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Show HUGE FORTUNES TO ' BE HAD i MAT GAME ' Million Dollar Earning Not Rare Among Star Heavyweight Heavy-weight Wrestlers. - NKW YORK, Jan. .VTlie topnolcn-ers topnolcn-ers anion hc:i vy oiBht wrest Ws arr the best money makers in tho realm ot sports. This will sown, I like the hunk to nine out of every ten readers ot the sportins pases, for the average follower follow-er of sports, if asked which lino of professional pro-fessional sports offers the best returns, will nnme l.asehall or boxing. Vet no ball player or boxer has ever been known to earn as much as a million mil-lion grnml on the diamond or in tho rin-. while there are several stars of the" mat :imr who have carried awy that, mueh eoin from the box office" durins their careers in the wrestling business. George V. Touhoy, veteran wrestling promoter in Boston and other oastern w cities, said recentlv that the sueeess- fnl wrestler can mane more mouev than nnv other star in snort dom. and Quoted figures which ho claims are authentic, au-thentic, or nearlv so, to prove his statement. state-ment. , Touhev savs thai Giovannia baice-virh baice-virh the Italian champion, amassed R fortune of l.oilO.OnQ in Europe before, the war broke out. He estimates that, (leorge llackenschmidt, the Kusainn I iont" earned more than if 1,0(10,000 on the mat, and places Cieorge. Lunch and Mo Aberg in the millionaire wrestler ' "rriink Clot eh. according to latest es timales, made all of ilo0,000 out. of wrestling and Stanislaus Zbyszko of Poland, is said to have earned as much is flfioO 00O during his active career. 1 Poet or Boiler, ' Americas, Stoehcr, Ordeman. Westergaard, l.inow, ITus-sane ITus-sane and other heavvweight grapplers, have earned all the way from $40,000 to $:iOO,000 in the mat game, and Karl Cadilock, had he continued in the game, could have soon amassed a fortune. The wrestler, unlike the boxer, can compete' six nights in every week where the wrestling game is good. And if he isn't lazv he soon collects a bank roll that would give, a greyhound an awful tussel. The average wrestler collects 100 per cent of tho purses he i irns, for he doesn't bother with a manager. Compared to the ball player who eSrns a stated sum of money and works but five months in the year, the wrestler has twelve months to work, and when he lines up for big matches he gets big money. European wrestlers have made more monev than those in America, yet the topno't.chers among American grapplers are all well fixed: well enough to have sugar, in their coffee and meat on the table, even in these trying times. |