Washington Herald – September 25, 1911
Two Foreign Wrestlers Arrive In New York.
New York, Sept. 21. Among the passengers on board the steamship La Provence, which arrived to-day, were two athletic young men who are seeking wrestling honors and American dollars. The arrivals are Raymond Cazeaux and Jess Pedersen, wrestlers, come over to try conclusions with American wrestlers. Cazeaux is from Pau and will go to Montreal to wrestle. He is the champion of France, he says, and will meet all comers.
Pedersen says he is the “champion of all champions” and has his card printed in that fashion. He said he had won over all the great men of Europe and can easily beat Gotch, whom he is after. John Moje, to whom he comes, has offered to wager $1,000 that he can throw any three men in the world in an hour, and will back him for $5,000 to win over Gotch. He is more than six feet high and weighs 225 pounds. He was decorated by the President or France for saving three men from drowning. He is twenty-eight years old. He has wrestled 5,000 matches.
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