Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
TRACK HONORS GO TO CARL BECK 200 GRAMMAR SCHOOL LADS Thu
Billy Sandow, Best Trainer
of Wrestlers, Gives Vast
CreCit to DIR. Roller

DR.. B. F. Boiler. the famous ply
clan athlete and former American
champion wrestler. challenged Jess
willard to go to the gymnasium with
q jury of newspaper men and city
officials and settle for once and all
the question of which is the better
method of self-defense, boxing or
wrestling. willard did not accept.
and now the whole world mu ac-
. knowledge that wrestling and not
7 boxing is the best means of self
Defense"
Who is speaking? Why none other
than the greatest manager and
trainers of wrestlers in this country
to-day-Billy c. Sandow who step
ped off the train here one day last
week just long enough to pat Har-
risburg on the back for its welcome
to wrestling and to say goou "oru
Eor this sport which promises 10 su-
persede boxing very rapidly as
ravorite pastime to watch ana 10
nse.
Sandow, whose picture is printed
here to-day, is not the Sandow OF
some ten wears ago noted as an
athletic teacher. He started wrest-
ling when very young and was in
the game fifteen years, welterweight
champion during four years. Be
coming too heavy, he quit the arena
and became the most noted OF train
ers and managers. Speaking OF Eu-
ropeans, Sandow. who handled
bunch of them says: While they
are mad about the sport over there
the Americans have injected more
science into the game which Is now
conspicuous rather than prute
strength DR.. Roller has done much
&c faa ~
Sandow is now exclusively man
hEer of stranger Lewis. whom he
took up after proving to the Ameri-
can Army officials that wrestling
was the prime exercise for sofdlers
10 train on; his system being nrst
put in at Camp Dix. From there he
was sent to Fort Sill, oklahoma,
which was an infantry school of
arms, for bayonet training.
Sandow is regarded by military
and civilians as largely responsible
for the wholesale revival of wrestling
and he deserves all this credit for
he has been a bulwark for clean pro-
motion and arena exhibitions even
before he became a warm friend of
the late Frank Gotch. In the first
launching of revived wrestling at
the New York tournaments, interna-
tional. several years ago he was the
prime factor. 1t was through his
efforts that the game was put on so
clean a basis that ladies formed the
habit of patronizing so that fine
wrestling bout attracted the theater
and restaurant crowds.
wrestling he maintains is the
most strenuous of all sports. 1t ue-
mands the utmost in strength and
endurance and agility. The mat
- ha
haustive form of eXercise-yet take
a look over the wrestlers.
They ,ast longer than any other
athletes.
Ball players, tennis players, box
ers, runners and jumpers, and others
Are usually through as athletes at
the age of thirty of them
earlier than this. Wrestlers are just
reaching their best at this age. And
most of them are good for at least
ken years more.
"Gotch retired as worlds champion
ht the age of forty-one-anj then
bnly because he suffered a broken
leg. Who thought Gotch an old
nan? Yet we always speak of Hans
Wagner as an antique and he is only
torty-three.
John olin. the famous Olympic
wrestling champion. is over forty.
So are Madralli and Charley Cutler
about that age.
Mike Yokel, the former middle
weight champion. is nearly forty-five.
"Dr Roller, who is known all over
The country. is forty-three.
Tom Jenkins, the former heavy
weight champion, who now teaches
at West Point, wrestied continuously
for thirty-seven years.
Stanislaus Zbyszko had been wrest-