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Show (KG PROMISES TO I IEET TOM ON MAT IN FALL Middle Weight Champion Will Give Mike First Chance. Henry Gehring of Cleveland, tb middle mid-dle weight wrestling champion of the world, baa promised to give Mike Tokel the Srst chase at him who th mat game open up for it regular eso in th east. Thi message ha beea repeated re-peated to Yokel, who is training on hi ranch In Wyoming, pitching hay in the sunshine stripped to the waist to harden himself. Otto Ross, who looked after Gearing' Gea-ring' interest when th latter came out here and met Yokel at the Halt Lake theatre, wanted to arrange a meeting meet-ing between the two here Labor day, and wrote to Gehring about a moath ago bout tb matter. He received a letter let-ter in reply three weeka ago, in ,which the' middle weight champion aaid his bosines interest would prevent his making trip to th west, but that he would give Yohel the first chance at him thia fall in Cleveland. "He offered as good a proposition aaj he got when he came here," aaid Ross todav, "and I think there ia no doubt that the match between Yohel and Gehring Geh-ring will materialise. I wrote to Mike shout Gehring 's answer." |