The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-01-29

WRESTLING BOUT
FAIRBANKS A.
Charlie B0rella Meets Penn
broke at St. J0hnsbury
On Monday Night

A championship wrestling match
between Charlie Borella of Newport,
welterweight title holder Of Vermont
and Bernard Pembroke, the wrestling
lumber jack of Bellows Falls, will be
the main feature of the varied and
interesting program of entertainment
arranged, for the big Smoker to be
held in the Fairbanks Athletic Asso-
citation building) formerly the Y. M.
c. AZ Monday evening under the
auspices of that organization. 1t is
the first of proposed series of musi-
cal and sporting affairs which the
club intends to conduct during the
winter and the general public is COR
daily invited to attend, provided they
have the price Of admission, which is
the sum Of so cents plus the required
war tax.
The House Committee, which has
charge of the arrangement of the
event has spared no effort or expense
to secure the vcrv best entertainers
possible and program we'll worth
while is being planned. Heretofore
only members Of the association have
been able to gain access to any al
fairs conducted by the organization
but now the public is included and
n good sized crowd is expected.
Wrestling fans will welcome the
opportunity to again see young Bo-
rella in action here. 1t has been sew
eral months since he performed be-
fore a st. Johnsbury audience and the
fans ere looking forward eagerly to
his return. The young champion has
been in Boston practically all winter
attending the Boston Radio school
and wrestling during his spare time.
HI has met some of the best men of
his class in Massachusetts and has
ADDED considerable knowledge of the
game. Experience is what the husky
Newporter needed and that he has Sc
cured as a result OF his contact with
many of the best Bay state mat ar
fists. Borella was scheduled to go on
in the preliminaries at Mechanics
Hall Monday night but he cancelled
his match in order to come here.
Pembroke, the elongated woodsman
has never shown his wares in st.
Johnsbury but has met Borclla twice
before, once in Newport, when he was
defeated and once in Lyndonvillc,
when he succeeded in getting refe-
I rec's decision, which however, was
protested The two athletes will bat
tie Monday night on the basis of win
ner take ALL under catch-as- catch can
rules and with this in view there
should be some real action. The men
are pretty evenly matched and with
the knowledge that defeat means they
| will not even get expense money both
men are certain to exert themselves
TO ne limit.
Some excellent preliminalies are on
the card. which should prove inter
esting. These will be between local
men, Music and other forms Of en-
tertainment will be furnished. You
CON smoke to vour hearts content
Monday cvening-something new
| and YOU don't need to come stacked
up with cigars either. because mem
hors of the association will circulate
throuoh the crowd selling good
smokes.
Thc proceeds of the entertainment
will he turned over to the fund he
mo raised to eonin the new athletic
hoHdouartcrs. There are still manV
things the boys need to fit up THEN
nuerters and they have chosen this
,,oans of raising the rennired cash
Th~v are Uivino On entertainment Of
the hipheSt order. Let's all 90.