The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-29
BURNS IS MAT LECTURER
THROWS PIERCE IN TWO FALLS
IN GOOD MATCH.
VETERAN TALKS TEMPERANCE

Farmer Burns Tackles Cigars, Wits.
key, Swearing, Tea Coffee and Prof.
Pierce All In One Night-"Re Good"
His Advice.
Farmer Burns, the wrestling mat
veteran, got a toe hold on the cigar.
cite last night at the Auditorium. He
put booze to the bad with n half-Nel-
son. He got hammer-lock on the
wicked crossword that couldn't be de-
MED And he put tea and coffee and
cigars to the floor within the time
limit of thirty.minute lecture which
preiaced his match with Prof. Pierce,
the northwest champion.
The wrestling match was strong
exhibition of the mat.art. Pierce Is
n big strong willing fellow. Bone
and muscle met bone and muscle. The
Norfolk Auditorium has not seen a
better match. Burns spent sixteen
minutes in getting the first fall. He
got the second fall in twenty-five min.
utes.
Wrestler Against lntemperance.
The farmer preceded the match with
lecture in which he went after in
temperance as hard as he afterwards
went after the husky wrestler against
him Burns Is an unschooled man but
he talks straight out from the should
er. Don't drink Don't swear. Don't
smoke Cut out tea and coffee" was
his text.
Swearing First Part Of Toughness.
Swearing is the first part of tough
ness" declared the grand old man of
the wrestling mat 80 is the first
glass of whiskey So is the cigar in
the corner of the mouth.
The young fellows get n little en-
joyment out of it. They begin to bite
their finger nails and wear their hats
crooked This swearing is very
rotten thing but not as bad as drunk
enness
No Deal in Chicago.
Il put a man in the business-Frank
Gotch. | want to say something
about him. I've heard more kicking
on that Chicago match here than any
time since | left Chicago. They are
sore because Gotch didn't throw
Hackenschmidt. Gotch couldn't make
HackensChmidt wrestle after the fell
low was beaten. Anytime man S
yellow and sees he's beat he quits.
About it being job for another
match I'll say don't think that they
will ever wrestle again. We tried to
get Hackenschmidt to go to Kansas
City. Would he? No! When an
American man can win a champion.
ship newspapers hadn't ought to try
to roast him.
"Hackenschmidt said he was mis-
treated. | stood behind Gotch and nc
one touched Hack. When big strong
men wrestle for the championship
they can't play ping pong
Hackenschmdt Yellow
"Ths Russian lion was yellow. I've
been thrown some myself and no one
ever heard me call for foul or 6
draw like Hack. Beell threw me las
time He's five-four and weighs 165
and he's wonderful. | caught him nap
ping that first match. He's a come
and I'm getting old and don't know
whether or not I'd throw him if W.
quite as good as | used to be. But thu
met again. I'm forty-seven and no
old man is still there. He cuts on
the sport,receptions and looks afte
his family.
III tell you something. Hacl
drank seven kinds of drink while he
was training. Gotch had one kind o
drink. trained Gotch and there are
only two kinds of drink l stand for
milk and water.
"You don't have to be fighters and
wrestlers. Get fine gymnasium fol
your boys and make them civilized
Stop those sassy ways that ruiz
them"
Burns concluded his lecture by illus
trating and explaining the various
wrestling holds. kid" Jensen Of Nor
folk who afterwards acted as referee
assisted in this Burns said that wher
he started wrestling there were eight
holds but that book now gives 22C
holds and he intends to put out 6
book with 500 holds. He explained
the famous Gotch "toe-hold" which
he showed was really foot hold. He
said there were seventeen kinds o.
foot-holds.
Science in Wrestling.
There is time in wrestling Just
like music" said the farmer droppins
into mat philosophy Time is the
science of wrestling. There is the
time for the move and countermove
The man who misses time is gone il
the other fellow is on time"
The match which followed was one
of the cleanest bits Of sport ever
seen in Norfolk.
Farmer Burns keeps to the ways
of frugality and STRENGTHENING. Ant
as fast as he gets money he sends
it back to his family on the Iowa farm