The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28
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BARON
WRITES AGAIN
The Veteran Athlete Still Feels
the Cold-Rolier Boxing
Vigorously.

Another letter from Pete Baron. The
poor old boy is suffering from the cold
pretty badly from what he says. Send
me little of dear old Honolulu sun
shine that l may get warm once more.
| have been frozen since l came here.
By George, but this is an awfully
breezy place, and everybody is in such
a hurry that they seem to have no time
to eat, sleep or anything else. -
He does not say very much about
the big doctor IS prospective movements,
but encloSes several clippings. One of
these is lengthy story about Joe Car
roll, the man who trained Gotch and
put him into the wrestling game. Car
roll is quoted as saying that Gotch is
a gutter and that he will train Hack
enschmidt so that the Russian Lion
may be able to defeat Gotch the next
time they meet. Which is all very
old patter, but probably quite true.
One clipping is very interesting
description of Roller in boxing action.
The headlines state that ''Roller, in
action, recalls the once great sailor,
Tom Sharkey" The article goes on
to detail the doctor s movements when
sparring with big boxing partner and
how he bores in at close quarters. If
DIR. Roller does turn out to be a great
boxer, there ought to be valiant show
when he and Jack johnson get to-
gether.
Another clipping, which is here re-
printed, refers to the Portland man
who was so anxious to wrestle Roller,
but does not now see his way to come
through:
PORTLAND, Saturday, December II.
There is great Indignation among the
big Portland wrestling clientele over
DR.. Rollers offer from Seattle to throw
Eddie O'COnnell thirty times in an hour
in a private wrestling match for $500
forfeit. Whatever O'ConnelI's merits
or dement's, he certainly has Portland
sports with him, as is clearly evidence
ed by the presence of over 1000 fans at
the last two matches, neither of which
could be said to possess any particular
class.
At first Rollers offer was read with
incredulity. He had said he would post
$3.50 forfeit with DR.. Wiley G. Wood
ruff, of this city. The evening papers
said last night the money had not
come. One of them carried this head
line: "Roller Talks in a Stage Wits
per-" and everybody caught the covert
allusion to stage money and laughed.
But there was a different sound this
morning when the morning paper an
nounced the $3.50 check had really
come. IF Roller wanted to make O'Con-
nell g big following sore through and
through, he couldn t have tried a bet
ter tack.
One thing is understood here: O'Con-
nell won't do anything before the
Dwyer match, December II, at which
1900 persons viii probably be present.
O'Connell s. future as wrestler here
pretty nearly depends on what he does
against Dwyer and no matter what
Roller says or what handicap is offered,
he will take no chances before then
O'Connell declares, however, he will
take the offer up for any amount from
$500 to $4,000 after that Of course,
no one knows anything about condi-
tions yet. Either could easily escape
by that route.
In Portland the general impression
is that Roller would want all the bars
down an 30-an-hour handicap and that
he would figure on so Gripping the
Multnomah man before the hour was up
that he could easily handle him at will.