Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — REPORT THAT EARL CADDOCK, CHAMPION WRESTLER, WILL QUIT IS NOT BELIEVED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPORT THAT EARL CADDOCK, CHAMPION WRESTLER, WILL QUIT IS NOT BELIEVED

Friends of Earl Caddock, world’s wrestling champion, are inclined to accept with reservation the announcement just received from France that he had decided to quit wrestling and turn farmer exclusively. This information was contained in a special bulletin from the overseas edition of the Camp Dodger, the publication of the Eighty-eighth division, to which Caddock was attached as sergeant. It came from Grandecourt, France, and was as follows: “Caddock is on his way home, but he will wrestle no more. Before he left the division, he told his friends that when he was released from the army he was going to retire permanently from the struggles of the mat and turn farmer. On Account of Wife. “It is to be a Wyoming ranch, and it’s all on account of friend wife. For Caddock frankly admitted that his

wife objected to the wrestling garner He said he had cleaned up SBO,OOO In the last year and was ready to retire anyway. He added that he* would ignore all the many offers of matches he had received. “Caddock left the Eighty-eighth division at Lagney to attend an officers’ training school, but the armistice was signed before he could complete his course. His name was brought to the fore at the announcement of the coming Olympic games at Paris next spring and the Eighty-eighth wired to find out whether he was coming back. They received a telegrhm that he was on his way home.” Anxious to Defend Title. Every previous report had been that Caddock was anxious to defend his title and would meet all logical opponents. It has been known here, however, that Mrs. Caddock has never favored his continuance in the wrestling game.

Photograph of Sergeant Earl Caddock Taken in France.