The evening times., 1911-04-12

ingredients Of a cake there isn't book.
| maker on earth who would give odds
as to the outcome. The season started
with fair promises. and it is terminal.
ing with as much uncertainty and with
as many problems unsolved as any of
the most intricate puzzles.
one OF the other puzzles that cannot
be readily solved is how DR.. B. r, Rol.
Ter can break his ribs every three weeks
and still remain in the running. The
Doctors first rib splinter episode that
attracted attention started with his
match with Cana in London less than
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
tair estimate of what the next meet
ing Will amount to. Either the mob IL
stirred to mad delirium in an effort
| to get rid OF its kale or the grapplers
IN this country, including both Ameri.
can and foreign artists. are training in.
Inherently and 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 elimination. IL
so persfstently ignored-so long as the
dub of yesterday is the king pin Of to-
day-that long can 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 ana that
unless wrestling is revived and purf-
fed it must resolve itself purely and
simply into vaudeville sketch.
These are facts that are founded on
actual circumstances, and the kfndest
thing that can be said is that sciencs
and the mastery Of an art can In no
way enter into the avocation Of crap.
pling.
Hack says he will return to America
late in August. The Russian lion has
practically accepted the offer to meet
Gotch in Chicago on Labor day. Ac.
cording to present arrangements Hack
enschmidt has agreed to lot tho Iowa
farmer have $4,000 cash for his end.
win. lose or draw.
A1a0 ooOS WILL pIOu0U1y W0B0Q In
American League park under q big cir.
Gus top. Jack Curley, Hacks mama
ger. has fifth interest in the club that
shoulders Gotch's money. Hacken.
schmidt was to work on percentasa
but curley has released him from al
worry incidental to the size Of tho au-
dience by guaranteeing him Q lump
sum. Should Hack win II means q
II "a hA
ture matches, which will fade to moth.
insness in case Of defeat. It 10 one Of
the biggest CANDLES in sport since the
Johnson -Jeffries fray.
1t was Curley that brought Hack to
this country last November. He guar
anteed the Russian lion $4,000 for a
twenty week tour. When the pair met
to settle up Curley found in the for
eigner peculiar sense Of honor and
fairness Hack found himself $15,000
to the good after deducting money
spent and sent home. He couldn't see
why he should be SO much richer than
his director and split the difference by
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 $25oo to a
brother to invest in a small business.
The brother invested in small celluloid
chips at Monte Carlo instead-with the
usual results. The wrestler was not
disturbed when he heard the news. "I
gave him the money without any
strings. 1t was his to do as he pleased
with Give him some more? Oh, no.
1t Is his business to get more" said .
Hack philosophically.