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Show Gotch-Hackenschmidt Contest Did Not Look Good to Referee i Chicago, Sept. 5. Calling all bets off on the Gotch-Hackenschmidt wrestling wrest-ling match yesterday has raised a storm of protests 'by those who had money up on the winner. Herman F. Schuettler, assistant chief of police, po-lice, last night explained the action by saying that such procedure is customary. cus-tomary. An added jeason ho said, is that the police' are determined to stamp out gamming in the city. "Referee Smith," Chief Schuettler explained, "proposed that the bets be called off His reason was that In case the match turned out to be a poor one, as It did, there would be a tremendous tre-mendous 'squawk' from the bettors, and that the wrestling game-would receive re-ceive a serious 'setback in Chicago "You understand it is quite custom-arv custom-arv fo call "bets pff-inevents of this kind, irhas hfdoeffwrrI-atbebe! tors will back their opinions regardless regard-less of the announcement "One more fiasco like this, and wrestling Is a dead card in Chicago." Chicago. Sept. 5 George Hacken-schmldt Hacken-schmldt slept soundly last n'ght. The restlessness from which he is said to have suffered for several night prior to his match with Frank Gotch, and which had been put forward as an excuse for his defeat, apparently had disappeared. He still complained of pain in tho knee, which had been .given a sevore wrench'ng bv -the Iowan. 'but there was no Indication of a serious injury, and the Russian is expected to sail from New York for England on September 9. Gotch also hr.d a good night's sleep, being In bed shortly after 10 o'clock, and was not visible to callers until well on toward noon today. He will return to his Iowa farm, leaving for Humboldt tonight. ,nn |