Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-22 | Page 12 | Mammoth Crowd Anticipated for Lewis-Dern Mat Feature Thursday

Ct 1 t t 4 I I. I Jj MAMMOTH CROWD ANTICIPATED FOR LEWIS LEWIS-DERN MAT FEAtURE THURSDAY I UTAHN FEELS CONFIDENT OF OF SHOWING WELL Th Three ee Hectic Events Will Support Main fain Attraction One of the not the largest ling ling- larg est crowds of ot the season is 15 anticipated ed by Promoter R. R Verne McCullough Thursday night when Ed Strangler Lewis clashes with Ira Dern Dem In the headline wrestling encounter It Is not unlikely that Thursdays Thursday's match will be the most Interesting o othe of the season because Dem Is 15 confident he can more than hold his own with the worlds world's champion In Jn their last las match mat It Is generally agreed that Dern had the better of ot the tussling until Lewis planted a well directed poke In Derns Dern's midsection Lewis Lewis' crafty way of ot wrestling Is hard to beat and few wrestlers In Inthe Inthe Inthe the country have been able to beat him In the p past t 10 years Ed Don George did whip Lewis but lost the title back to the master showman His 42 summers appear to be no han han- STRANGLER POSTS 1000 GUARANTEE The champion is due In Salt Lake late Wednesday night from Los An An- geles Promoter er McCullough made Lewis post OSt a 1000 guarantee that he would be here for the match airplane trouble or stomach trouble not ex ex- ex Last time Lewis failed to arrive here because of at plane trouble For a a. thousand dollars Lewis would walk over the sands of ot the desert in his bare feet despite his healthy bank accounts The supporting card Is well wen lined up and everything should go of off wIthout without without with wIth- out a a. hitch Barney is waiting for his match mat with Bob Kruse Kruze Portland heavyweight Kruse I appears appear to have a slight edge on his younger opponent for experience but n not t for fight Hy Sharman Is looking around for tor some side bets bete that he succeeds in Whipping Ralph Morley In their one one- hour match He shouldn't have to look ook far as the Covered Wagon Days celebration should bring every everyman everyman man man woman and child chUd in Tooele to Salt Lake and naturally most of them hem will want to see sec their home hometown hometown to town Idol strut his stuff Rocky Brooks Seattle light heavy weIght will arrive in Salt Lake from the he northwest with Kruse and should be e in good shape for his match with Dean Detton in another special event Detton has turned aside nearly everything every every- thing this season and hopes to do likewise to Brooks I