Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-10
Ed SMITH LEARNS
OF NEBRASKANS
Referee Of the Outler-steehsr Match
Tells How the Chiosgosns Were
Given a Cleaning.
PLENTY OF PRAISE FOR JOE


ways of the Nebraska farmer. accord
ing to his own version Of the way
'.Chieagoans Go TO Clean Farmers.
but Drop Rolls to Nebraska Rubes, "
az his headlines stated the case.
After leading the page with this clear
across eight columns, Joe steeher
looks like a man who might be able
10 throw five skies with four dice, y
sad on the second sport page, this
one across eight columns. The west
may we'll be proud--A cowboy for
one champion and a ~plowboy foe
spother," he says:
II licked to be one Of the bes, thnss
20 come up IN years ami chicasoans went
90 II.
Tney swarmed into Omaha and began
to pet the farmer supporters Of Joe
steckeF. the plowboy champion. and one
Of the athletic sensations OF the decade
The chieagoans thought they were we'll
heoled with dough, but those farmers
fairly reeked with q. II oozed from
every seam IN the hickory holiday suits
~ the Nebraska men Of the soil and the
ohicageans and some ~ the other smart
men" Of the sporting game quickly had
enough % IL,
stecher won IN tweRty-eight minutes
and he and his friends broke every chi
eagoaH who was there. and almost every
wrestler who made Il asp0lnt to 80 TO
Omaha 10 see the battle
II was one ef the biggest cles Rups IN
the wrestling game IN years, and once
more the farmer pat II ever on the
smart chap from the city
Gave ODDS Freely.
And, further. the Stecher people gave
the Cutler adbereBts the iuseous back
Ing odds OF lO0 TO Vs. and In many eases
~ 10 50. and did IL willingly, Compared
with the rolls ~ cain that were there to
hack stseheF the Cutler rolls didn't even
Justify a rubber band 10 haid them to-
gether. There was no comparison. and
az a result the stecher people competed
with each other for the chance at the
cutler money.
fes. indeed, u vas cleanup. a EFeHd
old cleanup, the like 81 which hasn't
been seen IN years. sRd the smart ones
were outseReTaIed and cleaned,
And one ~ the soFriest locking bunch
~ sport followers In years was the brave
little gang that got off the western
trains yesterday, They were clean
but they were smiling. The Nebraska
barbs were stickins deep IN their flesh,
but they were game sportsmen and not
one OF them whimpered. 1t was a level
match, Cutler did his best, most Of them
thought. and 70 a man gets run for ha
coin what more 10 10 he asked for9
Aamit They Were wrobs,
THEY We set wonder out there and
we were up against H." one OF them said
simply
III you or anybody else can find q
man who can beat stecher you ean win
half milton dollars from the Nebrasks
farmers"
Thst's about the situation, Nebgeehsnl
viii bet their farms on steeheF nov, hui
they don't have to plaoe any mogtgnSes
70 get the dough for wagering. Thay
are working on thousands and Thousand,
Of dollars Of velvet" meney they al
ready have won on steeheF, And, sad e
Falste. much Of Il was once chioase
owned
billy Rochelle, cutters manager, and L.
little eotepis Of friends are said 10 n.
the heaviest losers on the match, thOusl
another syndicate placed almest as bl,
q chunk Rochelle 10 said 70 have hss
within few dollars Of Niooo IN on IN,
Michigan man when he went into IN.
ring
hochelia is net = practical wFestlln,
man and works with Cutler salsly he
cause Of personal friendship and Hdnslra
uon 81 the mas, He was well stuns be
cause he always lnslstsd that no ma,
living. much less the ameteuFlsh Retehev
mad chence % beat CnaViey.
Joe coffeY and a bunch Of friends avn.
alcated, toe. on Cutler. because no locke,
IKE real good thing stuna some more
Ana the NFePtieFs! Almost 10 a MAJ
they bet, eRd bet everything they had
Nd Lewis. one 81 Cutters trainers. wen
~ far - 70 soak all OF his jevslry /
bet on Cutler, So did all the othe
Hrestlers, Strangely. they believed hlu
upeeatshls and eauldH't figure that pre-
eedent would he upset 10 the extent d
seeins mere seuth ~ - years aownin
= seasoned pFefeFmeF n sneh GOOD stand
ins az Guitar II was simply crushin
ahd unbelievable.
Cutler bet heavily himself with his owl
Iaoney. II Is theHeht he bet At least SEQ.
which IL about what he got out OF hi
sisTe Of NE receipts, % IN addition 10
dsfeat he cults enly about even on IN
deal.
Many city folks from Omaha took lssu
With the farmers and bet on CUTLER The
didn't beast about II, They simply waRte
&c 'kR0ek stechcr down and took IN
OF ehaHee that this Weula BE- the tim
the farmers would find the turn in IN
feAd
Omaha scenes we're peculiar Farmer
NPo didn't have 30 cents worth OF cloths
eH their bonv frames were betting 81
Is crack with - much abandon as IN
aldinaFS lRsn wosla wageF tumAleE Q
lager.
The leathery face of the tiller Of N
cell, tanned 10 fine morocco shade, Va
present everywhere and as soon a. Oh
ely chap peeped he was covered. Usual
Ne was swamDed because he would b
covered from three or four sides
~ was wonderful the sublime fat
the farmer showed IN the Dodge ma
u was amazing 10 the city chap a.
finally sot 20 strong that one % ~
II the chieagoans he'd Rsneh % sNlts
their bets They're sorry nov they diaR
One Of The Reese brothers. De farna