60TCH WRESTS CHAMPIONSHIP FROM JENKINS j cap anson's great record
Gotch Gets Bar Arm and Head Lock Hold.
FRANK GOTCH became champion wrestler of America January 27, 1904,
after one of the roughest battles in all the annals of this ancient Bport.
Tom Jenkins, a rough and ready wrestler of the slam-bang variety,
had held the title for six years. He had suppressed all challengers
by his rough house tactics, including Gotch at Cleveland the year
previous.
The sting of that defeat and its gruelling punishment spurred the young
farmer lad to secure a return battle Jenkins at this time was considered
invincible and Gotch, well aware that he could not hope for success except
at the price of supreme effort, trained night and day. He ran thirty miles
across country every afternoon. Joe Carroll was his handler. Emll Klank,
Farmer Burns, Duncan McMillan, Tom Davis and George Kennedy were his
trainers and wrestling partners.
The pavilion at Kelllngham, Washington, where the match was staged,
the largest on the Pacific coast at that time, was packed to the ioora and
some fans were hanging on the rafters. SeatB sold as high as (25 each. Jen
kinB, seeing the size of the "gate," held the crowd for an hour, demanding
$250 more in addition to his guarantee of 21,000. win or lose.
"This match wasn't a scientific grappling contest," said Klank, one of
Gotch's seconds and later manager of the world's champion. "It was a rough
and tumble encounter. It was the bloodiest battle in wrestling history If I
live to be a hundred years old, I never expect to see a mat struggle the like
of that one between Gotch and Jenkins at Relllngham."
When Tom Davis, the referee, yelled "time," Jenkins flew at Gotch like
an anger-crazed tiger in an African jungle. Gotch. outweighed by twenty--ix
pounds, stood his ground and went into the referee hold with the cham
pion. It was Jenkins' campaign to rush Gotch off his feet and win in a hurry.
He knew the young Hawkeye farmer had trained for endurance. So he
bored in and put Gotch to the mat, but the youngster went to a sitting pos
ture and was up la a flash. Jenkins charged again and put him down, but
try as he might he could not hold the athlete from Humboldt.
Up and down the pair fought and struggled like mad. Gotch had the
endurance and the terrific pace began to tell on Jenkins. The champion put
Gotch down and tried for a half nelson, then a head lock and other holds. He
tried to break Gotch's arm by one of his old tricks, but Gotch was up in a
Hash.
Maddened at the champion's rough tactics, and tearing Into him like fury.
Gotch picked Jenkins off his feet and hurled him to the mat. Jenkins rose
and Gotch repeated, putting the champion heavily to the mat and giving him
a taste of his own medicine.
Jenkins wanted to quit, contending Gotch had fouled him. Jenkins had
punished Gotch when the farmer lad was on the mat by pretending to secure
:i further arm hold and In the motion of doing so striking the nose violently.
He also tried to injure Gotch's elbow.
Gotch showed wonderful speed in sidestepping the lunges of Jenkins and
the champion tired himself out. Gotch finally rushed in and slammed him to
the mat for the first fall, with the half-nelson and crotch. Jenkins' seconds had
to carry him to his corner and administer restoratives.
In the second bout, preferring to lose on 'a foul rather than go down.
.Tenkins apparently deliberately placed a strangle hold on Gotch. When Gotch
extricated himself. Jenkins deliberately aimed a vicious swing at him which,
had it landed, might have knocked him out. The referee jumped between
them but they kept lunging at each other until the ring was cleared. It was
the laat despairing effort of a beaten tiger of the mat. Gotch was declared
the winner, the champion of America, and hauled down $4,000 In a purse and
side bet. Gotch weighed 184 pounds and Jenkins 210.
(Copyright, 1912, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Stands Without Parallel in Annals of
National Game With Chicago
Twenty-two Years.
In all the annals of baseball there
Is no playing record to surpass the
one that The Grand Old Man of Rase
ball Adrian C. Anson made as a mem
bT of the Chicago National club.
While the national sport was grow,
ing up from infancy and Chicago was
establishing itself on the bits ball
map through the achievements of Its
mighty White Stockings. Anson was
building for himself a record that
challenges belief even In this day of
diamond wonders
To remain with a club for 22 long
years Is one thing of no little note;
to serve as manager and captain of
the club In addition to playing a regu
lar position for 21 of these 22 seasons
Is an even greater mark of distinc
tion, and to be able to show at the
dose of that lengthy period the won
derful and grand batting average of
.327 bespeaks a feat without a parallel
In all the years of the nation's favor
ite sport.
Nowadays It means a mark of honor
to a player to bat over .300 for even a
single season, but how many of the
modern Btars will be able to keep It
up for 22 seasons In succession, even
though not bearing the additional
burden of the management and cap
taincy. It is doubtful if Anson's rec
ord will ever be equaled. It certainly
stands out at present in a class by It
self, and as a mark for young players
to shoot at.
Anson started out as a third base
man with Chicago in the first year of
the National League. 1876, and played
in the outfield in 1878, and it was not
until 1879 that he went to the posi
tion in which he was to rank as one
of the greatest stars.
During his 22 years of service with
the Chicago Nationals Anson played
In the remarkable total of 2,2.n
games, making the wonderful average
of .337 in batting and .97.r. in fielding.
In 8,947 times at bat he made 1.665
hits, and out of the great total of 22,-
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OLDFIELD LOSES HIS TiTLE j
Track Speed Champion Loses Last
Two Heats After Setting World's
Record in First Event
There's a new world's track speed
champion. Teddy Tetzlaff now holds
the title which for years was the ex
clusive property of Harney Oldfield.
Before 10.000 persons at Ios An
geles Tetzlaff won the two remaining
heats of the championship match
with Oldlield, who had captured the
SBT I
MANAGERS OF THE BIG
LEAGUE TEAMS FOR 1913
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Cincinnati Joe Tinker.
New York Johnny McGraw.
Chicago Johnny Evers.
Pittsburg Fred Clarke.
St. Louis Miller Huggins.
Philadelphia Charley Doom
Boston George Stalllngs.
Brooklyn Bill Dahlen.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Boston Jake Stahl.
New York Frank Chance.
Cleveland Joe Birmingham.
Chicago Jimmy Callahan.
Washington Clark Griffith.
St. Louis George Stovall.
Detroit Hughie Jennings.
Athletics Connie Mack.
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GOSSIP T
I SPORTS
Cap Anson.
945 fielding chances, he missed only
596, the latter being the astonishingly
small number of errors he made
against 21,278 putouts anl 1.071 as
sists. Anson managed the Chicago club
from 1887 to 1897 inclusive, but he
was constantly at loggerheads with
James A. Hart after the latter be
came president of the club in 1892,
and in the fall of 1897 the Grand Old
Man waB released, closing a playing
career at Chicago that la without an
equal in all the baseball life of thai
city. Thomas Burns was 'made man
ager after the release of Anson.
Teddy Tettlaff.
first heat the day previous and estab
lisbed a world's mark of 36 1-6 sec
onds in dolug it.
Tetzlaff's time for the two last lapv
was 38 seconds for the first and 41
for the second. The marked differ
.nee In time of the Oldfield record
made the previous day was largely
due officials explained, to the com
paratlve slowness of the latter day's
starts
Joe Cantillon had Ty Cobb and
Itube Waddell as guests at his hunt
ing camp recently
If Tinker gets Kling, Hrown and a
few more former Cubs he may feel
safe: at Cincinnati.
Hi:: Demetral has an idea that he
can i.eieat Zbyszko and is out scout
ing f it the big Pole's scalp.
Lutli' r McCarty's championship
doesn't seem to be as remunerative
as he thought it was going to be.
Fran U Gotch wears the crown all
right but his bead does not rest un
easy over challenges from Zbyszko
McCarty has a monkey for a mas
cot. Then he goes out and tries to
make monkeys out of his opponents.
Ice hockey is a noble game. It used
to be played with a tin can. the bat
tered edges of which cut like a knife
The training quarters of the Detroit
Tigers will be at Gulfport. Miss They
will leave for that spot about Feb. 20
Muggsy McGraw clamors that the
RedB will not finish lower than third
next season providing they get a goof"
catcher.
Hobby Hyrne or the Pirates and
Larry Doyle of the Giants, two gieal
pals, got into a friendly quarrel whicl
wound up with a wager on the ir
race. It's for an overcoat, suit, shoet
and hat.
Much Money in Racing.
The money subscribed to the Tat
tersall sweepstake of the Melbourne
cup horse race in Australia in 1912
totaled $875,000; on the Metropolitan
race $375,000. and the CaulAeld cup.
$250,000. These are all Important
Australian horse races. The Tasman
ian government reaps in stamp duties
; I pence in every $5, in addition to a
"i per cent dividend tax on the prizes.
I On the 1912 race the Tasmania!) gov-
i rnenl derived $29:!.7."0, and Tat
' teraall'j nearly $375,000 In coramis
I sion. the total amount contributed by
the public being $3.87.".000 This de
velopment has no connection with
rscing. In India and Australia only It
reaches important proportions.
Basket Ball Violent Sport?
The athletic council at Sage college
has decreed that the women students
at Cornell cannot play basket ball
with other colleges. Dr. Esther Par
ker, the woman's medical adviser,
said that the nervous strain is too
great Hasket ball Is the most violent
form of exercise, next to rowing. In
the girls' college, she says, and she
v. ill permit the game between local
classes only
New Ice Mark for One Mile.
At Dufferin Park, Toronto, Royal
'.rattan, owned by J. K. Gray and
driven by Nat Ray. won the first heat
of the 3:30 pace In 2:13. reducing
he world's record for a mile in a
race on Ice on a two lap track by 14
aeconas
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