The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-22
Gotch To Weigh
 About 2l2 For Hack
Champion Doing Strenuous Work to Get in Shape For
 Big Wrestling Match

Hum boldt, Ia., Aug. 22.-In thir- teen days Frank A. Gotch, wrestling champion, and George Hacken- bulky forms through the hemp strands at the White Sox ball park :n Chicago and settle a dispute, the orig in of which dates from the spring of 1908.
 Gotch himself admits that his prev ious meeting with the Russian Lion was anything but satisfactory. For more than two hours the men pulled around the ring, until Hackenschmidt quit from sheer exhaustion. The match that will take place on Sep tember 4 will be entirely different with both men admittedly in far bet ter shape than they were at the time of their first contest.
 The training of Champion Gotch, that is row drawing to conclusion, has been the most satisfactory that he has ever indulged in during his professional career. There have been times when the girth of Gotch was emphatically ample, but his abdom- inal reaches are now drawn to the minimum measurements. Frank is every inch a gladiator. and for six day of the hardest kind of training. During this period also he has partak- en of nutriInent but twice each tWen- ty-four hours. Road work, rope jump ing, operations with the wrist ma chine, pulleys, punching bag, hand ball and wrestling constitute the chief features of his training.
 No later than 2 o'clock every morn ing finds him undergoing his first athletic stunts of the day. About 1O:30 o'clock he is through for the morning, and with a. bath and a thor
 l,s home and eats a light breakfast. Half past 1 o'clock in the afternoon finds him in the handball court, where he and Joe Rogers chase the elusive sphere for fully an hour.
 Gotch's wrestling staff includes Joe Rogers. Jess Westergaard, Yussif Has san and Farmer Burns His rest be- tween bouts consumes from two to five minutes, and then he proceeds with a fresh grappler
 About 3:30 o'clock he is ready for his final bath and rubdoWn for the day. At about 4:30 o'clock he con- sumes his second meal and rests un- til early evening. If the weather per mits he takes a spin over the coun- try roads in his motor car, and be- fore 10 o'clock he is at home and asleep. For eight hours Gotch en- joys absolute rest, and during every waking moment he is in the best inn
 
 most jovial companions and regarding the future through a vision of vast content, the champion operates under that are ideal.
 It is difficult to conceive that Geo. can be in any better form than that possessed by the and Frank assures the world of grappling that there will not be one idle moment on the mat. His training will continue for two weeks longer, and Gotch will leave for Chi cago on Sept. 2, doing no work what ever between that time and the con- test.
 Manager Emil Klank calculates that since Gotch's training began Frank has undergone 200 hours of actual work. This is approximately one hundred times as long as the hardest average match he would expect to en- gage in. Gotch has pulled down about twenty pounds in weight, and at this time tips the scales at POS pounds. It is impossible to believe that he will take off another pound of flesh. and he will likely enter the ring carving a net weight of PIP. This will allow him four pounds of adipoise tissue to lose during the combat. Hack will Gotch by at least fifteen pounds, but it is generally conceded that any wrestler who weighs 200 lbs. or over is heavy enough to have an equal chance with any opponent.