MR. TAFT AS BOUT PROMOTER
Secretary Knows of Japanese Wrestler Who Could Beat Gotch.
Special to The Washington Post
Chicago, April 4 - Secretary Taft became a wrestling
match promoter today. After reading an account of the Gotch-Hackenschmidt
bout, he announced he knew a 400-pound Japanese who, he believed, could
become the world's champion wrestler
"I'd like to get this big Jap wrestler over here
and set him at Mr. Gotch." said the Secretary "I believe he could win the
laurels that Gotch captured."
This unpatriotic announcement nearly caused a stampede
in the ranks of Chicago Republicans, who are still hoarse from cheering
the Iowa farmer on to that spectacular victory that obtained the world's
wrestling honors for America.