Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1911 — Murbarger Again Successful la Wrestling Match With Egener. [ARTICLE]

Murbarger Again Successful la Wrestling Match With Egener.

Saturday night’s wrestling match was not very well attended and it \» apparent that the busy times on the farm are cutting the attendance and it is probable that some are tiring of the game. The match was between Sam Murbarger (Tom Coburn) and William Egener, the latter contestant being from Brazil. The-men were about the same weight, but Egener is tall, while Murbarger is short and Wocky. The match was not nearly as spectacular as some previous. ones, but seemed to be contested on its. merits. After 6 minutes and 40 seconds during which time Murbarger seemed to have the best of the match Egener became the aggressor very suddenly and with little apparent difficulty pinned Murbarger to the mat. He had a half Nelson and bar hold and also a crotch hold. It looked as though Egener was much the best man. The second fall was won by Murbarger after 23 minutes of wrestling. Egener for a time had no difficulty in breaking Murbarger’s holds and the match was quite rough for a time and Egener appealed to the referee to stop the roughness. Murbarger claimed that he was unintentionally rough. After vain attempts to procure a hold Murbarger suddenly fastened a half Nelson on Egener and forced him to the mat. He seemed powerless to break the hold and his struggling was in vain. The fall seemed to exhaust him almost completely and he was comparatively easy the third down, being thrown in 7 minutes, again with a half Nelson hold. During the progress of the last round, a challenge was read from Charles Olson, the light heavyweight champion of the world, whose home is in Indianapolis. He offered to wrestle the winner in Rensselaer. Arrangements are making for thiskaatch which will probably be held next Saturday. It will be the last match held here until fall and the reputation of Olson will probably bring out a big audience. He has made and saved more than 2100,000 by wrestling and is ranked with the best wrestlers in the world, having stood 30 minutes against Hackenschmidt only a month ago. The preliminaries last Saturdaynight were by small boys and were very good. Mike Porter evened up with Victor Fawcett for the fall two weeks ago and Roy Koepkey won from Johnny Horton in two straight falls.