Show WEAKLING LING IN CHILDHOOD J 1 CHAMPION AT TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY Henry Gehring Middle liddle Weight Wrestling Cha Champion pion Who Meets 1 Mike y okel Here This Month Started Wrestling as a aLast aLast aLast aS Last R Resort sori to Build Up Fragile Frame F Tame S V BY V WALTER ALTER C C. C KELLY CLEVELAND Jan 14 Henry H.-Henry Henry Gehring Gebring the tho Cleveland boy who acquired the wrestling middle weight championship of the world by defeating Walter Walrer Wiloughby in Grays' Grays armory was at one time a sickly boy His Hia relatives feared he W was 13 going into a physical decline Physicians prescribed for him latin but ho he made no progress Finally someone suggested that ho he be given a course of athletic training in a a local gymnasium His uncle took him to Mark Lamb the dean bf Ohio wrestlers and arranged with him to give the boy Instructions in club swinging and such other forms of exercise as the tho veteran instructor deemed advisable Lamb liked the boy from the start for Henry wa was a modest quiet fellow having little to say and always pleasant Lamb put him to work on light pulley weights and gave him hini lessons with the clubs and light dumbbells After a a. few we weeks ks of this sort of work Gehring Geh Gob ring was shown a few holds in iii wrestling Ho He liked the tho game gamo at once and according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Lamb showed much aptitude Within a a. few months he be had bad mastered mas nias- a number of ot difficult combinations and gradually he ho be became Uno stronger as he ho became more proficient at atthe the tho mat milt game One day dar Mark tried him out with ith another an an- another other pupil and was surprised to see 1 Gehring down him twice inside le of five minutes The German ap youth showed showell rare speed and surprising strength Lamb then had a physician examine Gehrin Gehring thoroughly The fhe medical man pronounced him sound organically anti ami otherwise This decided Lamb to make a wrestler out of his young oun and after th that t he gave the young youn man additional attention giving several lessons each week and making him hini work ork out with all the best boys bos in in his bis class Gehrin Gohring made wonderful progress and before he be had been wrestling a year he had hadon won on several contests Today fada Today To To- I da day he is not only middle weight ht champion champion cham cham- pion of the world but one of tIme the fastest and most skillful performers who ever stepped onto a 3 mat He has been enjoying enjoins the tho bp best t of health ever over since he took up the game and for this reason he feels deeply grateful to tobis his bis teacher Mark lark Lamb It is difficult for to realize that they have a real worlds world's I champion wrestler in their midst a midst a fellow townsman tot Tom Torn Jenkins was wu champion of America once upon a 3 time and we all felt proud of ot him But Gehring holds bolds a worlds world's title and we should feel doubly elated over o his suc sac cess Gehring stands ready to defend de do- fend his title and any auy wrestler who will post a forfeit to make the weight pounds can get a chance at the title It makes make no difference whore the man comes conies from if he is a middle weight and produces p the money to bind the tho match There may bo 10 some great wrestlers in other countries of whom we have c not heard yet who ate ata just as good as 38 Henry Gehring or perhaps better but they thoy c can n n all be accommodated on the issuance of a abona bona boua tide fide challenge accompanied by a forfeit Gehring declares The Tho writer does not kno know of any middle weight in this country who appears appears ap ap- ap pears to have ha much of a chance unless unless un un- un less it bo ho Clarence Bouldin and behas he be has has not yet decided upon his future When ho he was active in the tIme game gamo a few years ears ago aJo bo he was looked upon as ono one of tho the top notch men of the profession profession sion at the tho weight |