The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-22
PugiIism
Baseball
Racing
GOTCH MAY MEET
ITALIAN GIANT
Fellow Just Over From the Other
Side Weighs 240 Pounds.


Chicago. Sept 22.-If weight counts
for anything, Giovani Raiceyich, the
latest foreign invader for the wTest-
ling championship, held by Frank
Gotch stands royal chance of being
tho next worlds champion The big
Italian wrestler, who came to Chi
cago at the solicitation of the EN-
pire Athletic club, is giant
Weighing 240 pounds and standing
8 feet s inches In his stocking feet.
Raiceyich looks every inch the wrest-
ler the foreign authorities claim he is.
Like the other wrestlcrS who have
preceded him TO this country. Raice-
vich Is a past master at the Graeco-
Roman style. He carried off the in
ternational prize in Paris in 1907 and
In February, 1909.
Raicevich comes direct from his
villa at Florence. Italy. where in the
off seasons the Italian champion
spends mis- leisure moments automobil.
ing. Ralcevich Is an expert driver.
He loves to talk of his racing car and
enumerate the times he has been
hauled in by the gendarmes
Partner Also a Giant.
Raiceyich and his wrestling partner,
Il. r. RugGerio, are inseparablc Rug
gerIo weighs 2i0 pounds, and SAYS II
his comrade fails to beat Gotch he
will make the attempt However. he
will content himself for the present
with training Raiceylch and taking
on other ambitious wrestlcrs.
Both Raiccylch and RuggoTio talk
German and French fluently. Their
manager and Interpreters being alb
sent, the Italian wrestlers were lost
until they found the reporter who
could understand German. Then they
both talked.
From this time ON II was an easy
proposition to interview the wrest-
lers. They speak German lluently.
their tours of Germany 1t pleased
Raicevich 10 find someone with whom
he could keep up Il rapid-Dre conversa'
tion.
Asked how ne went through his
training for his big matches. Gioyiani
said:
Sleep and Food Best Training.
II get plenty of sleep and eat Hike a
horse. 1t isn't anything for me to put
away three pounds of meat at meal
when have done hard days work.
In the morning generally, cal six or
seven eggs, but at noon and night /
cat heavily. Drink-wcll once in
awhile | do take bottle of chianti.'
Raicevich is confident he can master
the catch-as-catch-can style of wrcst-
ling equally as well as the Graeco-
Roman. The much talked about toe
hold. made famous by Gotch, has no
terrors for the foreigner Raicevich
docs not know what the word afraid
means. He declares that Zybisco has
on two different occasions broken a
contract 10 meet him In London Eng.
and brands the foreigners as being
afraid.
Raiccyich claims Italy as his birth
place. but his name would imply he is
of Russian descent 1t seems thai
,Raiceviches were Russian refugees
who drifted 10 Italy. Raiceylch admits
this much and further inquiries he re-
fuses TO answer.
Bigger Than Hackenschmidt.
He is the type OF European wrest-
Ter familiar to America-enormous in
bulk, and looking extremely formida-
BILE. These mountains of flesh in the
past have not proved difficult for the
more 1.-THE and better trained wrest-
lers of this country. He seems fast
but with such bulk speed is only
relative He suggests Hackenschmldt
In build. but is broader and thicker
about the chest.
Yousuf Mahmout had remarkably
developed legs. but the Italian candi-
date for premier honors has the grand
piano style OF underplnning beaten a
block.
He has tin car on each side to
show that he has been IN some rough
matches. He has been wrestling II
years, starting when a boy Of IA, as he
is only &c years old now. The Italian
wrestlors are nearly all small. but
Raicevich is more of the Russian in
makeup.