The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-01
IS COMING HERE
IN NEAR FUTURE
Challender to Return-Mc-
Donald eitz Match Will
Start Ball Rolling

The champion heavyweight wrestler
Of the world. Frank Gotch. and Yus-
sit Mahmout, the big Turk, who has
made a name for himself in this coun-
try and Europe, will appear in Grand
Forks for an exhibition some time
within the next three weeks.
With the above announcement
comes the report that Charles Chal-
lender, the Mysterious Conductor. ia
about to return to the city. With
Farmer Johns and his wrestling part
ner. Al Powers. in the city: with An
gle Mcdonald and Bun DeitS ready to
fight it out for the championship Of
the two cities in the welterweight
class. 1t begins to look as though the
Grand Forks wrestling fans were due
to e a number Of slassy matches here
the coming winter.
Gotch on World Tour
Gotch and Mahmout. together with
two other wrestlers. are starting out
pion signed up after proving that
Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, vas
lot In his class. The champ is at the
present time in the west and within
the mex week will start on a trip
through the northwest. The definite
date for his appearance In Grand
Forks has not a yet been announce
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weeks.
The big fellow has been taking 1t
rather a since his Labor day match
and has not been in any hurry to start
out on his long jaunt around this
little old sphere. However, he Is about
ready to start and Grand Forks will
be n Of the first places he will visit.
Just what the program ts. is uncer-
tain. Gotch will undoubtedly put on
an ovh{hftt4N ~ crron IfnH hut q rno1
match between Mahmout and some
other wrestler is promised.
The visit of Gotch is n of the big
events in the sporting line and 1t ts
expected that fans from all over the
surrounding territory will flock here to
get a look at the big fellow.
Challender Coming Back
C%hallender. the Mysterious Conductor.
who gave Kid Cutler one Of the
toughest matches he ever mixed in,
the event taking place in this city. will
return in the e future. Challen-
der Is at the present time in Chicago,
but states that there are so many
wrestlers in the Windy City, that since
the worlds championship farce was
pulled off in that burg, the fans have
back to Grand Forks. where he has
made a reputation that is a sticker and
his return promises some good bouts
during the winter months.
C%hallender proved when here that
he knew all Of the tricks there are
to the mat game. His neat way of
tripping up Cutler, which he pulled
off on three different occasions in the
match between the wv here. showed
that he could give the old hands at
the game something to think about.
Gustafson. the western Canada
champion in the light heavyweight
class Is anxious to meet the Conductor,
but is rather light for him. 1t is
probable that he will be given a
chance however.
Farmer Jahns. who is here with AL
Powers, both Of whom r clever
wrestlers, is also anxious to meet
Challender. Jahns is willing to put
up a $500 side bet that he can throw
Challender and In spite Of the fact that
he has the Conductor outweighed by
nearly as much as Cutler had him, the
local fans have seen enough Of the
Clover belt mans work to think he
can make the big fellow go some.
The first time the local fans will
have q chance to see Jahns in action
will be at the tz-McDonald 60 in
East Grand Forks on Thursday night.
Jahns and Powers will put on an ex-
hibition match before the principals
of the evening go at each other. Pow
ers wrestled here a number of years
ago. but Jahns has never been in the