Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1909 — M. D. AFTER GOTCH’S TITLE [ARTICLE]

M. D. AFTER GOTCH’S TITLE

Seattle Doctor Wants to Be World’s Wrestling Champion. Kansas City, Mo., April 27.—Benjamin Franklin Roller, M. D., the Seattle physician who uses his knowledge of anatomy to help him find the weak points of the men he meets in the prize ring or on t' j wrestling mat, will grapple In this city tonight with Frank Gotch, champion wrestler of the world. „ Roller and Gotch are not strangers to each other, having met in a bout in Seattle a couple of years ago. Gotch admits that the doctor gave him the hardest fight of his long career. At that time Roller weighed 190 pounds. Now he Is twenty-two pounds heavier and has gained much experience. The men will wrestle for a purse of $5,000, of which the winner Is to get 75 per cent.