Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-25
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 Another good crowd was in attend ance at the Auditorium last night to see the Company A circus. The per- formance was even smoother than the first night. if it could be made smooth CT. Everything ran along in nice shape and the people were delighted. Tonight will see the close of the show and it will wind up with one of the best wrestling contests yet given in the city. Professor Dwyer makes his last public appearance in this city for some time at least and he will face Anderson. the big Swede from Hart ford. Dwyer does not agree to throw Anderson twice in one hour, as some catch as catch can match and there the man to give the handicap, not get one, if there was to be such a thing. He weighs at least forty pounds more than Dwyer. DWyer realizes that he has no cinch and he would never have made the match or rather agreed to contest for a purse were it, not he wanted to oblige the, Company A boys. He would like to win this match, be- ing the last one that he will have here, but he says it will be no disgrace if he is beaten by such q big and clever wrestler as Anderson. The latter is here and looks fit as a fiddle. He says that he will defeat Dwyer to dead certainty and there you are. This will be good chance for the ladies to see a splendid exhibition That is not brutal in any manner. It will show them two gladiators3 in tests of skill and strength that they have never seen before The Company A boys, too, deserve big attendance for bring ing these two men together, for 1t is probable they never would have met unless some such arrangement had been entered into.fs 7Dwyer says he will win unless Anderson is a better man than he believes he is and Ander- son says he has cinch.
 As the day draws near when John E. Kelly and Alex Swanson are to meet on the wrestling mat, the interest in creases. Probably no match outside of the Dwyer and Parker contest has been so much discussed. Undoubted- ly 1t will be the biggest affair that was ever pulled off in this city in the wrestling line Everybody is talking about it and already hundreds of dol lars have been wagered on the result of the bout Every dollar that Billy Lee has sent into Waterbury has been covered by the packers of Kelly. The friends of the local wrestler have more confidence in him this time than ever before and if the Waterbury lad does not win there will be solne chaps who will work the rest of the winter. for their board alone. But Kelly claims he cannot lose, that he is in better con- dition than lie ever was in his life, that he knows every trick in the game now, that he has seen Dwyer wrestie, has watched every trick he used and has wrestled with him and he believes he can copy some of those tricks and win from Swanson in two straight falls. He will make 1t hustling contest from the start, too, and there will be no standing on the mat and pulling each others hair. It will be all mat work and mat work of the fastest kind. Kellys confidence is supreme
 From Yonkers comes the word that Swanson has no fear of the result. He also is in fine shape and to-day he has given out the tip that he is now at the required weight 142 pounds. If he is, he must have been fooling Kelly on the weight conditions. Swanson has been taking good care of himself for the past two years and he has trained and wrestled with the best men in this country. He has been up against all weights and he has learned every movement of the best wrestlers. Harvey Parker says that Swanson is as good man as there is in the busi- ness at his weight If this is so, then the Yonkers lad will make it very in teresting for MT Kelly. There are a number of people over New Britain way who are going to be here on the night of the match. They remember their last trip over here when Parker and Swanson met and Parker took all their money. They see chance to get square and they will back Swan son to the last farthing. There cer- tainly will be warm times down at the Auditorium next Thursday night.
 Jack Roach and the unknown will make the first trip on that night and Roach is still wondering who his man will be. He does not care if he is not heavier and he will wager a few that if he is his weight or less the un- known will go down to defeat.
 George Bothner has decided to accept