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Show have had the opportunity of seeing him at work thought he had mucli chance. The match Just showed how much class he really has. Then with Stanley Karp It was thought Yokel would lose, but again he fooled thorn. If he can duplicate these performances perform-ances when he meets Ackerman be will be the undisputed welterweight wrestling champion of the world. Mike is a quiet, gentlemanly fellow, never bragging about his abilities, and quite a number of his pupils believed be-lieved that be would be at a disadvantage disad-vantage with Karp, who was reported as rather roiigh When handling hi novices at the Y. M. C. A. Mike 1 the acme of gentleness, and while ho has to throw them right and left at times, he is always considerate. Ho Is a close student of the game. Is said to know It from A to Z, Is strong, confident an 1 takes good care of himself, him-self, and he will go into the match Friday night with the beet wishes of every lover of fair Fport In the Inter-mountatn Inter-mountatn country. holds cannot very much enjoy even the best bouts between crack wrestlers. wres-tlers. The action In a wrestling match Is generallv slower than in a fist fight, unless the obsencr happens to have some little knowledge of wrestling. To the man who has this knowledge, there Is no greater delight de-light on earth than looking at two perfectly proportioned human beings struggling for supremacy on the mat, changing holds every second or two, and with their thews and slnewo standing out until one or the other Is returned the winner. In boxing, however, about 999 out of 1.00D can enjoy a good scrap even if they havfn't the remotest Idea of the difference between a slap on the wrist and a right swing. The action Is generally quicker, and while any one can see which man Is on the floor In a knockout, sometimes In wrestling the two strugglers are so taneleil up that to the average man a decision seems hopeless. Mike Yokel has probably dono more than any man In the state to foster h' "T-stllng enme. Starting Start-ing In at the Ogien sanitarium as a m:;, Ik- g?n d vomo little repu tatlon as a wresJler through rna'ches in ?alt Lake, anj finally accepted the position of Instructor at the Salt Y. M. C. A. In hfs match with O'Con nell, while Yokl was looked upon as a dangerous nrfn, none but those who i SPORTS SHOULD ATTEND THE YRESTUNG MATCH I. By Mack. While the match Friday night between be-tween Mike Yokel, Instructor of : wrestling at tho Salt Iako Young ' Men's Christian association, and Al Ackerman. who claims the welterweight welter-weight wrestling championship of the Vnited States, is expected to draw a tig house and attract considerable attention, at-tention, it is a sure thing that the match will cause only a ilutter of In-I In-I terest in sportdom. owlog to the interest in-terest aroused by tho big lightweight champonshlp battle yesterday after-noon. after-noon. Followers of wrestling sometimes become rapid because the average man would rather see a couple of preliminary pre-liminary fighters throw ten ounce gloves at each other for half a dozen rounds than see two star wrestlers ! battling for the championship, but this is generally the case. Where wrestling has no supporter, boxing 1 ha at least ten, and the figures, if compiled by the talkative barber or some other political economist, would in all probability run higher than tbiB in favor of boxing. This 13 not hard, however, to account tor, how-ever how-ever Inasmuch as a man who knows nothing of the various wrestling |