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Frank Gotch to VisitBig Champion to be Banqueted(tvin, appear at racine theater TOMORROW NIGHT IN EXHIBITWith tl'ft arrival of Frank A. Crotch in thia city tomorrow, the people.01 Racine will have tin opportunity of seeing the championship wrestler of the world, and admitted to be one of the squarest ath-. lotea who ever stepped into a paddedring..Never dining hid entire experience-whs itc known to tlirc) to match or do “crooked” work and that, is one of the reasons why lie got to the top and lias-downed every .grout wrestler of America and 'in fact of any country on the globe.Mr, Gotch appears at the Racine theater tomorrow night. However, he is the agent of the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co., for Iowa, and for that reason ho will be tendered a dinner at the factory office dining room at 1- o'clock. During the ♦ntcmoo'u .he Will go through to inspect tho factory1 and to meet the employes-fn the Gotch party, which.is under the. joaangeracnt of Emil Klank, who has Ibsen at the helm of the Gotch destinies Tor years, will be Yuasii Mahmout.-the great Bulgarian Tiger. He is cousidercd the second best wrestler in the world. The manner in which Gotch downedPiFRANK GOTCHSAYS THERE-IS AL WAYS A BETTER j ^i veMAN COMING HP FORHONORSjge : reHack twice, got away with Tom denkins and all the big fellows of the world, ik» matter of history.Gotch tolls of the Inst match with r. ck and how the heart of the big wrestler was orokcn and lie cried for mercy.Since that time Gotch has lived on his Humboldt, Iowa farm, but hr l’.n* always kept Jn good, shape and apparently .feels better than he ever did in his life. The simple life ho lives is culoiihued to bring out the best in an athlete.“There's always a better inun coming up,” Gotch says, mid when a follow arrives, he is entitled to the honor, I don’t want to have the public believe that I could rest for years in retirement and still carry ail comers to defeat. When I am through with this tour, I will let the balance of tnein tight it out. Once I settle down to the quiet of the farm, all the challenges from Pekin to Nome won’t -shake me loose, and that’s a bet that goes. But until that time, t will give them sdl a chancy If tuiv «f them can show a- record worth while, let them come a-trotting, because the more there are, the better little time we'll I have.” _ccdiw■nb:Ib-tl'gwtclt;111\'
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Racine Daily Journal
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Nov 16, 1911
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