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Show Slecher Beller Wresller Since He Joined Gobs GREAT .LAKES, lit. No. It. Bl Jo Stecher, toughened fry weeks of navy drill, strengthened by weeks of navy chow and conditioned by weeks of navy rovttne such aa tucking his burly frame In a hammock at t o'clock and hitting the deck at t a. m., has been matched to wrestle in New fork City. On November 1. at the vast Madison Hquare Garden. Joe Is booked to grepple with Wladek Zbyaeko. The match is for the benefit of the United War Wel-. Wel-. fare campaign and was arranged by the athletic officer at Oreat Lakes. 8techr Is a different wrestler- as a cellar than as aaissraska farmer. He' a changed athlete etnoe the time h entered en-tered a detention camp here since be shed tb "clvlee for aa extra large stsed gob uniform. When Joe vat barnstorming barnstorm-ing through the country he only trained at Intervals. For some of his bouts he . needed no training whatsoever. Accord- 1 insly he seldom wae In condition for a ' championship match. He di not havs I to be. ' In the aavy as a wrestling Instructor of the Seventh regiment and general wres- I tllnf upervtor of th station, Jo Is al- ways In shape. He spends the greater part of each day on the mat. Sometimes It Is a leaaon to a husky pupil or a friend ty grapple with another instructor, but a peek Into the gymnasium at almost any tlms reveal Stecher wrapping a scissor around someone. |