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Show BROWN TO START TRAINING SOON Arrives in Salt Lake and Will Begin Trainning Today for Bout With Yokel, April 14. Salt Lake, April 7. Pet Brown, champion middleweight wrestler of the world, arrived in this city yesterday yes-terday and is at the Wilson hotel, where he will remain while training for the championship match with Mike Yokel, April 14. Pet is looking fit as a fiddle and says he Is in the pink of condition, which can be readily believed believ-ed by tliose who have seen him. Ho now weighs around 163, apparently, appar-ently, and will have no difficulty in making weight. He says he Is in better shape than he Avas when he won the title from Mike and expects to show much more even than he had then. If he does It will be a match worth going miles to see. as Mike has added no little amount of knowledge know-ledge to his stock and is rated now among the swiftest and cleverest wrestlers in the game, as well as among the bcBt, Brown had a recent match of particular par-ticular interest with John Kilonls, tho Greek demon, whom he defeated the first time in 1 hour and 47 minutes for the first fall. They were matched again. Tills time the first fall was secured se-cured in little less than an hour. This record is close to Yokel's, and for average time just about equals it Brown won from Kilonls on a toe hold, which was the Identical brake that Mike applied to the Greek at tho Grand theater some weeks ago. Pet Is Real Contractor. Pet Is accompanied by Manager J. M Forwood, also of Taylor Tex., which is the home and birthplace of the mighty Pet. He says that he has been unusually busy for the past year with contracting work at Taylor and surrounding cities and alBO on the mat He had a large contract under consideration when he left Taylor to take on Mike. Brown and his manager figured that it would be best to give the Utah man a chance now, for later in the year Pet expects to be oven busier "Of course, I expect to win," said Pet last night, "but 1 know that I will have a tough proposition in Yokel. He is without doubt the hardest man T ever tackled and I hold him in the highest respect. His record against Kilonis shows concluslvelj that he Is as good If not better than he ever was, and I shall waste no time about starting training." Pet also announced last night that he had secured the services of George Nelson, the veteran heavyweight grap-pier grap-pier who trained him for his match which won him 'the championship of the world. Pet is jubilant as the result. re-sult. He will train today, either at the fire station or at Cox brothers' gymnasium gym-nasium on Main street. |