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OKLAHOMA WRESTLER SIGNS TO MEET JOEAT ARMORYPromoter A! Anderson announces that he has secured Joe Kopecky and Gaorge Craig. Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the main go in hi* weekly wrestling card at tha second and Folk StreetArmory Friday night.Cotton Picking Jo© wired the promoter that he was returning from hla holiday vacation and would finish out the remainder of hi* career here in Amarillo, or. until CaI tariff could be persuaded to tako him on.Whift informed by wire that Dutch Mantel! was back in town, Kopecky evidently snorted and raved, at least he wired back something to this effect: “I ran Mantel! all over Germany for two years trying to get a shot at him. and then tried to permanently eliminate him from the mat for the past two years, ff the Heinle still thinks ha can wrestle, 111 him another beating juut to satisfyhim.”In the meantime, Mantel! accompanied Cal Farley to Tulsa, Okla., supposedly on business, upon their return, they suggested to Anderson that this Craig would ba a dandy ttake care of Kopecky. The Dutchman was unusually vehement in praising the prowesa of Craig and Anderson decided h© must bo some baby.Mantall'a recent defeat by Higamlwith the jui jitsu jackets has not convinced the Dutchman that he is slipping. He stated llignmi Isn't so hot. If I had landed a few moro haymakers, it would have taken morothan that ashastoa shirt of hia to have held him up. 1 a m satisfied 1 can beat that Chink any day In week/’ Her© the Dutchman paused, took a long breath and started out anew, ‘As for this cotton picker, Joe Kopecky, when that lousy rasuler comes to hit senses after his lout with this crude oil Craig his chest Will be normal ttgalft.”
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Mon, Jan 13, 1930
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