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Show HARBERTSON, WHO MEETS JONES TONIGHT Jack Harbertson of Ogden and David Da-vid Jones of Malad, Idaho, are to wrestle tonight at the orplieum theatre the-atre for the-middleweight championship champion-ship of the world, of which Harbertson Harbert-son is the present holder. Judging from the records of both men. though Jones has only been in the professional ranks for a comparatively compara-tively short time, the bout should be the most interesting one that has been staged here in several years. This is indicated by the fact that Jones recently defeated Frank DuCray who put up what was considered by the local fans to be the cleanest and fastest bout of the past year with Harbertson. The local man was within the weight limit yesterday when a num- ber of fans witnessed one of his workouts work-outs and their opinion was that he was in condition to put up a great battle bat-tle He Is confident of keeping the title, though he expects a hard struggle. strug-gle. Jones is encouraged by his success against DuCray and also against Harbertson whom he defeated several weeks ago in a handicap match. Both men have plenty of hack-era hack-era and, in addition to the large number num-ber of Ogden lovers of the sport, a big party of Jones' friends from Malad is expected to be at the ringside Two fast preliminaries will be staged, the first a bout between Rady and PrPShaw, and the second, a battle royal, between five other local wrestlers. wres-tlers. The program will begin at S-30 o'clock. |