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Show S GEHRING ARRIVES TO TACKLE YOKEL Buckeye Grappler and Manager Both Extremely Confident Fans Form Long Lines in Front f the Box Office of Theatre I H Henry Gearing Is here. Fact. So. this is not merely another rumor that he Is coming- or tliat ho would come if given 90 per cent of the gross receipts re-ceipts of tho house, but Is an announcement announce-ment of his acliial presence. After having: hav-ing: declined scores of invitations, he Is again accepting the hospitality of Salt :MJ Lako as It is exemplified at the -Moxum i H hotel. Gehring arrived at 5:30 yesterday. Pro- ';, moter Harry Heagren, who for two years 4 ' has spun scheme after scheme to al-i al-i ft tract Gehring to Zion. ruslicd forward. J if grabbed Geiiring's hand, looked him over 1 Ff i:arefully and uttered a fervent exclatna-j exclatna-j 4 tlon which Pounded like; "Thank the Jf.'' fates, he's actually here at last." !H Then Ilengren telephoned to his office iv-' discharging the extm stenographer who, vi- for twenty-two months, has been ovcr-k'li ovcr-k'li worked In writing to Gehring the multi-ifcj multi-ifcj tudlnous Inducements lleasrcn's fertile jf" brain lias originated. She didn't cry one tear over losing her job, because she was 4!w tired writing letters beginning "Your ro-A'jl ro-A'jl rsal received. We will now glvo you jui'ti,,. the earth " 5 : Mftl "e1, arfcr n" Gehring" only gets the ii 'i , 'Su HH-,nc as Yokel, which is 50 per cent of 1 , Ulcl lnc nel- l vil1 ,Jc some net, too, dc-i dc-i .v )j spite the highly ornamental ropes and il'IBT improvcmeiU in stage seats, for all day i '''jffr yesterday people forgot about the legls-lalure legls-lalure and were expending all their energies en-ergies In trying to buy tickets. Gehring and Yokel have been responsible for many wrestling matches, but none of them can have been contested morn earnestly earn-estly than several in front of the Salt Lake theater yesterday when anxious amateurs were trying to get within hailing hail-ing distance of the box office. Real Fans in . Zion. Clcvehnd talis Itself tho biggest city in Ohio and It has the backing of the census man. but as a wrestling metropolis metropo-lis It is not to be compared to Salt "What are nl those people waiting for?" asked Tom Scanlon, Gchrinc's manager, when they passed by the th"e-"fhey th"e-"fhey arc trying to get tickets to the Yokcl-Gehrlng wrestling match," suavely suave-ly responded lleagren, Gehring at once began to count. Scanlon Scan-lon looked at him and said: "Didn't I tell you fov" r J rlL l0,lJ me part of ll' answered Koththc mat mun and his impresario were visibly astonished that fans should be competing with one another so early tu the week. At popular prices In Cleveland Cleve-land there is not a wrestler on earth who -ouhl draw a line like Salt Lake fur-niFlied fur-niFlied nearly all yesterday. Gehring is a good deal like Mike Yokel Yo-kel when it comes to making boasts, He would only say he believed he could win and that he intended "to do his utmost." Manager Scanlon, "however, asserted: "We arc going to throw this man Yokel or die in the attempt." Gehring is like Mike in temperament, too, hut there the resemblances end. The Buckeye grappler has that dogged. Btolld disposition with bulldog tenacity and will be the last one In the house to realize his defeat, if he is defeated. Xo matter now many close calls he has. his confidence, confi-dence, like TokePs. will remain unshaken. Neither wrestler has any conception of the meaning of "nerves." "Where most persons have these tingling ganglia these mat men have muscles, so there 1h no possible chance of there being another alter Miller case of hysteria in the Product of Gym. Gehring Is a made athlete and Yokel Ja a natural one. Gehring- hau had the benefit of some of the cleverest teachers In the world, while Yokel lias learned hlefly from experience and his own wonderful knack of adapting others' methodo to IiIh own uHe. Gehring Is tall ' 1 owy'. Yolc,:l ,s short and stocky. I ho Ohloau Itr o feet S2 incheH in height, l;irecJ!.nd thrce-quartcra inches taller than Mlko. lie is said to be one of tho cleverest wrestlers over seen In the ring, : but his war-meet jidmlrers will not deny that okel has more actual etrength. IfisSi 9fiScv years ?e,,rIn& beginning IfiiR sjmnastlcs to save his" heoKh. has fol- ?3'S ,owc,d ru,cil the asceticism of a il&ft monk and from an unpromising physique S . lias developed a splendid human mn- l ' 1 1 ,',.VVe;i ol.c a,Tays wna strong and liiT' Ht-'dctic Lralning has done a groat deal If i), Jess ior him than It has for Gehring, but I i ! ;J ; nature was a lot kinder to Yokel in the H-.'j beginning. U ' i , Gehring last night said that never be- (J) orc in his life was he In better rondt- j'li "on than at present. His face was pale Is it tt 1 and had the strained lines showing ardu- 1 v ' training, but hla dark hair ancon- 1 la ll,nted his pallor and he had just finished I'll 'm -x lon-' d tiresome journey. Tie and his 1 Km "iiinager undoubtedly know his condition t'lia hcsl 'an(1 tne" sa' It tho bebt it ever u'as- 13,11 looked too llnelv drawn and i t ,1a MlB countonanoe had none of the ruddy HiTR zlow "e 'C'1'""5 l" associate with per- I 'Jap feet condition. This, however, may be ? ; iJH the peculiarity of his anpuaranco v.-hen In C3 ondition. Some athletes put on pallor 1 ifciwt w,tn lrain!np and nearly nil of them ; t 8 have llne in their fHces Indicating stress- ! f"1 training, but Gehring's appearance lijJSl icmed to exaggerate these cliaracterin- v i i'rM "Oh. you're looking1 fine." said a Salt I flPji Laker who had seen him on his previous I ' 'Tigagcment here "There are none of J f thoa dark caverns under your eyes , ' nnw." j Gbrm-t umllcd and said he was in the best shaj)e he had ever been in during his entire career. The wrestler and his manager, Tom Scanlon. are both interesting talkers. Gehring is straightforward and utterly sincere in everything he says. Ills manager, man-ager, urbane, cosmopolitan and harboring harbor-ing the belief there never was and never will bo another wrestler as good as Gehring, Geh-ring, Is just as proud of the grapplcr'sr victories as Gehring' himself. It is a wonderful record, too, but so is Yokel's, and which one is the better wrestler is mcroly a question at which a. child can guess as successfully as a veteran sportsman. sports-man. There are lots of fans who want to' see which one Is the champion. Some of them live in Garfield, others in Ogden, Provo, Txgan and other parts of the state, but Salt Iako contains tho majority ma-jority of them. Tho match is the principal prin-cipal topic of conversation everywhere except in legislative halls and everybody Is going or is explaining the calamitv that is keeping him away. Those who go for seats after today will be exceedingly exceed-ingly lucky If they can find any kind left. Gehring was annoyed last night when he learned that some unknown wrestler In a Denver gymnasium was trying to palm himself off as the Clevclandcr. It was a palpable trick to attract attention atten-tion on the part of the Denver fellow and Gehring said he would ask his lawyer law-yer to sec if something; cannot bo done about it. There lifts been little betting thus far. but If any Gehring money comes into sight it -will be covered promptly. So many Salt Tinkers have Avon on Yokel so often that they have taken vows never to refuse to bock lilm. The men aro as ovenly matched as it is possible for wrestlers to be. |
