The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-04
CORDELL Has
FINE RECORD
Sullivan Will Have" to Train
Hard if He Is to Beat
Malihini.
Advertiser Photo.
;oMPETE WITH OTHER
BY Cassius Griffith.

To see two trained athletes and clever
boxers who are as well matched as are
Jack Cordell and Dick Sullivan come
together in the prize ring, is something
that will cause the hearts of sports
men to beat with more than ordinary
excitement and interest. The interest
especially in Honolulu in the contests
of these two. smart young fighters has
been doubled as their unassuming and
very pleasing manners have won for
them host of friends in every class
and those who show a great deal Of
sympathy over and above the prize
fight interest of punishment. The two
former fights have somewhat educated
the Honolulu sporting public up to get
ting more satisfaction from a bout Of
cleverness and headwork, in which tho
tension is taut from beginning to end
and where the boxers watch for an
opportunity or opening for victory with
the intuition of a hawk awaiting his
prey.
There are not so many, perhaps, in
Honolulu who know the fighting record
of these two men who on two occa-
sions have contested for the champion
ship of the Hawaiian Islands but to
larger community, to the great sport
ing public of all America they are
down in the chronicles as fighters with
record and whose contests are re-
garded with much interest.
Cordell, who has come down from
the Coast with ten years of ring ex-
perience in his behalf, to attempt to
wrest from the unsoiled champion, his
middleweight title, comes with a record
of having beaten some of the top,
notchers who are mentioned in the class
of Cans, Britt and Young Corbett. That
he is clever and classy has long before
been proven. For two years, against
such men as Fred Sanders, Paul Mar
tin and Jack Kane he held the titles
of featherweight and lightweight cham
pion of the Coast. The whirlwind Kane,
who fought Young Corbett to a draw,
was beaten by Cordell in the latter s
first professional encounter. In his Sec
ond attempt at the game Cordell beat
tough Charlie Sieger, the man who
went twenty rounds with James Ed
ward Britt. the IRON jawed, San Fran
cisco's pride.
Cordell arose high in the estimation
of the sporting world, however, when
in five rounds he beat the Mexican
champion Herrera. Herrera, who went
fourteen rounds with Joe Cans, and
who has the record Of being the only
man who ever put Battling Nelson on
the mat for nine seconds.
Again, Cordell rose to glory when he
defeated Eddie Santry who was feather
weight champion of the world and who
beat the English champion Ben Jordan.
Santry went down to defeat before Cor
dell in ten rounds. Since then Cordeu
has defeated Jack Dougherty a hither-
to undefeated boxer of northern Cali
fornia in three separate contests. The
records of these fstic battles show that
Cordell met and defeated his men fairly
and squarelv and is due the credit
With the reputation that Cordell has
succeeded in making for himself IN his
years of fighting and the sealps he has
taken. it would seem that he would not
journey to Hawaii unless he meant TO
meet a man worthy of his mettle. That
Cordell knows that Sullivan is of the
champion class is shown in his meth
DDS of training and fighting. After
having two fifteen round draws he
should be able to know his opponent
pretty well. He has carefully studied