The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-19
Frank GotCh Has Planned New Holds
Champion Invents New Stuff to Work on Hackenschmidt
 Labor Day

Chicago, Aug. 19.-The latest story about the coming wrestling match fol the worlds championship is that Frank Gotch has discovered two new holds.
 An expert" who refuses the use o1 his name, declares that Gotch has discovered a new hold which has the famous toe hold beaten to a fraz- Zle." Even Manager K1ank fears that were the fine points of this "discov- ery'' made public the authorities i'm mediately would legislate against it owing to the desperate straits in which-it puts the man who is unlucky enough to fall into the trap.
 It hardly appears possible that if a new hold worth anything to the cham pion has been discovered or invented it would be allowed to become public but the expert referred to describes 1t to a certain extent and a person we'll up in the mat game probably could solve some way to break it. At any rate, this is what the expert says:
 "As a deadly menace this new hold has the toe hold looking like a plug ged nickel. Besides it is easier to ex- ecute. Unlike the toe hold, the ankle and thigh are slapped on entirely with the arms Those who understand the laws of dynamics say that once ob-
 
 pound of pressure to get fourteen pounds of strain on the knee of the object of his attack That one pound of pressure on the hip joints is equi- valent to twenty-two pounds of strain.''
 With all these intricate points ex- plained so fully-you will note noth- Hackenschmidt to run right back home Gotch calls this new terror the ankle. and thigh lock.
 Manager K1ank is authority for the statement that the champion has still another hold which will win just as easy as putting a horse down when all it's feet are tied. This is called the flip flop". and results of it's use resemble an aeroplane going through the air at the rate of a mile a minute. A remedy suggested for Hackenschmidt for safety if he falls into this trar is to anchor himself to the floor of the arena.
 Reports from Gotch's camp say the big fellow has been offered all kinds of inducement should he defeat Hack enschmidt in the coming battle Among them is a guarantee of $50 O.0Oe for a tour of the world. This offer includes an option on the receipts, a valet for his personal attention and two wrestling partners. The offer also holds out the addltlonal Dalt o1 a personally conducted big game triI in Africa to last seven weeks.
 :. The great mat match, in which the two giants will battle for the glory and the coin that goes with it, is at tracting more preliminary attention than any sporting event in recent years. with the possible exception of the Jack Johnson-James J. Jeffries fight at Reno, New, little more than a year ago. Just why it is attracting attention isn't hard to understand when it is taken into consideration that it is an international struggle; that it will be battle in which bit terness will not be lacking and one in which no greater opponents of the art of catch -catch-can wrestling ever were brought face to face. It is only natural that there should be intense interest in what these giants of the mat game are doing in prepara- ton for this event of the century.