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Show YOKEL UP 1 TETOi AHGH BEARS Local Wrestler Realizes He Must Be in Best Condition lo Conquer Miller. Away up In the shadow of the Teton peaks. Mike Yokel has begun tho hardest campaign of conditioning which ho has ever attempted since he bocame a wrestler. wres-tler. On Monday, May 21, Mike meets Walter Miller of St. Paul In a llnlsh wrestling wres-tling match at Saltair, and he realizes that upon the result of this match depends de-pends lily future In I he mat game. The winner of the Yokcl-Mlller match is going to meet Henry Gehring In a finish match here ;ibout July 1. Miller, Gehring and Yokel arc admittedly the three best middleweight wrestlers In I he United States today. The championship rests between them. Yokel met Gehring in what was to havo been a finish match here. After three- hours and thirty-eight minutes of wrestling both agreed to call It a draw, as neither was In any condition to continue. con-tinue. Since then Yokel lias wrestled Gehring three hours at Cleveland, neither nei-ther getting a fall, but Gehring winning the decision on points. Then Mike tackled Miller at Kt. Paul. At the end of two and ono-half hours of the hardest kind of wrestling Miller was declared the winner on points. Harry Hcagren has planned the elimination elim-ination tournament which will settle the championship. Yokel now has his chance to gain the coveted 1 1 lie. and he Is leaving leav-ing nothing undone to got Into the very best of condition. As soon as the articles of agreement were signed he hiked for his ranch In Jackson's Hole, there to do toi days of preliminary training This training will be confined to road work and then he will come back here to finish his conditioning, because there are no wrestling partners up thre. When Yokel goes on the mat against Miller local fans are going to see him In better condition than evor before. Many people here bellcvo that Yokel can not be thrown. Mike knows just what Miller and Gehring can do. and the best evidence evi-dence In the world that he does not hold them any too lightly Is the manner In which he has set to work to got Into shape. |