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Show i . 3 f Jack Harbertson and His Protgggg ; M! Jack Harbertson - has been making I things hum at the Pingree gymnasium j during the past few days, working out with most of the sturdy athletes pic-I pic-I fured above, whom he inveigled into getting into a picture with him after a strenuous workout yesterday. These men are only a few who swear by Jack and have backed him Faithfully during his entire wrestling career. They haye worked with him almost daily and are coniidentlv predicting that he will defeat Pete Visser when the two meet in a finish bout at the Alhambra theatre net Wednesday night. Yesterday Harbertson performed a remarkable feat of strength at the gymnasium, lifting a huge cedar beam and handling it as though it were a toy And then, to show thai i h is exertion ex-ertion had no tiring effect, he wore out his trainin;: partner and a half dozen other husky grapplers in succession. suc-cession. Jack Is now wiihin easy reach of the weight limit. ITS pounds, though be weighed well up into the eighties when he signed up with Visser. He 1 works out publicly at the Pirngec gym-every gym-every afternoon. Pete Visser, who is having a harder time to make the specified weight, on account of his natural figure of avordu-pois avordu-pois now being around 195 pounds, also H performed a remarkable feat of IH strength yesterday. While m his heavy togs at the fire station he carried a six hundred pound weight up a flight of stairs, a demonstration of marvelous strength. Pete still has several pounds of surplus flesh to take off. but believes be-lieves he can do this safely within the next three days. |