The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-10-27
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REILLY WILL
NOT STAY HERE
CFrom Mondays Advertiser.)


Reilly has refused to stay. After it
was too late on Sunday morning to put
any more news in the paper he was
found by an Advertiser representative
and asked what he was going to do
about it. This was Reilly's reply:
Go to it and put all you like about
me in the paper, but am going back
to the Coast, have made up my mind
to that, and am going just as sure as
the Alameda leaves the dock on Wed.
nesday. You know, and everybody else
who is really acquainted with me knows,
that l am by no means afraid of
frankie Smith But / am not making
money here. / can get more for six
round bouts on the Coast than l am
getting here. l have promised my
wife to go back, and am going; that
is all there is to it."
A determined mind is a good thing
to have, but there is such a thing as
being too determined and making up
one g mind too soon. 1t is up to Reilly
to stay. Three weeks can not make
very much difference to him, and the
fans want him to stay.
Reilly has somebody besides himself
to consider. He must think of the man.
ayers who have put him on and worked
to get gate receipts so that he could
be paid for his services. He must think
of the public, and he can not afford to
ignore the public. A boxer is in the
same position as an actor, only very
much more so. He depends on the good
will of the public for his living. 1t is
really fact that most of the great
champions have won their way to the
top and have commanded enormous
purses on account of their drawing
power; in other words, the liking that
the great, tickle thing we call the pub,
lie had for them.
Charlie is only on the first rungs OF
the ladder of fame. He must not an
by it, and lose badly. He has a chance
and a very good chance. to climb wei
up on that ladder, who knows but t.
the} top9 This is one case where per
sonal inclination and his real duty tt
the public and himself are at variance
He must stay or vitiate the good i'm
preston that he has made here.
frankie Smith has acted in gentle
manly and proper way all through
The expenses of his trip here were epaid
and he is perfectly willing to stay and
give those who brought him here q
chance to break even. BY going away
Reilly is actually causing consider
able monetary loss to those who have put
him on here, by preventing them from
| being able to give a show here will
Smith and himself as principals.
Besides the public and the managers
Reilly has also to think of the papers
They have boosted him here and don,
| justice to his clever work and his gen
tlemanly manner. 1t is the papers tina
make a pugilist s name, that put then
before the public, that chronicle theil
doings and sayings and bring the at
| tention of the fans to them. A maj
in his position can not afford to an
| tagonize the papers in any way, but by
| leaving Honolulu at this juncture hi
will surely do so.
The Coast will be advised of his ac
tion by the time the steamer leaves
and on that same steamer will go ac
counts of his untimely leaving that viii
spread all over the Coast. 1t may b,
only little squib somewhere on TIN
bottom of the sports page, but it viii
| have its effect. Managers will take tn,
advice of newspaper men when he ap
plies for a 60, as they always do, ant
then they will remember that Refill,
left Honolulu when he should have stay
! ed. The come again sign will be hun(
on the managerial doors, and the will,
press agent, in the outer office, will
turn the frozen face on the man WIFI
left Honolulu when he ought to hav,
stayed.