The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
WRESTLING.
jenkins Leaves for England-Many Ameri.
can Grapplers May Follow Him.

Tom Jenkins. the champion American
catch as catch can wrestler. left for England
on Saturday and Ia to be gone for some time
according to schedule. Jenkins Is to visit.
all OF the principal cities In Europe. where be-
sides meeting all Corners he 10 to figure IN
several tournaments. 1t is said that Jen-
kInss chief aim In taking the trip Is to get on
a return match with George Hackenschmidt.
The latter just now is playing the music halls,
where he shows at two and three places daily.
Hackenschmidt meets on an average about
six mon every day and has no trouble In de-
feating them. Wrestling at present Is enjoy
ing q decided boom In England and 1t may
be directly ascribed to the popularity OF the
Russian Lion.- whose services are more In
demand now than ever before. Hacken-
schmidt is booked In London alone up to
1905, at a salary Of 81. 900 week. This does
not include posing exhibitions In private.
which amount to something like 5000 for each
exhibition. He gives these performances
on an average Of three times week. so his
weekly income Is increased 5000 more from
this source alone.
jenkins, owing to his reputation and the
fact that he put up "a mastery shown al ainst
Hacken schmidt, should not. have much trouble
in making plenty Of money on the other side.
He has been In England before and 10 well
known. jenkins has planned to take in
Ireland. Scotland and Wales this time. and
may also visit Paris. Berlin. Copenhagen
and other cities on the Continent where
wrestling is looked upon as national sport.
Jenkins does not intend to return to America
before October. and perhaps not then.
1t Is also understood that other wrestlers
are to 20 abroad. Frank Gotch. Harvey
Parker and Dan Mcleod expect to 60 to the
other side. Gotch will undoubtedly sail
R.ett kew into nj
d 9Sk '' thss Russian. although the latter
tho above named wrestlers leave this country,
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John Plenlns The Butcher s ?, Boa y ha:
going TO locate permsnsntly. ,PIenIns has
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engaged aeiu in 70 lew matches and has been sue
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mand plenty Of engegements here is Fred
Conner come ~ is pretty Well known now. principally
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test been decided on larger mat. Beell.
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where he Is getting into shape for number
There are plenty Of little men still in har-
MAX MAX Wney and George bothner; But ~
n.h . 1sf 81 ns Frs"T Of Of
ST YoFS met soms time
ago at the Polo a. G.. and after one OF the
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Of tackling Bouldin, but 1t appears that the
has fought sy Q, n Bse ara In
matched and y vii! be a pity 4 some enter
PEG 1si1nSs promoter does not bring these two
Wiley has been DESTROYS Of tacklina George
Bothnsr for some time. His, manager, Har-
has done no " rs
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eouraeement A match between Wiley and
Bothner In some large hall In this city would
t sSoss who Rnos snstSna aboa
At least y would in measure AID the ex;
perts In figuring out to whom the title OF
lightweight champion belongs.
Prof Higashi the Japanese wrestler and
{iu-jitsu expert, offers to engage In another
stgSsS othhsf M h :d% rssd that
Palace last winter was not . good test He
thinks that Alex swanson would be a much
better opponent for him than Bothnsr be-
cause Of the fact that the latter, elected TO
equally at home at defensive and offensive
work. While his knowledge Of jiu-jtsu
may be Inferior 70 that Of Bothner. II 10 thought
can a' h s You'd net S.vs much .sssbe j. sSSe
sussssts that tie match t.ss place q Dream.
land. whSre Hlsashi has been GIVING sxhi- !