Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-03
WITH THE WRESTLERS.
Harvey Parker Made Monkey Of Er-
 nest Roeber.


 nest Roeber.
 The following little story, taken from the Brockton Times, only proves what E the Democrat exposed some few years ago that Wrestler Roeber is a fakir of the worst kind. 1t also shows the cleyerness of Harvey Parker. This is the story:
 Parker makes no bones of admitting that he agreed to let Roeber win. He was 8 visitor to Brockton this morning and in talking with the Times said:
 T agreed to let Roeber win. | could not get him to wrestle me any other way. have been after him four years, and he has constantly re fused to meet me. When we shook hands on the mat Monday night told him to go ahead and wrestle, to show the people that he is the champion he claimed to be. He never wrestled on the level in his life. How else could I get match with him except by agreeing to let him wfn?''
 Parker does not consider it much of sin to break faith with fake wreS- tiers, and he has little sympathy for sporting men" who, knowing that the wrestler they back cannot win except by permission of the other fellow, place their money on such man.
 It will be noticed that all that has been said in print against Parker dur ing the three years he has been here has been by writers who have been prejudiced by their losses on .'sure things" This is particularly noticea- ble in the article which appeared in a sporting paper last week. The man who wrote it lost some money in this city when Parker defeated Kelly. He played Kelly to win, not through any advice of Parker, but because, know ing that Parker was much the better man, he could not understand why Parker should wrestle Kelly unless he intended to lay down to him and there by impose upon his supporters, which action, had he done it, might have net ted him good sum, but would have lost him the high favor in which he is held by Brocktonians.
 There has never been a match in this city in which was involved sum large enough to make it an object for Parker to lose. In such cases there must be a lot of betting on the other man. It would take tremendous lot to influence Parker to knock the bot tom out of such good thing as he has had here, and there has never been a match here in which the amount wagered came anywhere near being as much as two or three good matches at the theater would net s'the demon"
 Roeber is not bright enough to. un- derstand that by saying that Parker agreed to lay down boosts Parker and convicts himself He appeals for sym pathy with such a claim as the basis of his demand. Could anything be more inconsistent?
 He and Parker are appearing at a Boston theater for the balance of the week. Yesterday, Roeber, in wailing tone, addressed the audiences with the remark: I never tried to fool the pub lie in my life. Tn a few days will show you that did not quit. I never quit in my life. There was reason why I did not continue with Parker, and 1 will tell it to you" This was funny, and Roeber was given the laugh.
 Then Parker rubbed it into Roeber by stepping to the front of the stage and saying: "Mr Roeber says he will show you the reason why he quit in a few days. You do not have to wait. can show the reason right here now. Here it is. :" And as lie pointed to him. self the house rose and cheered itself hoarse. Thus was the passing of a DluAGE duu tue lHSlCuClOu OI ulugeL in form as a giant in favor.
 Tom Jenkins and Nouroulah both had men to go on with them last night. Fully dozen showed up at the Lon don theater early in the evening, say l ing that they wanted a chance at the Turk, but of the lot only one, H. F. Hansen, who was Beck Olsen's partner when the latter came over here and de l feated Roeber, kept his word and went on with the big fellow. Hansen prov ed to be the toughest customer Nou- roulah has yet tackled, He eluded all of the Turks efforts to get a good hold on him and at times acted on the of fensive and kept Nouroulah busy. Af- ter nine minutes and forty-five sec onds of pretty work Hansen began to show signs of weariness,s and the Turk l threw him heavily to the mat and l quickly gained a fall Nouroulah then gave the usual exhibition with his l partner. Two men thought they had a chance for the money and went on I with Jenkins at Miners theater. The first was Nick Elliott. He lasted three minutes and fifteen seconds and then made fuss, saying he had not been thrown fairly. Jenkins offered to lei him have another chance, but Elliott hurried away Tom Mccarthy theI tackled the Cleveland wrestler and 1 gave clever exhibition. He lasted eight minutes and thirty-one seconds,