The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-22
Pretzei Artists Pull Good Show
 With Eight Bouts
Gordon Mum a Receives Two Brok en Ribs
 During Fracas

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 Juneau's muscle benders last night put themselves in solidly with the channel fight fans--they arrived. Though fighting before only mod erately filled house, the show they put on registered with the crowd.
 The audience was well sprinkled with feminine faces, and the din was not unmarked by unladylike yells.
 Main Eventers Walt Gaston and Bill Walthers, went for two out of three fails, with Gaston hanging victory on the judges sheets. In the match between Gordon Muma and Gene Eustace, the crowd cheer ed a draw decision-but Muma car ried two broken ribs from the ring.
 The two High School pretzel ar lists, Gil DeVault and Mike Dan iloff, put on the same sort of a snappy exhibition for the curtain raiser that they showed with in De- cember, but Daniloff outrushed his rangier opponent to win the one fall.
 But ladies and gentlemen, the bout of the evening that stole the show, was that -battering face making, grunt and groan dish that Doc Webb and Bill Donovan cast to a roaring house. Doc got the first fall with a double ankle lock and Donovan did not come back but though Donovan did not return, the fans got their moneys worth in another one of those tangles where the referee got mixed up in the bout and came out with only shreds of shirt hanging from bare shoulders
 The evenings tally showed as follows: two broken ribs, one sprain- ed angle, one ripped white shirt and Ia pleased audience.
 Main Event
 In the final bout of the evening, Bill Walthers stepped barefooted into the ring at 160 pounds and Walt Gaston, at ITO for a no time limit best two out of three grap- bling contest.
 Both men came out to the. center of the ring fast, Walthers slapped a step-over toe hold on Gaston, who wormed out, got a head lock on Walthers and chucked him over in a body slam.
 Walthers snapped out of it and grabbed Gaston in a body scissors. Gaston broke it with head lock, but lost it and fell into a pile driv- er-Walthers lifting him off the mat by both feet and dropping him back time and again on his shoul- ders.
 Tired from his jolting, Gaston then got the underside deal on a body press that developed into a Walther's head lock. Gaston fi- nally snapped out of it and cracked a head scissors on Walthers which Bill shook out of.
 Gaston circled back to his much loved ropes, swung back and forth for added power, then charged Wal thers across the ring-but missed and took a header under the ropes and into Row One.
 When Gaston came back, Bill slapped him with flying body scis- sors followed by step over toe hold, then a leg split, which when he lost it he worked into figure four body scissors.
 Breaking, Gaston charged from the ropes, but Walthers dropped back on his shoulders and booted the Old Mexico grappler back to where he had started from with a well directed mule kick.
 Gaston came back, threw Walthers with a body slam, but Walthers played dead until Gaston fell into a Walthers figure four arm scissors and an arm lock that ended in the first fall going to WaltherS after ten minutes of knot-tying.
 Bill grabbed leg split, they trad- ed, then Gaston threw Walthers in a series of four damaging body slams ending in head scissors.
 Walthers then chucked Gaston over in a body slam and grabbed wrist lock Gaston jerked out and