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Show Jack Harbertson Primed For Contest With Santel Championship Tilt Now Takes Center of Stage With Fans From All Parts of West Wagering on the Final Outcome; Fussing Over Referee The stage is set for the Harbertson-Santel Harbertson-Santel mat contest which will be staged at the Alhambra theatre next Tuesday evening and from present indications in-dications one of the largest crowds that ever attended a contest of like nature na-ture In this city will be on deck when the bell sounds. But all wrestling matches wouldn't be matches if the argument over the referee didn't take the stage and so the eternal referee has bobbed up as a problem in the arrangements for this contest, but, according to Promoter Glasmann, this phase of the program will be settled with tho arrival of Santel San-tel today from the coast. A number of names have been submitted sub-mitted to the two stars but as yet no agreement ha6 been made. A number of local men have been mentioned and a number of outsiders of national repute re-pute have also been named. "Neither Harbertson or Santel will give one another any kind of an advantage ad-vantage in tho coming tilt," said Promoter Pro-moter Glasmann today, "and both men want some one that will be square and on the level," Santel had an easy time in winning from "Duke" Sorenson at San Francisco Fran-cisco last Tuesday night and intends to repeat his performance when he steps Into the ring against Harbertson. However, Santel will meet a far better Harbertson this time, than he met here in January, and a number of the loyal fans of. the city expect the local star to turn the tables on the champion. cham-pion. Santel will complete his workouts at the Eagle's gymnasium and expects to be. In tip top shape when the gong sounds. He has had more than a score, of matches since departing from Ogden Og-den and has backers galore coming from Idaho points to "root" for him. Special rates on the rail lines have been obtained by Promoter Glasmann and a large block of the ring side seats have already been sold to out of town fans. The advance sale on the tickets Indicates that a record crowd will be' in attendance. The two men will be in all probability, select the referee tomorrow. |