Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-06
WRESTLING.
HACK" WAS
 ANNOYED
Refuses to Make a Match With Cotch But Throws Six hen-kelly-O'C Connell About Matched.

Hachenschmidt Is angry. And all because he received only $3.5O0 for the nIty-three minutes work he did while throwing Tom Jenkins twice in Madi- son Square Garden on Thursday night
 Two thousand five hundred dollars Of this was his share of the receipts and the other thousand was the side bet with Jenkins.
 Such littleness," sighs Hack be- tween growls But he was thoroughly angry and showed it last night when he tackled six men in the Columbia theater and threw them all within six teen minutes. For this he got only a paltry $500.
 Hackenschmidt is so angry that he refuses to wrestle Frank Gotch, as he said he would before the Jenkins match.
 Over in the Columbia theater, before he went on to wipe up the floor with the sextette of dead ones, Frank Gotch, his manager. Horace Lerch, of Buffalo, and Harry Pollok, called on him and wanted to talk business for another match in Madison Square Garden.
 Hack refused to be interviewed. He says there would be not a much money in wrestling G0tch as there was in the Jenkins contest, and for such measly sum he would never go on the mat again.
 Then Pollok made him a most gener- ous offer of 5000 purse that he would put up today. Gotch then step- ped forward and said that Hack could at once have 60 percent of it, win. lose or draw.
 ''All I want,' said Gotch. Ifs to prove to the American public that I am your master. care nothing for the money that there Is in 1t, and you can have the large end of the purse before you go on the mat Sixty per cent of 5000 is more money than your end of the Jenkins purse, and you can have it in advance.
 You are now booked to tour the country and meet lot of dead ones, and in the whole business you will not make as much money as you will by wrestling me in Madison Square Gar den"
 But the Russian Lion became the Russian Mule, and you couldn't have budged him last night with charge of dynamite.
 He gives as his sole reason that he won't wrestle Gotch because he doesn't see as much money in it as there was with Jenkins. Then Harry Pollok bat ters down this excuse with an offer of d s. 600 purse and Gotch makes 1t even stronger by offering to bet $l,0O0 on the side.
 Now most Americans want to see this match, for they all remember that Jenkins-Gotch bout, wherein GOtch lost, but in the second bout threw Tom around the mat much easier than Hackenschmidt did at any stage of the match Thursday night
 Many believe that Gotch Is better man than Tom Jenkins and WAS only beaten by the Clevelander because of his poor condition. Be that as 1t may. Gotch is a stronger man than Jenkins and much young9o. and when 1t Is con sidered that Hackenschmidt had lots of trouble handling Jenkins while the latter was fresh, 1t naturally follows that Gotch would be much harder for him.
 At any rate. Gotch feels that way about it. He said last night. after all 1 were over for the present: Hack has had every inducement in the world offered him and if, after all this, he refuses to wrestle me, there is only one answer to it. and that is he is a quitter. like SO many other foreign CTS that have preceded him. am firmly convinced that he is afraid"