Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-17
AND OLSON IN OMAHA
Champion Will Meet the Cowboy at
the Auditorium.
HAS THROWN BELL
He Began by Downing n Broncho-
Turks Are stiIi After the scalp
of the Iowa world
Champion.

Frank Gotch will wrestle Charley Olson
at the Auditorium the night Of May a, and
that may be the last time Omaha fans will
see the worlds champion in action, at
least until he returns from Melbourne,
Australia, where he is to meet George
Hackenschmidt next January. for Gotch
talks of retiring after that.
This man Olson is as big as Gotch and
he ought to make the champion work a
little. He has thrown Fred Reell, who lie
rated on a par with Farmer Burns. and
next to Gotch. Olson is young, strong and
active. He was a cowboy in his younger
days and. in fact, until very recently. He
came by wrestling accidentally. Tusseling
with a broncho one day. his pals observed
a powerful exhibition Of strength and told
him he ought to be a wrestler. He had
the mustang in a corral and was trying to
saddle him. 1t was in the course of this
process that he threw Mr.. Mustang TO the
ground.
But he will have hold of a tougher propo-
sition than this broncho in Gotch, Olson
is one of the men who keeps in good trim.
Unlike John Perrelli, who lost easily IN
Gotch a few weeks ago at the Audi
forum, Olson has a pride in his work.
He believes that some day he will be the
successor of Gotch as worlds champion.
Manager Gillian OF the Auditorium is
making plans for high class preliminaries
for this match. He may be able to induce
John Holden to meet Oscar Wasem. Both
these men are good, Wasem being a higher
grade professional and Of longer expert
ence, but Holden thinks he can throw
Wasem, and has not thus far consented to
meet him. wasem is willing to make any
sort of wager that he can beat Holden.
Local fans hope Holden will agree to meet
Wasem and settle the old score.
It is also probable that two big police
men will go on in the preliminaries. and
a youth from Council Bluffs. This is to be
a big event in the line of wrestling.
Turks SIN After Gotch.
Gotch is still being pursued by the Turks.
Since he beat Yousiff Mahmout so COM
pletely at Chicago. Antoine Pierri, the i'm
porter of Mahmout and every other big
Turk for the last fifteen years, has been
wild In his efforts to land a man to beat
Gotch, and he comes now with a line of
talk from Europe. via mail. that he has a
man who can dow the American. This is
what he said Mahmout would do. so the
American public will wait until the last
fall to form it's judgment.
Upon leaving Chicago with Mahmout
after Gotch had quickly given Mahmout
his quietus in the Dexter Park pavilion
championship match, Manager Antoine
Pierri confined his remarks to this one:
We are beaten fairly and sauarely.
Mahmount met his master. But we return
to Europe, and expect to bring back a
Turk bigger than Yussiff, the unbeaten.
who will throw Gotch. I'll get Gotch yet II
he dares enter the ring with the wrestler I
bring over"
In a letter recently from Manager Pierri,
who was at strasburg on May 2. the wrest-
ling promoter gives the Information that
an .Asiatic pasha has Hassan Morat in
charge, and that Hassan has beaten every
opponent who dared face him at catch-as-
catch-can.
"Hassan is big" writes Pierri. at will
cost me q lot of money to get him away
from the pasha for the trip to the United
States. but I'll get him and arrive with
both Mahmout and Hassan some time, in
September. Hassan is afraid OF no man
in the world. Gotch looks to him no more
IMAM sCOTeS OF men ne mas met IN the
last year. Mahmout. honestly. looks al
most a pygmy compared to Hassan. TIL
send over 1900 to post as a forfeit for
Gotch to cover If he will meet Hassan."
Gotch's representative today could not
speak for the Iowa farmer. The latter,
however, said recently that he intended to
retire next fall, after going to Australia
TO wrestle George Hackenschmidt at Mel
bourne -" a s12,5o plum. win, lose or
draw y addition Gotch is to get three
round-trip tickets to Australia.