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Show a chance of doing something with him, some little thing that would have made the Iowa man extend himself. And the question naturally 6uggests itself: What is it that Goteh has that makes him stand out so far and with such cameo-llko distinctness? The answer la: Several things, chief of which Is tho marvelously quick brain the champion possesses. He Is poveral etretj and flvo or six alleys al-leys ahead of the average opponent iu figuring out a campaign and can put his Ideas into such action as to befuddle a man who has to have time to mako up bis mind. Gotch Boyond the Times. Gotch has progressed far beyond his time. He 13 much ahead of American Am-erican wrestlers in power and thought and just far enough in advance of tbo powerful and freakish foreign stars that are sent oer hero to practically practical-ly dislodge his title to retain it for years lo come. He gets hold on his opponents that look like the holds that other wrestlers wrest-lers obtain on their men, but they are dJlferent. Xoto the half N'elson that Gotch secures. The average wrestler gets merely his hand and wrist lehind an opponent's head Gotch gets his t-ntire arm right up to the elbow into the lock and places It across the back of a roan's head not on his ncelc This Is only a part of tho perfect system of, leverage that tho champion has at such groat com-ruaud. com-ruaud. Wrestles Like a Master. So wonderfully well does , he use this leverage that when ho Is c-x-erulng all bis force to move an opponent op-ponent there seems, to be but littlo exertion no the movement. That'3 why everything lh.t" Gotch does looks easy. Take his moe when Fsson once slipped away from hlra and sprang to his feet. Gotch remaining on all fours in the ring. With a stab like a lightning flash bo reached out and grabbed Ksson's ankle and with apparently ap-parently nothing more than u little Iwist he brought this big 230 pounder , as flat as a flounder. Gotch wrestles like a master cue cpert plays billiards. He has his moves figured out In advance of what be is really attempting. Hence it was that Esson was never out of his difficulties dif-ficulties once Gotch got a hold on him. ' i Has Wonderful System. Esson seemed to break holds, but Instantly In his efforts to pet away, slipped and rolled into holds that were far worse than what he had the moment before escaped. It's a wonderful won-derful system, this wrestling scheme of G"tch's. It took years of patient trill and study and not a littlo intui-tiveness intui-tiveness to get It where It Is Hut It Is there, perfected as no one else has been able to perfect it. Frank's feinting is marvelous. Once on top he has an opponent worried to a lrajzle, wondering where the attack at-tack Is to be. Gotch seems to reach u man from crown to heels and can hy found feeling around (he toes whilo pftttlog his man alongside tho head. Greater Than Imagined. Esson was a bit dazed after he left the stage Monday night. The big Scot was asked what ho thought of Gotch. "Let them not wonder any more in Europe how he ever beat their Idol, Geo Hackenscbmldt," he replied "This fellow Is greater than I ever imagined him to be. Nobody has a chance with him." Esson In common with other foreign wrestlers Is astonished at the widespread wide-spread Interest In the mat sport In Ibis country. Zbysco recently told roe that he never saw so many wrestlers wrest-lers and such good ones in his entire en-tire career as he ha during the six months h has been in America. "It Is simply wonderful for every town we go to has a champion and every one of them has good points. No wonder this country has turned out Frank Gotch. FRANK GOTCH IS BRAINY WRESTLER (By Ed W. Smith.) Chicago. March 8. "JuBt another evidence. " remarked Frank Gotch as be crawled out of tho Coliseum ring Monday night nonchalantly fastening his bathrobe about his sturdy Iowa person. "Pleasant evening, wasn't it?" and he r-miled blindly as ihrongs of his admirers tried to grasp his hand and ehake tho mighty mitt It was another evidence of something some-thing when Gotih so decisively defeated defeat-ed Jimmy Esson Jurt as he has trimmed trim-med dozens and dozens of other atfl-leles atfl-leles that looked as If they might have |