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Show LET LEWIS NOW MEETCADDOCK Ipwa Champion Successfully Successful-ly Defends Claim to World Title. By AMoclat! PI-CM. PKS M f if VKB, Ta., May S Krt UwTi Or ' Anita, 't.i., mu'wunfiiTiy itfwi 1 hit. claim to tht heavywi.irht wrwtljnff titl. hr laat niitht ly dfeattnn Allan .. Kimtac of Wichita. Kan., in two iHt'iiirht falls. 'VWih-k wur3i tho ftrat (fall in 23'fi rntnuif v.th a frotch and 1 half nltn. th rc4tii ir 1 minuter with I a had aclw-ra and a half Dfllaon. Frank ktch, form?r chmplon, refereed the match. To th old wren Hint n ho mnem-bor mnem-bor tUs match of Farmer Burn, of ioich, Hacknnohmldt, Yuttlf and th Slants of another day. It must be a great fall to find that In three recent ao-caJled championship matches one of the wrestlers wrest-lers has quit. Twice Joe Stecher quit cold In the ring, once to John OHn and aaln to Earl Caddock. Then Olia 'uuU in a match with tttranffler Lewis,' a match which was to decide who would wrestle Caddock for the world championship, the ierie-lon ierie-lon to be made hy Frank Ootch, the undefeated un-defeated champion. There Is little wonder that the wrestling wrest-ling ipirne haa been dlacredited. The' man who pays his money to see a wren- Una; match now knows U is a 60-6') chance ; that he will be the goat when the thing la over. j At that It wl11 be Interesting to see ' Lewis and Caddock get together. Lewie 1 has. never been defeated. He has twice j wrestled Stecher to draws once for several sev-eral hours. Caddock made Stecher quit. Lewis haa never quiet. Let 'em gel together to-gether and let Gotch pronounce the verdict ver-dict CHICAGO. May 8. Dreneed in the height of fashion and carrying a walking stick, Kf (Htrangler) Lewis of Kentucky, who won the heavyweight wrestling championship by defeating John OHn, the "terrible Finn.' arrived In town from a short rest In the country and announced that he Intends to make his home in Chicago In the future. "I am after a match with Earl Caddock, Cad-dock, who defeated Joe Htecher, and I am certain that I can beat him. Caddock Cad-dock la a great wrestler, but I know that I have the strength tnd endurance that will enable me to defeat him." Lewie expects to reet a few weeks before be-fore starting training again. r ' J |