The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-04-06
NELSON CHASES;
DEMON RUNS

There It no more Demon nn PunehhnWl,
only piece Ut iis ghost
They dragged him away from the ring.
~ they say,
And served him on hard baked toast.
Oh, how could you do 10. Joe Silvai
We always knew you freak
But now YOU re- uncovered and we have
discovered.
You re only big yellow streak
And that just about describes tho
great bout between George Nelson and
doe Silva, the Pnuchbowl Demon. at the
Orpheum last night. The less said the
better. IL Is doubtful IL any man liv-
ing could have knocked out Silva, for
he simply covered himself mp and ran
away. He struck just two blows dur
ing the entire eight rounds and one of
them opened up an old cut on Nelson 5
eye. That was the only work that the
supposititious Demon did.
The bout by rounds is as follows:
Round one, one large marine chases
big lump of yellow. Round two, more
yellow. Round three, yet more yellow.
Round four, stage manager of the Or
pheum collects yellow paint for seen
wipe the yellow off their clothes as it
is being pushed onto them. Round SIX,
disgust on the part of spectators. Round
seven, more disgust. Round eight, Mel
son takes the decision and a hearty
ovation for eight rounds of hard work
during which he damned the covering
Demon all over the ring.
Tive Surprises Sprung.
There were two surprises sprung
during the evening. One was the sud
den subsistence of "Limey" Richards
of Camp Very before the onslaught of
soldier Plat and the other one, sau
one for his many friends in town, was
the knockingout of Tommy Marlowe
of Lelehua by Wahilani. There is
nothing to it, but Tommy is past his
time for boxing and was up against
clever youth with a punch, who found
the veteran IS weak point and slowed
him away with right to the jaw in
the second round.
The show was good one. Only fve
of the six advertised bouts were put
on, but nobody noticed that in the ex-
citement of laughing and cheering the
| tryout boxers who were striving to get
their feet on the first rung of the lad
der of fame.
Mcintyre Challenges.
After Tommy Marlowe had met his
Waterloo a camp-mate of his, by the
name of Mcintyre, leaped into the ring
with blood in his eye and challenged
| Wahilani. The challenge was instantly
accepted and there will be something
doing when this same Mcintyre gets
busy to redeem the honor of the camp.
The first bout was a hne exhibition
of how a man trains for Marathon.
One Humphriss of Camp Very was up
against husky youth who works at
the Honolulu iron works. by the name
of Peter Stanley. Pete is boss bag
puncher but he could not find a chance
TO punch the willy Humphriss who ran
away so hard that half the time his
back was turned to his opponent. The
latter's seconds very sensibly threw up
the sponge in the second round.
Richards Subsidies.
Then appeared Richards and Plat.
1t was "a hummer of 90 while it
lasted. Both men were superbly muscled
and ms active as cats, but they lacked
science. Richards was getting the bet
ter of il until chance swing caught
him on the jaw. This wobbled him ana
the terrific onslaught of his soldier op.
ponent soon put him to the bad.
There was great applause when
jackson entered the ring. His oppo-
nent was "a clever-looking Italian with
"A big nose and "a dreamy eye. Jack
son had no easy task and the lad from
Camp Very, bugler, by the way, put
it all over him So far as cleverness is
concerned. The latter might have
earned a decision if he had not been
go ready to do the ".Jack Twin Sui
Ivan act' by poking his elbow into
Jackson S jaw and rubbing his glove
over his ear. 1t was CORY scrap, but
game one, and jackson maintained
his reputation for gameness The draw
decision was a good one
Marlowe Too Open.
The fourth event, between Marlowe
and Wahilani, was very tense while il
listed Tommy showed his disuse of
the gloves right away by lodging un-
necessarily, and the Hawaiian lad
seemed to land every time after a
feint. The finish came in the second
round, when Wahilani landed a hard
right to the jaw and Tommy saw stars
for several minutes.
1t was easy to see that Marlowe had
heen n great boxer, but he came back
to the ring too late, He was too anx
ious tn get at his man, and thus put
himself open for body blows. He was
! game as game could be to the very
, last, and while they may deprecate his
going back to the ring, one Thomas
Marlowe has not lost IA friend either