Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-08
SOME THINGS
 SEEMED QUEER
An Explanation of PuzzIing Phases of the GotchAH Hack enSchmidt Wrestling
 Bout
HOW CURLEY CUT IN
 WHY BETS WERE OFF
Why the Champions Share of Big Stakes Was Smaller Than the Russians
 Earnings

In the report of the Gotch-Hacken- schmidt wrestling match that was sent out by the Associated press and was published in The Review Tues. day morning no mention was made of the fact that Referee Ed Smith call ed of all bets before the match started. That such was really the case has been rumored about town during the last two days and was con- firmed yesterday by The Review.
 Many explanations of why this unex- pected move was made have been of fered by the wise ones, .sh Chicago The Chicago TTibdne fn. Tuesdays is sue said:
 At the request of officials Of the Empire A. C., President Comiskey, who offered his park for the bout and Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler. Referee Smith officially called off all bets before the Gotch-Hsck match.
 "One reason assigned was the pos sibility that some Of the betters might register complaints with the Empire A. C., if the bout turned out to be a fiasco.
 Another reason given, which was not announced officially, was an in jury to Hacks legs. Manager CBrley said the Russian had strained some Pigments in his underpinning
 The reason which carried most weight was Comiskey's request that there be no betting, as the "Old Ro- man" is strongly opposed to gamo- ling"
 The best explanation. however, seems to be that given by H. E.. Keough, the great sporting writer, who was present and says:
 This official declaration was the first intimation of the existence of something queer about the match, but its significance got home only to the sophisticated sporting element, which was not in the majority.
 SBets were declared of in anticipa- tion of just what happened It was officially known that Hackenschmidt was therc merely for the losers end, which already was in his grasp, wait ing only upon his compliance with a mere formaIity for it's final release to him.
 "It was not generally known until the necessary explanations were made to the dazed multitude that Hacken' schmidt was whipped before he lefi his training quarters at Shoreham, En, gland. and all that 'terperamentai stun was nothing more than the con sciousness that he was up against It.
 All Post Morten1 Revelation.
 Tt was not known, as 1t IS known now. that during the last two weeks if necessitated the tenderest care or the part of his attendants to prevent his running ont" and that his feel ing towards his meeting was some thing akin to acute nausea.
 That he had broken some tendon. in one of his precious legs while training also was a matter of post mortem revelation The public ha' no intimation that he would lie dowi at the first plausible opportunity, bu that. as since discovered, was exact Iv what he intended to do-and did
 Tt was a superb complication O tba ancient game. while the real m side truth about it was in abeyance and that was until GOteh secured tn first fall more easily than he Woul anpear to have taken had he been glE inr a show exhibition with one of S1i mat partners"
 Just what the result of this new