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Show HACK NERVOUS BUT DECLARES WILLNOT QUIT Gotch Is Favorite, With bat Little Betting; Both Are Ready for Straggle. CHICAGO, Pept. 4. (iotcb nd Haek-ernchmidt Haek-ernchmidt this forenoon impatieutly awaited the struggle for the premier wrestling honor of the world this afternoon. aft-ernoon. Each man declared himself to be in the finest possible condition aud each declared that the contest must go to a finish. Harkenschmidt, the challenger, insisted that the match would be a continuation con-tinuation of the one he abandoned un- finished with Gotch three years ago. Gotch. the champion, said he will pin the shoulders of the mighty Russian to the mat beyond all -question. Tn Chicago on the night of April 3. lftog, Gotch and Hackenschmidt wrestled wres-tled for the championship of the world. After two hours and three minutes of desperate defense, Hackenschmidt ad mitted himself defeated. Drawn bv the promise of a finish struggle this afternoon, thousands of wrestling enthusiasts have gathered from all corners of America and. eveu from Europe. Hundreds of visitors were turned awav from hotels last night unable to secure accommodations, and manv of them spent the night near the baseball park, standing In line to obtain general admission tickets. From the east eame many, and the Pacific coast contributed its quota, but it remained GREEI(VSJii;( ATSALTPAU1CE ARDIAJODAV Demetral Is Sacked by Els Countrymen to Pin' Has san's Shoulders to Mat ' With both mea in th pink of coadv tion and ready for the battle of their eareera, William Demetral, knows al th Greek demos, aid Hassaa Yonaouf, the Turkish heavy weight, meet this afternoon to wrestle to a finish under catch as-cstch can rule at Bait Palee track. William Hughes, a local newa- faper man, is the referee. Prior to he m in event there will be preliminary' prelimi-nary' bouts in which Kmil Rogers meets Clarence Ecklaad and Charles Me-Lagblan Me-Lagblan in bouts ia which Roger la to throw both - as iaaido at tairty minute of aetual wrestling time. ( Ia the main event liemetral 1 favorite, fa-vorite, with th average odde at S to 9. The Greek element, however mock they pinned their faith ia their country coun-try mn, looked upon the match as aa even money affair aad declined for th most psrt to extend their odd. . Whil Hassan appear to be th heavier of the pair, a matter of. fact he haa only a few pounds advantage, advan-tage, th aeeming difference being due' to the texture of the muscles of the' mea. Hassan Carrie plesty of flesh,' whil Demetral. who ie of a rangier build, i more fiaely drawn. 1 I tt i expected there will be plenty of excitement and enthusiasm erhea the mea get together, with many Greeks' Ifk kr TmAtral while the Rvriane and Turka are expected to de likewise for Haasaa. The arrangement are perfect for a big crowd. The mat laid oa the' large platform ia th center of the arena, around which are boxe and! row of seats. Th men will wrestle inside of ropes in order to prevent aa; injury through being pushed or being thrown from the platform. The men will be thoroughly examined, ia order to discover, if poaaible, the presence of anr grease that may have been rubbed into the kia of Uhr' man. for Iowa, the home state of Itotrh, -to send the largest delegation. Humboldt, where Gotch has lived since boyhood, " wa represented by nearly all of its male population. Crowds Await Ticket. Late last night th line began to form for the ticket sale, opening at 11 o'clock this morning. Scores stood in line weiting their opportunity to sell their pieces or dispose of their tickets at a premium. Early ticket sal's indicated that by far the largest erod that ever witnessed a wrestling match would he in the park when the men entered the ring at 3 o'clock. Reserved seat were mapped up in large quan'itiea bv late arrivals. A conservative estimate placed the throng which will ism the park at 30.000. It was ealeultd early todr thai $.jo,noo had already reached the box office. This nmount. it wss believed, would be swelled to 75.fkHl before the match begins, while some predicted that the gate receipt would reach SIOOVWO. . Ootch AU Confidence There wa a differ'nt spirit in th camps of the rival at breakfast. Gotcb wss all confidence. He announced that he would take a brisk walk and rest until time to go to the arena. He soent much of his time greeting his lows admirers, smiling, tciling them that he would be the victor. Hckepchmidt. on the other hnd. ws a prev to unrest. The nervousness he has been showing for some time was evident. Hckfnchmidt is nervous, but his nervousness doe not come from fesr, hut from esgernei-s.'' said Dr. B. F. Boiler, the foreign invader '"-chief trainer. train-er. "His worrv is not because of Gotch but to get into the ring and have it over with. Jf he loses, he will loe hon-nriblv hon-nriblv to a better man; but he won't give up or hold out." "Gotch is in the best condition of pers. Hack had a long talk with his trainer. Dr. Roller, after which ho ate a light liipehena. Puring the morning Hackenschmidt prepared to break the training camp on th north shore, which has been his home for several weeks. He distributed distrib-uted his medicine hall, weight pulling apparatus, dumbbells and other paraphernalia para-phernalia among hi trainer and hi friend as souvenir. A crowd of several hundred was gathered gath-ered about the training eamp all morning morn-ing HUMBOLDT IB FOK OOTCH. Hl'MBOLDT. Ie . Spl. 4 "Home-folks" "Home-folks" of Humhoidi. the blrthpiece of Frank Gotch. and the een of his recent preperatlon for today's match with George Harkenechmldt. elmoel to a man were confident ihle morning that lb wlrea thla afternoon would flash (he word victory" for the champion. Everybody who could possibly gel to Chicago haa gone, the laat delegation of fifty leaving here laat night. nis career, aiu emu i ...... - manager. ''I believe he will win. but it will be a long, desperate struggle. Nnbodv can tell what will happen im mediatelv after time is called and it will be nseless to speculate on it. so far as making known our plsn is -on eerned. I will sav, however. Frane 'il ' he guided aolelv by wht "Hack doom. Bettlnj Ha Beea Slow. Police official announced ilisi 'f policemen would be in the ground to see thst the crowd is seated rapidly. Betting h been slow, although sev-rl sev-rl small wagers bv been reported. It wa predicted in Gotch' fimi that the champion would enter the ring a I to 2 favorite, while ths odds would be 7 to ft against Hackenschmidt. Hackenschmidt. apologized to bis trainers for his petulance this morning. "I know I've been rather hort tempered tem-pered letelv," be said, "but I have no 1 criticism as to my training. I am not nervou over the match, but I m tired of the routine of training: I've been at it nearly 8ve months, and it will be a great relief to actually get my hands oa the man I have been training to conquer."' , ., The Ruuian did not awake until P o'clock, when he was served with eof-fee eof-fee and toast in his room. Thi was followed with a two-mile walk, after "which there wss more coffee and toast, with four soft boiled eggs. He planned to rest until 1 :3) o'clock, starting st that hour in hi manager 'a automobile for the arena. . He aid he had pur haed a ticket to Mil on the Olympic September 9 for England. Crowds Await Ootch. Frank Ooteh appeared in the lobby of hi hotel fter breakfast aad immediately imme-diately waa surrounded by an enthusiastic enthusi-astic crowd of admirers. Msnv in the crowd wer friends of the wrctler from Iowa. . A farmer with long whiskers and carrying car-rying s large valise pushed his way through the throng until he reached Ooteh a ide. "Frank. I'g got om of the Boeit applee ever grown in Iowa in thia here satchel and I want you to eat a few of them before rou go out there to wrestle that foreigner," said the far-aner. far-aner. Ootch smiled, but refused to eat any of the apple. The big wrestlef then went for a walk, followed bv a crowd " of more than S00. He walked a mile anal rotorned lo the hotel, where the crowd wa so dense he was unable to enter the rotunda. After attempting for five minute to get through the crowd he tppd into a taxicab and waa driven away after sending word to his mans gers that he would not return until 1 o'clock. At 11 -o 'clock s crowd" of oev-eral oev-eral thousand stood in th tret in front of the hotel awaiting to get a (limp of Ootch. Back and Boiler Talk. After reading tk morning aewspa- |