Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-24
GREAT MAT BATTLE
ATTRACTS attention
Thousands Win See Gotch and
Hack in Action on Labor
Day.

Chicago Special: Developments in
the approaching worlds championship
wrestling match between champion
Frank Gotch and George Hacken-
schmidt are beginning to crowd things
a bit n from the time of the arrival
OF the Russian Lion" in Chicago where
he will pitch camp for his final training
for the struggle there will be much do
ing. Hack" who Is expected to and
here about August 10. leaves England
where he has put In more than a 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 condition of
staleness.
While Hack" Is busy in Chicago
Comisky's baseball park on Labor day,
Frank Gotch will be equally busy 200
miles to the westward. Humboldt, Ia,
home Of the farmer-wrestler is tooth
n pail for Gotch. 1t was Gotch who
put Humboldt on the map and If 1t
hadn't been for Frank they would still
be asking: Where and what is Hum
boldt?"
This great mat match in which the
wv giants will battle for the glory and
lfl0 cOlIl lIldI goes WITH IL Is attracting
more preliminary attention than any
sporting event in recent ears with the
possible exception of the C Johnson
James J. Jeffries fight at Reno. New, a
little more THAI a year ago. Just why
it is attracting attention isn't hard to
understand when 1t is taken into con-
sideration that 1t is an international
struggle; that it will be a battle in
which bitterness will not be lacking
md n in which no greater opponents
of the art OF c-atch-as-can wrestling
were ever brought face to face.
1t Is only natural that there should
De intense interest in what these giants
Of the mat game are doing In prepar-
alton In this event of the century.
Goteh Makes Plans.
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 which he
has rugged up in Humboldt, Ia. There
he Is at home n with of the
greatest corps of wrestling assistants
ever gotten together to train him, he
is taking no chance of not being In the
best condition of his career. For more
than a month he has been at 1t siren
uously 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 a struggle
of brains n brawn against the for
eign nva6e
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 be-
fore trained as hard for a match as
he is training this time. He a gone
into other matches against less formid-
ohlo nnnnnonfS I'm hQ1f tho condition
that he presents today and won. But
he won because he had the brains and
sufficient strength to execute What his
brains directed him to do.
The champion will not come to Chi
cago until August 26. He is perfectly
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-
ing ticks on the north shore in Chi
cago. 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
ling brains around him While he is
training. With this in view, Charles
Cutler. of Chicago, and "Americus,'
the Baltimore wrestler, with DR.. B. f.
Roller. of Seattle. as chief Of staff. will
be with him.. This "Americus" person
the mat as one could find. He should
be a great help to Hack" In speed
work. for he has 1t to burn.
When it is taken into consideration
the great expense n h work en-
tailed. 1t Is not surprising why the in
terest is manifest in this greatest OF
all wrestling matches.