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Show ou HACK TO TRY AGAIN WITH CURLEY'S HELP Jack Curloy, who is spending this week in Salt Lake arranging ror tnc Johnson-Flynn match, received a letter let-ter yesterday from George Hacken-schmldt, Hacken-schmldt, the great European wrestler, In tho letter Hackenschmidt mentions men-tions that his leg. which was Injured in training for the Gotch match In Chicago last Labor day, is now in worse condition than at the tlmo of tho Chicago accident. Hackenschmidt's letter in part Is as follows: "My Dear Curley First of, all. many thanks for nil your kind wishes for N'ew Year. We had a very happy Now Year "I am sorry that sinco last writing to you I have had. auother accident to my loft knee, nearly as bad as I did In Chicago. By" dragging tho Christmas Christ-mas treo Intone house I hurt my kneo again. I enmo at once to London Lon-don and saw Dr. Mathows, the famous fa-mous bonesottor, and I am under his treatment now. When I came to him I could hardly bond my kneo at a right angle. Ho took an X-ray photo and you can plainly see a small piece of bono quite separate from the kneo Joint. "Any idea of training in tho next few months is entirely out of question. ques-tion. So we have to postpono our plans into the autumn. Let me know what you think we can do by fall. It Is already two wooks that I am going to Mathews and my knee seeruu to be better. In a fow weoks I will go to Paris and start practice with Maurice Do Ria7. I will let you know results Of courso I will havo to start very ensy Such is luck. "You can see how wrongly they Judged tho damage dono to my kneo In Chicago. Lei mo know of our plans and when you will meot mo In Paris or London this summer. Always ain- cerely yours, (Signed) "GEO. HACKENSCHMIDT." "That is Just like George," said Curloy Cur-loy aftor handing the letter to a new9-paper new9-paper man "Just like him. You can bet ho will never get hurt doing anything he should not do. Of course ho was doing do-ing somothlng to mako some ono else happy. Pulling a Christmas treo Into tho house' And you can wager your last dime George Hackenschmidt bought the biggest and prettiest treo on the markeL "Thore never vns a man less understood un-derstood than this self-samo Hackenschmidt." Hacken-schmidt." contlnliOd Curley "A more honost, bettor natured and fairer-minded fairer-minded character never was beforo the public "High strung, a bit vain and full or tho real artistic temperament, he was sometimes grossly misunderstood. But a gamer man never uveu. Artor ins log was Injured In his training practice two weeks beforo tho match he naturally natu-rally felt depressed Who wouldn't? Tho surgeon advised rest and assured Hack he could go on and win. "On account of the terrible predicament predic-ament it would have placod my associates asso-ciates and myself, coupled with the fear that ho would be branded a coward cow-ard for getting out of the match, Hack was determined to go on the mat with Gotch. "No, positively no, monev Inducements Induce-ments had not a thing to do with It, Hack has plenty of money His Income In-come Is far more than ho can spend He Is constantly doing big things for his poor relatives and other charities He Ib worth close to $1,000,000 and has nearly all of It on interest-bearing gold bonds. When tho right time comes Hackensohmldt will come back to redeem hlmsolf and ho is one follow fol-low that can break me on anything ho says ho can do "If Gotch remains in the game he will some day, within a year or two, be called upon the give Georgo Hack, enschmidt a third match. "I do not care what Gotch says. I will string along with Hack or got out of the game. And another thing I want to add- I will issue an invitation invita-tion to George Hackenschmidt to come to this country aa mv guest to tho Johnson-Flynn match." -f |