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Show TOUGH GREEK TO CHALLENGE JACK John Kilonis to Attend Wrestling Wrest-ling Match in Ogden Tonight Wants to Meet Har-bertson. Har-bertson. Salt Lake, Feb. 2 John KiloniB, recognized rec-ognized as tho toughest Greek wrestler wrest-ler making the middleweight limit in the east, and esteemed by Promoter George Tuohey of Boston and other critics as the champion of his class on the Atlantic seaboard, is getting tired, so he says, of waiting for a match with Mike Yokel and will go tonight to Ogden to challenge Jack Harbertson, who, John opines, is more willing to wrestle oftener than Is the local Dutchman. John says he will attend the Visser-Romanoff Visser-Romanoff match In a body. Ho predicts pre-dicts that it will be a good one and looks for Romanoff to win out eventually. eventu-ally. The Russian, according to Kilonis, Kilo-nis, is one of the toughest wrestlers of his weight in America, and has stayed with Joe Stetcher longer than any other man to meet him of late years. Kilonis has a proposition to put up to Harbertson tonight which will mean a contest in Ogden Within throe weeks and one in Boston whenever Jack wants to make an eastern tour. Kilonis prefers to meet Yokel, however, how-ever, owing to the latter's national rejmtatlon. but says he figures from study of the two men that Harbertson Is every bit as hard a man and possibly possib-ly better. John, who is reputed the best of all tho Greek wrestlers to visit this part of the country, commended George Cotsonarus for his clean match against Harbertson recently, and said that It was up to George and others like him to win back popular favor lost to the Greeks in many instances by the work of dirty wrestlers. Kilonis, who is well acquainted with the work of William Demetral, says the Greek heavyweight Is doing great work back in Boston, where he wrestled wrest-led last night, and is looked on there as one of the best in tho game. He places Demetral. Romanoff and Cyclone Cy-clone Burns at the top of the heap of 195-pound wrestlers. "" |