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Show Nelson and Bear Wrestle A gain on Tuesday Night ,ji "BiS Jim" i a Workout. Heavyweight Grappler Will Get $100 if He Throws "Big Jim." LOCAL sportdom was given a new wrestling thrill Saturday night in a statement Issued by George Nelson Nel-son of the local flro department that lie can again throw "Big Jim," the ISO-pound Alpine grizzly hear at the EmprcsB. Nelson threw the bear last Friday night at tho Empress for" the first tlmo In the four years the animal has been on the stage. Kelson put the bear down with a half cross" bar after nine minutes of back-breaking back-breaking work, and the theator full of people who witnessed tho unusual and unoxpectod feat cheered the plucky grappler grap-pler to the echo. Nelson went on last Friday at the Empress Em-press with the understanding that he was to receive 525 for each tlmo he threw the bear. He threw him once and received re-ceived the money, and after thinking the matter over on Saturday, ho decided that he could duplicate the feat In two trials If Manager Cook of tho Empress would hold the bear over and give him tho opportunity. Nelson Issued hls chal-' lengu, agruelng to post a bet of 1100 that he could turn tho trick. Manager Cook of the Empress was called by phone and advised of Nelsou's challenge, and after a hurried conference with Trainer Stevens, it wus decided to hold the bear over" for Sunday. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and to accept Nelson's challenge for Tuesday night. Manager Cook has drawn tho line at betting Nelson $100 on tho outcome of tho matches, however. "While T have no personal objection to or scruples against betting. I do not feel nt liberty to make the theater which I represent a party to an out and out betting bet-ting proposition," declares Mr. Cook. "So I have a counter proposition to mak which Nelson has already accepted. It is this Nelson need risk not a cent of his own money and he need not nos't a penny, but If he throws 'Big Jim' In either ono of his two matches Tuesday night I will very gladly present him. on bohnlf of the Empress theater, with a crisp, new $100 bill. "I have .arranged to hold 'Big Jim' on my programme for tho first half of this week, and the matches will be put on after the first and second shows Tucs-dav Tucs-dav night. I am not anxious to lose any S100 bills, but If Nelson can duplicate his feat of last Friday night I'll bo a mighty good loser. Mr. Stevens, the bear's owner, has agreed to give Nelson at least ono preliminary workout with the bear before Tuesday night, bo that Nel6on will havo every chanco In the world." Nelson, when seen Sunday at flro headquarters, head-quarters, declared that while ho would have been perfectly wllllntr to put up $100 that he can throw "Big Jim," he accepts Manager Cook's counter proposition proposi-tion and will do his best Tuesday night. "I know that I can throw that bear again." Is Nelson'n declaration. |
