Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — Big Wrestling Bout Scheduled For Ellis Theatre Tonight. [ARTICLE]

Big Wrestling Bout Scheduled For Ellis Theatre Tonight.

Tom Coburn and his manager, J. H. Walls, came up from Lafayette this morning, where he had no difficulty last night in throwing Martin Lewis, of Chicago. He put Lewis on the mat in 10 miWtes the first fall and in 8 minutes the next. Their match was followed by a handicap between Charley Olson, the Indianapolis wrest ler, and Polo’s, the Greek. Olson was to throw him twice in a half hour but he failed to throw the Greek at all. Olson is to wrestle Hackenschmidt at Indianapolis tonight. “Billy” Edwards is to come down from Chicago this evening. He is a powerful man and weighs , 210 or 215 pounds. The match at the Ellis theatre tonight will be between two r,f the big fellows in the wrestling business. Seat sales are large and it Is predicted that the audience will be the largest of all so far held in Rensselaer.