Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-06
ENGLISH SPORTS
ARE EASY MARKS
At Least So Says Champion
Wrestler Frank
GOtCh.
ONE MAN ON THE SQUARE
SiN Nights ct Fake Matchc=-llatcd
american ~ Much They
Packed the Thcatcra

The opening remarks OF Frank
Goicb uuou bis arrival iu New York
from tour abroad would Indicate that
EuuHshmcu have about ss much re-
gard for am American athlete as they
do for the illuminated memoirs OF one
c. Washington.
"They hated me so over there the
worlds champion wrestler says, that
7 drew a packed house every night
They all came with the hope that some
bum wrestler would jump up ON the
stage and throw me or ] would fail
and break my neck
'The grcatcr part OF this dislike FOR
Americans" Gotch explained. began
with the Olympic games. They are
sim sore at everything that bears On-
Gle Sans stamp. Then Tommy Burns
came along and got 90 bad. He would
not meet Jack Johnson, despite the
many inducements offered. but instead
he went down to Australia and fought
the negro. thus depriviug the English
men of seeing him licked. They will
never forgive Tommy or America for
that. Now Jack Johnson IS tho hero
I'm England. and il ne goes there he
can make barrel OF money fighting
at the National sporting club
Did you see Hackcuschmidt over
there2' Gotch was asked.
did 1 see him? We'll. 1 got one
running glance at him and what we
said 90 each other wouldn't do TO teach
I'm the public schools. Instead of max
eli. a
Hack treated me very badly and |
acted as Do he were car instead on ]
the defeated champion. He refused I
to see me every time ! sought an m I
teryiew It's coming pretty tough |
when champion has 90 stand that /
from a man he has beaten
G0tch went on 90 say that me had /
tried every means possible 20 get /
Hackenschmidt 90 wrestlc MIN again, /
and the English people were crazy for /
the match. but there was nothing do
ing with Hack.
Gotch said that wrestling is even
more popular in England than prize
lighting
why they will fan for anything
said the champion. 'rhe rawest thing /
I ever heard OF was pulled OH on MI.
Bettison. the matchmaker of the Ma
tioual Athletic club Teddy Baily,
promoter arranged match between
"a Frenchman named Emil Regnier
and johnny Graham, an lrishmau.
They were to wrestle two hours, and
the one getting the most falls i'm that
time was to be declared the winner, |
but they had TO wrestle the fun two |
hours. no matter what happened.
''WeI. on the first night neither got
a fall and by request they continued
the mill the next night 20 "a packed
10
another packed house was on hand
the following night. That kept up for
six nights. when Graham finally won.
The public simply ate 10 up, and Il
was the rawest fake ever perpetrated.
IN America they would have thrown
them out the first night.
"Bcttisou himself got interested in
The struggle and when Baily. the pro-
nOter, laughed az him and told him
n was q frame he wouldn't believe ID. !
Come up 20 my house and see
said Baily. Bcttson did so. and found |
he two wrestlers sitting at a table
planning what they would do that
night
"Cau YOU beat that for getting
away with 20 raw one''
Word came from London that Hack
'uschmidt is now ready 20 meet GOtch.
FMS is the statement that came from
Europe with instruction from Hack |
lnI 10 give 10 out until he was sure /
fotCh was safely on American SOIL
Ihe Russian Lion" IN his statement
.ays ne VIII come here and wrestle
fotch for the title. but he must be
given $4,000. win. lose or draw. This
s $4,000 more than hC received last
April Looks ass though 10 would be
iari to get some American promoter
p fan for such noise. especially after
sacks showing In Chicago and his re- Z
usal % meet Frank while the latter 9
VAS abroad
Hackenschmidt told his agent That
be- would like 20 have the money paid
uto ana English bank before be leaves I
England Hackcnschmidt states that 4
r bee Us assured $1,000 he win meet 5
iotch DOB England, the American 10 d
axe the remainder Of the gate. John D
krone. who is in London looking after =
iotch's Interests there. says Frank %
.lI decline as there ls mo- sincerity to
ue offer Krone soon leavee FOR Z
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