Show S MAT 1 The Career of the Worlds World's Champion Wrestler and His Instructions on How to Wrestle as Told by Himself h sS Y and nd Associates to Elbert Sanders L i 4 4 GOTCH I MEETS CHIEP CHIEF TWO FEATHERS ALES of or a wonderful Indian T TALES T. v. Ie wrestler wres on a T reservation er In Montana Mon Ion I tana tuna were told bid In Iii the mining camps and the time seaport f centers cen cen- lers of time iho P Pacific co coast st In 1903 Native Na Na- NaI I tire thc Montanans did not believe e the tIme world possessed a wrestler who wino could defeat this proud chief chief- said to possess almost superhuman strength and great endurance Other wrestlers turned palo at mention of oC the Iho Indian but htmL Gotch was seeking a reputation and anel the tIme AmerIcan American Amer Airier ican lean championship and amid showed that lion hearted courage coinage c that later hater brought him the tho worlds world's crown of time the mat moat Ho Ito said ald he lie would he be glad to meet the thi In- In dlan lan and the they were matched to battle to a finish December 23 3 at Wash agh Gotch IB is a most unusual specimen of athletic bravery braver says sas Farmer Burns Other champions have huc always been afraid of ot losing their titles lilies Gotch seems never to have o thou thought ht of or such sucha a n timing hether his lIen ch challenger cr were an Indian a 11 Turk lurk a Lion Ilon or 01 a Borneo Bernice tho have ha nil all wild man maim from rein O. O they 1001 looked hooked alike to time the man from Hum Hum- boldt Ho has h s been willing to meet Time Tho Indian held heM him for tor fifteen minutes min mIn- utes mites utes-a. a record that thai no wrestler has been JCl able to equal since that thai match Two vo showed ho lie lacked hacked a knowledge of or f time the ther r wrestling game ame but buthis buthis his hiis great groat strength an and reach enabled him him to fasten Casten dangerous holds tl to tim notch iotch which tho time latter Later managed to break after tru n 1 around time the mat Gotch Gulch finally darted out and amid wrestled Two o Feathers to lo the time canvas cana It II was wasa wasat wasat a at I this point that the time weakness of or tho the red reel man was apparent He Its was w not strong as a c defensive wrestler Gotch secured a n. hammerlock but time the Indian broke the time grip after a struggle Golch Gotch tried to lo fasten a n. crotch and nel nol son on to him but discovered cred this was difficult to do on account of or his hid opponents opponent great height and reach rench Gotch figured It ou out that thai time the scissors scissors sors could be he worked on the Indian He lie pushed down Two Pea hers head and amid 3 as ho arose Jumped In and fastened fastened fast fast- cne ened a scissors on time sinewy sInew form Corm Two Feathers struggled desperately but to no inn mull avail Slowly bul but surel surely Got Gotch h pushed rushed tine tho re red mans man's shoulders to tho thu mat for 01 tho the first fall after 1 of Lr 4 4 w Y y r Scissors Hold and Half Nelson them all and fl fight ht them to lo a n finish Gotch knows no fear ear on the time mat malo With all the time marks maries of ot a chieftain of or hl his tribe garb garbed d In a many man robe of at beads weighing 15 pounds and 1 standing six feet five fI Inches In his hits moccasins Two J presented 1 an Imposing appearance In this thus memorable mem- mem battle lm h he Jio great confidence confluence dence Jut but Golch lotch taught laughl him that time Iho white while man mami who had Imad driven his toro foro- fathers back lute Into the plains was time the physical m and l athletic superior of ot time the red man At t the call of time the they went vent to the center of the time mat shook hands and sparred for tOl a hol hold In 11 hess than a n the Iho Indian hind had r In and an slammed time the IoWa va ho boy to the mat rr Try as ag he lie would woul Gotch could not rise lie Ue had not yet et perfected his methods of or escape from time the mat shown hown In his I battle buttle with ten len years oars later latel nearly fort forty minutes of or desperate struggling Two Feathers tossed Gotch to the time mat several times timeR In Iii the time second bout but the brain of oC time the Iowa boy ho had proved pro master of or time the superior weight cl ht and amid reach of oC lila his dusky opponent t. t Two Feathers secured a u with which ho lie came camo near winning the time second see sec ec- ec ond fall tall and Gotch was punished se severely so- so verely but he lie finally broke time the hold and amid after fifteen minutes of oC wrestling in which Two Feathers had hind tho thie a advantage advantage ad ad- vantage went behind the Indian Gotch shifted from one hold to another another an an- other with wilh lIke rapidity and amid finally fastened a scissors for the time de do- deciding fall It was a crushing crush In defeat to for l' l the time proud Indian It crushed him In spirit and arid he ime never ne wrestled again ag Gotch he heap p l big said sahl Two To Feathers Mo mIo Io no match Copyright 1012 1912 ll b by Joseph B. 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