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Show iMIKEYOKEL AfUD BEELL TO MEET Salt Lake. Jan. 20 The Herald I says: Just now critics all over the world where wrestling la known, are com mentlng on the chance of victory Mike Yokel, the middleweight title-holder, title-holder, has in the match with Fred Beell, champion among the light heavyweights This bout will be offered of-fered the fans at the Auditorium on .January 27, and in the writer's opinion opin-ion will be the speediest and hardest bout the local followers of the mat ame have ever had the opportunity of witnessing Champion Frank Gotch, who Beell once defeated, Farmer Burns and all the rest of the really legitimate men of the mat, declare Beell is the great est man of his Inches and pounds, They declare that there Is not now and never has been a man weighing within a reasonable number of pounds who can trim the Wisconsin mat man. But Promoter Fred Crabbe toon ' this obvious fact Into consideration !when he signed Beell and Mike Yo-kel. Yo-kel. He made the weight 165 pounds at 3 o'clock the afternoon before the Ibout. Now with the middleweight champ eating three square meals a day ami peeping his weight up and Been doing do-ing the fasting, will Mike's sultrier ; strength win, or is the sturdy oairf1 erner strong enough even at the- lo mark of 165 pounds to defeat the local lo-cal Dutchman? Beell defeated Yokel when he was a light heavy, weighing about 175 pounds. Yokel at that time and let it be hoped no secrets are being spilled spill-ed was unfortunate enough to have a match the next night in which he was forced to defend his title This was indeed unfortunate, as Joe Carr rwas his opponent, and Carr at that time was at his best. Now, while Yokel never intlmateJ that he didn't go his strongest and longest against Beell at Duluth for fear of weakening or injuring himself and placing his title in jeopardy the pext evening, it is natural to be'.ieve the wily Dutchman saw the chance. Yokel went down before Beell some time after an hour on a hold he na, never found hard to break In the ,wrltcr's opinion Mike might have stayed a longer route with Beell although al-though defeated later had it not been for the fear of being in poor shape for Carr the next evening, when a defeat would have lost his title. While Mike is reticent about what he can do with Beell at 175 pounds, he Is fairly confident he will beat the easterner east-erner at 165 pounds at a time when he (Mike) is weighing better than 160 pounds Mr. Closc-Follower-ot-t he-Mat-Game think this over. |
