The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-11
Big Athlete Will Go to Seattle and Break Into
Boxing Game---Ftzsimmons to
Instruct Him.

DR.. Roller and Pete Baron, with their
day on the Siberia. When they have
gone these Islands will have suffered
the loss of two of the grandest and
most whole-souled athletes that the Pa
cifc has ever known
There is a great contrast and yet a
great similarity between these two
men. Pete is an old man, young old
man. At the age Of sixty-eight he is
as active and muscular, with every fac
ulty keenly alert, as most men are at
thirty-fve, and much more so than
some men at that age. Roller, on the
other hand, is young MANN the
prime of his youth, just at the time of
life when he should be at his very best.
Yet both of them have the same heart
winning smile and the quiet, almost
quaint, air of confident knowledge Of
strength and ability.
Roller has been here but short
time, but long enough to have found
very warm spot in the heart of every
lover of the open air on the Islands.
Never intrusive, never Boosting, never
arbitrary nor didactic in his opinions,
Roller has given us of his best. He has
shown our young men what may be
done by sensible attention to athletic
work, and, above all, he has shown
them how to enjoy that work. In pub
lie or in private there is not person
in Honolulu who has met the doctor
who has not felt better for that meet
ing and the birth of desire to try
and become, in his own way, as perfect
specimen of manhood as the great
athlete himself
Pete has been here for eleven years,
and during that time he has brought
up and fitted for victory an uncon-
scionable number of youthful athletes.
They all love him and they all have
learned to look on the old man as a
patron, a prompter, and, in a way, a
guardian.
Tt is probable that there never was
a man in such a comparatively lowly
position in life who ever before gained
such a position in a community as Pete
has done. In fact, it has been greatly
due to his innate modesty and natural
refinement that he has been able to at
tain that position. It is safe to say
that there will be hundreds of we'll
wishers to see them both off when the
boat goes out. and we shall all look
forward TO the time when they come
back again. For back again they will
surely come. They may not think it
now, but when they get away to the
frozen plains and sun-baked cities of
the mainland, they will hear the call
of the southern sea-and when a man
hears that call, how can he resist it7
Pete was the recipient of some
graceful tokens of good will last night
and he requests that his sincere appre
citation be expressed through these
columns From the Diamond Head Ath- |
letic Club he received a very hand |
some watch fob. pendant from which
is the Diamond Head insignia, with his
name and an inscription stating by
whom it was presented. The Kaialoha
Ladies Rowing Club also presented a
silver cigar case. with Pete's initials
on the front and a presentation in
scriptiOn on the back.
The party will be met in San Fran |
cisco by Tom Carol, the doctors man
ager, and the latter hopes to hear that |
are already on with Gotch. |
From San Francisco they will go to J