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Show HAVE LITTLE FAITH 1H THE J1U JITSU Lf ft Hook, one of the sporting authori-ties authori-ties of the EasC evidently does not believe in the efficacy of Jlu JiUu on all occasions. Neither does Frank Gotch, the wrestler, and between them they have the following follow-ing to say of the Japanese sport: Frank Gotch, America's champion catch-as-can wrestler, tells me there's nothing In thai Jlu Jitsu business. I've thonght so all along, but I've needed need-ed somebody like Gotch to sort of stiffen my idea. Saya Gotch: , - Ot eourae.' they ive.- got to get their hold first of all. Even then. If you play putty and are any kind of a man they can't do 1 anything very terrible to you. "Just before I came Eaat I ran across one of these Jlu Jitsu fellows out In Whatcom. What-com. That's neat door to Japan, you know, and the slants' around there thought this guy was better than old Mat what's ia name ever was. "They sicked him on me one night and laid around to laugh. But it waa not to laugh. I made a carpetbag of that Jap. Threw him three times in thirty seconds. Gave him his holds with an awkwardness which delighted his grinning frtenda. and-then and-then Just squeezed him gently, picked him up bodily and selected the place where I wanted to dump him. And he weighed pretty close to 200 at that' , . It must be nice to be a Gotch, but then I don't think it's absolute necessary. I'm pretty sure that the best of the Jlu wonders could be made to forget all about their art by a good stiff, properly delivered., deliv-ered., wholly unromantlo old wallop on , the Jaw. |