Los Angeles Times – August 10, 1926
By Paul Lowry
No barking from the wrestling trenches yesterday. No challenges or counter- challenges. Everything quiet and serene. Lou Daro says there is no war. John De Palma, who started a rival show house last week, says the same thing. If that’s the case, we’re going to accept the statements as gospel truth, and this public notice to all rasslin’ press agents to take their blitherings about Pinkey Toes throwing five men of the rival tong in one night and Hairy Ears calling Running Nose a $10 wrestler elsewhere.
The presence in this city of “Strangler” Lewis and Billy Sandow, his manager, undoubtedly will bring up talk of a Joe Stecher-Lewis match for the heavyweight title here, but this seems so much idle gossip. Admittedly it is a $50,000 to $75,000 match in Chicago, and Los Angeles won’t go over $30,000 for it. Stecher is too much of a business man to risk his title against his highly revered opponent except where the intake is par or better, and the former champion, who dropped his title unexpectedly to Wayne (Big) Munn almost two years ago, is certainly not wrestling for love any more, if ever.