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Show HARD TO GET A LINE ON WRESTLERS CHICAGO, March li. Those) whs follow areata In grappling turuall find, whan a season It about termlnatlnc certain contradictions that are not oaaUy explained away. Th aeaaon of 1910-11 had not bom any exception to this rait. Th chief disappointment la found ia the fact that thtre U no longer any Uksllbood of a meeting between Hackaosehmidt and Ootch. Thoaa who boiler bo-iler they hara carefully calculated Just which of thoaa two men aheald win, would do well if they took boom of the contradictions already mentioned men-tioned and lot them enter into calculations. A year ago rrank Ootch won from Stanislaus Sybasco, the Polish champion, cham-pion, la straight fall, approximating aador thirty initiates of acta si wrestling In fact, the first fall lasted only aix and ene-quarter seconds. Abovt a oath age, ia the east, Hackee achmldt and Sybase wrestled aa hew without a rau. ' J'n Seattle, Wash., about two yean back, while Gotch was wrestling Dr B. F. Boiler, the mea hsd come so cIom to the ropes thst the crowd demanded they do their grappling; In the middle of the ring. Ootch grinned good aa-turedly aa-turedly and picked up Holler at arm's length aad held him above his head. Turning to the referee Frank aaid: "Where hall I drop kirn!" During about a doles meetings of Hackea Schmidt aad Roller eiace last fail, Roller Rol-ler has lasted all the way from foe half hoar to an hour. - I Again. Henry Ordeman of Mlnneapolla haa alwsve been considered above Jesa t eateisiuird of Pea Moinea and only recently re-cently t'harley Cutter uf Chicago dla- Steed of Ordeman In stralsht falls. I-ast ovember Wcslsaard lasted more than one hour with lla-kenactinildt before the Ruaalan lion tossed the lewaa for the first 1st). ' In ltenver. about a month sso, TVeatsaerd esaln laated about an hour before the Aral- fall. Two weeks sso In I leaver It took Haekenechmldt i achmldt or Xhyaako. Tloth of these men Ignore the Turk'a challenae, although ' Harkenaehraldt and Zbyssko hsve W re. - i tied In tonus where lite receipts netted I hem well under liooe. After all. the same of grappling may i not he vaally unlike the same of poll-tics. poll-tics. It Is Impossible to teke peat performance per-formance and build anything like a fair estimate of a hat the next meeting will amount to. Kllhcr the mob la stirred to a mad delirium In en effort to get rid of Ha kale, or the grapplers la this country. coun-try. Including both Ann-rUsn and forelsn artlata. are training Indifferently aud never nev-er certain of ttientaclves. Every one of them admlla that tola la the heyday of the mat, hut ao Ions aa the process of ellmlnettoo le so persistently Ignored so Ion as the dub of yeetvrdsy Is the ktnspln nf today that Wg van we be certain that grappltnc Is going to pass ra.ldly ' from the senlth of Its position, with only empty hells snd Indifferent newspaper srtlcles to greet the effnrte of tlie wrestlere.- The suspicion arlsea that theee men have not done their best, and that, unless wrestling le revived and purified. It muet resolve itself purely and simplv Into s vsueevllle sketch. Thess are facta that are founded on actual rtrcumstsncee. and the kindest thing thst con he said Is thst science snd the msstery of an art can In no way enter kato the avocation of grappling. though Cutler had dtapoaed of Ordeman. who le conceded to be easily th master Of Westeaerd. The ttret time Ous flchoenlet of Baltimore Balti-more known aa Amertcua) met Fred Heell of Wiaronetn, Beell not only won from tlie Baltimore man. but put htm In the boapltal for a period of alx weeka. lejrlng the neat teo months Aniertrue hse stayed neerly en hour with both liotch and Havkenachmldt. !eee than a month aso. In Chicago, Fred Jseell end Amerlcue wrestled an hour to a draw, and for two weeka following there wee considerable tslk for a Amsh contest. This haa euddenly beea dropped, sltlioush Fred Heell went back to his Wisconsin home to enter Into aciiv training for the match. Thee are only a few of th contradiction contra-diction that aland out for the thought and oonatueralioa of American Bint fana. Juat why wreatlere aliould ao euddenly and absolutely change la something tluit I Schmidt throws s fellow In Jig time, sttd I Ootch require three quarters of an bout ( to toes the same man. Oa the other , hand, flotch will transmute a wrestle Into a living rebuke In five antnutea. and ' within two weeka the eejlie fellow stay. ; an hour wtth Haekenechmldt. It mey be that the quality ef breakfast food baa i beea altered In the meantime. At any , rale, w can merely etate that wreetltng ia not a ertence, hut h denegerated bit the ancertslnty that can be aoied among yming girla who sre taking their ftret leaeona in s cooking school. Every time they mix the Insredients of a pake there isn't a bookmaker ea earth who would give odds ea te the outaome. The season started with fair promlaes and tf te terminating wtth aa much anoer tatntv and with aa marry pyoeuean unsolved un-solved as anv of ths asm Lsoyd a asost Intricate puaalee. One of the other yeamlee that cannot he readily anrved te how I t. nV p. R,gier can break hta rtba every this weeks and still re mete In the running. Th doctors Orel rib splinter episode thst er tree ted attention Marled with hi match wtth utms In London, hw thea a year ago, ftince thea the trureher of mtarnea tn-Jonee tn-Jonee he has received would snake Btra eoeolutry ths poorest rtn anv casualty oonipeny weukl think of having. From groaning tn aa Omaha hospital, be suddenly sud-denly bloeenraa out for toe wlmsup In Chicago next hf eiSsr CoasleWIng the fact that he le a pnvotelaa and a Burgeon, Bur-geon, thte peoaably answers ths question. ques-tion. Farmer rrnrne. 1 veers ed age. eheis leege Jeee Weatenxaard Sor a nnieh oooieet, with anv eine bet that the rwe hlelnee man mey nam. TTvere te Itt rle question lha4 Oasaha. which to now the Farmer's home, veouhl be pyeeeut with a t--eoe or seeo houee. However. West-ersnerd West-ersnerd doesn't call for the offr. tueelf Maemreit hae had liooe peered with e Chtcajro newspaper ever einre lest tertoosr for a asstch wng elUier siacAsn- |