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Show I WEIGHT LIMITS ARE HSREGARDED Champion Brown Wants to Meet Yokel at Catchweights in Sale Lake. Salt Lake Nov 17. Champions and nar champions, boxers and wrfstlors nowadays disregard weight limits whenever It suits their fancy, and pet away with it "Pet" Brown the Texan, who lifted the mlddleweipht wrestling title from Mike Yokel Inst Bprinp. is the latest nnp to pass up th" poundage question. ques-tion. He wants to meet Yokel here at catchweights, and at the same time defend the championship Fred C. Crabbe, who has been trj ing for weeks to get the names of the principals to a set of articles has noi given up hope of stoking this match and said yesterday that he believed be-lieved he would have Brown b re within (en flays and that he would be willing to make something npar the middleweight limit of 158 pounds. Yokel will arrive from his Jackson Hole ranch in a l w days and will start training at once for whatever bouts are in slsht The Brown-Yokel match would be a choice morsel for the intcrmoun-tain intcrmoun-tain fans. Mike has been the favored fa-vored son of the Salt Lake fans for yeara and whenever they see him matched with someone they feel will give him a battle or stands a good chance of defeating him they flock to the bouL The return match between Yokel and Jordan brought out a record : crowd mainly because the fans, al- I ways curious, wanted to see if Mike was going back or If Jordan's win was a fluke. For that same reason they will back up the local Dutchman, in hi6 battle wkh the Texan, that is. if it ever comes off. I While on the question of weights who is the light-heavy wrestling champion? cham-pion? Fred Beell cleaned up the 175-pound ers and had them pleading for mercy. mer-cy. Then he came out here, mad-1 165 pounds and lost to Yokel. Which makes it appear that Mike holds the lipht-heay crown. All of which leads up to the fact that Ceorge Nelson, Nel-son, the local fireman-wrestler, has become tired of fus3ing around with the small fry and wants bigger game If Yokel is the hight-heavyw eight champion he should get some action on the honor. Nelson doesn't care particularly who holds the title, but whoever he is George wants to wres- tle with him. If Yokel holdfl it. Nelson wants a try at it, but iT Deed didn't throw off the title when he shed himself of about ten pounds making weight In. e then It Is Beell Georgie is after. tnorge now is matched with Big Bd Smith of Cheyenne for a boui at Preston. Ida., on Thanksgiving night. The war has done some good aiir all it ha? kept tin- European wrestlers wres-tlers at horn.- That great army that every fear floeks over here every member a champion of something or -nm m I c has faih d to show up this year And from the looks of things they will be absent tor some seasons to come. Leo Uressen always .vas an unlucky cuss. When in this lea cue he was either afflicted with a busted tool or a Btralned eyebrow. Then he ..von i to St. Louis and sal on the benc h almost all of thp season, and now comes the news, an echo of the Omaha Oma-ha meeting that he is to be tradi fl lo the Pirates along with Ken Nash and Hub I'erciue lor I lam Hyatt. In Re, the trading business, en-paged en-paged in so extensively in years past bv Hie managers at the annual meeting, meet-ing, did you notice that there wis hardly a whisper arose at Omaha about" "deals" The manager? undoubtedly un-doubtedly talked trades but they were afraid to talk to the reporters lor fenr that some of the trades mlghl not take kindly to b'.dng Bhu around the circuit and do B hurdle to the Federals And for the Same r ,ismi uoodlv number of drafts hav.' not been made public With .ill the talk about the Federals doing a swan sons It appears that the 0 B Crov I still has the highest regard for th2 pilfering ability of the Gilmor aggregation. |
