The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-12
MIKE PATTON
WILL REFEREE
Sullivan Is Still Favorite, With
Peterson Moaey Under
Cover.

Now that training is practically done
with, the fans cannot watch their favo.
rites go through daily stunts, so they
make up for it by congregating to-
gether and arguing the possibilities of
Sullivan s cleverness and Peterson IS
punch.
This leads to considerable amount
of betting and there will be no small
amount of money change hands on the
result of the contest There has been
some round betting, but not much. The
favorite limit seems to be twelve
rounds and Sullivan's friends are tax
ing small odds that Peterson will last
that long.
AS regards the result the odds keep
fairly stationary round 10 to 5 with
some offers of 10 to Z VIXEN Peterson
coin gets scarce. There is a strong
rumor that much Peterson backing is
waiting for the last minute and the
| longest odds to make its appearance
1t seems probable that Sullivan sup,
porters will have no difficulty in plac
! ing their money before the gong sounds
! tomorrow night.
Mike Patton has been selected as
the referee and this choice should prove
! acceptable to the general public. Mike
| is a sportsman of note in local circles
and has a thorough knowledge of the
game. He is cool-headed and strong
and may be relied on to hand out the
right dope SHOULD the bout go to the
limit.
All participants in tomorrow night Is
show Stacked up yesterday and did
practically no work. Sullivan did some
road work and about half an hour 4
easy exercising in the afternoon. Pc
terson did even less as he is well below
aid him in getting at his shifty oppo
| nent.
Hercules has entirely recovered the
use of his jaw in every way and is
looking remarkably fit. What he car
do with this big marine it is impossible
| to say as he has never even been III
ring before. All we know is that he
| is very powerful, can hit like a mule
kick and is very confident. On the
other hand he is not by any means 6
! boxer and is slow almost to clumsiness
He has improved, however, under Sulli
van s tuition and he may put up {
very fine go with Nelson.
Nelson is big youngster with nat
ural strength and activity and fearful
| appetite for punishment. Judging b.
his workouts, his great joy in life i
: to stand up and have another husky
boxer beat him all over his face ant
body
/ Of cleverness he has little at present
| but he has all the signs of that SANE
| thing being latent within him. III
seems to be fitting representative @
| the Nelson family and has that shak
! of the head and boring in way witt
/ him that has made his cousin the cham
/ pion lightweight of the world.
Of one thing we may be sure. Their
will be no two rounds of CATER yo1
my dear Alphonse" work, such a W
had when Miller and Joe Silva boxe'
/ (?). These two tyros will go afte
each other from the sound of the gonl
/ and something will doubtless drop be
fore the eighth round is called.
| The first preliminary, a four round g
between soldier Mccullough and Youni
Scotty, will be interesting as the return
of the soldier, who is much of a loea
| favorite on account of his gameness
Seotty is getting to be a remarkabl.
| clever boxer under tuition from sue
men as Peterson and these two vii
certainly put up a live bout.