Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-02
WITH THE WRESTLERS.
Roeber Gets Some Hot Shot from the
 Sporting Writers.

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 Nourou1ah and Jenkins, who are keeping themselves on edge by meeting all corners at two Bewery theaters this week, continued to easily dispose of ambitious wrestlers last night. At the London Nouroulah has been having trouble to get some one to go on with him, but last night Leo Pardello turn ed up and declared his intentions of going on with the Turk. Pardello made good, for when it came time to go on the Italian was on hand and for about eleven minutes he gave the Turk about all he could handle. Pardallo, instead of letting the Turk slam him all over the stage, took the aggressive and at one time during the bout had Nouroulah on his back, but, lacked the necessary strength to put his shoul- ders on the mat It was just eleven minutes and thirty seconds when the Turk secured a half Nelson on the tired Pardello and secured a fall Af- ter a breathing spell Noursulah gave an exhibition with Lundine, his part her. Tom Jenkins, at Miners Bowery theater, had no trouble in disposing of Carl Schmidt, who has proved to be the greatest trial horse of them all. Schmidt, some one in the gallery said, needed the money. Jenkins, just toy ed with the big German for fully three minutes, half of the time carrying him around the stage balancing on his head. Schmidt, when he finally re- gained his feet, made desperate eff forts to get hold on the slippery Cleveland man, but the latter wriggled 1R .of% n& ly started. in to do business and in four minutes and thirty-one and one half seconds from the time the bout started, Schmidt was on the mat with Jenkins sitting on his face. The lat ter then went on with his partner for five minutes.
 Ernest Roeber has written to the New York World explaining why he went away from his wrestling match with Harvey Parker in Mechanics
 hall in Boston on Tuesday evening. He says: There was no chance for me to win. They tricked me into the game
 and when I saw that was up against it I wrestled out my hour and called ten minutes rest which was the agree ment They would not give it to me, and while I stood arguing with them
 one of my friends told me that the manager had skipped with all the mon ey. I refused to wrestle. Every body
 would do the same. They even went | So far as to pull guns on me. They
 wanted to shoot me. They were out 1 to do me, and was foolish enough to be trapped. I am at the Howard
 theater now, where I am meeting all | corners.
 Allen Lowe, the sporting writer,
 hands few hot ones to Roeber this
 morning. He says, in part:
 Admitting that Roeber tells the | truth, he is a nice specimen of a heavyweight champion wrestler who
 has to be guaranteed lay-down from
 a man away under the middleweight limit before he will consent to a con-
 test. Roeber is just what I claimed
 he is-a big, strong fellow who is hard to throw, but who cannot throw any good man who knows the game.
 He is of the fakiest, faky. It is not so long ago that, at the Howard, he
 wrestled an unknown whom he pro- 1 fesSed never to have seen or heard of
 It was .plant'' of the surest kind.
 Roeber would have been a star panto- mimist. He should never trust him. self to the tender mercies of a state ment.
 Parker says the only way he could coax Roeber on to the mat with him
 was to promise not to be rude or rough or act in any way which would tend
 to the lowering of the alleged cham
 pion in the estimation of the public. With this no one else has any connec- | tfon. Parker says he had tried every l possible way to get Roeber enamored | into meeting. He had been after
 him two years and Roeber was coy as
 a startled fawn."