The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-18
CORDELL LOOKS
GOOD To FANS
Spectators Crowd 0rpheum to
Watch Malihini Boxer
Work Out.

The interest that is being taken in
the coming bout between Dick Sullivan
and Jack Cordell was clearly evidenced
wednesday afternoon when the Orphe.
UNI was really quite crowded by the
fans who went to see Jack CordelI
work out and get line on his style.
Cordell boxed with two men, heavy
weight of shorter stature than he and
very lightweight. It was an excel.
lent chance to size him up and he
made very pleasing impression on
the experts who were present, inelud-
ing Joe Leal, Charlie Lambert, Joe
Cohen and many others who know
something about the game.
Cordell is built from the ground up.
He has none of the raee-horse physique
of Dick Sullivan whose lower limbs
taper down and are just slight enough
to give him the appearance of speed.
But with all his heavy limbs, Cordell
has no clumsy movement. He is really
very fast and has left lead that is
a duplicate of Charlie Reilly's. When
Sullivan leads with his left he starts
from any position and sends his glove
in like a fash. Cordell send his in
just as fast but, just like the light
weight, he has his arm at his side with
a half crook before leading.
A Hard Right Blow.
In addition to this quick left lead,
Jack has a good right, Of course, he
did no landing to speak of in pre-
liminary practise, but he shot his right
out with great speed at times, stopping
it short of his sparring partners jaw.
Nothing could be judged of his de-
Tense as he was not troubling to show
any He did practically no ducking but
took all that was coming to him with
the evident object of getting his skin
hardened as quickly as possible.
Sizes UP Well.
To condense the various impressions
received from a careful attention to
Cordell S work yesterday, he may be
summed up as very powerful and
muscular youth with natural speed and
sleep producer in either hand. Wheth-
er or not he is fast enough to outlook
Sullivan and get in one of his hard
blows remains to be seen when the
two meet.
The first man to box with Cordell
was Rattan the Marine. Until few
years ago he was a great middleweight
boxer and went through some sixty
battles unbeaten. But latterly he has
put on much weight and was in no
very good condition for boxing, al
though he retained much of his old
time speed and stiffness and gave an
exhibition of in-fghting that might
have worried his principal. had they
both been in condition and the bout
| in earnest.
| Jack went three rounds with ths
marine and then took on Sarconi, the
marine bugler, for three more rounds.
1t will be remembered that Sarconi
put up a grand exhibition with Nigel
jackson some time ago, over the four
round route. Joe Cohen has arranged
/ for these two to appear in one OF the
preliminaries and to box six rounds
instead of four.
Bugler Looks Well.
The little bugler showed up in splen-
did condition His skin is as brown
as a berry from plenty of sea-bathlng
| and his muscles showed in clean rip
: pies all over his body. His breathing
| works were all to the big bellows, too,
and he kept Cordell stepping to live
/ ly tune while they were boxing.
| The other preliminaries have not yet
| been arranged. Mr.. Cohen states that
| he has a list of possibles as long as
your arm and viii pick out what he
| thinks will please the public most,
/ SopSa time this week