The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-07
Corbett's Daily Letter On
 Great Sport Topics
By JAMES J. coRBETT.

Editors Note-This is the twelfth
 of series of articles which Mir Cor
 lbett is writing concerning the career ,of the late Frank Gotch, who went to lhis grave the undefeated heavyweight wrestling champion of the world The
 next instalment will appear tomorrow. ) From the day that he won the worlds championship from George lHackenschmidt in Chicago, until the day of his death, Frank Gotch never tasted defeat For the next five years
 he grappled with the most powerful
 and most skillful wrestlers the world
 could produce. And not one of them
 could go so far as to pin the should
 CTS of Gotch to the mat
 marvellous wrestler was Gotch- the greatest in the history of the sport, which dates back into early Grecian history.
 After Gotch rose to the pinnacle of the mat he became the target for chal- llenges from all parts of the world. Many of his foemen were giants in size, almost superhuman in their pow CTS. But Frank Gotch never side- stepped single one. He took them on as fast as they defied him and to all who weren't convinced of his superb ority after the first match, he gave lanother chance.
 "A champion should be ready at all time to defend his title" Gotch always preached And when he became the undisputed king of the wrestlers he Ipracticed his preachings.
 month after Gotch defeated Hack enschmidt he defeated Hjalmar Lun. din, following this with victory over
 pr. B. k. Roller in Seattle. On July
 l5 Gotch took on three men--Klank
 Williams and Jones' in one night in Dallas, Tex, and threw the trio in 8 total time of 19 minutes.
 Just about that time an offer was made to Gotch to tour England with a vaudeville company. He accepted While in Europe he offered $500 to any man he couldn't throw in 15 minutes. Many of Englands best grap- piers tried to win the $500--but none succeeded They were weddings in the hands of Gotch. Sportive England went wild over the American athlete and everywhere he went he became ''the man of the hour.''
 Gotch returned to the United States in the winter of 190S-1So9, spent a short time resting up" on his Iowa farm and then announced he was ready again to take on all comers On they came---a small army of wrestling wonders-each eager to try. Gaey tried and became convinced that Gotch was the miracle man of the grappling world. Gotch disposed of most of his foemen without really exerting him. self.
 From March 25, 1909. until Christmas Day Gotch met and scored A victories as follows:
 pr. B. F. Roller (twice), Ruaul De Rouen. a highly touted foreigner; John Perrelli, Yussiff Mahmout, the mighty Bulgarian; Lundin, Dan Mcleod. Ben Reeves. Charlie Hackenschmidt, Fred Beell, Ed Ferguson, Mike Yokel, Os- car Wassem, Kubiak, Dan Mcdonald, Joe Achron, Professor Miller, Henry Ordeman, Tom Jenkins, Frank Prin- dle. Giovanni Raisovich. Gildin Ardahl. Tom Challender and Con Kelly
 Mamout came to this country touted as world -beater, While other wrest- lers steered clear of him, Gotch eager ly sought the match. The contest re-. suited in nothing but mild workout for the powerful American. He fopped the Bulgarian for the first fall in eight minutes. After fooling around with for the amusement of the crowd for about eight minutes in the second bout he got busy and pinned the Bulgarians shoulders to the mat