CHICAGO, April 10. - William H. Taft, secretary of the war, became a wrestling match promoter after reading the accounts of the Gotch-Hackenschimdt bout. He became enthusiastic about wrestling and announced that he knew a 400-pound Japanese whom he believed could become the world's champion wrestler.
    "I'd like to get this big Japanese wrestler over here and set him at Mr. Gotch," said the secretary. "I believe he could win the laurels that Gotch captured."
    Secretary Taft showed himself an enthusiast in matter of athletic sport as he discussed the Hackenschmidt-Gotch bout. He chose to talk to interviewers about that rather than politics.