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Show WRESTLERS PRIMED FOR TUESDAY'S BIG MATCH (..: " f r ' ) M . . J) j $mA , , -v.--- . . ... -. : : ; kimmmtmm&mm 1 t mz m: ; : - .: . m mmm mm- m mmmmmm::mk I : ; : ::. i . . : m m mmW wmmmmmmm-mmmi m-m ;i MIKE YOKEL. : V- "-n T A flTT WAH, 'RF.'R.TSON'. Old Mat Rivals Will Engage En-gage in Finish Tussle; Interest Keen. MIKE YOKEL and Jack Harbert-son, Harbert-son, principals in Tuesday night's big wrestling liout at the Salt Lake theatre, - last night announced themselves fit for the fray. Today and tomorrow the grapplers will do only light work, and take a little jog on the roads. Yokel, who has ,been wrestling all winter, was in excellent trim when he arrived here last week from Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Florida. He has been doing most of his training for Tuesday's match i on the roads of City Creek canyon, a favorite haunt of his. In the afternoons after-noons Miko has been performing with his training partners on the mat at the fire station. Harbertson said last night that he had come down to the prescribed weight of 175 pounds with an ease which surprised sur-prised himself. Although he had to put in somo hard licks to take off his surplus poundage, he says it was done without Joss of strength, and he adds that he will step upon the mat in as good condidtion as ever he was in his fe. Fans See Men Train. Large crowds of mat fans have been watching the tusslers every afternoon. Prom the public safety building, where Harbertson has been doing his work, the interested devotees of the sport went to the fire station to watch Yokel, replacing those who had been giving Mike the o. o., and these latter immediately imme-diately went over to watch Jack. In this way there was a constant trickle between the two quarters. Promoter Harry W. . Heagren, who has the match in charge, reported last night that there was a lively demand for seats, lie looks ' for a crowded house. A large number of Ogden fans will come down in the hope of seeing their townsman put the veteran Mike to the ground twice. An entire block of ringside seats, in addition to many other reservations, has been taken by the Ogdenites. To Decide Supremacy. Yokel and Harbertson have met several sev-eral times in the last seven or eight years. Time was when Yokel, then at the height of his career, was Harbertson Harbert-son 's master. Later Jack improved so much that at the last meeting of the two he beat Mike quite decisively. Although Al-though each has been victorious at various va-rious times, the question of which is really the better man has never beeiv satisfactorily determined. Tuesdav 's match was arranged largely to decide the question of supremacy. Harbertson will have some eight or ten pounds the better of it. He will show at the appointed time at 175 pounds. Yokel 's weight will be between 1G5 and ICS pounds. As Yokel's weight will be his natural pouudage and Harbertson Har-bertson has had to cut down with work, the scale point is thought to be about an even break. Will Thornton, accounted the most capable referee of wrestling matches in the west, will be the judge of falls and holds and such like. Colonel Freeman Bassctt will be master of ceremonies and Dr. C. G. Flummer and D. A. Callahan Cal-lahan will be official time keepers. A couple of preliminary matches will be arranged to whet the crowd's appetite for the main event. |