Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-08-04 | Page 31 | Wrestler Who Meets Demetral

Wrestler Who Meets Demetral JOHN BERG. i i . ' With the arrival yesterday morning of John Berg, the Portland grappler who Is to try conclusions with Bill Demetral, at Cooley's park Wednesday night of this week, the two heavyweights are busy with their training. Berg took hla last workout vesterday afternoon at fire deparment headquarters. With a hundred fans clustered around the mat edge, ho went against three huskw youngsters, and n was evident from tho tap of the gonp that Perg will glva Demetral De-metral all the t;r.-ek will care for. Thic is the first close range look at Berg, the local sport lovers have had anrl he has every appearance of beiiiK a hnrd, tough mat urtl6L His leg are powerful and he has two or three teg holds that are ald to be aa hard as anything Gotch ever dsvlsad. He i rough In his work and works fast. Promoter Dan MeCo says H Is the most evenly matched mat bout here m years. Berg had this to say: "The Greek Is not an easy man to throw and he Is getting better right along. How much he has improved sine I wrestled him last. L of course, don't know At that time I am confidant I would hsve thrown blm had ha not gone through the ropes on bin head and tsken the count. A two out of three fall catch -as-cat'h ean match suits me exactly, and whlliB I do not look for a victory under un-der two hours, I believe that the match won t go much over that time: I have a trick or two I can turn on him that T think will get me my first fall within forty-five minutes. The last one wlU probably prob-ably be a little longer and harder."