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Show YOKEL TO COfflJCT LITTLE MATTQURIiEY Will Engage in Four Bouts on Trip; Numerous Challenges Chal-lenges Received. Pretty soon Mike Yokel is going to be an extremely busy boy. Yesterday Mike completed the final details of an arrangement arrange-ment with himself whereby he is going to wrestle four handicap bouts. "One must eat," quoth Mike, "and how else may the poor wrestler obtain sustenance sus-tenance than by diligently pursuing his art?" Mike's first bout will be next Tuesday at pocateilo, where he encounters Art Chester, a well known and highly accomplished accom-plished grappler of Idaho. Yokel is lo be handicapped in regard to time. Yokel's next match will be with McGarroll at Boise, a heavyweight. McCarroll is a wrestling instructor In the Idaho capital. Yokel is supposed to throw McCarroll some time, and unless he is himself flattened, the bout may go all night. After the Idaho jaunt, Yokel returns to Utah. His next match will be at J-ogan with Davy Jones, whom southern Idaho folks claim as their own. To wind up his little tournament. Yoke! will undertake under-take to nail the Giant Chris topheraon at Lehi. Chris topherson weighs 220 pounds or more, and was one of the participants in a preliminary to the Yokel-Brown match at the Salt Lake theater a year ; ago. After Pet Brown. Following his tour, Yokel will likely go ill search of Pet Brown in the wilds of Texas unless Pet is heard from in the meantime. Mike thinks that middleweight middle-weight crown doesn't fit the Texan half so well as it does his own noble brow, anil therefore he is going to win it back, il he can smukc out the Lone Star man. Meantime challenges are coining in at a fairlv high average rate. Yesterday afternoon Gus Pappas dropped in to say that he wanted to wrestle Yokel, "or any other man." Gus Is a coast grappler and a good one. He recently beat Tony Ajax tit Los Angeles in a spectacular match. Pappas Is on the trail of Jark Harberl-sou, Harberl-sou, too. Gus says he wants to meet the Ogden man on any terms and under anv conditions flarherlson may designate. desig-nate. Catch weights. Pappas says, are agreeable to him for a match with Jack. From Kilonis, Too. Also there came yesteulay to The Tribune a I'ierv challenge from John Kilonis Kil-onis "the Greek Lemun," whose home town is Manchester. N. H.. but who writes "en route. Chiekasha, Oklahoma. ' 1 he Green Demon sets off the following firecracker fire-cracker under Yokel's chair: r wish vou would publish in your sporting columns my challenge for vour local man. Mr. Mike Yokel. I have been anxious to meet him for a -long lime and have challenged him several sev-eral times bv wire in difterent matches he had and he didn't accept any Now I have decided to take a trip west and I expect to visit your citv and will force him to give me a match. And to show him that t am confident in winning. I will meet him in anv condition he wishes winner take all, side bets, in public or private, but must be in the middleweight limit. If Mr. Y'okel does not want to meet me in his home town, let him come east and meet me in my home i, Manchester. N. H.. or P,ostcn. Me can gel as much or more money than he gels in his home town. I hope Mr. Yokel will accept this challenge and it will be a little surprise for the Salt Lake sports. I thank you for your kindness for publishing my challenge. s a matter of truth and therefore of fact. Kllonls is just about the best oi the newer middleweieht crowd, and if a match between this New England Athenian and Yokel could be arranged basalt ba-salt l.ake some lime in the future, the wrestling fans of this town would unquestionably un-questionably see a ureal tussle. |