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Show FRANK GOTCH WILL TRAIN FOR ENDURANCE Hole in Knee Has Bothered WorlT Wrestling Champion in Con-ditioriirig Con-ditioriirig Himsell for LaW Day Match With Hackenschmidt Will Take on Grappler in Camp One Alter Another Without a Rest HimseU: Asks Friends Not to Bet on Him. Hl'MBOLDT, la.. Aug. tl. Clot ob-nerven ob-nerven at Frank Goteh ' training quarter quar-ter hav often propounded th query a to why th champion did not go for th ndnrance record in hi work. Thay remember the two hour and three minute of wrestling with Hck lat time, and it hs been hinted around the ramp that ped alone is not likely to pnt Hack on hi bark. Th champion explained thi bv (bowing hoj in hi knee a bie ai a hickory nut. "I haven't said anythins; about thl to anybody." h said, "a people might think I waa getting crippled up, but it i no jok burniac th kola bigger every day en th mat. Visitor think t hate winked -bard.-nnw i hayei bnt wait until this thing i heald up," and he rmoTd a piec of oiled (ilk from th wound. "It i practically well now. I hav had tbia for a loag time, and almost wor th hoi down to th( bone until I began to get aeartd and Ut op littlaj. , "Now. I azpwt to go through thm all in a day of two. I am through with conditioning, and I am r"n to ut out th road work. I eaa't get Into better phyaieal eonditioa than I am now, were I to try a year; bnt I hav not let mylf out for ndnrnne yet. That i eomins. Th greater part of that work will b don the lat tn day. To Take Tfcasn Ootuveattyly. "Up to data I av taken en one WTMtler after th other, but with a rest in between. In s few days I will make it n ateadr program, and an oon a ana ia tired th thr on will jump into th rinf, .1nt a it would be in a real mates. I am prepared to (tick to that work for n eoupl of konr without with-out letup, and no man will b able to go farther than I when I am through. Visitors at th camp bars marveled at th loud breathing of th ehamoioa a few minute after the (tart of s bout. Th majority figured thai he was short of wind, but tbr i an ntirely different dif-ferent reason for this. Gotrh's no was broken son time ago and a bony growth impede his breathing. Conae-queatly, Conae-queatly, b has to breath through hi moutl. bene th soi. "Why. there I not a tbinf th matter mat-ter with Frank ' breathing apparatus ' xplaiaed Joe Roger. "People whod not know think hi fosss and eery-thinc eery-thinc else hyo (on an the blink, judging from th neise ho makesi but ihr i satkinc to that, aad I ought to know. He i ss sound aa a dollar, and I aadaritaad that ka would have had th growth in his nee ant out bad there boon time enough. He i now going to wait until after the bout in Cbieago. So far m hie wind and nduranea sro concerned, this ailment doMs't nffost him in the lat." Ia eoaaeetioa with th coming endurance en-durance trial Manager Klank today made kaewa his plsaa until th day of th eeateet- Slsak's Flans far rialaa. "I knew rrsnfc hss already fioa out a few ef the details, but if h follows my adviee It will be like picking cherries cher-ries on the dv of th bout. My program pro-gram ia for endurance wrestling for the last ten day pot, however, the last few day. I want him to wrestle about four or five time in Chicago. Bv that I mean be should go the full route that many time within two or three day of th match. Th day before be-fore the bout he will take s four or Hve-mile run. just enough to limber an. sad the morning of th match s long w.lk." The wrestling part of th program didn't appear to the liking of Gotrh. who repeated the substaae of what wa given in these dispatch th other dev. "I want to (tick her until five day befor th match, then ge to "hi-rugo "hi-rugo and wrestle at the Chicago Athletic Ath-letic eeaoeiation gymnaium. if taev will lt me, just once. That would come on about Friday. After that I would ' only tak enough eisrris to keep m in trim. Jut s littl run and more walking. By that tim I expect to bo on such an dge that th least xtra work might mako m s bit atal, sad I am more afraid of that than aay-thing aay-thing a). Uoat About TolUag Odda. Goteh is sliest a boat odds, batting and th like. i "I don't esr whether I am favor-It favor-It or not." he said. "Ia fact, I'd rather net v- that doesn't ister-ost ister-ost m is th Issst. "I am oiu v. ..ib that match snd get th pun money. I would 't advice ad-vice anyone to bet s me, becauso X dost know that I will win. Lot of thing might happen. It makes a man nervous when he kaewa that there is a lot ef money no on kil ehenees, and for that reason, if for no other, I wish that not s cent would bo wagered on the iwsult. This there can't b say heller, whichever way it eomM out. It ia the gamblers who make all the trouble trou-ble eafsprwd all th wild talk. I deH bet on myself asd doa't think t hail. 1 -ea Hewovor, that is only tha viw of Ooteh. It is sot so with hi neighbor or with tb ntive for milM around. Evsrybody whs l( inclined to tak a chsac on anything will go the limit on the pride of Humboldt. The other day a United Stataa revenue collector, wbo hould hav known bettor while in thi state st least, came into town snd allowed al-lowed that he had $1000 to bet on Hack aachmidt at to 1- Then was almost al-most s riot to get the money, bat anally Uaelo Barn's hired man.expleined that ho would have to draw a cheek for th amount ea hi homo bank. . That queered th deal, aa nothing bat cash com bar. If there should b ssy tskor ob th other side, it baa been esleulsted that Borthera lows will furnish the Mormons Mor-mons ua of 1100,000 to back Goteh. snd it is not stags money. A special train will b ma frets hers th night before th msteh ia Chicago aad ths tawa will b vivos ever to children, the crippled snd infirm. Every mss or womas who ess got ths pries will bo en the rattler. JL |