The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-05
EASY FOR GOTCH.
American Masters the Great
Russian Lion.
Foreigner Loses His Nerve
Early in Game.
MAKES POOR SHOWING
Loses First Fall in Fourteen
Minutes.
Shrieks in Terror and Lasts But
Five Minutes in Second.
Gotch after the match:

Gotch after the match:
Honest, didn't think it would be
SO easy 1 expected to win, but not
with the ease with which it was ac-
compnshed. l had not been in the ring
Lhree minutes when knew that Hack
enschm1dt was even less to be feared
than he was three years ago.
Hackenschmidt after the match:
L was in no condition to wrestle
Two weeks ago I wrenched my left leg.
My trainers told me I could go in
without injuring the member. But we
had scarcely got to work when Gotch
began to pull and twist my left leg.
realized that I was in no condition to
continue the match. I am no quitter.
Neither do I desire to charge that
was not treated squarely. My defeat is
due entirely to the injury. I feel deep
er than words can tell the loss of this
match. However, I did my best No
man could have done more.''
Chicago, Sept. 5.-Frank Gotch is still
kline of wrestlers. Iowa reigns supreme
in corn and wrestling. while the lion.
Russia's representative, has crawIed
away unnoticed to his lair.
Twice here before the largest crowd
that ever witnessed an athletic event in
America, Gotch slammed the Russian
to the mat. The first fall, a forerunner
of the joy which was to come later, in
IA minutes 10 seconds; the second fall
the crowning Of Gotch, and the hu-
initiation of the Russian-in minutes
325a seconds. A crotch hold and bar
lock piled the Russian in humiliation
in the first fall. 1t took nothing what
ever resembling a hold to make him
quit in the succeeding fall.
Gotch started the finisher of his
world-touted match with a toe-hold,
then let go and deliberately showed thu
Russian over Hackenschnidt quit.
This muscular mass who entered the
ring claiming to be at the height of
physical perfection muttered about th-A
straining of 1igament two weeks prior
to the afternoons encounter as he
cried in his dressing room after his
downfall
There was no time in the 10 minutes
and few seconds that the men were on
the mat that Hack ever showed any
signs of heroism. He was under
nervous strain when he entered the
ring and a wreck as the mob wended
its way back to the city.
It is seldom that a match is staged
that both men do not give the public
the benefit of their most earnest en-
match Hack shrank from the ordeal.
before the clang of the gong. The
champion trained diligently and prob
ably was in the best condition of his
career He was ready to give the pub
lie a full run for its money, and he
can't be blamed because the lion" lost
his nerve.
Really, it begins to look as though
Hack appeared only for his share of
the proceeds of the moving pictures.
Hack, so we are told, has Az per cent
of the motion pictures and he wrestled
as If he knew it. Before the match all
bets were declared off and they were
declared off because Jack Curley, man
ager for Hackenschmidt. insisted upon
1t. Before the match Curley said that
his man was physically perfect. It was
after the match that he announced
that he had had all bets declared off
because Hackenschmidt had injured
himself two weeks ago.
Hacl1enschmidt Cried in Terror.
Referee Smith is authority for the
statement that when Gotch secured
he fatal toe lock, which won him the |
second fall, Hackenschmidt cried out:
Don't hurt my toe" and a second |
ater, Don't break my Leg" and fell |
With his shoulders to the mat, froth-
ng at the mouth.
7erse body hold after the men had |
struggled 14:1S 1-5. The terrible toe |
lold for which Gotch is famous, was |
responsible for the second fall. He
snschmidt and ended the second fall |
n 5:32 1-5. Scarcely had he obtain |
ID the grip when Hackenschmidt ac- |
defeat with his should |
era.
Hackenschmidts own statement. |
hat it was the easiest worlds cham
ever won, tells the story of |
he bout Gotch never was in serious |
difficulty at any time during the
match. Neither was he forced to ex-
end himself to win. The Iowan got |
n all half a dozen dangerous holds
N his antagonist. HackenSchmidt
lad OGtch worried but once. During
he first bout Hackenschmidt obtain
d a body hold on Gotch that brought
linn to the mat But the champion
vas on the canvas for only few L
econds. Then he was only down as
ar as his knees. Almost before the
Lion realized his opponent was in
dangerous predicament, Gotch had