Evening Star – May 24, 1908
NEW YORK, May 23 – The French champion wrestler, Cazeaux, must have had a case of cold feet, otherwise he would not have called off his match with Tom Jenkins, which was recently booked for Madison Square Garden. Cazeaux is evidently not so foolish as some people would imagine. He probably has a friend in New York who has seen Tom perform on the mat who told him what he was likely to receive if he went on with the match, and he proceeded to call all bets off.
Chateaugay Record & Franklin County Democrat – May 15, 1908
Hackenschmidt says he will go into strict training for wrestling matches, and will not enter the arena again unless he is in good condition.
Tom Jenkins, once champion wrestler of America, is excited by the challenge of the Frenchman. Cazeaux, who has challenged him to a mixed contest of Graeco-Roman and catch-as-catch-can wrestling.
Detroit Times – May 12, 1908
NEW YORK, May 11 — The wrestling match between Cazeaux and Jenkins, which was scheduled to take place at Madison Square Garden tonight, has been declared off. Cazeaux would not wrestle.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle – May 10, 1908
Word was received yesterday from Cazeau, the French champion, that he would he unable to meet Tom Jenkins in their wrestling bout which was to have taken place at Madison Square Garden Concert Hall on Monday night. Cazeau had his shoulder badly wrenched while training. Johnny Dunne of the Star Theater wired Jenkins this morning asking
him to meet Fritz Mohl, the Terrible Swiss, at the Star Theater on Tuesday night. As Jenkins is anxious to wrestle it is expected that he will accept the offer.
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.”
The Star & Newark Advertiser – May 4, 1908
By Tom Dugan
Baseball Fans Are Being Cheated Out of Their Best Days, and Over in New York the Wrestling Game Is Still on the Carpet — Something About Ladies’ Day.
A LITTLE talk on the weather which is being handed out to us poor mortals these days should not be misconstrued, for everybody knows that no matter how much they kick against the conduct of the weather man it results in the old villain doing as he likes But it certainly displeases everybody the way the old man has been cavorting around these diggins. Here was the first Sunday in May, when everybody wants to seek the fields and the mountains, as cold as an October afternoon. It is all very nice having a feeling akin to nature and a lot of other stuff handed out by the genial poets and the modest Laura Jeans, but when May comes along you expect to have May weather and rot he troubled with the chilly blasts of wintry days. This kind of weather is bad for the merchants just as much as it is for the baseball magnates. Most of humanity is wearing winter clothing still, while if the good old-fashioned spring came along we all would be out in our gay attire. Yesterday was no weather for out of door pastimes. Cross-country running might have been enjoyed, but then this is not the time of year for that sport. Certainly the 6,000 fans who sat through the game at Wiedenmayer’s yesterday afternoon were real live fans, or else Manager Stallings would have played to empty benches. The way the weather opened today was enough to give one the shivers. Beautiful spring has been side-tracked somewhere, that’s sure.
Continue readingThe Star & Newark Advertiser – May 2, 1908
A wrestling match of championship timber was clinched yesterday when the representatives of Tom Jenkins and Cazeaux, the great French wrestler, met and arranged details for a contest. Everything was amicably settled until the style of wrestling was broached, when they came to a deadlock. After considerable discussion, it was finally agreed that the men should wrestle best two out of three falls in mixed style, catch-as-catch-can and Graeco-Roman.
Jenkins held out for the catch-as-catch-can style, but the French champion, who is particularly expert at the Graeco-Roman style, insisted on a trial of his favorite and carried the point. It was agreed that the man scoring a fall in the fastest time would have the choice of the deciding on third fall, if one should be found necessary.
The match will be decided at the Madison Square Garden Concert Hall on Monday evening, May 11.
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.”
The Star & Newark Advertiser – May 1, 1908
NEW YORK, May 1. — Tom Jenkins, ex-champion wrestler of America, is about to don his war togs again. He is all stirred up at the bold defi of the French champion, Cazeaux, who has challenged Jenkins to a mixed contest of Graeco-Roman and catch-as-catch can wrestling. Jenkins has not wrestled in public in a long while, but has been keeping in good shape, and says he is ready at a day’s notice to tackle the best in the game.
Cazeaux, who is concerted to be the best man in France, has been wrestling all comers in Canada and the West. He has won all matches in which he has entered, but has never appeared in the East, and is very anxious to show New Yorkers what he is worth on the mat. The managers of both men will meet today to try and arrange the match, and, as both men are willing to wrestle, the details should be speedily fixed.
The Gazette – March 6, 1908
Third Man in Ring When Gotch and “Apollo” Meet in New York Tonight.
CAZEAUX VS. ROONEY TONIGHT.
Frenchman Will Clash With Chicago Policeman in Finish Match at Sohmer Park.
New York, March 5. – Tom Jenkins will referee the Gotch-Rogers wrestling bout tomorrow evening at the New Amsterdam Opera House in West Forty-fourth street. Jenkins, who is physical instructor at West Point, telephoned his willingness to serve as referee and will be the third man on the mat. This insures everybody a square deal and a run for their coin, as Jenkins knows every turn in the game.
Gotch arrived in New York yesterday and within an hour had started training. This morning he was out for a ten-mile road run, and in the afternoon worked out on the mat at the Consolidated A. C.
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