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Show DANISH WRESTLER IS . HERE FOR A MATCH There will be a lot doing this winter in the wrestling way if H. H. Egeberg, the Danish mat artist, who has just arrived ar-rived in New York, makes good his threat to down the best of the heavyweights heavy-weights of this country. Egeberg is the champion Graeco-Roman wrestler of Denmark, and he has come to this country coun-try looking for new worlds to conquer. The great Dane Is a wonderfully built athlete, says an exchange. While he lacks many pounds of being as heavy as some of the Terrible Turks and Horrible Hor-rible Russians who have been seen on the mat In this country, he has weight enough' to make him formidable to any man In the game, and muscle enough to pin them all to the mat if he gets the right hold. Egeberg wants to get on a mah with John Plening. the American champion, right off the reel. He dees not want to wate any time meeteing second-raters, To show that he means business, his manager will post $1000 to bind the match as soon as Plenln'g says the word, and the money can go as a side bet if the Yankee wrestler wants to wager that much money on his chances. |