The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-26
REILLY WILL
NOT STAY HERE
Young Boxer Places Himself in
UnenviabIe Light by This
Action.

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 il and put all you like about
me IN the paper, but l 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 We'd
nesday You know, and everybody else
who Is really acquainted with me knows,
that | 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 | am
getting here. / 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 8 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
viii Of the public for his living. It 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 ruRgs of
the ladder of fame. He must not an
tagonize his patrons now or he viii lose
by it, and lose badly. He has chance,
and very good chance, TO climb well
up on that ladder, who knows but to
the topa This is one case where per-
sonal inclination and his real duty to
the public and himself are at variance.
he must stay or yitiate the good i'm
preston that he has made here.
frankie Smith has acted in a gentle
The expenses of his trip here were paid
and he is perfectly willing TO stay and
give those who brought him here a
chance TO break even. By going away
Reilly is actually causing a consider
able monetary loss to those who have put
him on here, by preventing them from
being able to give show here with
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 done
Justice to his clever. work and his gem
tlemanly manner. 1t is the papers that
make a pugilist's name, that put them
before the public, that chronicle their
doings and sayings and bring the at
tention of the fans TO them. A man
in his position can not afford 10 an
tagonize the papers in any way, but by
leaving Honolulu at this juncture he
will surely do so.
The Coast will be advised of his ac-
ton by the time the steamer leaves,
and on that same steamer will go ae-
counts of his untimely leaving that wiz
spread all over the Coast It may be
only a little sduib somewhere on the
bottom of the sports page, out IL VIII
have it's effect. Managers win take the
advice of newspaper men when he APP
plies for go, as they always 90, and
then they will remember that Reilly
left Honolulu when he should have stay
ed. The come-again sign win be hung
on the managerial doors, and the willy
press agent, in the outer Office, will
turn the frozen face on the man who
left Honolulu when he ought to have
STAYED