Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-27
Hard to Get True Line
On the WreSt!efS

ingredients of a cake there isn't a book
maker on earth who would give odds
as to the outcome. The season started
with fair promises, and 1t Is terminal
ing with as much uncertainty and with
az many problems unsolved as any Of
the most intricate puzzles.
One of the other puzzles that cannot
be readily solved Is how DR.. B. F. Rol-
Ter can break his ribs every three weeks
and still rematH IN the running. The
Doctors first RIB splinter episode that
attracted attention started with his
match with CANA In Londo less than
a year ago. Since then the number OF
internal Injuries he has received would
make him absolutely the poorest risk
any casualty company would think OF
having. >
After all. the game OF graphing may
not be vastly unlike the game Of poll
tics. 1t is impossible to take past per-
formances and build anything like a
fair estimate Of what the next meet
Ing will amount to. Either the mob il
stirred to q mad delirium In an effort
to get rid of its kaIe or the grapplers
in this country, including both Aneri-
can n foreign artists, are training In
differently n never certain OF them
selves. Every one OF them admits that
this is the heyday OF the mat. but SO
long as the process of elimihation is
so persistently ignored-so long az the
dub Of yesterday is the king pin of to-
day-that long a we be certain that
graphing is going to pass rapidly from
the zenith OF its position, with only
empty halls and Indifferent newspaper
articles to greet the efforts OF the wres-
tiers. The suspicion arises that these
men have not done their best and that
unless wrestling Is revived and purE
fed 1t must resolve itself purely and
simply into a vaudeville sketch.
These are facts that are founded ION
actual circumstances. and the kindest
thing that can be said Is that science
and the mastery Of an art can in no
way enter into the avocation Of grap-
pling.
Hack says he will return to America
late In August. The Russian Hon has
practically accepted the offer to meet
Gotch in Chicago on Labor day. Ae-
| cording to present arrangements Hack
e~nschmidt has agreed to let the Iowa
farmer have $40, 900 cash for his end,
win, lose or draw.
The bout VIII probably be waged In
American League park under a big cir
Gus top. Jack Curley, Hacks mana
ger, has a fifth interest in the club that
shoulders Gotch's money. Haciken-
schmidt WAS to work on percentage,
but Curley has released him from all
| worry incidental to the size OF the au-
dience by guaranteeing him lump
sum. Should Hack win 1T means a
small fortune TO the promoter from fu-.
ture matches, which wilEfade to moth
tugness In case Of defeat. It Is one OF
the biggest gambles In sport since this
Johnson-Jeffries fray.
1t vas Curley that brought Hack to
this country last November. He guar
anteed the Russian lion $40. 600 for q
twenty week tour. When the pair met
to settle up Curley found In the for
eigner a peculiar sense 81 lonor ana
fairness. Hack found himself SIS, 900
to tbs good after deducttng money
spent and sent home. He couldn't see
why he should be so much richer than
his director and split the difference by
giving Curley $1,000 to equalize things.
Don't faint. It really happened.
Curley had to hustle to make good
his contract but he secured dates with
such great success that Hackenschmidt
slept In bed but six nights during the
four months.
Hack recently advanced $500 TO q
brother to nve IN q small business.
The brother invested In small celluloid
chips at Monte Carlo in~stead-with the
usual results. The wrestler was not
disturbed when he heard the news, II