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Show ASSERT HARBQfFSON WILL MAKE WEIGHT Ogden No Longer Doubt.i Ability of Its Idol to Reach 158. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, May 10. Jack Harbertson, Ogdeu's middleweight wrestler, has re: moved all doubt that may have lingered in the minds of local fans as to his ability to make the loS-pound IK'nit in time for the Pet Brown match, according accord-ing to the statements of the wrestler's training partners. If their statements are true, Harbertson will .be a Jean, thoroughly seasoned wrestler when he takes the mat at the Alhambra theater next Tuesday night as the opponent of the world's champion. For the first time in his career the Ogden man has a first-hand crack at; the middleweight title in his coming ; match with the champ, and his friends assert that he is taking no chances on the weight proposition. The articles provide that the two men shall weigh m at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of tlie i match, the weight to be 15S pounds at ! that hour. It' Brown makes the required re-quired weight, he is to receive a cold $1500 for the match, win, lose or draw. ' Harbertson 's share is based on percent- i age. I For the past two weeks tho Ogden ! man has not missed a day in his routine of training stunts. After his last match , at the Alhambra, Sam Clapham, the English light heavyweight, was added 1 to his list of trainers. Clarjham inrtro-I inrtro-I duced Harbertson into the mysteries of agriculture with the use of an old-fashioned old-fashioned hand-plow pulled by a parr of sturdy work-horses. According to Cfc p-hara, p-hara, there is nothing equal to this work as a means of strengthening the grip antfl improvinrr the arm muscles. Harbertson takes to the road and the mountains during the mornings and may be found at the Pingree gymnasium any afternoon milling around on a mat with' Clapham and the rest of his trainers. train-ers. Only one man accompanies Har-.bertsotn Har-.bertsotn on road trips, the other wrestlers wres-tlers resting up for the ordeal of the i afternoon. The wrestler's friends assert that he has divested himself of every pound of superfluous flesh and the remainder re-mainder of his training is to be devoted ,y co oditioning, in which it will be necessary to take off but a few pounds. The principals have not yet attempted to reach any agreement on a referee for the championship event. Harbertson is saiA to favor Jack Childs or Pete Vis-ser, Vis-ser, while Brown, it is thought, will de-clam de-clam for Will Thornton of Salt Lake. In the event that no agreement is reached by Sunday night, the third man will )e picked by representatives of newspr (ners. The ril"exas champion, who is rounding out his Training in Salt Lake, is making his hca 3 quarters at the Wilson hotel in that ci y. According to information received here. Brown is taking no chances on being overweight. He, too, is taking' to the mountains and roads during tibo morning hours and works out with .Salt Lake wrestlers at the fire station in- that city during the after- Interest that is being shown here in the forthcoming championship event would indie; ite that the match will draw a crowd e en larger than that, which witnessed I'jhe Harbertson-Yokel affair a few montlts ago: |