Show YOKEL BRIMMING OVER WITH CONf DEr GE FEELS IE HE HAS CHAMPIONSHIP WITHiN GA Local Grappler Is Bombarded With Challenges Has Challenges Has Four Bouts in Sight That Mike 1 Yokel Is 19 s the surest man In lii Utah that he will bo champion middleweight middleweight middleweight middle middle- weight wrestler ot of tho the world hl hiM hII r Ign to start about midnight of or February G 5 Is evidenced b by tho Impatience of or the local favorite Mike can hardly wait vait until the night of ot hI his match with Honry Henry Gehring the titleholder which will bo be b by Harry W. W Hearren at the Salt Lake theatre The Intimate friends of or the Jackson Hole postmaster arc aro hugging themes them- them c es gleefully b because canse the they are art dead sure eure that the championship of ot the pound clasi clae will come com to tl Salt l I ike h e within the tho week weel They Thoy t feel l that hat Mike MIko tp o finally has hns been 11 mat spirit which would take a n half haH a dozen Gehr- Gehr Ings to overcome While hile there have havo been few fe bets made mode the tho local backers backer of it r Yokel are arc ready read and willing to cover er anything from a n t pants button bullon to a L national bank banle They The are arc holding back hoping th that t th the Gehr- Gehr ng money If JC there Is as large an amount mount ns os reputed will appear first tho the favorIto favorite favor favor- and make the the- Cleveland man ol a Ito ite giving 11 the local theat men better etter prices for their coin I Mike lIke declares t that At he has worked himself Into IntI tel absolutely perfect condition condi condi- tion and from now until Wednesday I condl-I nl night hl will take It easy working caro- caro 1111 and safeguarding against the thC slightest Injury His Hla finger which was W hurt li ih a recent match at Colorado Springs Is as os strong as ever although Mike still has It taped I I l wont won't be handicapped with a twisted ankle and a 0 broken rib when h n I Inc nc t Gehring Wednesday night as I r Iwas Iwas was on the occasion of our last 1 bout here declared th the challen challenger er yester yester- day lay I will be bo per cent stronger than at an any time in my ring carter carper It will h ho wrestle from rom the tap of ot the song gong and no letup this time No Thin This Tim Time Promoter Harry Harr Hearen who was standing near when MU Mike e finished this unusually long speech added Yes and you jou ou will keep keCi right on wrestling until one ono has gained two falls faUs There will be no dra draw this time for it has been fen billed as a finish match and to a 0 finish It will wilt go go or a a. couple of wrestlers wrestlers wres wres- will their one going back r sc see money 10 0 me ne Mike from tho the number of of challenges that have hn been pouring In Is going to tobe tobe tobe be a mighty bus busy grappler for some sometime sometime sometime time to come First Strong Man Ian Morton Morton Morton Mor Mor- ton stopped off here hero In fact cut his vaudeville e tour to come here get In condition and wrestle the winner of ot the tho Yokel Gehring match Morton who can make the ho middleweight middleweight middleweight middle middle- weight limit and b be strong has amazed some lome of or the local people pc b by hl his wonderful wonder wonder- ful strength Making MakinA neckties out of quarter-Inch quarter steel horseshoes and automobiles run o over or r him are aro a few fow of his accomplishments He Is a wrestler of ability and has hasmet hasmet hasmet met and defeated many of the bl best st t men In the tIme middleweight division He lIe of offered offered of- of to sign up with Jack Harbertson the Ogden mat mM artist t. t but as yet et has shown sho no Inclination to put his signature to tho the articles Now he comes out with a 3 statement nt that th he wants a crack nt at Yokel whether Mike wins Ins or loses In his Wednesday 1 night match leaving Gehring for a fu future future fu- fu ture eastern date Critics who have seen Morton ort n in action declare he has a good knowledge of tho the mat game and has unlimited i strength and endurance I Yokel has Intimated his willingness to I moet meet Morton unless he decides to accept ac ito- the Duluth Minn- Minn date with W Wal Walter Walter Wal- Wal Iter I- I ter Quince Miller And from Omaha comes a n. from the manager of or Tom Long claimant claimant claim claim- ant of the southern championship in tho pound division Long has hils the scalp of ot practically ever every middleweight th that t ever ambled south of tho the Mason and Dixon line and is now out on a still sun hunt for tor the champions of ot other sec lee ec i Long offers to meet Yokel here or I any aimy other place catch as best two in three falls to a n finish the finish the kind liked ert here here and and has all or an any part of 1500 real mone money to put up as a a. aside side bet bat Then tho the third h has K sifted In from Fred BeaU BeaH Mike MIko offered to tl meet Freddie i in a n. finish match at 16 6 pounds but Be BeaU all has hag announced that he cannot cannot can can- cannot not make that weight but has hits sent in Ina a a. counter proposition He Ic declares he will contract to throw Yokel four times limes In any hour If Ie Yokel will allow him to come com In at catch weights which will m mean an that he will v. have twenty pounds the bettor better of the tho weight eight question Mike ha has Intimated that ho Iro is ready rendy to take on Morgan l I Long and Beau BenU as fast as the they can be staged which m means ans one 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I 2 Mike Yokel challenger for the pound wrestling championship |