Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-09

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 Talk of Fake-His Own Money
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 Can Have q Chance if They So De
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 Waterbury is considered one of tht best sporting cities in New Engiane and the people who love clean spofIs generally know when they get them Sometimes it happens. however. thal there are q few people who know all who mingle with the better judges of sports and who at once begin tf cast out insinuations of q fake ano fixed match and other such silly and foolish sIurs. This is just what happened the other night when Fro lessor NJ. !. Dwyer and Harvey Far ker met on the mat in the Auditorium Parker was thrown so quickly thal the many friends he had ill this city were surprised and at once the whls perings of flake" started. some oi those who were guilty of these re marks have been mixed up them selves i'll shady sporting events right here in Waterbury.
 However. let us discuss this match of the other night and see where the flake part came ill. Everybody Who llas followed sports knows that when q man passes the forty year limit he has got 10 hegin to grow stale. There are few athletes. particularly i'll the wrestling game. who can hold their years and their ability after passing that age. The people of Waterbury remember that Harvey Parker met George Bothner in this city some years ago and defeated him after q hard struggle. Bothner is q young man as yet while Parker is growing older and what iS more is beginning to show his Wears. That was very evident to his friends the other night. That he IS losing his grip was evidenced only one week ago today when he failed to throw George BOthner in New York one fall in one hour. He had agreed 10 throw the New York boy twice i'll one hour. hut lie met with signal de , feat That was another proof that Parker is going back. True, his friends say that he has been throwing three men in one night every night i'll the week for the last few months. He has been throwing sometimes three men and sometimes two men. but they were not wrestlers ill the first class. There is another thing about this, too, and that is if the show was billed i'll a certain place for more than week. q popular wrestler of the town would bc allowed to win the S23 offered by the management. for it would attract . bigger crowd the next night when they mel This Parker admitted him. self when he was here the other night. This wrestling every night was an other reason why Parker was not the Parker of old. Too much work was making him stale and no one knew that any better than did Parker him self when he came here r riday. night. He knew he could not defeat Dwyer unless the latter was injured i'll some manner and he was going to take that chance He admitted after the match was over. to the writer of this article, that he never ought to have made the match. but S1U0 waS not found on ey- cry bush and he determined to get the short end of the purse. if he could not injure Dwyer and take the long end.
 Now as to Professor Dwyer he has only been here q few weeks, yet he has made more friends than has any other athlete that ever appeared here in the same length of time He came here To start q course of physical cul- ture and to show how confident are the people of this city that le was not working con game he has had shree classes of pupils. When he fin fshed with one class. the pupils of Sbat class have recommended others 10 take his instructions. Were lie faking it would not be possible fol liiin 10 last out more than one class He has secured the best people in the city and there is not q pupil of his to day whn will not tell you that he is as square man as they ever had any. thing to do with. He prepared foI this match better than he did for any sstBer match i'll his life. He has snads. more out of his classes ten time, over than he llas out of the wrestling game. but he likes to wreStle just as does any athlete who has ever worked on tlIe mat He went on the mat tht other night ill the pink of condition and ready fo do battle for his life. Ii was no fault of his that Parker was stale. He had kept faith with thl people of this city and he was mixed flp in no fake. The purse was only x4OO and if it was divided Parker would only have received Sl@ moro than lie could get by losing. anyway Could Parker afford fO take his firs' hard defeat for the paltry sum of Sl0D' He has been defeated before. yes. OneG fn Baltimore in some kind of q ttukt game in which Parker claimed he wsl' Goped. and once before by Professoi Dwyer ont in Indiana when Dwyel was just getting into the game How easy it would have been for Dwyer ts haye made Sl l.OUO the night OF the day of the match. If he was working i fake. why could he have not sent oH a few agents who wOnld take all ths DTyer money ln sighr. and there was Dleaty of it at odds. 100. Dwyer. il he wanted to be crooked. could hayt cleaned up his friends of Sl.DOO very easily. but he acted honorabIy anf squarely in the matter He coule have lain down and taken q good bil of money if he so desired.
 Dwyer was angry when told of tht repo-ts put in circulation and he al once made this statement: If ths friends of Parker in this city fee
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