Show JSUlH THE WRESTLERS i 4 McLiughIin Go a TossUp 1 Toss-Up Affair < 1J J 1J a 4 I J J QIN MEN r TRAIN 1 JtosrTakes to Road While Mc r j s flee Rough Scuffles l rmountn1D Champion j 1 omise to Bo Sttercoly I 1 rlyts ECStPbAI11fl tJantes el L Li j 1 ts1neresUDgltonot thed1rtcrcnCQ fa the manner oC training employed by the two men who are to meet for the Inicrnionntalri wrestling championship f fThese methods ore In accordonco with the difference In the dispositions and physical build of the two men Ross is ef the greyhound type of athlete while McsLaUEhlln is best compared with a bulldog However it Is not to be understood under-stood that because McLaughlin Is of the heavy or solid build that ho IB not swift But ho is of blockier physical by hIs manager J E Shaver Ig one r Harry Llenbaugh who In considered among the best In the State The men wwaya emerge from these contests > minus much akin BURNS TATIGUT BOTH s ° Both theso men are disciples of the lITCat wrestler Farmer Burn though Vthcy have each discarded long ago the yiJtem of wrcGlllnrr taught hy the noted fcjrtlst ROSS has come methods that ae Efjcullarly hlH own and It Is Bald he Is tbt invontor of many of the famous jjr38 that are In vogue with the major 7of tho best culllemalcors of the land way Farmer Burns complimented 8 both these men when they left him and Id Bald to have declared when he turned CoLaughlin out of his camp that if her he-r ran across the man Rom in his JanderJngs thcie + would be a mixup of r Ib i fiercest kind I SOME OF ROSSS RECORD elate he haH been In the professional rest1lnb business Ross hns met Far vwr Burns for money and wall from 11hn 1 In handicap matcheR Among ethers whom Rosa has luld away hack k hlfl career ire Duncan McDonald u champion llvcatyle wrestler of the R Qt1Qwho lost two handicap matches to floes in Leadvllle He won from Frank S Lewis the champion heavyweight heavy-weight of the Northwest Toe Kerrigan champion of Illinois fell a victim Mo Ross With Farmer Burns at Leadvllle Ross lost his match after ho had won the first fall In nineteen minutes and llfteen seconds of wrestling He was out of condition he said and naturally Burns could get him lie hung with Hall I Ailtili the former big Turk for sixteenminutes thuD winning from the renowned wrestler who was endeavor Jug TO got him In llfteen minutes ROSS ALWAYS CONCEDES The accompanying picture of Charley Ross shows a side view that was taken thus to show the wonderful chest arm and neck development of the Wisconsin wrestler He Is credited with having about the best forearm development of any man In the business at the present time Of course it Is to be remembered that Ross Is not a real heavyweight He wrestles generally between 1DO and 155 pounds In most oC the battles he has had he has been compelled to concede con-cede at least fifteen pounds often more In the present case he Is going against a man who outweighs him by a possible twelve pounds When Ross was 17 years of age he had gained the heavyweight championship of Wisconsin which was going some considering the men he had to go against In theold days In all he has had In the neighborhood of 200 matches and challenges any man In the world to show a better record than he The man who IB to meet Ross on the 21st of the present month at the Grand I I I L 3t r t i f a rt Lii 1pe s ryr1K4 ° tnf = 1r S7rJY t + c i I r l i l I I a > f > ti 1 1 x r r t Ii 1il 1l 1 il Shaver Alighting en JffcLaughlin After Jump of Four Feet Thor Tho-r Smaller Picture Shows Rosss Chest and Shoulder Development fcftvelopment than Ross the latter being recognized as the swifter hind though he also poSHesscs a good quality of muscle llLAUGHLIN MORE THAN I STRONG McLaughlln is commonly called the mN Strong man of Nlehart and In hid wrestling matches he is InvUrlably credited with having won purely by main strength while In fact he ls one of the cleverest and most scientific wrestlers In the country He knows exactly ex-actly how and when to apply his great strength and therein lies the secret of I big BUCCCSG at the wrestling game ROSS A ROAD MAN Charley ROES training consists large I ly of rond work und he docs from eight to fifteen miles on the road every day t Boss figures that he docs not need tho hard workouts that arc usually re I Footed to by professional athletes because be-cause his muscle is of the peculiar kind that stays In fairly good shape always His road work Is done more for the purpose of keeping J his stomach and lungs in good shape Wrestlers find that the most Important organ in their 1 I body 1 to be kept In condlllon Is the 1 stomach It Is even more carefully conditioned I i p 1 ditioned than the lungs since whIm a y man becomes sick at the stomach he is I j UHually wllllnc to give up everything r Then naturally a wrestler strives to lie 11 cure holds on his opponent that will induce in-duce tljls weakness The abdominal muBclcn are usually greatly developed 1 t j to ward off such a calamity WORKS WITHIN DOORS j WcLaughlln being the opposite typo + from Ross naturally turns o the Indoor I In-door work though of course he does nol t neglect the road work entirely He haM i four hard wrestlers to deal with and i devotes from three to five hours each I flay working with them One of thee the-e 5t propositions that la handed him theater Is no less a wonderful exponent of the wrestling nrt George C Mc jaughlln began wrestling In 18915 Imv Ins been actively engage In athletics from his boyhood He Is 29 years of igeand got lilt first lessons from Farmer Far-mer Burns Burns advised McLaughlin to take up the wrestling game beruusc of his great strength and endurance This was hiM reason for abandoning rack athletics tit which he wasa wonderful won-derful performer Ills weight when In good shape Is 172 pounds his chest expansion ex-pansion normal Is J2j Inches with inhalation In-halation It Is fiPA Inches His biceps nSasure IS1 and will expand to 17 inches FIRST PRO MEET Ills first professional match waa J with Charley Woods en lchIl > cutchcan at Duluth 3Ulnn He secured two of three falls and In the same month he look on Capt Billy Smith ot the Duluth Fire leparlmenl who is ftill there and rec ognlxcd asa great wrestler McLaugh In won two of three falls though the match wUfj long drawn out Then Sandy Shannon beat him at Crookston Minn in September of 1895 Mclaughlin getting get-ting the first full In eleven minutes the second fall in nine minutes Shannon weighed 100 pounds and was McLaugh Ins first defeat At Fargo N D he bent Big Bill Peters a noted athlete In his time This man was the acknowledged acknowl-edged champion of the Korthjvcst In the same month he met Bill Marston at Fargo and defeated him Then McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin headed the tour of Marcus Dalys band of allaround athletes under un-der the management of W D Mnlloy whose record ingenerally I known In the West THE BRUTAL STRANGLE Jack McLcod and Jack Collins both good wrestlers have fallen before McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin at Great Falls Mont and It was in the last named city that Mc Laughlln came so near sending Jack Cumin the game Montana man into eternity with the famous Evan Lewis stranglehold Since that affair Mc LHtigmln has always Insisted that the Ktranglehold be barred The moro recent re-cent boutn of McLaughlin hum Park City meeting with Ross and Thompson arc welt known He has had great difficulty diffi-culty In securing trainers that t can take sudlclent punishment to bring him Into condition but he has reached a state or physical being that t he claims was never before reached by him KNOWS ABOUT ROSS In Charley Ross McLaughlln says he reallrcs he Is up against a hard piopo Bltlori as the latter Is considered one of tin most scientific wrestlers hi the country However ha Is I extremely confident con-fident of the outcome and his manager J 13 Shaver Is equally sure Ross will be defeated When this bout Is over If McLaughlin wins Eugene Thompson will be disked to make good on his challenge chal-lenGe recently Issued If Thompson doe not go on Shaver announces that ho will take his man East and put him up against the best men In the business The accompiuiylnj pictures I show McLaughlin lying down and Mr Shaver Jumping from a position about four foot above him and landing upon the portion of the body protected by l the abdominal muscles Shaver weighs ex achy 168 pounds Good preliminary bouts will be arranged ar-ranged for the nigh of the match Probably Freeman Basselt and Joe Stanton the L D S boys will give their club swinging exhibition Jack Christy vlll likely go with some clover knight or the mitts Prof Walter Orr will give iln great bagpunching exhibitions Tommy Jacobs will box with Young Price |