Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-01-15 | Page 13 | Dern Swaps Wares with Eastern Mat Merchant

Dern Swaps Wares With Eastern Mat Merchant Dean DettOn Delton Awaits Gong for Lindsey Fray Bill on oil Card Ira Dern the Utah master of the thc mat mal since he first broke into the grunt and growl profession faces a touted but locally unknown grappler at R. R Verne McCulloughs McCullough's arena Friday Friday Fri Fri- day night Dern pits his ring wizardry wiz wiz- viz- viz ardry against Floyd Shumate a very much talked of wrestler from Phila Phila- delphia I Dern has withstood the attacks of many eastern wrestlers and has bowed to a few of them and he doesn't expect that Shumate will be listed with the few grapplers who hold lold victories over him John Fre berg the last eastern grappler to win over Dern Darn riled the local man manto manto to such a pitch th that t he avowed he would be the last man to come west and tear off orr a piece of his highly valued sc scalp lp Shumate has different ideas as to the he probable outcome of the match This is just a natural consequence because because because be be- cause every wrestler believes himself a champion Shumate because he has been associating with the supposedly supposedly sup sup- elite eUte wrestling set in the east cast cant can't picture himself coming west to bow Floyd has been drilling daily at a local gymnasium for the past few days and appears to be in fine shape He is a splendid type athlete and unless he is merely a good performer in the gymnasium he should give the local man a gruelling battle Shu Shu- Shumate Shumate Shumate mate who is head headed cd for the coast certainly could demand most any kind of an opponent If he succeeds in pinning the local star in their 90 DO- minute match Dean Detton and Jim Lindsey are arc all primed for their 90 minute gO-minute bout two falls to win as their contribution tion to the double headline program Detton and Lindsey certainly copped the he glory on two previous occasions and history is expected to repeat Friday Fri day night Bill Longson former holder of many amateur titles and a doughty roughhouse wrestler in the heavyweight heavy weight group takes on Al Dawson a rough and willing heavyweight from Ogden This match will open the thel weekly mat festivity ity