The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-08-14

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STOP TRAINING
Even For q Day Between Now
and the Time of the Big
!. J: Match !: :,
Chicago. Aug. 14-Developments in
the approaching worlds champion
ship wrestling match between cham
pion Frank Gotch and George Hack
enschmidt are beginning to crowd
things bit and from the time of the
arrival Of the Russian lion in Chi
cago where he will pitch camp for
his final training for the struggle
there will be much doing. Hack who
gust 10 leaves England where he has
put In more than q month Of training
in the best Of condition. What he
will do in the final stages of his
"prepping" in Chicago is to work
just hard enough to keep him in the
best of condition, at the same time
eliminating the dangerous chance of
s.aleness.
While Hack is busy in Chicago get
ting ready for the great struggle at
Comiskey's baseball park on Labor
day, Frank Gotch will be equally
busy 200 miles to the westward.
Humboldt, Iowa, home Of the farmer
wrestler is tooth and nail with Gotch.
It was Gotch who put Humboldt on
the map and II It hadn't been for
Frank they; would till be- !. asking:
Where and what is Humboldt"
This great mat match in which the
two giants will battle for the glory
and the coin that goes with it Is at
tracing more preliminary attention
than any sporting event in recent
years, with the possible exception Of
the Jack Johnson-James ]. Jeffries
fight at Reno. New, a little more than
q year ago. Just why 1t is attracting
attention isn't hakd 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-as-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
preparation in this event Of the CEN
fury.
Champion Gotch has determined
just what he intends to do from now
until the time he enters the ring. He
will remain in the training camp he
has rugged up in Humboldt, Ia. There
he Is at home and with one of the
greatest corps of wrestling assistants
ever gotten together to train him he
is taking no chance Of not being in
the best of condition of his career.
For more than q month he has been
at it strenuously every, day with Joe
Rogers. the big New Yorker, Jess
Westergaard. the tough Iowan and
many others known In the mat game.
He is in good enough shape right
now according to those who are with
him and should know, to enter the
ring for q struggle Of brains and
Drawn against the foreign invader.
But there will be no letup in his
training. He Is daily adding more
brains and Drawn to his training
camp to get the best Information In
the art. One thing is certain Gotch
never before trained as hard for a
match as he is training this time. He
has gone into other matches against
less formidable opponents In half the
condition that he presents today and
won. But he won because he had the
brains and sufficient strength to exc,
cute what his brains directed him to
do.
The champion will not come to Chi
cago until August 26. He Is perfect
ly satisfied where he is, but when he
lands here he will finish his training
at one Of the local clubs, and await
the call to the center of the mat.
In the meantime this Russian ath-
lete will be going through his train
ing ticks on the north shore Of Chi
cage. He, like Gotch, will have his
work cut out for him, for he fully
realizes that he will stack up against
the toughest game that he has ever
tackled. And like Gotch, Hack is go
ing 10 fortify himself by having
wrestling brains around him while
he 10 training. With this In view Chas.
Cutler Of Chicago and Americas"
the Baltimore wrestler, with Dr.. B. f.
Roller Of Seattle 90 chief Of staff will
be with him. This "Americus" per-
son Ii Just about a. brainy. . work
man on the mat ~ one could ind.
He should be great help 70 Hack
In speed work. for he has; Il to burn,
When II IL taken into conside Grafton
the great expense and the work en-
tailed It II not surprising Why the
Interest u manifest In this greate6t,I
Of all wrestling matches