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Show 1 JOE STECKER TO I MEET BURNS H Boston, Jan,. 18, Joe Steelier, the H "Nebraska plowboy," will make his H first appearance here Friday in Me- H chanics building against "Cyclone" H Burns. Stecker is easily the great- H est sensation the mat game has ever H seen, and his work in the west has HL been such that the majority of hlgh- H grade wrestlers have found It conven- Hj lent to be booked somewhere on dates H offered to meet this remarkable young HI man. H Stecker will bo opposed by Burns HI in a match to a finish, Ijest two out of Hi three falls, and while few figure that HI Burns has a chance to win, ho has ln- H variably proven a tough opponent for HI even the greatest men of the game. H An. Instance of this was his wonder- foul battle with the great Mahmout at a time when the latter was as much feared as Stecker is today. Yet, In spite of Mahmout's great reputation, Burns met him and battled him for ' forty-one minutes for the first fall and a little over twenty for the second, sec-ond, a feat that was considered impossible im-possible even by wrestlers of reputation reputa-tion much greater than that held by Burns. Burns has speed, and speed and trickiness, combined with wide experience, ex-perience, will forco Stecker to a point where he will have to show his best wares. That Stecker can be held is shown by the fact that It took him thirty-three minutes to defeat Mlchall-off Mlchall-off in Kansas City recently, and hear in mind that Burns has a win over the elongated Cossack. So that on the face of it Burns looks to be able to force Stecker to show his best work. In the matter of build and weight there is very little difference. Stecker will have eight pounds advantage. Ho has powerful legs and a "scissors" hold that is a terror. Burns has a great pair of legs himself and a head scissors hold from which few men have ever escaped when he has clamped it on solidly. The Nobras-knn Nobras-knn means that Stecker will find himself him-self against a man who is almost uncanny un-canny in his scienco and power and who wrestles by instinct and thus avoids traps into which other wrestlers wrest-lers have easily fallen. |