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wmwrniHfifBBiKfFRANK GOTCH, WHO INSISTS HE IS NOT DEAD.The reporter who daily calls uo the hospitals and morgues the other day phoned the German hospital to learn If Frank Goteh, the champion wrestler, was still to be counted la the census. He had been reported as seriously , ill.“Fd like to-Inquire about Mr. Gotek’s health, he confided to the operator the hospital.“Just a minute, please,” she answered, as she connected' the scribe With the alleged dying man’s room.'•“Is Mr. Goteh’s condition otis?” asked the reporter.aK.‘Bats, no,” answered a man with a husky voice. “And, furthermore, if! they don’t let me out of here soon, I’m-going to pull a Douglas Fairbanks and escape.”‘Who is . this talking’”‘Gotch himself, Frank Goteh: Fm. not’ sick at all”. .. . ;“Well, they report you as dying with-kidcey trouble.”“Zatso? Well, I have got a kink in my back from loading logs back in Iowa. That’s all. And I’m not letting' a few bantamweight logs down me.”
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Maurice Times
Maurice, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 15, 1917
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