Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-16
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 Hartford March 16.--Two of the principal bouts scheduled for the wrestling carnival at the Auditorium Thursday night did not materialze but there were several speeches made to take their place. says yesterday mornings Hartford Courant The crowd did not buy tickets to hear ora tory but the men were in their seats and they were obliged to listen. Id ward J. O'Connell the wrestling in structor at Yale, was to have met Philip Bonefant of New Britain in the main bout. O'Connell was on hand, stripped for the fray, but Bonefant was on crutches. He had physi- clans certificate which said he was unfit to take part ill an athletic con- test. Dr Coholan of New Britain testified that Bonefant had adonitis. The Royal Athletic clubs physician. Dr Akerly, examined Bonefant and he concurred in the diagnosis of. his New Britain brother. What Bonefant has in nat-burn, which is somewhat less painful than a boil. The articles of agreement provided that if either man was unable to contest. accord ing to doctors say-so. the forfeit money would be returned. There was no doubt that Ronefant was not in shape but it was thought that he should have found out his illness earlier.
 OConnell wrestled an exhibition match for half hour with John Kel- ly of Waterbury. O'Connell threw Kelly in Waterbury some time ago The Waterbury man was fat last night, IS he was not in training. but he put up good bout, although he did not appear to be as clever as the New Haven man. Gilbert Molson of this city was matched to wrestle the Terrible Turk of New Britain and the terrible one failed to appear. It was said he had broken rib and 1t ex- tended up to his neck Ii was origi- nally intended to have Charles Olson wrestle the Turk, but the Hartford man did not think the sultan's lion was worthy of honorable combat.
 When O'Connell appeared on the mat he made the first speech of the evening He said he was all ready to
 
 at once or his manager. Alfred An derson either. Regarding his letter to the Courant. about Olson, which was characterized as sarcastic. he said he did not think it was. Mir Anderson made Il reply. saying that forfeit was up on behalf of Olson and he was ready to have it accepted. Bonefant hcbbled out on the floor and told about his injury. At this time inc speechmaking was shut of and O'Connell wrestled Kelly.
 The first bout was between Jack Botwick of New Haven and Ernest Sbarland of New Britain. Botwick won fall in 19:30. They wrestled a half hour and as there was no other fall Botwick was declared the win ner. lazy Winter of New Haven got fall from Jack Grill of New York in 12:J0. That was the only fall in their match. William Delaney of Springfield was referee for all the bouts. Mir Carroll. the Waterbury referee. was in the hall.
 O'Connell. his former manager. MT Hayes of New Haven. and several Of his friends. had sidewalk eonvefsa- ton with MT Anderson and Hjalmar Lundin for d half hour after the hall was closed and adjournment was then taken to the Courant office. where the grapplers and their managers and sec onds had an argument which lasted until 80 o'clock this morning. There, was difficulty in deciding upon a place to hold q match, upon referee and upon the size of the purse.
 Mir Lundin, acting for Anderson and Olson. finally made an offer of sI3 purse. with a side bet of s1co for match between 0'Conncll and Olson in this city. the referee to he decided upon later. The offer Is to remain open until Wednesday to see if any club will make better offer. MT o'ConneIl said this was satisfactory ,o him and the articles will lie given to Mir olson for his signature.