Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-07
BURNS AND GOTCH MATCHED
Farmer Accepts Challenge of His
Pupil, champion of United
States

Frank Gotch, champion heavyweight and
Farmer Burns. champion middleweight
wrestler of the United States. are matched
for the best two out of three catch-as-
catch-can at the Auditorium next Tuesday.
night March IL.
This announcement was made Wednesday
morning by Peter Loeb. He read a tele-
graphic challenge from Goch to the winner
of the Burns-Parr match at ringside Tues
day night and Burns has accepted.
Up to the present the Burhs-Parr match
stands out most conspicuously in the wrest-
lings annals OF Omaha but that match Will
necessarily be overtopped in Importance by
the Gotch-Burns match. Parr is the cham
pien of England and he was thrown by the
middleweight champion of America, but
here comes the heavyweight champion of
. America for the foxy old Farmer TO handle.
Gotch has been recognized as the best
there is for a long time. He was matched
to wrestle the Russian Lion at Kansas City
for $4,000 side in May, but the Lion has
turned tail.
The interesting thing about the meeting
of Burns and Goteh is that Burns is the
man who taught Gotch the game. Both are
Iowans. Gotch is a boy in years as COM
pared with the veteran Farmer. Farmer
saw the raw material In him a few years
ago and took hold Of him. Out OF that raw
material he developed the greatest man on
the mat And yet not so great that his old
teacher cannot get fall out OF him with
aggravating frequency. Goteh weighs be-
tween 1875 and 2O2. while Burns ranges from
16S TO IT,
A feature of the ParT-Burns match was
not only the splendid audience, but that
there were 50 many women present. II is
thought the Auditorium win be none too
large for the crowd at the Gotch-Burhs
mill.
People who saw the Burns-Parr match
were impressed with nothing more than the
vast difference in the characters of the
Two men as manifested In their speeches
S AFTER the wreSte B0rps The old man Who
OF superior skill and yet arose from the
mat at the end and told the roaring audi
is one OF the best men I have met in the
west. lie gave me an awful tug" Parr,
through HIS interpreter, Peter Loeb, said he
he would wrestle Burns in Chicago, St
Louis or New York for $500 or 1900 a side.
a hundred. For. indeed. Omaha had treated
ParT far better than doubtless an English
audience would treat Farmer Burns. Parr
fine form. and he was, too, but, of course,
finer than when Farmer Burns had got
through with him. Before he is entitled TO
some other good man.
Inside tins to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, the st. Louis management evidently
has not yet found out that IL has agreed
TO pay George Stone the 1900 he demands
for this season, as the team has gone on
It's practice tour with stone still unsigned.
Stone is worth the money and probably
could get II ana more where me manage
ment was not a tightwad.g Being com
PEELED to play with an inferior team at an
inferior salary is a severe sentence for a
superior man.
President Cross of the OsthOh Athletic
club has arranged a big card for Friday
night at the regular meeting OF the club.
Those two former rivals. Mccarthy the
nghting brakeman Of Council Bluffs. and