George Robins How to Wrestle Instructions Based on the Work of Frank A. Gotch World Champion Wrestler 1934, Szermierka ...
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DEDICATION
Special dedication to my lovely and understanding wife Mylinda,
my energetic and enthusiastic son Christopher, and my stunningly
beautiful daughter Allison.
-Kirk Lawson
How to Wrestle
INSTRUCTIONS
Based on the work of
FRANK A. GOTCH
World’s Champion Wrestler
BY GEORGE ROBBINS
of the Sporting Staff, The Chicago Daily News
COPYRIGHTED 1934
BY
F. L. S
TEIN
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MAX STEIN PUBLISHING HOUSE
Chicago, Ill.
INTRODUCTION
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All the world admires an honest battler. That
is why baseball has continued to grow in popu-
larity and draw immense crowds. The players
are “on the square” and the “fans” know it. And
that is why Frank A. Gotch attracted the largest
wrestling crowds in modern times. Gotch has
been “on the level” and endowed with “the
goods.” He has done more than any other influ-
ence to make wrestling popular in America.
The good king of Sweden, gazing on James
Thorpe at the Olympian games, declared him the
world’s greatest ath1ete, but the monarch had
never seen Gotch. The like of Gotch for speed,
the science of the holds and their counters, for
strength and brain-work in action has never been
seen in wrestling.
There are four requirements of a great wres-
tler who can keep a title for years without having
his shoulders pinned to the padded canvas:
Strength, endurance, speed and skill. Probably
no man in all the annals of wrestling has had
these elements so mingled in him in the proper
proportions as Frank Gotch.
The dazzling white lights which have led so
many athletes astray in the hours of their prom-
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