Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-09
The Russian Lion" Goes
Back Home Disguised at
His Reception
Story Of His View of Recent
Wrestling Match With
GOtCh

schmidt will shake the dust of
America from his shoes within two
days. Before departing for Mr..
Wittig's farm for day of rest Sun
day morning, he engaged passage on
the Lusitania and will sail at once.
Moreover, it is not with the kindest
feelings toward this country that the
Russian wrestler will return.
cover here in America they don't
even consider themselves gentle
men," he remarked sadly yesterday,
as he quilted the auditorium.
This somewhat obscure remark, it
was learned later, came from the
repartee exchange between Gotch
and himself in the ring. Gotch threw
light on the subject yesterday.
when I first commenced to worry
him by rubbing my open hands over
his face" said Frank, he became ir-
ritated, and said in his German &C
cent, dat is no way for gentleman
to wrestle.' I replied to this, you re
in America now I meant that he
| was going up against the real thing
in the wrestling game, but he evil
IDENTIFY took it in another sense"
Hackenschmidt will first return to
England and will then depart fol
: Cairo and Constantinople, where he
will give posing exhibitions. He
may also meet some of the native
wrestlers over there.
His local representatives said yes.
terday that he could not understand
the reception he received here AND
that as he was naturally of an ex.
/, tremely sensitave nature, the kissing
he received at two or three loca
places had much upset him.
'He has been much depressed
, ever since his first public appear
ance here" said one of his part.
yesterday, land he was discouraged
when he entered the ring. More
over he is of the conviction tina
, Gotch was oiled in some way whe1
he first touched him. He told u
before starting that the moment h
placed his hands on Gotch's wrist
he fealt how slippery they were. HI
, with vaseline or oil until it worked
we'll into the skin and that when h
. started perspiring it worked out.
3 ''He told us that from the momen
. he was in the ring he knew he wa
I up against it, to use our phrase
and that inside. of ten minutes hi
I only idea was to protect his eye
from Gotch's nails. He says hi
a keyes panied him so after fifteen min
d utes that he could hardly think o
t anything else. He has a piece take
out Of one of his eyelids and say
that Gotch did it with his thomb
:, nail
= "He also said that when Cote
4 fastened the first toe hold grip O
l. him he had never felt such pain. H
8 says he strained his muscles until hi
e leg felt like a bar of iron. Then h
managed to break the hold
:. eff he meets Gotch again, thin
= he will ask for the Greco-Roma
v style of wrestlig, or for a bout wit
e the toe grip barred. His one ide
when he went into the ring was t
e get hold of Gotch as quickly as pos
sible, and when he round himsel
/ unable to do so he knew all wa
over. He says he was strong whe
= he gave up, so far as ability to 6
n another hour or so was concerned
but that he realized the case wa
l. hopeless, as he was out Of cond
!. ton"
Gotch laughed at the idea that hi
! wrists were oiled, and said that b
had purposely trained lightly to d.
velop the extreme perspiration h
showed in the ring. This was
k make him slippery all over, h
said.