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Show KTLIi MIT CI 10 IE ATTENDED BY WOMEN Ladles will be admitted free to the athletic entertainment to be staged at the Alhambra theater next Friday night," according to an announcement made by Manager H. E. Skinner. "Quite a number of local women have taken an interest in past wrestling matches," Mr. Skinner stated, "and we feel that the moral influence they exert ex-ert toward making the sport clean and above board justifies us in extending them the invitation to attend this entertainment." en-tertainment." The main event -will bo the finish wrestling match between the noted light heavyweight wrestlers, Jack Harbertson and "Young" Charlie Hackenschmidt, for a purse of $750, winner take all. Thero are no more skillful grapplers, perhaps, in the wrestling game than these two men and their bout should be highly spectacular. spec-tacular. Writing from Salt Lake City concerning con-cerning his physical condition and prospects of winning the match, Hackenschmidt Hack-enschmidt says: "I am training very day .here in Salt Lake, in Cox's gymnasium, and can say that I feel better right now than I ever have for any match in which I havo appeared. I know that I will have the battle of my life, and will not take any chance of losing the match through failure to be in condition next Friday night. "It's a sure thing that if I had any doubt of my ability to defeat Jack Harbertson, I would never havo agreed to wrestlo him on a winner-take-all basis. I havo always gono into my wrestling matches under those conditions condi-tions and am money ahead for having done so. "At any rate I'm willing to take a chance. If Jack beats me he can have all the, money, and I will give him full credit for being tho best man. I think Jack will do the same by me. All I am sure of is that if he wins he will know he has been in a wrestling match. If I win, I guess I'll realize this fact also. But, I'm going to win, sure, and can't see it any other way at all." Arrangements were completed Saturday Sat-urday by Eddie Dallas, who is assisting assist-ing Manager Skinner in staking the Friday night show, for tho ten-round boxing contest between Frank Barri-oau Barri-oau and Jack Torres. The boxing promoter pro-moter went to Salt Lake for the purpose, pur-pose, and, referring to the kind of a bout he expects to see when Barrieau and Torres meet, after his return from Salt Lake, said: "Everything points to this match being be-ing the fastest match in which Frank Barrieau has ever appeared in Ogden, "This will not bo the first time that Barrieau and Torres have met each other. In a whirlwind match at Missoula, Mis-soula, Mont., Torres gained a newspaper news-paper decision over Barrieau. The Canadian Ca-nadian champion has been wanting to get a return match with Torres ever since, and feels that he will be able to defeat Torres now. "Barrieau has shown in his matches In this city that he is ono of the cleanest, clean-est, most scientific and at the same time ono of the hardest-hitting fighters fight-ers that ever donned a pair of the padded gloves in a local arena. His match with Torres should go down in the annals of the boxing sport in Ogden Og-den as one of tho best ten-round bouts ever staged here." |