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Show I WHEN VISSER MEETS I HARBERTSOPJ IT I Paraphrasing the old saying "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war, it can be said in gpod faith that "When Harbertson meets Vlsser,. there -will be a great wrestling contest." Their respective backers' have been having arguments for' months past as to which was the bet-! tcr wrestler, and the wrestlers them ! selves, while not going out of their way to boast, have expressed confl-l dence in themselves. Comparing their I records dispassionately, there seems good reason to believe that the two can put up a hard and interesting struggle against each other, and that ts all that the fans, in general, de-eire. de-eire. Harbertson Is conceded to be one of the cleverest wrestlers in the game, both at offense and defense, and has several times wrestled from two to three hours. In February, 1910, shortly short-ly after he took up the game professionally, profes-sionally, he defeated Adolph Lindroos, middleweight champion of Finland, wrestling two hours He defeated Alex Swanson twice, in No ember and December, De-cember, the same year. Shortly afterward, after-ward, showing phenomenal improvement, improve-ment, he downed both Swanson and Arthur Chester In 57 minutes. Tom Gleason was next to acknowledge his mastery, being defeated at Salt Lake City, in June, 1911. He next took Frank McCarroll's scalp, in Idaho Falls, and then won from Tom Dodge on a foul, after three hours of wrestling. j Then he began to take on the high I men in the middleweight class and de-feated de-feated Mike Yokel, Pet Brown, Waino i Ketonen, Henry Irslingcr, George Cot- I 6onarus, Joe Turner. Tom Lang and j) others, including the light heavy- weights and heavyweights. Sam Clap- I ham, George McLaughlin, William De- I metral and others. In the past two l years he has taken on considerable j weight and plans to enter the light- I heavyweight class. I Vl8sers caroer has been shorter but j more spectacular and he is now fear- 1! ed by many wrestlers his equal and jj superior In weight. A few victories in j Ogden placed him in a position to gain I recognition abroad and he made a good I record on the Pacific coast In one sea- I son I Then, returning home, he took the I Intermountain heavyweight champlon- I ship from George Nelson, followed this by staying more than an hour with I "Strangler" Ed Lewis, who outweighed him fifty pounds, and then defeated I the "Masked Marvel" in short order. Pete will have to work hard to make 178 pounds, for his coming match with . Harbertson, but he Is taking off his surplusBage steadily by strenuous I workouts and expects to make the specified weight. |