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Show mm HACK WELL CONDITIONED Former Already Training Hard; Experts Wait for Latter. ' CHICAGO, Aug. 11. George Haeken-Schmidt Haeken-Schmidt will not want for trmineri whea Im arrive to prepare for his Labor dav match with Frank Ootch for ths world I heavy weight wrestling championship. Bo will kave a conditioner Gua Scho-aloia Scho-aloia (Amoriru).. Chsrle ("Kid") Cutler, Tom Jtnkins, Dr. B. F. Rollr, Ernst aad Koch. Dr. Roller ia tha Rna-aiaa Rna-aiaa liaa'a chief trainar. Having traveled trav-eled with Gotch on tha fatnooa Jeffrie tear aver tha country. Dr. Hollar kaowt hut what tha Iowa farmer rsa do. Bat Gotch ia waiting no time at trr training camp at Humboldt, la. Ha kaa reduced to about 205 ponnda and ex-peets ex-peets to (o oa tha mat at a hour 19s, e earn. ; It is expected that tha match tka afternoon af-ternoon of Bent em her 4 at tha white soz ball park will reault in tha formulation of a. new eat of wrestling rules -that will govern all future eonteate. . C I-. MIM ka. Ku .amed fhr the contest, and oae of tha effects of the great contest will be to give to the world a new aet of rules that will embody em-body all tha numerous points that should be covered. . Thie new aet of rules ia now being compiled and will be aubmitted te the contestants aa soon aa Haekeusehmidt arrives In this country. When the atamp of his approval ia put on alongside that of Gotch the rules will be complete aad then will be announced. It ia expected ex-pected they will ia the future be the rules that will govern all contests of whatever importance. Whea Gotch and Hnekeueehmidt were being signed for thia contort one of 'he quee& ona which came up waa ever the rules. - Gotch mentioned one art and Haekeusehmidt another. Copies of each were obtained and it waa discovered discov-ered that neither set was worth the paper pa-per it waa printed apoa. Other seta of rules were consulted aad the discovery made that none of them waa worth anything, any-thing, aspecfally in a contest of this importance. im-portance. - - In the new act of rule governing the . eomiag match all of the limitations of rough work, etc., will be defined so that the "spectator may know at oace just how far tha eontestnnta will be permitted to go with tactics. . It should not be-inferred from this talk about the rules that tha articles of agreement between Gotch aad Hackee ' Schmidt are open or about to be re-ooened re-ooened in any wav. The men will wrestle wres-tle whether new rule are agreed upoa or not, but it waa thought best to aafe ' guard the match in every way. Officials ef the Empire A. C. bav announced the following list of ap- poiateee for the bigmatea: , Referee Edward w. Smith. Official timekeeper for tha dub-Walter dub-Walter H. Eekemall. Timekeeper for Haeknaehmldt-Otto Flo to of Denver. . Timekeeper for Ootch To be eabmit-ted eabmit-ted bv Emil Klank. . Executive of seat aale -Mark Iewie. Official- prograree rs Thomas Carpea-j '.cr and Lou H. Houseman. Gotch, had a bad scare a few dav ago. Driving along in hia automobile he met friend currying a peculiar package. The maa waa one" of the supervisor su-pervisor of the great immense power dam . being - constructed here. Gotch invited him to get ia and ke would take him to tha works! Thia dona, Frank asked' him what the package contained that ha waa carrying ao teaderly. aad he waa informed that it waa dynamite for blasting. The way Ootch dropped things down to tha soft pedal wasa't slow. The machiae fairly crept along. J but the ehumpioa waa game. ' He hunted hunt-ed the soft spots aad looked for bumps, while hia friend coolly dilated upon the effecta of sudden "jnr. Whea they nt last arrived at tha dam a mile and n naif away and Ootch slowly aad enutieoelv stopped the machine the engineer quietly undid the package to akow - Frank what dynamite really looked like, although the champion waa not at all aazioue to have hia curiosity appeased. Then it waa discovered the "dyaamita" waa a dozen harmless bctt. Gotch save that he was about as scared aa ke waa whea k first met the " Russian lion." r |