The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-01
DICK CONNELL
NAMES ATHLETES
San francisco Sport Tells OF
Wrestlers and Boxers on
BattIeships.

L OASh SOAAS4l. q well huuWn San Fran
cisco sportsman and a man who is vel
versed in fleet athletic matters, arrive,
on the Manehuria yesterday morning
, Mr.. Connell S business is that of pur
veyor and his many trips to the differ
emit battleships and cruisers have en-
abled him to become well acquainted
with the inside of the athletics aboard
the ships
i Mr.. Cornell says that the:e viii b.
some good ones to visit Honolulu wher
the Pacific feet comes here. Aboare
the Pennsylvania there are two gooJ
ones, Glavin, who weighs about 1873 il
fighting trim, and Young Lundberg, who
is very fast one at 12S pounds.
Aboard the West Virginia there viii
be heavyweight who is reckoned to
be the champion of the fleet. He
weighs anywhere from 10 to 17a
pounds and is said to be very fast and
clever as well as hard hitter Be,
| sides these boxers there are one or two
men who can wrestle well and there
will be a chance for some good goes
! on the mat when the fleet returns from
/ Samoa.
Mr.. Connell witnessed both the Cans,
] Nelson and etchell-Thomas fights.
! Concerning the latter he saws StThat
/ was not really fight It was clnen.
I never saw anything like the way
! Stanley rushed from his corner and
went after his man. He had Thomas
! buffaloed from the start and the Cali
| fornia man had about as much chance
| as a flea in a whiriwind
efWith regard to the Nelson-Gans
affair | made up my mind that Cans
was fairly beaten. There was much
| talk about a fake but, to my way of
| thinking, that was all tommyrot. Cans
took an awful beating; it was worse
| than what he ate up in Goldfield.
| think ne is an old man from fighter g
point of view and Nelson had right
| to beat him. When he went out he was
staggering round the ring before the
BattIer landed his sleep producer and
he would have to be an awful clever
man if he faxed"
With regard to the athletes aboard
the warships it is very probable that
Joe Cohen win be in harness by that
l time. The cheerful manager of the
| Orpheum has had many requests to take
up the fighting game here and run it
| with competent referees and he is now
thinking of acting on his friends sug-
gestions.
While the fleet is here on the way out
Joe will see the different managers and
athletes and will then arrange for them
| to appear in Honolulu when they return.
The Orpheum is well adapted for the
purpose and, as the house will be dark
at that time, it viii be a good oppor-
tunity to put on boxing and wrestling
bouts. It has been suggested that Jack
McFadden and Reilly meet again and
that the winner meet Young Lundberg
when the fleet returns. This seems like
very attractive proposition as many
fans would like to see Reilly have an.
other chance at Caliban and the winner
of such a bout would certainly be en-
titled to g go with the fleet champion
of their weight
$3.50 ~ 3S&.s 3&11&&ss
what was commonly called cold feet
NV offer had been, as / thought, very
fair and even liberal, and the only way
I can size the matter up is that the
men thought that I should throw them
too easily, and did not want to appear
and be made a laughing stock.
81 spoke to Roberts about a forfeit.
1t was most important that he should
insure his appearance, as he IS aeknowl-
edged to be the best of the three, and
the thing would be fiat fizzle if ne did
not show up.
"Roberts stated that he would come
round with his forfeit, and he did so
this afternoon. / then told him that
he had better leave his forfeit with
Pete Baron and / would leave my $400,
$3.50 in case he stayed an hour, and
$3.50 in case all of them stayed fifteen
minutes.
"Roberts was willing to do this, and
then came the question of what we
could do if the other two men would
not show up. Roberts appears to THINK
that he can throw me, and that is very
possible, for l do not claim to be I'M
beatable; so I offered him side bet OF
$3.50 up to any larger amount he want |
ed. and would agree to throw him twice
in an hour at Fort Shafter tomorrow
or any time he liked.
HRoberts liked the idea, and stated |
that he would go out and raise the side
bet and would be back very shortly 1t
is nossible that he had some trouble IN |
finding his man, and, of course, he has
his duties to attend to, so | am stu
omen to hear from him. / will wrestle
him in private or public for side BET
of $3.50, and will agree to throw him
twice within one hour on the mat or
forfeit my bet.'
Roller Will Box.
DR.. Roller has written to the Seattle /
Times, stating that, after he arrives IN
Seattle, which he expects to do at the
end of this month, he will challenge any
man in the world to wrestle or box.
This is new departure for the big
athlete. He is well known as wrestler
but has never broken into the fighting
game, and it may well be that he IS the I
coming heavyweight champion. There is
no doubt that ne has great strength ana
activity for man OF his
size. and 1t may be that he can out
point and outpunch the present rather
middle class aspirants to heavyweight
honors..
Pete Baron is very pronounced IN has
assertion that DIR. Roller will make
champion. boxer. ''fe has a cool head
and wonderful cleverness, saws Pete,