Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1913 — WRESTLERS ARE VERY QUIET [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WRESTLERS ARE VERY QUIET

Mat Men, Usually Quite Busy at This Season of Year, Are Missing— Yussif Mahmout Coming.

Where are the wrestling champions? The baseball and football seasons are. past and we arp now in the period of the year devoted to bowling, wrestling and basketball. But the wrestling; champions of foreign lands are not with us, as usual. This time two seasons ago we would : have had two or three French titleholders, four or five from Italy and' several from Turkey, Bulgaria, Ger-

many, Switzerland, Scotland and other localities. But now the only one who< is roaring in our midst is Stanlslausi Zbyszko, the ever-present Polish claimant. If the wrestlers were wise they would hustle up and make hay while the sun shines. For the bogy man of the ring, Yussif Mahmout, will be back as soon.jss the war is over and then things will go hard for the dub mat man. Yussif spares none, and if, by! any miracle, he should be beaten., there is the awful specter of Frank! Gotch in the distance. ' Pitcher Walter Beach of the Galeaburg club has been purchased by the) Providence Grays.

Yusslf Mahmout.