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Show FRANK GOTCH IS VISITOR TO ZION V En Route to Coast For Three B Months' Stay Undecided H J About Match With Joe ! Stecher. Salt Lake, Jan. IS. For a few hours yesterday Salt Lake entertained -with-, , Jn her gates the "fastest big man'' In Hi the world. H g Frank A, Gotch, champion of all H 1 champion wrestlers halted here be- Hj 3 tween trains on his way to southern Hj J California, Gotch is accompanied by j 3 Mrs. Gotch and Mrs. Gotch's parents, f I Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Ostrick. Hj The champion says he and his party H! arc going to the coast for a stay of H' three months or thereabouts. Hj "We aro just going out there if or Hi the winter," ho said, "sort of taking a Hl : vacation." H Gotch is the picture of health. Re- Hj J ports that he is "tremendously over- H S weight," as one dispatch recently had H fl It, aro positively disproved by the ap- Hf j pearance of tho champ. Naturally, lie H ! is heavier than his wrestling weight, H : but he is in no sense "fat." j f "I have never felt better in my life." H i ho said. "There is nothing further In Hj j the way of health that I could ask." H I Concerning the proposed match be H tween Gotch and Joe Stccher, the Ne- H, hraska wonder, Gotch said he was un- H able to determine at this tlmo wheth- B. j cr the bout could be arranged. ' Calls Stecher Wonder. I "If 1 was to have wrestled this young fellow," remarked. Gotch, "T should have done it before now I am getting along in years and it Is natural that I should slow up. I have always won my matches through cnoorl qtw1 if T HJrln'f nut StPP.hpr down l j early, I am doubtful if I could stand K j the gaff for a long-drawn-out match H However, T cannot say just now how H the talk may turn out." H j Several offers have been hoisted for H I a match between Stecher and Gotch, H I including one of $15,000 for a tussle in H Madison Square Garden. New York. B j Doubtless that amount would be great- Bj I y Increased under proper conditions Bj j Gotch has seen Stecher in action BJ I and says he is much Impressed with B i the appearance and ability of the B young Nebraskan. Bj "He is certainly a wonder," said H Gotch. "He is more than six feet tall H and weighs some 220 pounds, but Is H slender of build at that. He has pow- H erful shoulders, powerful arms and Hj powerful legs. His legs are particu- B I larly strong. That gives him his pow- H I cror the grapevine or scissors hold, B for which he already has a reputation. B Of course, he still lacks experience, Br and consequently speed. In fact, he Is H still slow. If we should be matched. Bj i It would be Stccher's lack of speed l ! that would be my chief advantage. H ' Altogether though, Stecher is what I j I would call a freak that is, a natural H wrestler." 1 During his stay in Salt Lake. Gotch K was shown those sights which were Hi not covered with snow by George O H Relf of the Hotel Utah, a lifelong B friend of the champ. Gotch has been Hj in Salt Lake several times and yes-B yes-B terday met and renewed acquaintances acquaintan-ces ces with a good many with whom he B came into contact on his previous vis-H vis-H j That Toe Hold. B Gotch is the man who taught Mike 1 Yokel the toe hold, an invention of H Gotch's. It was this hold with which H Mike twice threw Joe Turner at the oa.ii L,Ke ineaier recently H "When I was out here six or seven B)!jj years ago," said Gotch, reminiscently, I "we had a traveling show, and I was meeting all comes. Most of the boys v.ere quite easy for me on account of my superior weight, generally, and be-. be-. cause of my great experience. The H last man. on the card that night was Hf Mike Yokel I had never met him' or H seen him. It didn't take me long to H realize that this Yokel was a real H wrestler It was just at the time H when T had used the toe hold new in H "the game then In several matches, IHi and the fans wanted to see It applied. They yelled for the Toe hold and I slipped it on Yokel. I suppose I pressed pres-sed a little harder than I intended to and Yokel went under. Well, sir, you Bhould have heard that crowd. 'You big stiff!' they shouted. You couldn't beat him any other way, you big stiff.' B I suppose If I had demonstrated the 6 toe hold on any man other than Yokel, it would have been all right But I certainly got in bad with tho "bunch that time." . From southern California Gotch and B his party will return east by way of B Puget Sound and Montana. "I have B a little dirt at Yakima and a little B more at Billings, in addition to my Bl little farm in Iowa," casually remark Bf I cd the big fellow. |