Show AFTER FARMER BURNS Charlie Ross Sends a Deft to the Hawkeye Wrestler It Is very probable that local sports will be privileged with seeing a rattling good wrestling match within tho near future In which the local favorite Charlie Ross I and Farmer Burns the admitted middleweight mid-dleweight champion of the world at catchascatch can will be the principals A short time ago J E Shaver representing repre-senting Ross wrote to Farmer Burns proposing the above mentioned match and asking for an Immediately reply on the subject Yesterday afternoon he received a reply which heads aomewhat as follows fol-lows 1 have about five matcher on my hands now and 1 wont be able to get out jour way until about February kith But it there Is n good pile of money in sight Ill be there A guarantee or a percentage percen-tage proposition will be all right 1 think I can make most any one go ut ICO or 105 pounds Three out of five shall be necos sarj to win otherwise the match shall bo governed by the rules governing all catch ascatchcan contests Manager Shaver immediately sent back the following I reply Ross will take you on at HiS pounds for the middleweight championship of tho world I will deposit a side bet ranging from S500 to J10CO the winner takes all Including the gate receipts re-ceipts Mr Shaver considers this a fair offer as It Is and thinks that If Burns Is really In earnest that he will jump at tho chance Burns Is the most remarkable man in the wrestling business at tho present time He Is to the wrestling world what Jllalrnmons Is or rather has been to the pugilistic world For years he him remained the unquestioned champion of the middleweight class with nono to dispute dis-pute his title He has not conllncd himself him-self to this class alone but has traveled around the country taking on all comers to all of whom he hns ns administered the same medicine He often has printed on the official programme where he Is to wrestle offers to throw any twelve local men within one hour the contest to take place immediately after the main event has been pulled off This gives a slight Idea of how seriously he considers most of the men against whom he has been pitted Burns has one of the largest farms In Iowa and when not engaged In wrestling spends his time thereIn there-In his long career Burnu has only lost one fall when wrestling In his own class and that was to Ross Ross did not train a single day for the match and wont Into It more from curiosity than from an expectation ex-pectation to win moreover Burns had the advantage ten pounds In weight Much to his surprise Ross found that the I champion cham-pion wasnt so much ahead of him and after twenty minutes of torrlflc struggling succeeded In winning tIme flria fall The champion better condition came lo his rescue at this Juncture and ho llnnlly disposed dis-posed of the untrained man ROPSS local work Is known and Ince his triumphant match wIth McLnughlln he has been a popuar favorite with I tho local sports |