Show 1 Mahmout s Is Anxious to Capture Title Nov o 7 7 II Having met and C CHICAGO defeated more mOJe than fifty men of ot average ability or better within the thelast thelast thelast last six months Yousouf Mahmout I conceded to be one of the worlds worlo s great wrestlers rs announces that his period 0 ol or training for th o championship o i f I through the process oce of conquering second second sec ond raters Is at an end and he now is going after the big fellows WANTS BIG CHANCE Under the management of Emil Klank without doubt one of the best Judges o of f toda today and who developed th the el I I late l rank Plank Goich Gotch to the point where he he was unbeatable Mahmout Is going t to tomake 0 make malte a determined effort to land Und the worlds world's championship among the heavyweights heavyweights heavyweights heavy heavy- weights the title now held by Stanislaus Zbyszko The present titleholder disillusioned disillusioned many expert wrestling men who had held to the belief that youth must be served lIf iii the mat game by achieving I the championship at an age when mos most t athlete athletes are on the shelf The rapidity with which Mahmout 1 has rounded into championship form In his period of six months of active training has led man many man critics to believe that history will repeat Itself soon and that it will not be one o othe of f the younger generation who will separate I Zbyszko from his laurels but instead may prove to be the veteran Mahmout I IWAS WAS IN ARMY I Yousouf returned to America last Feb- Feb FebI I Throughout the World war ne hb n I served with the army a as n first firs first t lieutenant of artillery and he held the heavyweight wrestling championship of t the Rumanian army r He lie e was in action heR K k I g on the mat often mat often e enough u to keep e lu j I splendid condition but upon his return to to America he was greeted with t the e s same ne I I skepticism that was accorded the elder cuter Zbyszko when he first attempted hia spectacular comeback Zbyszko made maclo good and so did Mahmout 1 Realizing that It would be necessary to show the critics Mahmout's manager manager manager man man- ager Emil EmU Klank outlined a strenuous period of training for Mahmout l in the form of half halt a hundred matches with wrestlers who while j not occupying tn mu front line as championship contenders nevertheless were hard men to beat BEATS HARD MEN If It he can dispose of this bunch Ill I'll tell teU the vv world oriel he is ripe for a n. title match said laid Klanke Mahmout lid dirt all aU that was asked of him and th the man who made Frank Gotch Frank Gotch tho the worlds world's premier r wrestler now believes that ill lii the num Rumanian nl n he his has a n worthy successor to Lo the Old Master v The time has has- has when the bs bie i fellows of or the wrestling game can ro I longer Ignore Mahmout 1 said Klank 1 to tc day His ills I n r ent lent record of half halt a hundred hun heh- dred entitled cl Him IUm to r recognition as a serious contender for the championship champion champion- ship and from now noTy on we intend to devote de devote devote de- de vote all our attention to the front ranks Ve We have served our apprenticeship and there here Is no longer an any excuse for compelling compelling compelling com com- Mahmout 1 to work among second raters rater He lie has proved his ability is Ig inthe In he the pink Ink of condition and ancl there Is no ne first rank wrestler In the world toda today y from the titleholder down whom he t Is s afraid to meet Critics who have been watching Mahmout's Mali Mah mout's work recently agree with Klan k that the Rumanian Is entitled to a sheat shoat shot she at the big ones and are standing behind be hind him in his challenge which challenge which is a st blanket den deft to the best men In the game |