Salt Lake Herald | 1896-11-17 | Page 7 | Bruin Too Sleepy to Wrestle

BRUIX TOO SljEIEPY TO WRESTLE ExMayor Swarlzs Novel Election Wager Indefinitely Postponed Sioux City Ia Nov 16Just before election exMayor Swartz agreed to wrestle Al Hirbours cinnamon bear in the event of Bryans defeat I the boy orator chanced to be elected he was to receive two silver dollars When I McKinleys election was assured the old gentlemans friends hastened to remind re-mind him of his promise Swartz said he remembered but that he wanted two weeks to get himself in training The winner agreed and began selling reserved seats for the exhibition He forgot however what his opponent had well in mind when he bargained for time bruins habit of spending his winters in a comatose condition and while the excitement was at its height the unaccommodating brute retired for his three months nap Mayor Swartz is wreathed in smiles and the whole I affair is off till spring