestling tactics.
The sudden termination of the chief |
bout was the second disappointment of |
the evening, the first being the failure |
OF the boxing opponent of Jim Chimney, |
William Dalton, who had agreed to 90 |
three rounds with the ex-service man
and former high school athlete. Out of |
the crowd, Ernest Baker volunteered |
He is much smaller than Chimney and |
was outclassed in science, and for three |
rounds he suffered considerable punish
ment with hard, heavy gloves. Despite
his handicap of shorter reach and
slight knowledge of the game he gained |
the admiration of all by his gameness.
The first preliminary was wrestling
match between two Norwich students,
G. D, Stevens and N. H. Marsden, now
striving for an appointment to the ath.
letic team of the school. In this bout
Referee Shapiro barred the full Nelson,
the toe hold and the strangle hold.
Stevens, who outweighed Marsden by
10 pounds, the former weighing 100 and
the latter 1870, was given two seven
minute periods to throw Marsden in
order to win small cup offered by
Dave Spicer The match ended draw
Pembroke was ordered by the doctor
to rest up for day or two before tax
ing part in any athletic contest. For
this reason he was compelled to cancel
a bout in st. Adams scheduled for this
evening.