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Show JORDAN MEETS PARKER TONIGHT Champion Chris Jordan and Archie Parker who meet in a finish wrestling wrestl-ing match, best two of three falls, for the world's championship at the Sail-air Sail-air hippodrome tonight, are now read to step onto the mat and the fans are looking forward to one of the best houts ever seen in this neck of the woods. Parker come6 here from Pittsburg with the reputation of being one of the roughest and toughest propositions proposi-tions in the wrestling game today and he cannot see anything but a victory vic-tory Of course, Jordan Is just as confident that he will retain the championship for some time to come and Is already making arrangements for several other matches in trhlcll the world's title will be at stake Parker has not taken kindly to the statements that he is a rough man on the mat he says he is no rougher than any of the rest of the wrestling clan, but that he has beaten most of the good men In the east and the others, realizing that he was a dangerous dan-gerous man, have used this subterfuge subter-fuge to avoid giving him a chance to Win the championship title. How-aver, How-aver, he has now got Jordan tied up for a match and says he will show-that show-that he can throw him and will not have to resort to any rough work to do it, either He also said that if there was any rough work done on the mat tonight Jordan would have to start it as he intends to keep strictly within the rules, as he doesn't want to win the title under a cloud Jordan is uot worrying over any rough work that Parker ma attempt as he is pretty rough himself if he 16 compelled to be. and says if Parker Park-er wants to rough It he Will probably bo accommodated Jordan, moreover rays ho would rather lose the championship cham-pionship title than to resort to unfair tactics to retain it. Jim Stanley, probably one of the best wrestling referees in this section of the country, wae selected as referee ref-eree yesterday afternoon at a meeting meet-ing between the wrestlers and Isaac Frumkin, who is promoting th bout- The thirty minute preliminary he-tween he-tween Eddie Schmidt, German cham 1 pion, and Arthur Macke, a pupil of Mike Yokel, will start promptly at 8 30 and will be followed immediately by the main event, so there will be no delays Special trains will be run every 45 minutes beglnniug early in the forenoon and will run until all the patrons of the resort are back. |