Arizona republican., 1920-07-04

PIumbed and artful dodgers there reside. No locality in America can boast of a greater abundance of quail than southern California. I was win tering in Los Angeles with my friend and shooting companion, Frank Gotch, peace to his ashes. Apropos the only mat artist who was able to ever avert the finger of suspicion" was never accused of staging a "hippodrome" or crooked match and "came clean' with the public as long as he played the game. We had wearied of tar
 hawk" shooting and arranged for quail hunt with San Diego our ob- jective point. Leaving Los Angeles before the sun topped the horizon, we headed south over a cement road in Frands roadster. He was an excel lent but speedy driver and an adja- cent line of telephone poles looked like a fine toothed comb. Few ma chimes were on the road. Many Jap
 aneSe gardeners, on pended knees, an apparent attitude of supplication, juggled short handled hoes, cultivat- ing their truck gardens. Skirting the road were orange, lemon, peach, al mond and walnut groves, an occasional vineyard, alfalfa or sugar beet field was interspersed to relieve the eye Cf the tourist. Pastures were planted to Burbanks anti spfnous cactus. a deli CdCN IO IHe Ie6QGifS nCIQS- lLOuS IOWS of immense eucalyptus trees shaded the road, while acres of wild flowers of assorted varieties and colors car peted the hilIsides and valleys. We passed beautiful private homes with attractive settings of roses. scarlet poinSetti, purple wistaria, an occasion al magnolia tree, or the fashioned but ever appreciated lilac, holly hook and tulips. On through the one hun- dred and five thousand acre ranch of James H. Irvine (Iima Bean King) where twenty thousand acres are planted to lime beans and diversified crops are bounteously grown. Swing ing curve in the road, San Juan l Capistrano Mission (now in excellent state of preservation( bursts into view. Built in 1776 by Indians, under the direction of Franciscan Fathers the original cathedral bells remain in those artistic arches of the most elaborately decorated and largest mission church 1 in California. We then enjoyed a sixty mile drive along the shore line of the Pacific ocean, conceded by some Cali 1 fornians to be the greatest body of water adjacent to their coast line. l Floating on the waters of the placid Pacific were ducks and geese, undis- l turbed in their morning siesta, while many ''waders" meandered the shore line in search of food, collecting a lib- eral toll from moIlusks and periwinkles | washed ashore. Quail hot-footed back l from the road, hiding in the greast wood or red berried manzanita under | brush.
 Over Torrey Pines trail down into the old town of San Diego, there we found our shooting guide awaiting us at the ''Estudillo House" a low one story adobe with tile roof supported by rafters held in place by rawhide thongs. This old Spanish home is described by Helen Hunt Jackson as 1 the Marriage place of Ramona" Old
 San Diego contains many points of historic interest. Father Junipero l Serra here erected the first cross. A monument marks the spot where Gen eral Fremont planted the first Ameri- can flag. Californias oldest church, mission, Indian school, "Wishing Welr' and jail are here found.
 En route to our shooting grounds, l Gotch told me of his first appearance 1 as a wrestler. When a lad attend ing a country school in Iowa he had 1 successfully matched strength in the
 wrestling arena with many of his
 school mates. An itinerant semi-pro- 1 fessiOnal wrestler was touring county | fair, offering twenty Live dollars to the man whose shoulders he failed to pin down within Q five minute period This proposition interested Gotch, yet
 he was not sure that amount of money
 could be found in the whole world, but
 willing to take the long chance. F'ranR
 appeared at the fair grounds at the designated hour. An immense crowd was in attendance. The champion ap-
 peared in trunks, silk American flag
 as a belt, rubber soled shoes, looking
 the pink of perfection. Gotch entered
 the roped circle which was bedded witt
 cinders, attired in brown overalls sup
 ported by a rope belt, and feet en-
 cased in heavy brogan shoes. The
 crowd smiled as this unknown yoke
 awaited proceedings, as mat etiquette
 to him was an unknown quantity. 4
 hurried hand shake and the match wa.
 on The champion bounced around lik,
 a rubber ball, giving spectators req treat before he sacrificed poor Frank
 who was trying to get a hold on hi.
 shifty antagonist. They clinched anC
 the champ had his work cut out be fore he pinned Gotch's shoulders down
 His time limit had expired, he los
 the money, even though he won tn match. For ten days Franks mothe