Herman Very Wrathy

Duluth Evening Herald – December 29, 1911

Pole’s Manager Angry Because Zbyszko Is Left Out of Matches

Chicago, Dec. 29. — Strenuous protest was made last night to the Empire Athletic club, promoting the New Year’s night wresting show at the Coliseum, by Manager J. H. Herman, representing Zbyszko, the Polish wrestler, against the Gotch program of matching the winner of the Jess Pedersen-Coord Dereli bout with Mahmout. Herman wired that Zbyszko was the best of the foreign wrestlers and should be given an opportunity to meet the winner.

Pedersen To Meet Cazeau

Chicago Examiner – December 4, 1911

Dane and Frenchman Wrestle to Tonight at Riverview.

A fair wrestling card will be staged tonight at Riverview Rink. Three candidates for a chance at Frank Gotch will be seen in action. All are foreigners. They are Jess Pederson of Denmark, Cazeau of France and Coord Dereli of Turkey. Pedersen and Cazeau will go on in a best two-in-three fall contest. Dereli will attempt to throw two big fellows in fifteen minutes. His opponents will be “Cyclone” Miller of Texas, weighing 240 pounds and John Duseck, a Bohemian heavyweight of 235 pounds. Johnny Billiter, lightweight champion, will be seen in a finish contest. The Toledo crack is pitted with Patsy Griegel of South Chicago.

Undefeated Frenchman Wants to Meet Gotch: Will Have Plenty of Backing If Bout Matures

The Edmonton Capital – November 18, 1911

Montreal, Que., Nov. 16. – George Kennedy, the well known wrestling promoter promoter of Montreal, is going hot foot after Frank Gotch, the world’s champion with his protege, Raymond Cazeaux.

Kennedy, who left here on Thursday morning for a week’s tour with Cazeaux to all the big centres of wrestling in the middle states, made this proposition: “I will give Gotch one thousand dollars if he will meet Raymond Cazeaux in a Graeco-Roman wrestling contest at Sohmer Park, and, in addition, I will bet another thousand dollars that Cazeaux will beat him. If Gotch will accept this offer I will immediately post a certified cheque with the Montreal Star for the amount, and Gotch can cover it as quickly as he likes.”

Cazeaux was in Montreal two years ago, and was never beaten. This season he has met with signal success, having beaten everybody with whom he wrestled, and going to a draw with the much heralded Peterson.

A Wrestler Is Now After Frank Gotch

Calgary Herald – November 11, 1911
Special Dispatch to The Herald.

Kennedy States That Raymond Cazeaux Can Defeat the Big Champion

MONTREAL, Nov. 11. – George Kennedy, the well known wrestling promoter on Montreal, is going hot foot after Frank Gotch, the world’s champion, for a contest with his protege, Raymond Cazeaux. Mr. Kennedy left Thursday for a week’s tour with Cazeaux to all the big centres of wrestling in the middle states, and made this proposition: “I will give Gotch $1,000 if he will meet Raymond Cazeaux in a Graeco-Roman wrestling contest at Sohmer Park, and in addition I will bet another $1,000 that Cazeaux will beat him. If Gotch will accept this offer I will immediately forfeit check with the Montreal Star for the ammount and Gotch can cover it as quickly as he likes.

“Cazeaux was in Montreal two years ago and was never beaten. This season he has met with signal success, having beaten everybody with whom he wrestled, and going to a draw with the much heralded Peterson.”

With Yussif As Partner F. Gotch Is Fortified

Winnipeg Tribune – September 29, 1911
By Ed. W. Smith

Champion Wrestler Displays Trick of Class That Won Him Several International Matches of Importance – Challengers to be Sent Against Mahmout

DISPLAYING a wily trick of a class that won him several international matches of importance, Frank Gotch has formed an alliance with a man who might have caused him a lot of trouble if hooked up in some other fashion.

Gotch has taken on Mahmout as a wrestling partner, thus effectively removing the Bulgarian strong man from his path of the future.

Incidentally Gotch can use the Turk as a buffer.

After Gotch’s Title

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.

May Meet Gotch Twice

The Gazette – February 12, 1909

DE ROUEN, WHO WILL WRESTLE HERE TONIGHT IS BOOKED FOR TWO BOUTS WITH CHAMPION.

Raoul de Rouen will wrestle at Sohmer Park this evening for the first time in about seven weeks, and will leave again on Saturday for another trip, which may keep him away five weeks more. In addition to the Kansas City match with Gotch it is also on the cards that he meet Gotch on the 19th of this month in Chicago. The latter match, however, depends on whether the police will raise the ban on the Frenchman. Since he started his tour through the United States De Rouen has, it is said, become rougher than even Cazeaux and Cazeaux was about the roughest wrestler who ever stepped onto the canvas at the Park.

De Rouen’s match tonight will be against “Rough House Henderson,” and if the latter works up to his sobriquet it should be a pretty lively affair. The match will be at mixed styles, one bout Graeco-Roman, the next catch-as-catch-can, and the third to be at a style decided by the flip of a coin.

Simard and Seguin, two local French-Canadian boxers, are to go on in a ten-round bout.

De Rouen arrived here yesterday, and his manager, George Kennedy, follows this morning.

Jenkins After Gotch

Waterbury Evening Democrat – May 8, 1908

Tom Jenkins is training faithfully for the wrestling bout with Cazeaux, the French champion, which takes place at Madison Square garden concert hall Monday evening, as upon the result of this contest Jenkins figures another active and lucrative campaign. He intends, if successful with Cazeaux, to force Frank Gotch into a – match to determine the premier wrestler of America and who is best entitled to meet Hackenschmidt for the world’s championship.

Jenkins said yesterday: “I am in better shape and condition than I have been in years and feel confident that if Gotch is capable of giving Hackenschmidt a battle for the championship I certainly have at least an equal chance. I defeated Gotch here in New York, and while it was a prolonged and hard struggle I finally proved his master. I have the Indian sign on Gotch and am convinced that I can beat him any time we meet. If I win against Caxeaux on Monday night I will at once take on Gotch, and it he refuses to meet me will make preparations to go to England and try my luck with Hackenschmidt. Gotch apparently does not want to tackle Hackenschmidt on his own territory, but I have no fear or reluctance about meeting Hack anywhere and will gladly make the trip to the other side if Gotch refuses to wrestle me here.”

Jenkins May Go After Gotch

Hamilton Times – May 2, 1908

New York, May 9. – Tom Jenkins is training faithfully for the wrestling bout with Cazeaux, the Frenchman, which takes place at Madison Square Garden Concert Hall on Monday evening next, as upon the result of this contest Jenkins figures another active and lucrative campaign. He intends, if successful with Cazeaux, to force Frank Gotch into a match to determine who is really the premier wrestler of America and who is best entitled to meet Hackenschmidt for the world’s championship. Jenkins said yesterday:

“I am in better shape and condition than I have been in years and feel confident that if Gotch is capable of giving Hackenschmidt a battle for the championship I certainly have at least an equal chance. I defeated Gotch here in New York, and while it was a prolonged and hard struggle I finally proved his master, I have the Indian sign on Gotch and am convinced that I can beat him any time we meet. If I win against Cazeaux on Monday night I will at once take on Gotch, and if he refuses to meet me will make preparations to go to England and try my luck with Hackenschmidt.”

Just Like Gotch

The Gazette – April 11, 1908

Perelli Gave Practical Demonstration of Rough Wrestling, With Cazeaux as Willing Assistant.

FRENCHMAN WON IN 43 MINS.

Made It Two Straight Falls, but Was Given Lively Time by Plucky Italian

An illustrated lecture on just how nasty Gotch was to Hackenschmidt a week ago, with Dr. Gadbois as the master of ceremonies, was followed at Sohmer Park last night by a much more practical and illuminating demonstration, with Raymond Cazeaux and John Perrelli occupying the centre of the stage. If Gotch forgot to use any trick that either wrestler from time to time brought into play last night, then he was careless, and deserved to be beaten. No one expected to see the big Frenchman lose to the Italian, and everyone looked forward to a lively go. Few, however, were prepared for just as hard a time of it as Perrelli gave the winner of eighteen straight matches, and quite a few for the open rough and foul work that the two wrestlers provided for the big crowd.