Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-11-14 | Page 4 | Former Champion of the Mat is Now a Wrestling Teacher

Former Champion of the Mat I WONDER ATHLETES AI ES OF YES YESTERDAY YESTERDAY WHERE 1 ERDA Y WHERE ARE THEY HEY 1 J Is Now a Wrestling T Teacher each r I a r i iDan ii 1 i fI I fI f I I Dan McLeod as he is today Only Man Who Ever Threw Frank Gotch Instructor of Big Athletic Club Met and Defeated Best Men of His Time ume Nagged Into the Game V i i B By MARK LARKIN s x By tar Th TIll Memo 8 0 X S Sc dea LOS ANGELES Nov Dan 14 Dan McLeod fo former mer worlds world's wrestling champion the only man who ever threw Frank Gotch is an instructor of wrestling in the Los Angeles Athletic club Dan was champion in the days when there was no such thing tiling as worlds champion They were all champions of En England or champions of Ireland or France V tor America With the possible possible possible pos pos- sible exception of Ernest Roeber worlds world's worlds champion champion Greek or Ronan Roman Roman Ro Ro- man nan wrestler there was nobody who laid claim to a universal grappling grappling grappling grap grap- pling title McLeod tossed Koebor and also such noted men as Joe Acton Tom Cameron Cameron Cameron Cam Cam- eron champion of England i Farmer Burns Mort Henderson the original masked marvel and the undefeatable l Frank rank Gotch whom he thre threw twice the thelast thelast thelast last time In a scheduled match which lasted an hour These are arc only a EL few tew of the tho Dan McLeod had thrown There Is not enough paper on this page to enumerate them all Dan became a wrestler b by accident He lIe was nagged Into a match In British Columbia In the late eighties whereupon he put a a. man down so hard that It broke two of his ribs and laid him up In the hospital for six weeks celts After that there was no peace for tor him In 1889 he won the Pacific coast heavy we weight wrestling championship A short time later he turned professional toured the country giving bouts and meeting all comers It was on one of the these e tours that he met and defeated Gotch In 1912 McLeod quit the wrestling game to become coach at the Los Angeles Athletic club Instead of ot defeating em myself now says Dan I show the other fellow how to do It Its It's much harder to show another fellow than It Is to do It myself but you dont don't get so badly messed up Since McLeod has become an exponent of the tho mat sport he e has developed several champions He coached Otto Linner Pacific coast champion In tho the pound class John Humerich pound coast champ and Ernest Daggett pound Pacific coast title holder also George W. W Hetzer who represented the Li L. A A A. C C. In the 1912 Olympiad held at Stockholm McLeod Is considered the best wrestling coach in the tho country Such men as Frank Gotch give him the highest credit