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Show SfiNTEL TO MEET DIM IT BE j I Winter Athletic Season toj Open With High-Class Mat Match. j i Special to The Tribune.' i j JiOISK, Idaho, Oct. 23. Announcement niado by Nick Collins of the Boise Athletic Ath-letic club, gives assurance that the fall and winter season of indoor sports will have a most auspicious opening. Ke has secured as an opponent for Ad Santel. , victor In several mat struggles in Boise I and other Idaho towns, no less celebrated j a wrestler than Tom Draak, the champion cham-pion of Holland, who is now in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Both wrestlers have agreed to a finish ' bout to be staged at the Pinnoy theater j Tuesday evening, October 28. Under the ij rules of the Idaho commission, if either i gladiator secures a fall within two hours the match will proceed to an actual fin-I fin-I i.sh. U not, at the end of two hours it i will be decided by the judges on points. j Draak is a husky Dutchman, who came 1 j to the western world a few months ago to 1 r find new laurels after cleaning up the i field In Europe. He started in New York City, winning match after match with ji some of the most formidable heavies In the country, and then went to the Pacific coast to meet the rest. For the last two j months he has been taking them on in San Francisco, making a reputation for 3 endurance and dogged strength equal to anything the bay city has seen in a long time. Go With Lewis. i Last week he lost in a terrific battle to "Strangler" Lewis at the end of an hour ; and eleven minutes. His bout with Santel will bo the first go for him since. Santel, as the fans well know, has been ; ; compelled to go far afield to find a worthy ; opponent to meet him here. In his last match with Romanoff at Gooding, he came out somewhat crippled, and has only resumed easy training in the last fortnight fort-night But he is now declared to be in first-class condition again, and ready for the toughest tussling that 'may be required re-quired of him. Draak is fifteen pounds or more the heavier of the two, tipping the beam at an even 2uo pounds, while , Santel pulled the scale down to just 1S4 ' the other day. But he Is fast and furious in action, as none need to be told in Boise, and is willing to give weight. ! Draak has wired Promoter Collins that he will leave San Francisco in a few days, arriving in Boise the latter part of this woek. Thereafter, for a few days t preceding the match, both the big fellows i may be seen In public practice workouts. The time and place of these will be determined de-termined later. Promises Good Bouts. The Plnney theater has been engaged not only for the opening match, but for the fall and winter schedule of indoor wrestling and boxing events. The range of prices and the opening of the ticket tale for this first big bill will also be announced later in the week. One match does not make a season, or even a night's bill, and there are a number of middle and lightweight wrestlers in Boise and within easy reach, who aspire to grapes that may be garnered here ! when the game Is going good. So Collins ; says that he will have numerous talent, old and new, to furnish the preliminary events for the Draak-Santel match. To t quote him accurately, he says "there'll ' be a raft of new faces and some of them i real likely boys." Just whom to st leot from among these for the first night card. Nick is as yet undecided, but promises some good data before many suns have ; arisen. |