Show MIKE VI AS SICK MAN WHEN HE MET ET BROWN Former Champion Says He Has No Alibis But Declares He Wil Wi Demonstrate II That hat He Wasn't Right By W. W D. D BRATZ BEATZ Mike l YokeL middle weight whom we wo used to caU call champion of tho world the i la is again able to tobe be about bout to town n. n Mike has been confined to his bed ever since strain which ho sus sus- match with Pet Brown in this city nursing a very severe in training three throB days before the mat match h with the tho Texan Havin HavIng Baying at least recovered Mike expects to leave In a few days for Ills his home homo at Beaver Tails rails Pa to visit his mother and regain his bis strength systematic tic training period As soon coon as he feels prior to going to Chicago for a system anything like liko his former self ho lie says he ho will a series of matches wider under t S the tho management of Emil Blank Klank former business handler for Frank Gotch and mcl t Farmer Burns A Although U It has been tren known to only Mikes Mike's closest clout friends friend the little DutChman Dutchman Dutch Dutch- man has been beert a 11 mighty sic sick man and t under a doctors doctor's care care- careIn In ir n fact ho ha started under a a physicians physician's caro M on Christmas da day several days before the Brown ma match Even en Iko's closest friends friend dill not know th that t ho was waa 21 11 until somo orno of them happened to catch him In hi boo bed the day after the match lOatch He lie ha has hOA been confined to his bed er ever since a and nil until Sunday After Atler the match Yokel be helped ed and pleaded that nothing be said about his Illness I 1 dont don't t want ant the fans rans to think that I IC Iam Iam C am trying to alibi myself for or the defeat t t tat at the hands of Brown I 1 was beaten and beaten good When I recover from this I will win demonstrate that I have haxe not been looking for tor an alibi and ami then the theople people ople can JUd judge 0 for Cor themselves Notwithstanding the fact that ho knew ho he was In no shape to go on with his I match Yokel In hi his characteristic manner man ronn- t nero ncr kept It R nil al I to himself Instead of makIng making mak mak- ing known his true condition and having t the match postponed Ho lEo did advise lt e his hla friends b not to make any wagers on his hla chances and many of them thought thou this strange but It U was not until a Il day or two after the match that the they ther I knew the true conditions Suffice by bv saying at any rate rote that his physician and his friends who saw him t after tho the match and had hod a 0 chance to observe observe ob ob- ob- ob serve Berve his true condition were ero surprised cd f to think that he would venture out of hIs Ills home much I less s wrestle a Il tough touch customer cus eus- tomer tomu like Brown I To the writer as al well us ns to many others who have havo known Yokel well onen It appeared mighty might strange to see Yokel go godown godown godown down to defeat as meekly as he ho did dill bo- bo fore tore Brown that nut evening Brown showed that be he i is a n great wrestler as the writer opined the da day following but never yet ct has bas Yokel been seen going coins down to such sucha a n ladylike defeat as he did that night I 1 Just simply had to eo so that's all lU raid Jd Yokel the following day b because cause t every evory time I tried tiled to bridge or use any strength to defend myself I felt relt as If it I J would Liked to have havo screamed After the match It looked aa na If Yokel had Iad met his Waterloo as a champion and I stated d that I believed so In my account ac QC- count of the match but now that I 1 have havo seen lIeen and know 7 J feel as IlS do a dozen others that Yokel Is 16 by no means through as a a. wrestler |