Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-18
FREbERC-PESEK
BOUT T0bE REAL
FINISH MATCH
No Time Limit Of Any Kind
on This Event; Ecklund
and Sauers Meet
in Semi.

When John Pesek and John Ere
berg go on the mat Friday night for
their finish match, they will under
stand that it must be genuine fin
ish match with no time limit. When
Promoter Jack Lewis first talked
the match over with the managers
of the men, he stated that he was not
in a favor OF time limits on wrest-
ling bouts staged in Omaha and if
he could help it or had anything to
do with it none Of them would be
put on in the Gate City.
The Omaha mat fans expect to see
one of the greatest wrestling
matches ever staged here, and there
is every indication that it will prove
up to expectations. Pesek has been
tried by some of the best and he has
proved himself each time. Freberg
is about the last of the trial horses
they will send the Shelton farmer
against, il the Swede can be termed
a trial horse after his, sensational
match with Stranger Lewis at
Springfield short time ago. In
that match, though his favorite toe
hold was barred, he showed himself
an even better man than Lewis, in
the early stages of the bout. He had
no trouble in breaking the Strang
ler's famous deadlock number of
times and in the end, won the first
fall with this grip himself.
Pesek Also Likes Toe Grip.
The Swede champion is not alone
in this match with the toe hold for
a favorite, for Pesek places great
faith in this grip himself. He used
it to win both falls in his recent
match with Steve Savage. That FIRE.
berg is a great deal better man than
Savage, Pesek is willing to concede,
but the Scandinavian great reputa-
ton has no terrors for him and he
says he will win this match as easily
as any of the others, as he is in the
best condition of his entire career. If
he does beat Freberg, Mart Slattery,
his manager, will try to secure a
match with Joe Stecher/as soon as
the Dodge lad says he is ready to
wrestle again.
The Pesek- Freberg match, while
billed as the main event, is by no
means the only attraction for Fri
day nights show. The semi-windup
and preliminary are both star bouts,
each contestant having appeared at
one time or another as the main
event performer. The semi will bring
Clarence Ecklund, light heavyweight
champion of the world into the
ring with George Sauers of Cheney,
Neb. All the Omaha fans know Eek
Iund without any further introduc-
ton. Sauers hasn't appeared in
Omaha recently, but-he has trimmed
every heavyweight in the state that
lie has met.
Stangl in Preliminary.
In the preliminary, the l9-year-old
strong boy, Joe Stangl, will mix
grips with Ben Zerson, the York
county champion. Stangl came into
immediate prominence by beating
Big Bill Dristy in the semi-windup
at the last big show here, when Pc
SEX defeated Steve Savage. Zerson
is another crack man from out in the
state. He has made a record among
the light heavy wrestlers that
brought him to such point that no
one could be found to meet him out
side of Omaha. The Stangl match
is the result. .
The show will be staged at pop
lilar prices, no seat priced higher
than 81 and over half of the seats
at 81. 1t is real all-star bill at ST
and 81, something that has not been
shown in Omaha for many moons.