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Show 00 i JOE TURNER ARRIVES WITH HIS BELT OF DIAMONDS Joe Turner, holder of the Police Gazette championship belt for middleweight mid-dleweight wrestlers, arrived in Ogden Og-den early this morning on Union Pacific Pa-cific train No-. 19, and passed the dav looking over the local field for a training partner and a place to work out. The famous "belt" was placed on exhibition in the show window of i the Falstaff cafe on Washington ave- i nue and will remain there until Wed- nesday night. , j The Washington wrestler was taken ta-ken in hand shortly after his arrival in tho city by Manager Joseph Goss of the Orpheum theatre, who is promoting pro-moting his coming bout with Champion Cham-pion Jack Harbertson and late this afternoon arrangements were made for him to work out at the local fire station "gym" with Pete Visser. He appears to be in splendid physical condition con-dition and will give the fans an opportunity op-portunity to see him in action, at tho fire station tomorrow afternoon frpra 4 to 5 p. in. Turner came to Ogden from Marys- ville, Tenn., where ho defeated Joe Lavelle last Wednesday night, taking two falls in 55 minutes. During the preceding week, he defeated George Finby, a middleweight, at Middlcboro, Kentucky. In addition to his Police Gazette belt, Turner brought a "fist-full" of newspaper clippings and a number of pictures of himself engaged in training train-ing with a large black bear. He exhibited ex-hibited tho pictures this morning to a few new acquaintances, when he heard that Harbertson had been working work-ing out with a "grizzly." Jack's grizzly, by the" way, is "some" bear. It weighs 475 pounds and the local wrestler created considerable attention at-tention downtown yesterday by driving driv-ing around with it in an automobile. |
