Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-12
WRESTLING
GREAT WORK THIS

Wrestling Carnival a Biz Success
 John E. Kelly Back to His
 Old Form Once More.
 There was plenty of sport and ex- citement down in the SimOnsyille Ath- lctic club rooms last evening at the much advertised wrestling carnival. The little gymnasium was packed from door to door with an audience that was representative of the sport loving public of Waterbury and yicin- ity. They had come there prepared to see some good contests and they were not disappointed. and incidentally they were the interested spectators of wordy war between wrestlers ill and out of the city. There was ont. peculiar thing happened last evening which may have escaped the majority of the people present, but it struck those who were close listeners as very peculiar. Muldoon after his defeat by Kelly, in making his statement to the people about what he could do with Kelly later, said that he had been sent to Waterbury by George Bothner snd Alex Swanson because they had told him that he could. beat Kelly easily. If you will stop to think for a mo. ment you will consider this very strange state of affairs, that both Bothner and Swanson sent Muldoon here to beat the local man. Bothner and Swanson have been hurling vltu- peratiye challenges at each other through the New York papers for the past few weeks. They are to meet to- night for the alleged lightweight championship of the world. Can it be that both men understand each other and that the match tonight is framed up to suit themselves and take the public's money? Such things have been done before and in New York, too, for when it comes to finding easy things the New York public is about as easy as they make them. However, Muldoon's statement stands that Both ner and Swanson sent him here 10 beat Kelly and, alas for their foresight, the local boy turned the tables on them all, which was most pleasing to everybody who saw the match last night.
 There were other things doing down there that were not on the bill or fare, and perhaps from all that hap pened down there, there may some thing good result. Ed O'Connell and q bunch of New Haveners were on hand and from the conversation they had among themselves it looked as If they were there for q purpose, and sure enough they We're. The much touted Irish Lad" proved to be Kid Kehoe. the only and original Kehoe who is at the present time under the. management of Joe Lawlor. After kebOe's little siesta with one Kid Hartford of the South End club, he stepped to the open and challenged any man of his weight in the world Instantly there was a commOtion from the vicinity of the New Haven men and our from the bunch stepped q trim looking youngster who jumped into the ring and offered to meet Ke-
 
 This chap gave his name first as Mus- phy adn later as Griffin, the latter presumably his right name. although that is doubtful. Kehoe in the mean time had quit the ring and Ed O'Con- nell jumped into the ring and deposit- cd S25 in the referees hands for the match for Griffin and Nehoe and also challenged Kehoe to meet him at any time ar 13S pounds. Everybody ex- pected to see this match and Griffin began to prepare for it. It looked as though Griffin was there for pur- pose. for he claimed to weigh only i1y pounds. but he looked heavier. There was some talk that Griffin was only being sent against Kehoe to try him out so that O'Connell could get line on him. However. before the main contest had advanced very far it was announced from the ring that Manager Joe Lawlor was willing to have Kenoe go against Griffin. but Kehoe stated that he was not fin condition for a gruelling contest, but that if either Griffin or OConnell wanted Il match they could have it later. This did not please the spectators at the time. but when they realized that they were get. ting all the wrestling they had been promised they looked at the matter in the right light and said kehoc was perfectly right in refusing to wrestle. particularly when 1t looked as if there was some sort of a job put up to get the newcomer into some sort of game. Later in the evening O'ConnclI made the crack that he could throw Kehoc two falls in one hour. and if this Is so Manager Joe Lawlor Nih accept that challenge for any amount Of money and this match may per haps be made.
 The first preliminary last night was between Kid smith Of the Brooklyn Athletic club and Young Moriarty of the South End club. Some weeks ago these boys met over in Brooklyn and Smith won easily two quick fails. He was given a surprise last right. for Moriarty had improved a hundred per cent and smith came within au ace of losing the match himself sev- eral times. Both were aggressive aps the result was s good match for one half hour with neither securing a fall.
 The second preliminary brought oat Kid kehoe and Kid Hartford. This was z farce as far as wrestling was concerned. although Harffori. ressz- ing that he was up against q cii2m- njor. tried harf f0 keen sway from