Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1911 — BEAL WRESTLERS TO MEET HEBE SATURDAY NIGHT. [ARTICLE]

BEAL WRESTLERS TO MEET HEBE SATURDAY NIGHT.

Tom Coburn* of National Reputation, To Throw Polos, the Greek, Twice In Sixty Minutes. Rensselaer and Jasper county people are to have an opportunity to see a real wrestling match next Saturday night, and as both of the wrestlers are strangers here, the outcome of the bout will be of less interest than‘the spectacular features of the wrestle. The principals in the match are to be William Polos, the Greek, and Tom Coburn, a wrestler of national reputation, who agrees to Qreek twice in an hour. Coburn, accompanied by his manager, J. M. Walls, came to Rensselaer Saturday afternoon, having understood that there was some wrestling going on and expecting to see a match that evening. Coburn did not know that wrestling was in an undeveloped state here and thought he might meet some local champion worthy of his science. He claimed and exhibited substantial proofs that he has met practically all the big wrestlers, including Hackenschmidt, Gotch, Dr. Roller and others during the past fifteen years and made a fine showing with them. He follows wrestling as a profession and aims to give two or three matches a week. He has never wrestled with Polos and had never

seen him wrestle. The plan to have these two men meet in Rensselaer v as formulated here and Coburn an i his manager went to Lafayette Saturday evening and made the match with Polos. They rented the opera house outright of Manager Ellis and are taking care of their own advertising. Coburn has a match for Tuesday night of this week. He will come here Wednesday afternoon and tnin here

the balance of the week. He offers to take hold of all youngsters who wish to learn something about the essential points of wrestling and give them the benefit of instruction, teaching them how to secure t and use the best holds and how to break them and escape from them. Coburn and his manager have every appearance of being on the square and they state that “faking’’ and “stalling” is not tolerated with wrestlers any place. Coburn wrestled at Crawfcrdsville one night last week with Charles Olsen and held out a half hour ag<»ii:si the big man. The prices for the match will lie the same as heretofore, except that a number of stage seats will be pro T vided and these will sell for 75 cents each. At least one preliminary will be arranged for Saturday night. Coburn will arrange for this afte** coming here and looking the youngsters over. It is probable that Leon Eigiesbach and Sherm Parks will be the opponents in this match. Eiglesbac-h showed up so well in his preliminary Saturday evening that he looks like a champion in the lightweight class. Parks is a little heavier and is alao a very clever all around athlete and should give Eigiesbach a good run. The ticket sale for the match will begin at onCe and Manager Ellis is receiving orders for reservations already.