The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-16
Scranton Wires Cleveland Boy
Has Broken Shoulder: Can't
WrestIe for Six Weeks.
REFUSES TO REPLY TO
OFFER TO ADVANCE DATE
Belief Here Is That "Cham-
pion" Is Afraid to Give Yokel
Return Match.

The Yokel-Gehring wrestling match.
scheduled for May !, is off. at least FOR
the present.
Promoter Harry w. Heagren received
telegram from Gehripg's manager. Tom
Scranton, Saturday saying that Gehring
had dislocated his shoulder Friday night
and viii be unable 10 wrestlc for six
weeks. Scrantons telegram follows:
''Gehring dislocatcd his shoulder last
night. Doctor says he can't wrestle for
six weeks. Have Cancelled all Gehring's
dates, Clarence Baldwin. the Cuban
wonder. will ,take his place at los ring
side. Is Just as good card as Geh-
ring and II anything better wrestler.
Answer quick.
Gehring OF Nobody.
Heagren will have none Of the Cuban
wonder. 1t must be Gehriiig or nobody.
Heagren sent the following reply TO
Cant use Cuban wonder. but will
hold Yokel-Gehring date open until June
Ii you really want TO wrestle- Answer
sure tonight"
Heagren received no answer last night
and Salt Lake wrestling fans question
the report OF Gehring's injury. They be,
lieve that Gehring is afraid to meet Yokel
since the Salt Lake boy met and trimmed
Pearl Beeman, the Montana boy whom
Gehring could not topple, at Great Falls.
Mont.
The general belief here is that Geh-
ring will do everything in his power To
evade return match with fokel, but.
Promoter Heagren says that he VIII force
the issue. Yokel Will make no arrange
ments for other matches until Gehring
signifies his willingness to meet him or
refuses. If Gehring refuses to meet him
worlds champion mIddleweisht wrestler
Heagren has gone TO considerable ex-
psnse TO stage the bout and Yokel had
turned down the offer of the Olympic
r1, a.
for the Oakland Portland international
amateur meet, besides declining to try
to work up team In Salt Lake to go
to the meet, and both naturally are dis
gusted at the turn OF affairs.
Gehring Forfeit Not Up.
Heagren had trouble In getting Gehring
TO put UP his forfeit for the first match
with Yokel and had been unable to get
the champion To come through with
his forfeit for this bout The Salt Lake
promoter declares that this is the last
time that he will announce match be-
fore all forfeits are posted Said he Sat
urday
"If ever even make an announcement
only after both participants have de-
posted the real coin OF the realm with
me a forfeit. In the previous Yokel-
Gehring match Gchring insisted on
postponement of the date and would no
doubt have dragged the thing along but
for the fact that Otto Ross deposited
forfeit for his appearance on The original
date, Yokel also. would have been
ticked 10 death TO see the match post
poned. because he suffered dislocated
rib about ten days prior to the date set.
Yokel was always ready TO go on. not
withstandng the accident. however, and
that is the kind of a man prefer TO do
business with. After this will have
TO be shown the cold cash in the form of
u forfeit
AS Gehring has thrown Miller. whom he
was TO meet at ST. Pau April 20, Heagren
will make no effort TO match Miller and
Yokel
Yokel shortly will go 10 his ranch near
Wilson, Wyo., for short time.