Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-11
PLESTINA SIGNS
FOR TWO MATCHES
Meets Sorensen Here February
20 and Fred Pilakoff
on March 8.
MAY ALSO MEET CUTLER

Two wrestling matches to be held
in Omaha within the next six weeks
were scheduled for Marin Plestina
the big Omaha grappler, yesterday.
The first match will be with a
Hoosier husky named Sorenson, who
halls from indianapolis, and stood
Joe Stecher off thirty-hve minutes be-
fore the Dodge phenom could pin
his shoulders to the mat This match
will be held February p, probably
at the Brandeis theater.
The second match will be with
Fred Pilakoff. the giant Cossack, on
March s, at one of the local show
shops,
Neither Sorcnson or Pilakoff have
wrestled in the west before. but both
are widely heraled as hrst-class men.
Sorenscn first gained fame by hold
ing Stecher off the thirty-hve minutes
before he finally succumbed to the
scissors. That was over year ago
and Sorenson is said to be a much
improved wrestler now. He weighs
over 200 pounds.
Pilakoff is from Brooklyn. He is
described as the most perfect man
physically now engaged in athletics
in America. He is six feet four
inches tall and weighs 246. He is
said to be as fast as lightning and
stronger than a weight litter
Taylor Or Butler.
A couple of weeks ago Plestina
was matched with Charlie Cutler Of
Chicago, but now he gets word from
Cutler that the Chicago man intends
to wrestle Jack Taylor at Lincoln,
February D. So Plestina has an
nounced he will challenge the win
ner of that clash for a match in
Omaha. Cutler says he will wfestle
the Omaha man after the Lincoln
go and Taylor, who is now living in
Lincoln and is under the manage
ment of Ray Page, it is believed will
take chance with anybody, even as
tough bird as Plestina Thus it is
accepted that Plestina's challenge of
the winner will be answered by
either grappler, so that Omaha will
see Marin in third go a couple of
weeks after his tangle with Pilakoff.
Plestina also has an outstanding
challenge to Earl Caddock, which
Caddock might accept, which would
make fourth bout with Plestina, one
of the principals.
Another mattel, prospective for
Omaha is one between John Pesek,
the Buffalo county mat marvel, and
Jim Londos, who wrestled such
thrilling twenty-minute preliminary
before the Stecher- Peters go Friday
night.
Hastings Has Cash.
Al Hastings, manager of Londos,
yesterday put up $1,000 cash that his
man could beat Pesek in a finish go.
Mart Slattery, Pesek's manager. was
interviewed, but Slattery said he
didn't care to talk wrestling at that
time. Hastings waved his $1,000 in
the air and offered to pit his man
against Pesek anytime, any place,
with any referee, under any condi-
tons. for any amount of money from
$1,000 to $500. Slattery said he
could not talk business for six weeks
yet and Hastings told him any time
Pesek was ready to put up some
money and it would be covered.
Londos is a green, Silver Creek
blacksmith Hastings picked up a
while ago and has had him train
ing under Farmer Burns. He weighs
several pounds less than Pesek, but
he's rough and ready mixer Wrest-
ling experts declare he is a coming
phenom. Londos and Pesek wrestled
twenty minutes without fall Friday
night.
Caddock Is Next.
Gossip was current yesterday in
wrestling circles that Joe Stecher and
Earl Caddock would be matched to
wrestlc in Omaha in about six weeks.
Gene Melady, it is said, intends to
promote the bout.
This match has been in the making
for sometime, The time is believed
to be ripe for the bout now, as the
Stecher- match Friday might
put the wrestling game back on its
feet in Omaha. Stecher goes to the
Pacific coast for a bout with Adolph
Ernst, who is now wrestling under
the monicker OF Ad Santel, February
p, and it is said he will return to
Nebraska Immediately aftcrward for
the tangle with Caddock