Show HUSKY FINN TACKLES IRA IRADER PERK SKARDA TO USE GENUINE HOLDS IN ARENA BOUT BOUTo So o Says Who Asserts Asserts Assets As As- sets He Doesn't Need to Resort to Roughing Four wrestling battles all of them of the bloodthirsty fast and furious type ype with a a special jiu jitsu battle thrown in and ond Ira Dern meeting a threatenIng newcomer give Promoter Promo Promo- ter cr R. R Verne McCullough McCullouCh one of the most pr promising evenings of tussling that hat the arena at Ninth South and Main streets has ever seen The new threat t to td Dern is Rudy Skarda pound 20 Finn from Cleveland Ohio Promoter McCullough on a trip tripo to o the Pacific coast grabbed off oft Skarda on his way to New York City where he is Js to meet Joe Notre No No- Nore tre re Dame product in at Madison Madson Mad Mad- Ison son Square Garden under the promotion pro promotion motion of Jack Curley premier t tussling s. s sling ling promoter BOASTS FINE RECORD The tough point with Dern Dem is 15 that Skarda a fast comer corner among coast heavyweights heavyweIght has beaten such men menas menas mens as s Ray Steele Nick Lutze Dr Karl Oki Ok and has de de- Vic Vie Ashby who holds holds a a win over ver over John Kotsonaros Skarda has beaten eaten others but these are men men- tinned because they are arc men who hold lold victories over Dern Ashby has not tussled Dern Derno and has only a draw with the local man man but Skarda has beaten them all aU He Isn't the Prince type of f battler He really wrestles and Dern for fora a change will have to get back ack to the first principles of ot the game ame The local grappler knows what he is up against however and andIs andis ands is s ready for the question as soon as asit asit ast it t is put to him Three other wrestling matches and anda a special event are on the program In n the second of the tussling matches Spike pike Ashby the Flint Mich star meets Hy Sharman western welterweight welterweight welter welter- weight champion in a two out of three falls match Ashby is b. ready for or the local welter He has trained with Henry Jones of Provo sev sev- eral ral times time and has shown more serious se se- rious ious intent than any preliminary tusler ler who has ever grappled in Salt Lake jake Ashby by the way holds three draws raws with Jack Reynolds the worlds world's champion at the weight and Sharman Shar Shar- man nan is only a sectional title holder The bout should be a stirring battle between a couple of clever welter welter- weights LOPEZ MEETS l PANOS Another welter match of promise promises is s the battle between Raoul Lopez the he Mexican champion and Tom Panos Pa Pa- nos os the doughty Greek from Ely Nev lev P Panos nos has proven to be a great grappler ot of the old school while Lopez has shown local fans tans plenty of f class Among the heavyweights Sherm Christensen Salt Lake motorcycle cop op meets Fred Spears local heavyweight heavy heavy- weight in a match that should show a lot of class among the thc preliminary talent alent The special event brings out Ar Ar- Arthur thur lur Hedin classy Idaho grappler against Harry jiu jitsu exert expert ex ex- pert ert in a match in the jackets a 1925 graduate of the U. U J. J S. S A. A C. C is ts a a graduate student of Professors Mi Miyaki aki HIgami and Taga Taga- shi hi all of ot them past masters in the theart theart art rt or science or or jiu jitsu However Hedin Ted in will wUl have his chance for although al al- though jackets will wUl be used in the match anything goes and that gives the he Idahoan his bi big opportunity As usual sual the program will start at promptly Dern ern Los Loses s Portland Scrap to toEd Ed Lewis Lew s PORTLAND Ore April 21 Ira 21 Ira Dern Dem was hurrying back to his Salt Lake ake City home today by airplane for or a Friday night appearance after losing osing to Ed Strangler Lewis in a three fall wrestling match Thurs Thurs- day Derns Dern's roughing tactics eventually brought him grief gref Lewis won the first fall in 19 minutes with a n series of his famous headlocks but Ira evened Jt it up in less than three minutes minutes min mm- utes with a flying mare marc With the d deciding iding fall faU six minutes old Dern the thc former champion The Strangler retaliated by y slipping the Salt Laker clear into the orchestra pit and tumbled out of the ring after him Lewis clambered clambered clam clam- back to win when Dern didn't return before he was counted out I- I |