Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-11 | Page 9 | Lewis-Lutze Headliner to Launch Mat Season

Lutze Lewis-Lutze Headliner To Launch Mat Season I. I Fridays Friday's Opening Card CartI Forerunner of Brilliant Season Season Sea- Sea son sou for Salt Lake Grunt and Growl Fans Local Promoter Declares With Willi three mat tussles of an hour and a l half hall each to top his program and a battle between Ed Strangler Lewis arid and nd Nick Lutze as a l feature Promoter R. R Verne McCullough is ready Friday night to swing into what he ic confidently believes will be the greatest wrestling season the fans ans of Salt Lake have ever experienced The season opens Friday night at McCulloughs McCullough's McCulloughs lough's arena at Ninth South and Main streets For two months the doughty Scotchman Scotch Scotch- I man mart has been pulling wires making trips compiling and signing lengthy length legal papers to back up his ills claims He announces that he has connections with many prominent eastern and western managers so that he can match any or all of the national figures figures fig fig- ures in the heavyweight tussling sport and asid usually obtain them even earlier than the California promoters promoter Ample proof of his claim clam of a greater wrestling season can be seen In his s success in obtaining a match between Lewis and Lutze Like Babe Ruth in baseball the Strangler is no chicken and doesn't claim to be I Like Babe Ruth he remains the thc most stirring and dramatic figure in the game He has been b beaten ten only onca in more than a decade and that b by Jim Browning from whom he has has' since earned a draw He held the worlds world's undisputed heavyweight title longer than most men arc are able to stay in the game Lutze Lute is one of the younger set who developed since the fad for collegians in wrestling Not only has he won his way to the top but has defeated every I leading ding contender for the title Among those heavyweights known to Salt Lakers whom he has sent spinning spinning spinning spin spin- ning are arc Dr Carl John Freberg Freberg Fre Fre- berg Abie Able Coleman Joe Everett Marshall Howard Cantonwine Cantonwine Canton Canton- wine the well vell known Wladek Zb Zbyszko Dick Dick Daviscourt Prince and others less known in Salt Lake The other 90 minute time limit matches bring out the best of ot the Utah I talent developed eloped by McCullough It includes a match between Bill Longson Long- Long son and Al Newman for the Utah heavyweight championship only a l state affair but an important one nev In the tl third rd match Del De Kunkel welterweight newcomer anc and Ashley Smith former University of Utah stare star clash in an important battle batlle As an aperitif for the all star program Promoter McCullough has matched Arthur Hedin of Idaho and Jack OHara O'Hara of ot Texas in a n time limit fray