Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-10
Sparks From
. SpOrtland

doc krone is planning to revive the
wrestling game in Chicago by way of
M~anchuria. An English mining engi-
neer representing a British syndicate
recently tried to interest the Chicago
promoter in some. properties in the in
terror Of Manchuria and it was during
the negotiations that the Englishman
spoke Of. the interest in wrestling
there and mentioned m grappler in
particular who has a reputation for
cleverness and strength. Krone i'm
mediately conceived the idea of intro
ducing the Manchurian to the Ameri-
can fans. and he says he is now ar
ranging to bring over to America this
grapbler and possibly others.
Learn American Way.
The Manchurians are big. husky fell
lows, much larger than other Chinese.
and they have for years been interest
ton with the Japanese, with whom
the sport is an ancient and honorable
pastime. With the coming of the
world war and the arrival at Vladivo-
sto Of thousands of British. Ameri-
can and other soldires. the occidental,
wrestling game of catch-as-catch can
was introduced and the oriental Crap
piers learned to discard the old
~strangling styles to which they were
dCCuStOlneu anu ldhe up INC SdIle DIS
practiced here in America.
Will Try to Bring One Over.
II am going to do my best to induce
some%of those fellows to come, to
America if arrangements can he
made" said Krone today. II think the
game here in America needs sweeten-
ing and ! think these big fellows
would be a big attraction. The
Chinese arc known for their honesty.
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would never be. caught framing, as is
so frequently the case with other
grapplers.
Il shall make an especial effort to
match one of them with Stanislaus
Zhyszko. who has so persistently re-
fused to meet Marin Plestina. his
most formidable rival. Since that
comparatively unknown pupil Of
Farmer Burns held old Stanislaus to
a three-hour draw down in Kentucky
several weeks ago, / don't think the
Fole would last long against my
Manchurian.'' ~
Jack McAuliffe. retired undefeated
lightweight champion has the follow
ing to say in regard to the coming bat
tie between Cook of Australia and
Georges Carpenter. the French idol.
Jack Dempsey and George Cook
lOr the championship u
the world.
II wouldn't be a bit surprised to see
this come about. Rather. I expect it..
ut nay be a big chance but I am
going to put my non on Cook to
beat Carpenter and ! haven't seen h
Australian working yet. s ~.
Il have seen the Frenchman though
and | don't like his looks. He's gone
back so far that he is taking a chance
with my heavyweight. lies accept
ing the risk purely for the coin in it.
If Cook handles himself like I think
he will! Georges will be a dead m
long before the end of 20 rounds.
Plenty Of the British fight experts
saw how Dempsey worked on the
Frenchman and they are constituting
themselves as a board of strategy at
the Australians camp because they
are beginning to look upon him as a
possibility to bring the British name
out of the heavyweight mud.
"If Cook wins. the Carpentier-Gtb-
bons fight probably will explode UNI
less Tex Richard is willing to try to
put it over as a light heavyweight
championship.go 60.
Major Wilson. who is promoting
the Cook-Carpentier bout, n who As
the only live wire over here. wants to
match Cook with Dempsey If he wins.
It ought to be a good card unless my
Judgment has gone miles astray."