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Show -JACK HARBERTSON TO MEET i 'PETBROWNOFTEXAS Wj i Hjj Jack Harbertson. I " Htjl With everything in readiness at WrS the Alhambra theatre and" numbers K: I of fans arriving in the city on almost Hi every train, loca linterest was cen-! cen-! ! tered today in the world's champion-Hi champion-Hi ship wrestling match to be staged to-I, to-I, night at the big Hudson avenue play-Hi play-Hi house. In that event, world's chara-I chara-I . pton, Pet Brown of Taylor, Texas, K . i is to pit his title, and the strength Hli and skill that gained it, against the f j brawn and skill of Jack Harbertson, HI: the native son whose rapid rise to Hl . the front in the wrestling world has Hn- created international attention. Well gk known to be mixers from the tap of 1 the gong in most of their previous Hjn matches and with a spirit of antag-Hl antag-Hl onism fostered through quoted opin-Hi opin-Hi ions of each other, Drown and Har-Hff Har-Hff bertson are expected to put up the Hij greatest struggle ever seen on a mac H) in the western country. Hi Brown, optimistic of victory, made HI) the following statement: Bk "I never lost a match yet and I HE don't expect to this time. Harbertson HI ' is tough and defeated Mike Yokel, Dt ; but he never could have beaten the Hi i ' Mike Yokel of two years ago, or have Hi thrown the Mike that I wrestled last Hf time, but I am thoroughly confident Hi: of victory tonight." Hi Harry Heagren, who represented HI ' the champion in signing articles for HI the bout, was also sanguine of vie-HI vie-HI - tory for the Texan. His opinion to- II day was stated as follows: HI' "Why, sure. Pet will win. Harbert- HI: son is unbeatable at 165, but at 158, HI. he can't throw Brown. There isn't HI a man in the world, it seems, who Ht can. At that, though, I wouldn't say II it would be any time before three Mm hours, for that fellow Jack has even more endurance than Mike Yokel." Against these opinions, Sam Clap-ham, Clap-ham, the English wrestler who has been Harbertson's wrestling partner during his period of preparation for the bout now at hand, says: "To say that Harbertson has Improved Im-proved in the past couple of years would be putting it mildly. The gameness and generalship displayed In defeating such men as Mike Yokel, Yo-kel, Joe Turner, George Cotsonarus and myself and Sam Is "some" wrestler should without doubt place him among the foremost wrestlers of today and a new scalp will most certainly cer-tainly adorn his belt after the bout tonight, the victim to be an ex-champion by the name of Pet Brown. Harbertson's Har-bertson's strength is amazing and the way he has thrown around his wres- i tling partners would convince anyone ' as to his condition. George Jenkin- son is a trainer of the first class , and, with him in the camp. Jack has ( had a man of great experience. Jack s Is going into this bout to win and if it lasts three minutes or three hours, j there will bo a new world's champion." cham-pion." j Harbertson, who never has much to say, reiterated briefly the confidence confi-dence expressed by Clapham, saying that he had waited long for his chance at the championship title and , that it would be his wheu the bout tonight was over. Manager H. E. Skinner, of the Al- ( hambra Theatrical company, was A sanguine this afternoon of the big Is wrestling match being a financial sue- I cess. The ringside accommodations, 1 1 ho said, were such that there would C be no trouble in seplntr thr wrctiora r. on the mat, from any part of the house. Both mon finished their training yoBtorday and at 3 o'clock this after-. after-. noon, weighed In at the Alhambra theatre, before representatives of the press, their managers and trainers, 9 representatives of the Alhambra Theatrical The-atrical company and a big crowd of (Continued on Page 7.) I nn JACK RARBERTSON TO MEET PET BROWN of ess (Continued from Page 2) fans. Harbertson tipped the boam at io71-4 and Brown at 155 1-2. They looked look-ed somewhat changed from their ordinary ordi-nary physical appearance, as neither has had to make the middleweight limit for a number of months, but they appeared strong and vriry. New Referee. Yesterday aftornoon, a protest -was made by Pet Brown to tho selection, by local newspapermen, of Ben Petre of Green River as refereo for tho championship bout and lost night the champion'B manager, J. M. Forwood, and Harry Heagren came up from Salt Lake City and held a conference with tho promoters, representatives of Harbertson and the sport writers. Feeling that the importance of the bout justified tho selection of a referee re-feree acceptable to both wrestlers, the newspapermen decided to withdraw their ohoice of Petre and Ben Harker was named as the substitute. Harker, who several years ago was athletic coach at the Weber academy and who is now chief athletic director at the Desoret Gymnasium in Salt Lake City, is a man of unquestioned ability and integrity and his choice was no doubt the best that could bo made to satisfy the parties directly concerned and at tho some time assure the fans that the decision at. tho end of tonight's bout will go to the best man. Tho preliminaries will begin at 8:30 and will consist of a bout between Earl Pingree and Apollo of Ogden, and Base Busenbark of Colllnston and Scott Wallace of Ogden. 00 |
