The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-02
WRESTLING BOUT
NEXT SATURDAY
Roberts and JorneII, the Rus
sian Lion, to Give Great
Mat Exhibition.

Will Prestidge has arranged a fine
show for the Orpheum next Saturday
night. For anybody who likes to watch
wrestling it will be good exhibition.
Sailor Roberts, who is well known as
local man of the mat, is matched to
go with another sailor, one William
Jornell from Russia, who sizes up like
a good one and is touted to make things
hard for the local champion.
Jornell was born in the same town
as Hackensehmidt, Wasenperk (pro-
nouneed Vaysenpirk) in the north
ern part CT Russia. In that locality
wrestling is the great sport. They prac-
tise only the Greco Roman style there
and the catch as-catch-ean style is en-
tirely unknown.
From the time that Jornell was a
toddling youngster he has learned to
wrestle. The Russians are not great
on the public school line of education.
Patrieians and plebeians were the two
classes when Jorneli was growing up
and he belonged to the latter. The
priests and his parents taught him Row
to read and write and he had no time
like our American Riddles in which to
play all kinds of games. He had to
work but he found time enough to
watch the wrestling matches of the
older boys of the town and to learn
something about the game when he was
not feeding the pigs or doing other
chores.
By the time he was eighteen years
old he had gained quite a name as a
wrestler and had defeated everybody in
the locality except the great Hacken-
schmidt who left the town before Jor-
nell was old enough to get chance
at him.
When he was twenty years cid Jor.
nell went to sea. He served in many
vessels and in many chimes and event
ually landed in Honolulu where he de-
cided that the climate suited him anu
that he could make better waterfront
living here than anywhere else that he
knew Of.
J At present he is working as an ex.
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of gangs in loading and unloading the
vessels that visit this port. This work
keeps him in the pink of condition and
| he has Started quite vogue IN wrest-
! ling among the workers along the
wharves.
Jornell is man of few words, but
he is taking the coming event very seri-
ously and is working like a good one
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cry morning, when he is not due at the
wharf early, he goes out on the road
and then goes through many hard ex-
ercises including skipping rope, dumb
bell and stomach movements. He is as
hard as nails all over and as light on
his feet as stage dancer. Judging
by appearances he should make an ex-
cellent showing against our local cham
pion.
Sailor Roberts is well known as a
fine athlete to all the sports in town.
When DIR. Roller was here there was
some pilikia in which Roberts was sup
posed to have backed up. Since certain
reports have reached here from Seattis
telling of the way in which the
great doctor has treated Pete Bar
on and the awful frost he made of his
first appearance IN the ring, we may
well take it that Roberts was not the
one to back UP in the proposition.
i Roberts is a good wrestler; of that
/ there is no doubt He is very husky
and heady fellow and knows every
trick of the mat. He is not exactly
the champion of the world but he is a
Il fitting champion of the islands, and
when he goes up against willing and
eager man like the Russian, we may
look for a fine exhibition of the game
For preliminaries Will Prestidge has
two good looking events in the boxing
line. Kid Terry of the Iroquols and
Corporal Bird of Fort Shafter will box
four rounds at Tghtweights and Young
Sharkey and Solder Mccullough will
also go four rounds. Will is to act as
referee of the main event and he is
surely qualified to fill that position
The preliminaries will be refereed by
| local boxing talent such as George
| Peterson and Dick Sullivan