Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-07
THE PUGlLISTS
ALL THE SPORTS
 . WERE ON HAND
Big Boxing Exhibition Was Pulled Off and It Was a Good One
 at That.

club, of mushroom growth, pulled on their much moo1ed boxing exhibition at Polls theater. Straps were the commands given by Dr Cramer, alias Freeman, and who acted as the off, cial referee of the evening. Straps were the orders of the chief-of-police, There was no cause for worry, for the exhibition aside from the main contest was farce, made so by the order of straps" Right here let it be said, and said with emphasis, that the management had nothing to do with this strap order. Moe Harris stood to lose all that he has saved in several years if this exhibition had not gone on. He had the sand to take a chance and he had the pluck to outbid bigger clubs for a match that attracted the attention of sports the country over. He pulled that match off, too, and without the h. dian sign of straps" He may have fallen down in his preliminaries, but that was through no fault of his own. He had been given every en- couragement from those who know, or were supposed to know, that ev- erything would he all right, but the Poohbah had saii nay, nay, Pauline, you must make this a Sunday school picnic without the trimmings" Dr Cramer's friends asked that his name be used as Freeman, because he dld not wish to be implicated in any trouble that might arise. The only thing that looked like trouble was caused by the doctor himself, when he wanted to thrash Frank Coyle of New Haven. another fight promoter, because Frank had the audacity to criticize the gerial but pugnacious looking physician. All the sporting celebrities of New York and Boston were there and, of course, from other cities and boroughs too, Derby and Danbury rot excepted. They came into Waterbury, some of them, expecting to find jay city They left last evening and to-day, after enjoying our hospitality, convinced that New York and Boston contain about all the farm hands. Even the light fingered gentry were given a beautiful and refreshing reception before they had breathed the pure air of our city many minutes, or be- fore they had pe;rtaken of the good things, pocketbooks included, that our city is so filled with. All the news writers were here too, with one exception. Tad" of the Journal read in last nights Democrat that Bob Edgren of tae World was coming up and Tad" remained away. It was too bad too. because Bob was in good spirits last night, as he saw his prediction come true that the betters were making a mistake in making Bert Reyes the favorite over Matty Baldwin. With becoming modesty the writer acknowledges that he felt the same way. But the visiting spor! writers were pretty good lot al that. They are used to seeing fiascos, for they have so many of them in their home cities. One of them was particularly disappointed too, and that one Vincent Traynor of the World. He came up ostensibly to referee but found that he had been forestalled by the physical examiner of several New York athletic clubs
 Care or worry sits lightly on the brows of the sporting pen wielders however and they washed all theii disappointments away with liquid invigorators. It. was a notable gathering that sat around that ring
 side, the local penmen not excepted
 Bernie Burke was announcer Oi the evening and the Beau Brumme
 of the announcing stan of the coun
 try, filled the role acceptably. D. r McGrath was the time keeper and ht had as assistants two we'll knowT men who were also working under straps as they refused to divulgt their names or titles. The first dis
 appointment of the evening came when it was announced that Chic Lawson who was to compete witf Kid" Shea had Injured his arm a.C would be unable to go on. George Gresham, another wrestler like hi! friend Lawson. kindly consented tC be the sacrifice and he went calnll to his fate. IL was all over in {; couple of punches. Shea unwound : few twisters and Gresham looked saC at heart. One of his beseeckin: sIances was caught by the eagle ey' of Lieutenant Dodds. who whispered to his chief and it was all over Stopped because Gresham was out classed,' was the order of the refere' and the first strap had been buckIed Then came Al Schumacher and Ton
 my Nelson, both of New York Schumacher had a few things to sa! in his way in the earlier rounds anG Nelson did the honOrs in the last 5nI neither turned q hair. Leach CrOs' of New York and Terry Young 0
 Philadelphia furnished the last pre- HminaTy. It required double strap
 to keep Gross from eating up his OT ponent and the referee had to rau tion him to be sure and not knocl Terry cut. as there might be trOubl
 for him. the referee. Cross prOfit1eJ by the advice for he let YOaLE shOO holes through the air. while he cJn tented himself by hzmmerIng bin on the back The straps had re oeived their last tightening
 The house had filled pretty vel before the main contest SeTgean ! Cahey was there with a squad q bluecoats to take charge Of any of lenders and they all had beautifu rfngsfde seats Chief Beach an Lieutenant DOdGs sat in the back ground and took things easily Tn
 boat between BaldEin and Keye wzs all that could be wished f17 They were told to go ahead and l
 things to each other 10 matte whether it was stopped ia the f-s