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.

Local Club Bars Zbyszko

Chicago Examiner – December 28, 1911

Empire A. C. Refuses Pole Match with Winner of Jan 1 Go.

The Empire A. C. yesterday told Stanislaus Zbyszko that he not only could not have the match with the winner of the Coorderelli-Pederson wrestling contest at the Coliseum the night of January 1, but that if he wished to wrestle in Chicago he would have to appear under the auspices of another club. Matchmaker Joe Coffey gave out this statement after receiving a protest from Jack Herman, manager of the Pole, against giving Mahmout the match with the victor of the windup of the card that is to usher in the new year in wrestling.

Many Wrestlers Coming

The Gazette – October 17, 1911

Petersen, Karla, Mahmout and Others to Wrestle Here.

George Kennedy, the local wrestling promoter, spent three days in New York last week, completing arrangements for the winter wrestling season. He has secured Peterson, the European Graeco Roman champion, for thirteen bouts; Karla, the Indian, for half a dozen shows, and Yussif Mahmout, the Turk, for, at least, three exhibitions. Westergaarde, Joe Rogers and Fred Beel are also booked for appearances here.

Raymond Cazeaux will be the first to meet Peterson, providing that he beats Abs at Sohmer Park tomorrow in a catch-as-can match, with no holds barred. The pair met a fortnight ago at the Graeco Roman style, and Cazeau managed to obtain a fall through the German slipping.

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.

Turk Won Easily

The Gazette – November 21, 1908

Defeated Yankee Rogers in Straight Falls at Sohmer Park Last Night.

NEVER FORCED TO LIMIT.

Without Effort He was Always Aggressor and Won as He Wished.

Yussiff Mahomout, the Turk, who is claimed to be one of the season’s wrestling wonders, had no difficulty in defeating Yankee Rogers at Sohmer Park last evening in two straight falls, 9 and 11 minutes respectively.

The Turk proved to be a pretty good all-around wrestler, but the match with Rogers did not furnish any conclusive proof as to whether he is a real or only a near-champion. He had Rogers measured up early in the match, and the Yankee never stood a ghost of a chance to win. In the first three minutes Rogers was put down fair and square for a fall, but he was a bit off the mat, and the pair were brought back to the centre. The Turk finished up this fall in good shape, and in the second also had much the better of the wrestling.

Frank Gotch Is In Fargo Today

Fargo Forum & Daily Republican – November 13, 1911

Mr. And Mrs. Frank Gotch, Emil Klank, Manager Of The Champion, And Yussif Mahmout, The Turk, Arrived In Fargo This Morning.

Frank Gotch, world’s champion wrestler, is in Fargo and will give an exhibition tonight at the operahouse. Mahmout, the Turkish champion, arrived with the party and will probably take on Kid Johnson, the Duluth crack, who will meet Nels Moe of Christine, Wednesday.

Wrestlers With Gotch Are Classy

Grand Forks Evening Times – November 4, 1911

Jim Coburn and Joe Cannon Have Records That Mean Something

Joe Cannon and Jim Coburn, the former who will wrestle an exhibition match with the world’s champion, Frank Gotch, when he appears here on Tuesday evening, November 14, and the latter who will put on a wrestling match with Yussif Mahmout the same evening are some class when their records are figured out.  Both men are way up in the wrestling game and are fit partners for the two big men whom they are traveling.  The wrestling fans will be interested in the records of the two.

Gotch Coming To Fargo Soon

Fargo Forum & Daily Republican – November 2, 1911

World’s Champion Wrestler Will Appear In Gate City Nov. 13 – Mahmout, Most Formidable Opponent To Meet Gotch Is With Show.

Frank A. Gotch, the world’s champion wrestler, is slated to appear at the Fargo operahouse with his show Nov. 13.

The appearance of the champion in Fargo will give the wrestling public an opportunity to see the great and only Gotch, the man that defeated George Hackenschmidt, the Russian lion for the world’s title a few months ago in Chicago.

Fails To Impress Cleveland Sports

The Washington Times – April 2, 1909

Mahmout Unable to Gain Fall in Bout With Third-Rater.

Cleveland, Ohio, April 2. – Unless Yussif Mahmout was stalling in his bout last night with Joe Rogers, he will stand little chance of gaining the world wrestling championship when he meets Gotch in Chicago.  

On The Hoof

Saturday Evening Post – December 14, 1935
By Milton MacKaye

The standing of wrestling as a profit-making enterprise has received little attention in the economic journals, and even those publications devoted to the fevers of sport have been niggardly in space and headlines. There has been a general tendency to regard wrestling as a sort of little country cousin of the opulent boxing profession, a rude and primitive trial of strength persisting feebly in the backwoods sections, but destined ultimately to become as extinct as the broadsword. As a public spectacle, it has been rated just ahead of long-distance walking contests and the hop, skip, and jump, and considerably behind the breath-taking thrills and romance of puss-in-the-corner and the potato race.