Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-28
WRESTLING
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A Letter Writer Quotes a Few Passages From the History of
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 The following letter puts Mir swan son on the griddle and turns him over to be well done. Itis self-explanatOry::
 Waterbury, Feb 27, 19OG. Sporting Editor Evening Democrat:
 Dear Sir: I hardly expected that you would reply to the signed article printed in an evening paper on Mon- day night, because l believe you GOV cred the ground very fully ill your ar ticles of last week relative to Mir Alex Swanson ct al Net the general public seems to be interested ill correspon- dence of this kind and I thought that ill the interests of good clean sport, l might voice the sentiments of q goodly share of that public. No matter what the challenge between O'Connell and Swanson may have been, q match be tween these two chaps would not prove good sporting event and would not be financial success to the club giving it. Oftcourse the latter portion of this statement does not interest the general public, because if sport pro moters wish to give an event it is up to the public to patronze the same or not. If it is q failure it is only the management of such an affair loses financially. But to the pokyt at issue.
 It is the most laughable thing that ever appeared in print to read that you could not drag this man Oscon- nell on the mat with Swanson or Cnaki with derrick, unless it was fixed to suit him beforehand All followers of wrestling, and there are quite a number, are not dead to what is going on in the wrestling world. O'Connell may have his faults and he may fix matches, but as for fear Of Swanson, why that is one of the silli- est things that was ever said about this chap in New Haven. OConnell has never showed the yellow yet, but can the same be said about Swan- son? I rather think not The last part of that statement, unless it was fixed to suit nim beforehand" would queer q match between O'Connell and Swanson if nothing else did. If the packer of Swanson says that O'Connell will not wrestle Swanson unless the match is fixed beforehand, for that is his statement, then how under heaven are O'Connell and Swanson going to meet unless the match is really fixed! The public, in this case, is ''like the fellow from Missouri which the back CT of Swanson quoted in his article; they will have to be shown something better than gold bricks"
 It is hardly necessary 10 go into contradiction of the merits of the two men. The public knows them both, and that same public knows George Bothner and all his matches as well. O'Connell has made good in the past two years around the state of Con- necticut. Swansop has not made good. but just now he is like the little boy who was kept after school to be whipped for some misdemeanor, Give me another chance and I won't do 1t again." He has had his chance and the public or the great majority of the people are sick of him and his queer methods of doing business.
 T0continue. in answer, to the article we will drift from Swanson and O'Connell to John ,E. Kelly and Null doom. The statement that Muldoon quit fin his match with Kelly was be- cause his arm was hurt. We'll, of all the reasons for saying that Kelly was I not his master. this one takes the cake. Was it not Kelly that injured that arm? Was it not Kelly that did all the work on the mat that nighti Was it not Kelly that made the New Yorker wish himself back in New York wrestling pigmies? Of course it was, and Kelly can do 1t again just as easy as he did it before. Why is not some explanation made of why Muldoon could go down to New York and throw Swanson two falls in less than fifteen minutes! Was that a fixed thing? The report says it was. and I will give Swanson benefit of the doubt. If it was fixed then there is all the more reason. why he should he kept out of Waterbury. If he fixes matches to catch his friends, as it is alleged he did in New York. why would he not fix them to catch a lot of sports mp around this district? Echo answers whyf
 Now as to that S10 forfeit, there seems 10 be some misunderstanding, perhaps something else. In regard to that money. Tom Dillon. the barber, still holds that ls10 and is waiting to see what to dol with it. John Hurley says he did not tell the packer of Swanson that he would forfeit that S10, although the S10'was tried to be collected on the statement that he did. Dillon has been instructed to hold the
 money, and there you are. The article mentioned above concludes with lot of hot air about Swanson throwing o'Connell and Madden on the same
 mat and on the same night in 1ba hours of wrestling. It is to laugh. The public cannot be fooled as easily again with Mr swanson. The histori- cal saying of President Lincoln is re called at this time. You can fool some of the people all the time. all the peo- ple some of the time. but you can't | fool all the people all of the time.
 Respectfully.