Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-11-08 | Page 2 | Furgeson Will Meet Japanese

FUR6ESGN WILL IETJP1ESE The wrestling fans of Ogden are In line for something good In this form of fport when Sbosba Yokoyama, the middleweight champion wrestler of Japan, will meet Kd Furgeson, the fireman wrestler of this city. Tho match will probably be pulled off at the National Guard armory about the 2Uh or 25th of this mouth The Japanese wrestler has inado an enlable record for himself through-o.it through-o.it the west and tuuthvet.t, whllo Furgeson will be remembered bv tho local fanf? as the man who met Gotch In an exhibition match when the champion visited Ogden on his tour of the west with Jeffries and the several sev-eral lesser celebrities At that time and In many other matches tbe game flremaH has displayed dis-played his ability as a wrestler, and should give the foreigner a fast go and probably claim the bout. Yolcuyama began wrestling when he was nine years of ago and is at present 25 years of age. He is 5 feet 10 luches in height and weighs 152 pounds. Ho has been In America for the past four years, and during that time haa engaged in 2'J matches, 2S of which he won. In the remaining match ho wrestled to a draw with George Brown at San Francisco. For some time tbo Japanese wrestler wres-tler conducted an academy at San AnUmlo, Texas, then going to tho, coast. There he was trainer In gymnasiums gym-nasiums at Stockton, San Francisco and Sacramento. Yokoyama also trained with Johnson during tho lat-ter's lat-ter's preparation, for the big fight with Jeffries. Yokoyama has posted a forfeit of $1,000 In tho Bank of Garland. Utah, to meet tho winner of the match between be-tween Miko Yokel and O'Connor, who are to wrestle at Pocatello In the near future. The Jap Is especially anxious to secure a match with Yokel, and In case hla proposition is accepted tho match will bo bold In Ogden In December De-cember or January. The local fans will doubtless welcome wel-come a match between Furgoson and Yokovama, as It will give them a line on thy possible outcome of a match between the Jap aud tbo winner of the Pocatello go.