Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 14 | Jack Woods Can Wrestle, but Talks like Real Estate Salesman

I XI J W 5 M JACK WOODS DS CAN AN WRESTLE B BUT T T TALKS LIKE LIKE REAL ESTATE STATE I q S A f II ff All A n- n m JAPANESE STAR SIAR f Will MEET 1 Prices ric s to Be Reduced to 1 Fans for Wrestling Matche Matches I I saU t Jack Woods who meets Jack Ganson Olympic star at the Hippodrome theater Thursday night December Is one one of ot the tha biggest biggest big big- gest boosters for Salt Lake who has the here In many months He just bubbles over o with enthusiasm for Salt Lake and the Inhabitants whom he has h s alread already y met In the course of an Interview v last evening Woods mentioned II little le o of his wrestling ability or his hla mat history but Just t talked about what he had seen since he he- c came me here and how wonderful It wa vasI was vas I had heard so much of Salt Sal Lake Lak said Woods that I r could coul not resist coming over here to ge get first hand information I have done don a bit of walking around since e eI I and have seen many things here already What I like ab about ut your city is its cleanliness Hero the me interviewer laughed The streets are wide and clean and the tall tull buildings are beautiful ful Lul and find there are no unsightly structures t tures res clown down town to mar mar th the beauty of your business section HOW THE MAN TALKS Yes I am glad slad I came now I hope I 1 win too so I can stay longer But even ven if the verdict is against me mo I Iam I-am am not going back to Texas until r I have seen this country When Woods speaks his listeners would woul almost begin to think he fell fel down the elevator chute at the chamber of commerce and bumped his hl head The big Texan arrived in Salt Sal Lake some three weeks ago I It took look two weeks of persuasion am an and pleading with the promoter Verne McCullough before convincing him that he had the goods which makes champions McCullough gave him hin his chance last Wednesday night nigh against Ganson and the contest was without doubt the most colorful battle baUle staged here hee since Mike lIke Romano Romano Ro Ro- mano left Woods Woods' method of grappling grappling grap grap- rap rap- pling Is very similar to the Italian Romano Notwithstanding that he was on the tile mat with Ganson for or nearly two hours there was no noone not one dull moment during the entire contest Woods is recognized ed as one of the roughest grapplers grappler's now now flow in the game He has a reputation of be being pe- pe e ing tog ready to hand ham oUt and receive punishment with plenty of pleas pleas- ure NOT REALLY BAD Perhaps you have heard up this tills way Woods went on referring to his wrestling history that I am a mean man on the mat and liable to chew my up Well it Is not as bad as that Down In Texas Texas and and andI I mean in the small wide open towns where wrestling is a big drawing drawIng- card card the the fans like rough stuff So to please the tile fans we have rough stuff I 1 have grown to 10 like It too and when I heard that thIs fellow Ganson was rough then I thought I would be right at home All my roughness I t think is within I the rules but it may be on the border border border bor bor- der line too I saw Ganson wrestle Dern three weeks ago They were both pretty rough that night and I set act to work convincing McCullough that I 1 was the logical opponent for either one of them JAP IS COMING The semi-final semi bout in many re respects respects re- re will rival out-rival the main event next Thursday evening when Al AI Newman the local heavyweight sensation will meet Taro Miyaki the worlds world's Itsu wrestling cham chain pion Miyaki has met the tile biggest and best men in America in the Japanese game with victory al always always always al- al ways on his his' side lIe He has hag adopted the tile catch as style for forthe forthe forthe the reason that the American wrestlers will not put on the jiu- jiu jitsu Jacket which is material to lo the tile Japanese style of ot wrestling However However However How How- ever Miyaki l employs a great many Jiu Jiu-jitsu holds to defeat his at the American style of grappling This bout should prove to be a most Interesting contest McCullough has arranged for tome ome athletic stunts similar to the thenes ones nes he pulled at the tile Republican show last week to keep the fans on edge McCullough claims he Is promoting wrestling for the love of or the sport and is more desirous of ofa ofa I Ia a large crowd at at popular prices than a small crowd at high high- prices Consequently beginning with the show next Thursday evening the prices will be materially reduced with the hope that the tIle added number num num- ber her of ot fans will more than make up the difference in the price of the tickets heretofore charged