Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-03
Plestina's Manager Repeats
His Statement That santel
Did Not Listen to Them
While They Were in West.
SAYS TAYLOR IS COMING
But santel win wrsstle Only
Those He Has Met Before
Collins ID in Touch With So
Called Trust.

j. C. Marsh, manager of the wrestler
Marin Plestina, uses the short and ug-
" word in reviewing statements made
by Nick Collins. promoter Of the Boise
Athletic club, in a recent interview.
He reiterates that Santel has cold feet
when Plestina or Taylor Is mentioned.
He says Ad has been meeting in his
matches here only the grapplers with
whom he had had former matches in
San Francisco. He, derides the Idaho
laws that bar the toe hold and fix
two-hour limit for the first fall.
In fact. Marsh has much to say and
says 1t emphatically. His letter to the
Capital News. written in Chicago on
Christmas day, follows in part:
Il have just received clipping from
your paper of Dec. Is in which Nick
Collins has quite a lot to say. brand
what he says as a lie, and will bet
$1,000 that can prove 1t.
sANTEL LlMPEp
II was in Boise in September during
my western trip for ten days but San
tel did not do any challenging. All he
did at that time was limp, claiming
he got his leg hurt in an awful hard
match with Romanoff, l was told that
the next day after left Boise Santel
was walking as good as ever and is
suing challenges but only to his friends.
Write to Frisco and get list of the
men Santel wrestled there and you will
find they are the same as he is wrest-
ling in Boise, with the possible excep-
ton Of Charles Peters. The papers
show that he met Romanoff, De Court,
Charlie Cutler, Jess Westergaard and
Gus Kervasos. Look over the list he
has met in Boise and you will see he
has had the same men.
But not for anything could you in
duce him into match with Plestina
or Taylor. And Collins has the nerve
to state in your paper that Santel is
meeting them all as fast as he can
bring them out there. Sure he does,
for Collins only brings those santel
tells him to bring-the same he has
wrestled in Frisco.
COLLINS AND THE "TRUST"
collins is at the present time in
close touch with the trust getting
ready to bring Stecher and Lewis out
there. They both worked with Santel
In Frisco, Lewis and Santel having two
matches and Stecher and Santel one.
Santel also wrestled Jack Taylor and
Plestina in Frisco. He was mauled
and slammed SO by both men that he
has never dared to get on mat with
either since They both tell me that
would not stand for 1t, so he fixed
time limit on both matches and logged
it clear through.
Taylor did pin him once. am told
by Taylor's manager that he is going
west with Taylor after the first of the
year. II SO. and they come to Boise,
which they say they will do you catch
how cold Santers feet will get and the
many excuses he and Collins will make.
collins said Taylor and Plestina
staged five matches, one after the other
last summer. Plestina and Taylor met
in Madison Square Garden May 8, and
never since May 10 have l seen Jack
Taylor, nor has Plestina. But viii
bet $1,000 that Jack Taylor can throw
Santel or any other wrestler in Amer
lea. barring Plestina, in a match to a !
finish.
MARSH As a MANAGER
collins also says Plesttla is a great
wrestler but Is under poor management.
/ may not be much of a manager but I
manage to put my men across. Why?I
Because they have the goods. man
aged Frank Gotch from the time he
left the farm until he defeated Tom
Jenkins for the American champion
ship. I have managed Plestina for
three years, and during that time Pies
tina has not lost q fall. / p6sted $1,000
with the Collyer's Eye, sporting paper
OF Chicago, on Nov. 3, 1917, same to be |
given to the first man to secure q fall |
from Plestina, and despite the fact
that we have crossed America four
times. meeting and defeating every
wrestler who has dared to face him on |
the mat, no man has got the thousand. |
The money Is still up. Why don't sOme- |
one like Santel try to win It?
The Police Gazette, Collyer's Eye. |