| Show JOE STE HER IS HERE FOR WRESTliNG BOUT 4 Although gh an Unassuming C Chap ap He Believes He Can Scissor Gotch doe Joe much heralded wrestler and credited with being the only heavy weight over ever developed developed developed de de- de- de who has a chance of wresting the championship crown from Frank Gotch dropped into the city yesterday to put on the finishing touches for his bis handicap match with Mike Yokel and George Nelson at the auditorium I Friday night is just the big unassuming unassuming unassuming un un- un- un assuming athlete he has been pic pic- pic- pic Unlike most who come to Salt Lake and before before be be- fore taking time to register at a hotel rush to the sporting editors to tell them why they are worlds world's champions and why the city i should bould fall all over itself in a amad mad desire to see them in action the big challenger speaks only of I wrestling when asked about it He prefers to talk about other things and then let the other fellow fel fel- fel- fel low ow judge him by his work It is really a pleasure t to meet a man manof manof manof of Steelier's makeup Instead of feelIng feel fees Ing Ig that you have wasted a certain amount of time as a result of a chat with him one one almost dislikes to see him lea leave e. e He is an interesting fellow fellow fel fel- fel low to S say y the least least interesting interesting be because because because be- be cause he is so different A few minutes minutes minutes' min mm- mm utes' utes conversation with him convinces convinceS' one in a hurry why the sporting writers writers writ writ- ers fans and promoters of Nebraska Iowa Kansas Missouri and Ohio take takeso so 0 kindly to him and predict that he will be the next champion of the world When asked about what he considers consid consid- ers era his chances with Gotch he shrugs his hs shoulders as if to say Well VeIl hes he's a a. tough old bird but I 1 believe I have a aChan Chan chance e. e Competent critics declare that he has a mighty good chance to down the champion of many years They argue that since Joe has put his famous scissors on bigger men than Gotch there is every reason to believe that Jie will get it on the champion I iJ VOne One Omaha critic says this about Gotch and Joe clamps his scissors on all of ot them from on top or from underneath What is more they all Il know that he Is going to put it onto them and they cant can't prevent It it-he it he ac actually actually actually ac- ac tells them when he is going to clamp It on and still they cant can't guard against it When he once lands it it ItIs it itis itis is pay day for no wrestler has ever broken it yet has beaten them all except Gotch and Zbyszko and done lone it in Jig time in ine ery every case Dont Don't think that the scissors is all Joe has hasIn hasin hasin in his stock of offense either He is isa isa isa a great wrestler in every sense of the word has the natural strength a good goodhead goodhead goodhead head and plenty of ot speed Steelier has developed one pet hold however and that is his scissors All champion wrestlers h have ve had pet holds which they have perfected and toward which they developed their muscles Frank Jfrank Gotch has his famous toe hold Mike Yokel his famous bar Ketonen his roll and so on Like all real grapplers also Is not a muscle-bound muscle gymnasium wrestler Realizing that he would often be outclassed outclassed out out- classed in poundage and nd physical prowess he figured that this could be offset by speed and skill He developed developed developed devel devel- his muscles for speed not with heavy leavY weights etc but by fast tast workouts workouts workouts work work- outs on the mat Like Gotch he has j thought a generation ahead of ot most of the big grapplers and It Is this couPled coupled cou con pled with natural ability that ha hamade has has' made him a monarch of at the mat Mike Yokel explained the reason for ability with the scissors this morning by saying paying I can easily easil se see seewhy seewhy why he Is so good with that hold A thinking athlete who knows how to keep his bis muscles elastic and sinewy can work on one hold for tor several years ears ears until he becomes so perfect with it that h he can beat almost anybody with it it- B By setting his mind on that one bold he be develops every needed muscle muscle mus mus- cle dc toward that end His brain and 1 his ls nerves actually develop in that di di- di He beats a few tew men with it and the he gets a hunch that no one can call get away from it That is the big point point confidence confidence e that he can do it with that hold Friends of at mine tell me that has worked on that hold so long that he has developed so much strength in his legs as a result of ot practicing that hold that he can take a sack of ot grain between his legs and crush it as if it It were a paper sack or that he can take a gallon Jug between be- be tween his thighs and crush It Imagine Imag Imag- ine the therefore what he can do with the stomachs of some of ot those big for tor- eigners I is accompanied by his brother Anton who Is also a wrestler he being a middle weight The tw two are quartered at the Hotel Utah although but 21 years year old has wrestled In over a hundred matches meeting them theta all He has secured all of his falls in fast time twenty wenty minutes being about af a an average aver aver- ago age ge limit |
