Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-05
THREE BIG WRESTLING MEETS
aOtoh is the First to Appear in His
Match Saturday.
wEsrEReAARp AND DR. ROILER
was-em and GIou wan Aiso settle
rheir Dlsrates Here Next Month
Date is Vet 90 ne Ap-
nounced.

Omaha Is to be the center Of wrestling
in the month Of February. three big
bouts being scheduled during the next
thirty days. All OF the bouts contain
men Of high class and some fast wrest-
ling should be seen.
The first OF the matches scheduled
here is the one in which Frank Gotch,
champion Of the world. appears in a
finish match with Bob Manogoff. the
Armenian. Omaha wrestling bugs will
be more than anxious 20 see the big
Iowa favorite in their midst again and 10
see some Of his wonderful work The
Gotch-ManoFoff match II scheduled for
Saturday at the Gayety theater.
Manogoff, tho Armenian srappler who
Is to meet the champion, Is by no means
a beginner, nor Is he a second class man
IN tho wrestling game. lie has record
Of bouts in the last four years in dif-
ferent parts of America which DO him
The greatest credit A list Of some OF
these men who have been prominent in
the last few years shows that Manosoff
will be some proposition when he climbs
into the ring Saturday to face the husky
champion.
Pons. the once French champion; An
ders Anderson, once the Terrible
swede." Althos. the Freedman; Bull OF
son, Frank Prindie. Jack Rooney, Raoul
de Rnuen, win Demetrai and Tom Davis,
once western champion and has
wrestled with Fred Beell and others and
given a good account OF himself Man
ogoff is really pupil OF Hackenschmidt,
having wrestled with the Russian many
times as his. training companion.
Jack Meyers and walter Thompson
will wrestle one OF the preliminaries and
Paul Hoge and Jack Light will meet In
the second, both for finish matches
Roller ana westersaard.
The second OF the biz matches sched-
uled for February Is the 'Rofer-wester-
gard so at the Auditorium. February
IS. This bout IL something Omaha has
been wishing would come 10 pass all
winter and when the two men get to-
gether there will most assurediy be some
real wrestling seen. Each OF the men
has won the bout In which they appeared
in Omaha. Roller throwing Mandino In
two straight, and westergaard winning
his handicap event against Hacken-
schmidt
Both Jess Westergaard and DR.. Frank
lin Roller are more than popular here.
Next to Frank Gotch there are probably
no wrestlers in the country who would
be more welcome. The two are well
matched and win put up a good fast
match. Westergsard Is perhaps little
the bigger but the speed OF the Seattle
doctor is we'll known and the Iowa man
will have his hands full II would not
be at all unusual IL the so would go the
full three bouts
For preliminaries for the bout Mana
ger Gillian has offers from several OF the
fast local men of Omaha and a couple
OF good bouts will probably be arranged
next week
The proposed match between oscar Was
sem and George Gion Is still unsettled
as TO date and the two VIII not get to-
Eether before the end OF the month.
Wassem asserts that Gion's claim 90 the
championship of Nebraska is entirely un-
founded as he has thrown every good
man IN Nebraska and VIII put the Auburn
man down with no trouble al all.