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STEGHER TO RETIRE
FOR TIMEAT LEAST
Injury to Neck Will Keep Joe
Out of Game for Two or
Three Months.
RETURN MATCH EXPECTED
His defeat at the hands of Earl
Caddock Monday night marked Joe
Stechcr's retirement from active par
ticipation in the wrestling game for a
time at least. Stecher has called off
all matches ahead and will forget
wrestling for a time.
The Dodge lad's neck was pretty
leverely injured in the joust with the
lowan and it will probably be two or
:hree months before it will become
sufficiently strong to justify attempt
ing a strenuous match.
Stecher was scheduled to meet Ma
rin Plestina, the big Omaha wrestler,
here on April 27. That bout was
called off yesterday. Plestina was
willing to go through with it, but
Stecher said it could not be done.
Plestina now wants to meet Cad
dock on that date. Pete Loch, Ples
tina's manager, offers to give Cad
dock a guarantee of $1,500 when the
articles are signed and says any kind
of a division of the gate is satisfac
tory to him. He also offers Caddock
a side bet if he wants it.
Taylor Also Loses Out.
Stecher also had a date in Kansas
City this month and Jack Taylor
wanted a match in Lincoln this
spring, but Taylor, like Plestina, loses
out with the Dodge lad's defeat.
The big match was the ever pres
ent topic of conversation in Omaha
yesterday. Stecher's failure to ap- j
pear was tne teature oi an me aiter
math chatter and many conjectures
as to the reason were made.
Caddock returned to his home in
Iowa yesterday afternoon. He in
tends to take a short rest before de
fending his title.
The new champion declares that he
will be ready to defend his title
against all comers. He also says he
stands willing to give Stecher a re
turn match. Stecher also said yes
terday that he was ready to meet
Caddock any time, so it is probable
that an effort will be made to get the
two men together again.
Dispute Arises.
A dispute has arisen between Joe
Stecher and Joe Hetmanek as to
whether Stecher refused to go on for
the third fall or not.
Hetmanek declares he was called to
Stecher's dressing room. At the door
he met Anton Stecher, who, he says,
told him Stecher would not continue
and that nobody could make him con
tinue. "Then 1 hurried to the referee
and told him Joe would not continue
the match," said Hetmanek.
Stecher insists he did not say he
would not continue, but that he was
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"1 should have been notified," he said,
"but nobody did so. I was ready to
go back."
Stecher admits, however, Caddock
won the match fair and square.
"Caddock was the winner," he said.
"The referee awarded him the match
and the referee's word goes. I had a
bad cold and I also had a running
ear. I am not offering this as an alibi
for my defeat, but just as a statement
of the facts. Caddock was the winner
and I haven't any excuses to make."
Found Stecher Easy.
Earl Caddock says: "I found
Stecher even easier than I expected,
though he put up a game fight. If I
hadn't been dazed by striking my
head he never would have gotten
even one fall. I am going home to
Anita this afternoon and take a rest,
but I expect to be ready for more
matches very soon and will defend
the title against all comers."
frank Ootch, retired worlds cham
pion, who was in Caddock's corner,
said: "I was greatly pleased to see
Caddock win and make another cham
pion for Iowa. Caddock proved him
self the better man and deserved to
win. I was disappointed a little in
Stecher. As good a wrestler as he is
should have more consideration for
Iiis patrons. I hope that I never
wrestled a match as Stecher did last
night."
Billie Owens' Defeated
Harry Griffin at Pool
Billie Owens bcat Harry Griffin in
the Reno pool tournament last night.
William Rocleston will play Archie
Kay tonight at 8:30. Score:
Owens, Is, 3, 36, 2, 0, 4, 4. 3, I), 1. 1. 14, 3,
. U, 1. 1. Total, 107. Bafetlci, 11.
Scratches, 7.
Orifftn, 0. 8, 13, 0. 17, 13, 0. 0, 11, 0, , 4.
Total, 78. Safeties. 10. Scratches, 2.
Detroit Sends McKee
Out to Pacific Coast
Catcher Ray McKee has been re
leased by the Detroit club to San
Francisco, of the Pacific Coast league.
McCarthy's Want Game.
The McCarthy's arc after a Kama for
Sunday. Call Douglas G-139.
iowan who becomes new
wrestling champ.
Sport Calendar Today
BHllardfr Prank Tabernk. vf, Htiuita
Allen, at Akron, O., for continuous pocket
billiards champlonabJp.
Golf Opening of ftprlnir tournament of the
Arjheville N. C.) Country club.
La, CronBe Cornell vs. fcwarthfnore, at
Swartnmore, Fa.
Base Ball National league open its nea
son, with New York at Boston, Philadelphia
at Brooklyn, St. Louis at Cincinnati, Pitts
burgh at Chicago. American league opens
Its season, with Chicago at Nt. 1-ouls,
Cleveland at Detroit. Washington at Phila
delphia, Boston at New York. American
association opens Its season with Minne
apolis at Kansas City, Columbus at Louis
ville, Toledo at Indianapolis, St. Faul at
Milwaukee.
Boxing Johnny Harvey vs. Willie Jack
son, ten rounds, at New York. Iuls
Crevier vs. Mickey Drotvn, ten rounds, at
Cleveland.
LINCOLN MAXWELL
MOTORSINTHE LEAD
Capital City Topplers Get the
Lead in First Night' 8
Shooting.
STATE TOURNEY STARTS
Fremont, Neb., April 10. (Special
7'elegrara.) The Maxwell Motors of
Lincoln went into the lead at the
opening of the third annual state
tournament here last evening, where
they shot 2,603. Frank Mtddaugh on
the early shift of singles rolled 618
for top singles.
George Wolz, president of the
Commercial club, welcomed the bowl
ers. Ed Mockett of Lincoln made a
short talk, inviting the bowlers to
Lincoln in 1918.
Fifty teams are entered with a pro
portionate number of doubles and
singles. This is the largest entrv in
the history of the association. Fol
lowing are the scores of the Maxwell
Motors:
1st. Id. Set. Total.
Carr 157 nj 213 643
Meaklns 155 K.9 146 4fi0
Shedd ISIS 1T6 169 611
BufTum 171 17s 1S7 646
Mockett 153 203 167 523
Total S2t 89 SS2 J,603
Other five-men scores were:
Shelby Boosters, 2.337; Osceola, 2,470;
Heln's Mlneralltes, Fremont, 2,173; Gas
Company, Fremont 1,089; Larson Auto Com
pany, Fremont, 3,408.
Singles were:
Middaugh, Fremont, 818; Schmidt, Lint
coin, 641; Mockett, Lincoln, 648; Shedd, Lin
coln, 668; Buffum, Lincoln, 834; H. Dunne,
Fremont, 511; Meaklns, Lincoln, 459; J.
Johnson, Fremont, 465; E. Murphy, Fre
mont, 449; A. Johnson, Fremont, 459,
Sixteen Muny Umpires
Approved by the Council
The city council approved the fol
lowing municipal umpires, who were
recommended bv the Recreation
hoard: Edward Miller, William Hot-
brook, hrank Holmes, H. B. Bugbee,
John Shields, Arthur Moran, F. H
Jacobs. E; V. TomDrett Tohn Gonrl.
ing, Elbert Huke, H. E. Graves, N.
fc.. Arnold, b. C. Ekhardt W III am
Fox, P. McDottgall and J. X: Shec
han. These umpires w:ll serve under
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CADDOCK WINS BIG
BOUT FROM STECHER
First Fall Goes to Stecher in
1:22 Second to Cad
dock in 1:40.
NEW WRESTLING CHAMP
Earl Caddock of Anita, la., is the
new wrestling champion of the
world.
The Iowa gladiator won the title
from Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., at
an eary hour yesterday morning, when
Stecher failed to appear in the ring
for the third and deciding fall after
each wrestler had earned one fall of
their match at the Auditorium, which
started last night, but did not wind
up until after 1:30 o'clock this morn
ing. Joe Stecher won the first fall of
the clash in one hour and twenty-two
minutes with a body scissors and
wrist lock.
Earl Caddock won the second fall
in one hour and forty minutes with
a reverse Nelson and a head hold.
Caddock Ready to Go.
After Caddock had won the second
fall, timekeepers clocked off the reg
ulation -fifteen minute9 allowed wres
tlers for a rest period between
clashes. At the end of the fifteen
minutes Caddock appeared in the
ring ready to continue the match to
a finish.
But Steelier failed to appear. The
crowd demanded that the referee
award the bout to Caddock, but the
referee hesitated. After a few more
moments of delay, Joe Hetmanek,
Stecher's manager, appeared and in
formed Referee Sherman that Stecher
was m his dressing room and would
not appear for the deciding tilt.
The referee then raised Caddock's
hand and proclaimed him the victor.
As tbe scribes and spectators were
leaving the Auditorium someone
wandered into Stecher's dressing
room, where linament was being ap
plied to his neck. "What are they
waiting for?" was the question that
greeted him.
- It's All Over.
"Waiting for? It's all over," was
the response. 1
Stecher then said he was ready to
go on with the bout, but that he had
not been notified that the rest period
was over.
It remains for Steelier and Het
manek to decide whether the latter
called off the match to save Stecher
without first procuring the sanction
of his principal.
Caddock really earned two falls
over the Nebraskan anyway. The
second fall should have been awarded
to him at the end of firry minutes of
wrestling, as he placed Stecher's
shoulders squarely against the mat
with a head scissors hold. The fall
was plainly visible, not only from the
ringside seats but from every location
in the Auditorium. But Referee
Sherman refused to recognize the
fall, asserting the grapplers were too
close to the ropes and that he had
ordered them to go to the center.
Stecher Admits Fall.
Joe Stecher admitted the fall him
self. He patted Caddock on the back
as a signal of granting the fall.
The referee's refusal to recognize
the legality of the fall set the house
wild. While the mob was yelling
Stecher was asked why he patted
Caddock on the back.
"He was strangling me and I had
to call on him to stop," Joe admitted.
After considerable wrangling it was
decided to abide by the referee's de
cision and the Iowan went in and
threw his adversary the second fall
anyway.
The match started slowly and at
first promised to be disappointing.
During the entire first hour of
wrestling both men remained at all
times on their feet and the spectators
became manifestly restless.
Pushed Through Ropes.
But after an hour of grappling
Stecher pushed Caddock through the
ropes. He plunged into the rineside
seats and struck his head against one
of them. As hesclimbed back into the
ring he appeared to be dazed from the
force of the blow.
This seemed to give Steelier a new
continence, which had been no
ticeably lacking, and he forced a stiff
offensive to the Iowan. with the re
suit that at the end of one hour and
twenty-two minutes he securelv
locked his body scissors around Cad
dock's waist, applied a wrist lock to
one arm and slowly turned Caddock
on nts back.
But while Stecher earned the mar.
girr in the first clash, the second tilt
was all Caddock's. At the very start
Caddock started to mix and he had
all the best of Joe. Several times he
got behind the Dodge lad, while
Stecher seemed powerless to cope
wun nrm.
When wrestling was resumed after
Laddock had Binned Stecher's shnul
ders to the mat and the referee had
refused to recognize the fall, neither
seemed willing to force th going, and
the referee found himself called upon
to warn Stecher time and again that
ne wouin nave to wrestle.
Stecher in Bad Sharje.
During the milling of the second
EARL CADDOCK AND HIS
hooked on Joe Stecher for the
clash Caddock came out behind in
nine mix-ups and had Stecher in se
rious straits several times.
But the Anita lad found trouble
pinning Joe. The Dodge lad, fight
ing desperately, always managed to
wriggle out except when the finish
came. After a mix-up Caddock pin
ioned Stecher s arms with the reverse
Nelson. Then he added the head
hold and it was but a moment later
when Stecher was clamped hard to
the. mat and the referee had to
acknowledge the fall.
The huge crowd settled back into
their seats to wait for the third fall,
even though it was 1:30 in the morn
ing and a time when most members
of the large fraternity were accus
tomed to be in bed.
Applause For Caddock. .
They waited until Caddock appear
ed and greeted him with thundrous
applause. The timers held their
watches long past the fifteen minutes,
but Joe failed to appear. Then Het
manek came out and said Stecher
would not return. Whereupon Sher
man raised the hand of Earl Caddock
and announced a new world's cham
pion had come to the front to de
fend the wrestling title.
The crowd which saw the event was
the largest that every jammed its way
into the munv Auditorium. It num
bered over 7,500 persons and the total
receipts were over $15,000. Every seat
the building was occupied ana
hundreds stood up while scores of
others who could not gain entrance
to the building lingered around out
side. The Bout Begins.
The gladiators entered the ring at
9:31. Joe Stecher was the first to
climb through the ropes, wniie tad
dock crawled into an opposite corner
a second or two later. Anton Stecher
was Brother Joe's second, while Frank
Ootch, the retired champion, was in
Caddock's corner.
A few moments were taken up.
while photographers shot a picture of
the combatants, their seconds, Keteree
Charley Sherman and Gene Melady.
At 9:39 the match was on.
Both men appeared a bit backward
at the start. Caddock was perceptibly
nervous, while Stecher seemed hesi
tant to mix it with the much-hcraldcd
Iowan. For six minutes Joe merely
tried to feei Caddock out, while Earl
was, content to keep a careful eye on
his opponent.
Stecher Starts to Move.
Stecher made the first real move at
9:45, six minutes after the opening of
hostilities, when he feinted for Cad
dock s legs. Ihe Jo v. an was quick,
though, and blocked the maneuver.
From that time on until almost an
hour elapsed Stecher did all the lead
ing, with Caddock blocking every
move. Not until 10:37, fifty eight min
utes after the start, did the wrestlers
gc to the mat. Time and again Stecher
made ineffectual attempts to pull the
Iowan to the mat, while Caddock
made no effort at all to carry the
wrestling to the mat.
It was clearly apparent that Cad
dock meant to stay an hour if possible
before permitting Stecher to mix it.
Followers of the Anita lad bet large
sums that Stecher would not throw
Caddock in an hour and it is presumed
he was out to win his supcorters' coin.
Crowd Restless.
While the bone-crushers were push
ing and pulling each other about and
getting nowhere at all, the crowd be
came manifestly restless, especially
the Stechensupportcrs. It was so tame
and lady-like for the first fifty-eight
minutes many of the spectators had
visions of the Stccher-Lewis affair all
over again.
But their fears proved groundless,
for at 10:37 was the hour the gladi
ators began to mix. Stecher dived for
Caddock's leg and nulled the Iowan
down, but as they hit the mat Cad
dock twisted out of Stecher's grasp
and got behind. It was the first time
the men had gone to the mat and
Caddock was behind. The Iowa sec
tion broke into a roar.
But Caddock could not hold Joe
down. The Dodge phenom clambored
to his feet with seeming ease.
For five minutes they resumed their
easy-going tactics.
Caddock Takes Initiative.
Then Caddock took the initiative.
He caught Joe's leg and hurled the
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fall which was not allowed by
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Nebraskan to the mat, but it was only
for a second, as Stecher merely rose
to his feet. Caddock, it seemed, could
not hold him whenever he wanted to
get up.
At this point loc s dander seemed to
have been aroused and he began to
rush Caddock. Twice he threw the
Iowan into the ropes in his rushes and
a third time the rush was so ferocious
Caddock lost his balance and took a
backward dive through the ropes and
into the ringside seats.
harl fell against a seat and his Head
struck the back of it. When he
climbed back into the ring he ap
peared dazed and his Iowa friends
feared he had been injured, while the
Stecher supporters were inclined to
believe Alibi Ike was getting into the
game. For several minutes Caddock
acted as though ne mignt nave oeen
dazed by the blow.
But whether or not Caddock was
dazed, the plunge ended him as far as
the first fall was concerned, htechcr
seemed to gain a confidence that had
been lacking heretofore and he forced
the wrestling right to Caddock.
At 10:48. right after the dive into
the spectators, Joe began his offensive
and from that time until the end he
was hot after Caddock, with the re
sult that some merry mixing was
provided for the fans.
Mecher pulled caddock to tne mat
and, going behind for the first time,
immediately began to strive tor the
deadly scissors. In just two minutes
he had locked his legs around Cad-
docks waist. But the Anita lad
squirmed out and five minutes later
when Joe got the scissors again broke
away. The wrestlers had rolled to the
ropes this time and were brought to
the center of the ring by the referee.
'This was the beginning of the end.
Steelier immediately clamped the
body scissors on Caddock and then
secured his favorite wrist lock. In
a few brief seconds lie had turned
Caddock's shoulders to the mat, the
first time it had been done since the
Cass county marvel took up profei
sional wrestling. The time of the
first fall was one hour and twenty-
two minutes.
Caddock almost startled Stecher
supporters out of their seats at the
start of the second round, while the
Iowan's followers almost had hys
terics.
After a rest of fifteen minutes the
wrestlers resumed their clash at
11:15. For six minutes neither made
an offensive move, but at 11:21 Cad
dock pulled Joe to the mat. Toe,
however, easily climbed to his feet.
Caddock Pulls Surprise.
For ten minutes the wrestlers re
mained on their feet. Then Caddock
gave the fans their first real surprise
of the evening. Wfiile both men
were standing up Caddock got
double wrist lock on Joe and by a
mighty effort jerked him to the mat
and on his back. If he could have
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Remarkable hold which
the referee.
he
held the lock he might have pinned
the champion. As it was Stecher only
escaped by remarkable agility in
squirming out from under his lighter
foe. It was the closest Joe's shoul
ders had ever been to the mat. It
was so close some of the Caddock
fans believed Earl was entitled to a
fall.
After getting his shoulders out of
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his feet. Then he began an offensive
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when he tried to pull Caddock down
Earl twisted around and landed on
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Stecher a bit, but miscalculated and
took another header through the
ropes.
They came together at the center
of the ring and again Caddock landed
on top after a mixup. It was the
fourth time had been behind Stecher
during the second round, while the
Dodge lad did not get behind Earl
once.
The fall came quickly after this and
the final decision when Stecher re
fused to appear again on the mat.
Plestina Wants to Meet
New Champion on the Mat
Pete Loch, as manager for Marin
Plestina, -issued a challenge last night
for his man to wrestle the winner.
It was all agreed that the match
would be put on April 27 if Joe
Stecher won. Gene Melady was to
promote it and Joe Hetmanek and
Stecher had agreed. But the winning
of Caddock spilled the beans. Now
the managers are all busy trying to
arrange for a match between the new
champion and Plestina.
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