12.12.2006, 10:24
Minneapolis Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
7 July 1933
George A. Barton Kolumne
"Stanislaus Zbyszko's Fortune Gone"
We noted in an Associated Press dispatch from New York that Stanislaus Zbyszko is bankrupt, a rather tragic ending for such a great wrestler, clean living athlete and kindly fellow as the rotund Pole.
Zbyszko, who was still a great wrestler at the age of 54 years, must have earned $1,000,000 during his 30 year' service on the mat. Brought to these United States in 1909 by Jack Herman, a former St. Paul sprots promoter, Zby reaped the harvest of the boom times of wrestling while the late Frank Gotch was champion and later when Joe Stecher, Strangler Lewis and Earl Caddock were in their prime, along with cutting in on the gravey due to the flux of a younger crop of grapplers headed by Gus Sonnenberg, Wayne (Big) Munn, Don George, Nick Lutze, Everett Marshall, Dick Daviscourt, Toots Mondt, John Evko, Dick Schikat, Ray Steele and Stanley Stasiak,
Zbyszko did not lose his earnings by squandering them but rather through what seemed to be sound investments. He put $250,000 into a large apartment building near Central park in New York, and $100,000 in a summer resort at Old Orchard, Maine. Zby losing all this property during the depression.
Zbyszko was a thrifty fellow whose sole ambition was to save enough money to live in comfort when his wrestling days were over. It's a tough break for the Zby ot find himself flat broke at he age of 60.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
7 July 1933
George A. Barton Kolumne
"Stanislaus Zbyszko's Fortune Gone"
We noted in an Associated Press dispatch from New York that Stanislaus Zbyszko is bankrupt, a rather tragic ending for such a great wrestler, clean living athlete and kindly fellow as the rotund Pole.
Zbyszko, who was still a great wrestler at the age of 54 years, must have earned $1,000,000 during his 30 year' service on the mat. Brought to these United States in 1909 by Jack Herman, a former St. Paul sprots promoter, Zby reaped the harvest of the boom times of wrestling while the late Frank Gotch was champion and later when Joe Stecher, Strangler Lewis and Earl Caddock were in their prime, along with cutting in on the gravey due to the flux of a younger crop of grapplers headed by Gus Sonnenberg, Wayne (Big) Munn, Don George, Nick Lutze, Everett Marshall, Dick Daviscourt, Toots Mondt, John Evko, Dick Schikat, Ray Steele and Stanley Stasiak,
Zbyszko did not lose his earnings by squandering them but rather through what seemed to be sound investments. He put $250,000 into a large apartment building near Central park in New York, and $100,000 in a summer resort at Old Orchard, Maine. Zby losing all this property during the depression.
Zbyszko was a thrifty fellow whose sole ambition was to save enough money to live in comfort when his wrestling days were over. It's a tough break for the Zby ot find himself flat broke at he age of 60.