The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28
INTEREST IN
MATCH KEEN
Pugilistic Work Looking to
Bout Between Wells and
Smith.
FORMER BEING PICKED
TO FIGHT JOHNSON
Gama's Arrival Revives Inter-
est in Wrestling in the
Old Country.
BY RICHARD DAHLaREN.

Special Cable 10 The Tribune
LONDON, Aug. 27.-Those who fol
low pugilism are looking forward to
the engagement between Bombardier
Wells and Jewey Smith, heavyweight
champion Of England, which will take
place on September s. Many have
picked Wells as a likely candidate TO
fight Jack Johnson, the negro, and the
fight on September will be turning
point one way or another in the aspi-
rant chances. Wells is no better than
an amateur. so far as prestige goes,
although Eugene Corri, the official ref
eroe of the National Sporting club, says
that, IN his opinion, Bombardier could
give the negro champion a lively battle.
Hugh Mcintosh has signed contract
whereby Wells will be under his man
aRement for some time to come, and
would not be surprised to see the Aus
trallan promoter take the Englishman
OF TO Australia with him.
Wells is an~ex-soldier in the British
army, and but recently returned from
staged in Kings hall, and Jimmy Britt
has been looking after the arrange
ments for Mr.. Mcintosh.
Since the coming of Cana, the great
wrestler of India, there has been q re-
Vival of interest In wrestling in this
country. To watch Cana at work is to
reallze that one is looking at master
of his craft. He is there on the mat
to get his man down On his shoulders,
and it is obvious that the paramount
thought in the Indians mind is that
the quicker his opponent is defeated,
tao creator is the credit due TO himself
To Put Man Down Quick.
He is not wrestling with one eve on
his adversary and one on his specta-
tors. He is not specializing On the eff
feet his wrestling may have on future
engagements. At the moment there is
only one thing to be done. to put his
| man down as soon as may be.
There is no wasting of time playing
| for head holds or holds of any other
kind. He doesn It play for holds at all.
he goes in and takes them. and should
enough to avoid the first attack, he also
has to be ready to meet the next.
which comes upon him with lightning
rapidity.
Quickness is perhaps the Indian cham
pion's quality which most impresses
the onlooker. The latter is ant to over
look the tremendous force which is con
cenfrated in the Indians rapid move
uents. Gotch is said to be quick-he
has laughed at all the European wrest-
lers he has met because Of their ele-
phantine slowness. The cinematograph
pictures of his contests with Hacken-
schmidt and Zbysco proved that by com
parison with them he was quick, He
has declared. and he has realized. that
quickness is strength; that guickness
in a wrestling bout is of infinitely
more Importance than mere physical
bulk and ponderously exerted strength;
but if ever he met CANA it would be
L H.
this respect with his challenger. He
will be up against man who has at
least equally as great an appreciation
of the value of uuickness as himself
and possibly greater executive power.
But the strength is in CANA also. One
can see il in the fine. proportions Of his
figure, the enormously deep chest, the
strong loins, the huge thighs, and pow
erful, rounded arms
Muscle Is There,
He has no muscular development
chart as Hackenschmidt. Hs has not
the gross bulk of Zbysco. There is
nothing particularly overnowering in his
appearance. Besides such giant as
Padoubny. the Cossack, would appear
q comparatively small man. but the mus
Gle is there. and obviously und9r nerve
control of the highest degree. "The
strength Of an OK and the quickness of
a cat,' were the words in which one
spectator summed up CANA.
He is worker. and he sees to it that
his opponent needs to be a worker. too,
unless he is to go down on his shoul-
ders within the first FIVE seconds, There
is no letting up, no breathing time. no
holding off to gather wind and strength
when CANA is wrestling.
Matters are progressing in satisfac
tory manner IN regard to the stems be-
ing taken for the recov- Of the inter
national polo cup which is now in Amer
lea The fund alrendy subscribed
amounts to $4,000, and another $4,000
will be required to carry through the
programme outlined. The present in
tention is to ship twenty ponies to
America about March 90. and, providing
Nav, that will leave n margin of. six
weeks for the visitors to get used to
the strange conditions. It is hoped
Captain H. Lloyd will be able to com
mand the services of w. 8. Bnkmaster,
Palmer, Captain F. w. Barrett, Cap
tain l.. st. G. Choape and CAPTAIN
Mathew Iannore, Practice matches
will demonstrate which four shape best
for an American soil. ana when this
point is discovered the quartet will
play together. so as to be fit for the
The Royal Dublin society's horse
show held this week at Balisbridge did
not come up to the expectations OF
turfmen. The number Of entries this
wear were only 1886. as against 124s
last year There were eighty entries
This was new departure this year and
was so successful that it will have u
part in tho programme annually hence"
forth.
The proposed tour of the combined
Oxford and Cambridge university
nno ,l>,r fhcn oh n
ern part of tho United States in the
autumn has been cancelled However,.
the tonr may be made next year. In