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Show f PAUL PREHN TO WRESTLE SALT LAKER SALT LAKE, Jan. 31. Ira Dern. j world's middleweight wrestling champion, has. been matched to meet Paul Prchn. wrestling instructor in-structor at the University of nil- 1 nois in a liest two In three fall contest con-test at the Salt Lake theatre, Friday, February 10, according to an announcement made today by Promoter Harry Heagren. J'rehn will arrive in a few days to complete com-plete training for the contest The Illinois wrestler was a member mem-ber of the A. K. F. during the world war and captured the mid- j dlewelght mat chafnpionehip at the interallied games at Paris in the Pershing stadium shortly after the war Iern ha? been defeating all com- I ers of late, but Prehn expects to turn the tables n the Salt Laker. Prehn has met some of the best middleweight In the game, including includ-ing Johnny Meyers of Chicago, and Is confident that he can defeat Dern. J 1 00 |