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—4 —COM ES BACK TO IOWAFrank Gotch Will Live Simple Life alt;.H um bo Idt.Humboldt, Ja , April 1. — FrankoGtch, the Iowa wrestler, who held the title of champion of the country until he was finally defeated a few days ago by Tom Jenkins, of ('leveland, will come back to his old home here andundertake to restore his old form by a course of slmnle training.Gotch and his chief patron, Farmer' Burns, also an Iowan, and a former champion wrestler, believes as thoroughly as ever that Gotch is still the champion wrestler. But he has lost the title to Jenkins, and must win itback.Gotch is the victim of the desire to make money. Like Burns, he is a man of model habits in the main; not quite so abstemious as Burns, who never knew in his life the taste of liquor or tobacco, but a man who never gets out of training. Gotch was discovered, trained and brought out by Burns, and Burns was the most wonderful wrestler for his size and weight that ever went on a mat.Jenkins wrested the championshipfrom Bums, and Burns raised up Gotch«to wrest it from Jenkins. Now Jenkins has taken it back again, and Gotch proposes to go back to the farm and the soli and the simple life to recover his weight and form and defeat Jenkins again.There Is little doubt that Gotch will succeed, for he has repeatedly proved himself superior to Jenkins. But the past winter he has been touring the country doing one-night stands agreeing to throw local champions at the rate of one to every five minutes as fast as they’ll bring ’em on, and such stunts, which are the very worst things possible for a man’s training, when taken wijth Irregular hours and hard traveling! As a result Gotch went to the platform for his last match with Jenkins at fifteen pounds under his Vost weight.
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Carroll Herald
Carroll, Iowa, US
Wed, Apr 05, 1905
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