The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-22
MIKE SCHRECK IS
TO MEET LANGFORD
(Rn Ed w. Smith.)

Chicago, Nov. 22.-Strange, isn't it,
how the fighters have their ups and
downs. their comes and goes, in the
center Of the spotlight today and hang
ing upon the fringe of the game to-
morrow? Some of them stick. others
drop out and die Of dry rot.
Mike Schreck. the Reading, Ohio,
fat person. is a shining example Of
how n man can stick around from
time TO time. today a near-champion
and tomorrow a llll-in, though Mike
never actually was as bad as that
Mike has brought attention to him
self by being matched with that black
cyclone from Back Bay. Sam Lang
ford. Mike, who is a German. grab
bed of his match not because he
needs the money particularly. al
though money always Is useful to the
fighter. hut because he has Il well
founded Idea that If he can not lick
Langford. Langford cannot come with
in a mile of licking him.
Schreck has been in the game for n
long time-longer than it really seems
when his record is consulted. Back
in the late '90S Mike was a. gazelle OF
a welterweight in Cincinnati, and was
generally regarded as a tough young
fellow. They get fat in Cincinnati at
an early age and it was not long be-
fore something about the atmosphere
of the Ohio metropolis began to get
under Mixes skin aud swell him up.
Mike never grew tall. but he went
at the swelling process sideways, He
never got over 1t in all the training
In the world. much less when it
comes to removing that heavy waist
line.
Yet Mike can fight Ike a tiger still.
He got into trouble in New York for
a washeTwoman affair with Marvin
Hart, simply because the critics there
were unable to understand his gen
, eral contour and scheme of fighting
They thought that because Mike was
fat that he didn't amount to anything
as a fighter That was a misguided
idea, as Mike. even after weeks and
weeks of the conditioning process still
Sported that paunch.
It's there Set, and doubtless the ge
NAL Langford person will emit loud
guffaw when he gets his first peek at
/ the pleasant German boy in Pittsbure
this week
Time was when Schrecl1 looked like
a real candidate for the worlds cham
, Dionship. 1t was not so many years
ago that Mike practically chased Tom
/ my Burns. then first foisting his
J calims upon the public, out of Chi
/ cago and made the Canadian own uT
! that he didn't care an awful lot fol
! any Of Mixes game.
Burns was showing here after he
whipped Hart for the title. and Mike
with plenty of backing, began a cam
paign OF determination. Burns, be
/ ing a good Snowman though up 10 tha
time having but slight chance TO dem
onstrate his ability, saw his only hops
was TO sign with Schreck for the news
papers were beginning TO make 1t ho
for Tommy.
So the articles were signed in thu
! middle of the week during the sever
days that the Burns show was In the
city. That made business good TO
Tommy but IL didn't mean that there
was any fight Though II was pub
ished broadcast that all the fighter
wanted was a purse, nothing eve
came Of the agreement and Burns
sliding out OF town the following Sun
day. never again communicated witt
Mike.
The German sort of simmered ava,
after that. He knew, as did man,
others. that he had it on Burns ant
probably could have beaten him. Blu
I he knew also that he never could b.
given the opportunity and his bes
chance to become really great fight
er filtered away.
Jim Corbett was among the goo
judges of the ring that considere
Mike TO be among the most promisin
of the heavywelghts. That was abou
five years ago. Just how good Mix
IS now is a big question. It's stii
Try out he Is accepting in Pittsbur
next week.