The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-11-26
GOTCH KEEPS TITLE
\ In UNITED STATES
CHAMPION WRESTLER EASILY
DEFEATS ANOTHER FOREIGN
INVADER IN CHICAGO MATCH.
RAICEVICH is EASIEST YET
Great italian Loses in Two Straight
FaIIs-Brain, Not Drawn, Wins
Bouts, Says Iowa Farmer Boy,
Talking on Training Methods.

Another foreign wrestler has tried
in vain to take the championship title
from Frank Gotsch, the Iowa farmer
boy who has successfully defended it
against all corners. The latest to at
tempt the feat, which the great Hack
enschmidt failed to accomplish, is Clio
vanni Raicevich. an Italian.
Though endowed with great
strength and a figure that looks like
didn't know enough about wrestling
to make any trouble for the Iowan.
He got only two holds during the en-
tire bout and these Gotch easily avoid
ed. He broke the Iowan's famous toe
hold twice and showed that he pos
The champion fioored the Italian in
straight falls, the first being less
than II minutes and the last taking
few seconds more than five minutes.
A crowd estimated at $4,000 persons
jammed the Chicago coliseum and
saw Raicevich's vain attempts to win
the title and cheered the American
to the echo when he pinned the in
vaders Shoulders to mat the Sec
ond time.
Gotch won the first fall with a
crotch and bar arm hold and the Sec
end with a cross leg, hammer and
wrist lock. The champion used the
toe hold as preliminary to get the
final clutch on the big Italian.
Gotch's victory added another quar-
ter section of Iowa land to his fortune
which is now estimated at more than
100000. 1t also boosted him as an
attraction with the Jeffries aggrega-
ton which is to start transforming
tour of the country in a few days.
Before he left Chicago, Gotch was
served with notice of suit for $685.
600, which a young woman named
Sadie Currie wants for breach of prom
Use. Gotch says he doesn't know the
girl and will fight the suit.
Gotch recently enunciated training
principles about as revolutionary
as it would be for distiller
to declare in favor of prohibition,
anu JUST do idi iiou luo Ucdlcu
track.
I'm training it's brain over .brawn,"
he said. 1.-The man who trains with
his brain can get more good out of
twirling a match than an athlete can
out of five-pound dumbbell who does
not use his brain. It's systematic and
not mechanical training that counts.
1.-THE man who losses dirt and rock
from the street to the wagon eight
hours a day-he's mechanical. The
trouble with the foreign athletes is
that they are mechanical
They do not use their brains in
training. They are taught all of the
known holds and how to avoid or
break them. But spring a new one
and they are gone. With them it's
matter over mind 1t should be the
reverse.
figure just where shall place my foot.
That makes me think. And it also
makes every muscle employed the
slave of my mind. I get much more
out of it than the Marathon runner
who just wants to cover distance.
"Try to move a muscle in your arm
without moving the limb. You can't?
That's because your brain is not mas
ter of your muscles. There isn't a
muscle in my body that can't move
at the command of my brain. It's be-
cause think as train.
tits speed the athlete must have"
continued Gotch. That's where many
an athlete makes a mistake. He
thinks it is Drawn. And it is mis-
take that many men exercise just for
the benefit of the exercise make. Men
who use dumbbells few minutes a day
get heavy ones. ! use dumbbells and