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Show I) JACK HARBERTSON TO MEET I MIKE YOKEL IN SALT LAKE, ON I . MAY 7, WEIGHT LIMIT 1 75 POUNDS With May 6 rinally set as the date of the Jack Harbertson-Mike Yokel wrestling match iu Salt Lake, a protracted pro-tracted squabble seems 10 have been nded. Ja k claims be baa received a very unfavorable deal ironi tin Lake sport wrilers, and Yokel himself, him-self, in getting this match arranged, but now thai Hit dale is definite! be is wctkic-' hard to make weigh! and pet in trim. The two men have agreed to make 17". pounds on the night of May 7 and thus enier in the light -heavyweight class; At a conference recently held in Salt Lake, between Harbertson and Yokel and Harry Heagren, Jack 13 several propo.-ii ions were put up to him which he declared were verj an favorable Ho had agreed, originalh to meet Yok I on April 18 and a-to a-to have had ten days' notice to make' wpigbt Working on the April IS date, he set to work losing weight. When Yok i returned from the .1 I recently the Salt Lake papers, Jack lajrs, announced Hie bout had b. en :- t for April 30. Because of conflicting! dates be could not fill this date :mil went to Salt Lake to tell Yokel, leav- : ing off training in ihe meantime. When he arrived in Salt Lake, he a window cards had been distributed distrib-uted settihg the bout at April 19. He had not bern informed of this and had taken on weight, bin. to keep Hie I bout at ihe date announced, ho offered of-fered 10 lake on Yokel at catch weights, which Mike 1 .--in--. , .lack Bays The two were weighed with Ibthes on. Yokel weighing 1S1 pounds and Harbertson 19G, which made Yokel refuse the catch weights proposition. Jack Bays Yokel made a counter proposal pro-posal then of '17.r pounds ringside, kpril 19," to irhicfa he declined and it was finally settiod to have the match M i 7 and bulb men ro ronie within the 17".-pound limit . Harbertson goes to Green River. Monday, to wrettle Jack Moore, a light-heavyweight from Rock Spriugs He will leave ihe following morning for Spokane, Wash where he is to meet Tohn Berg the night of April 26. at 17". pound ringside From Spokane he will go to Seattle, Tacoma and other oth-er points on the coast for bouts and I Will return home by way of Los An - I geles In time to meet Yokel at Salt Lake. May 7 |