The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-20
SCULLY HUI IS
CHASING COHEN
(From Saturdays Advertisor.)

(From Saturdays Advertiser.)
The boxing situation came to de.
cided head yesterday afternoon when
Joe Cohen signed up Wahilani definite.
ly and Jack Scully announced that
Wahilani would appear for him and not
for Joe Cohen.
The following is statement signed
by Wahilani at the Ironworks yester.
day at noon, in the presence of Joe
Cohen and several other responsible
parties.
81 see by this mornings Advertiser
that Jack Scully claims to have me
matched to box for him at the Star
Theater as preliminary to his main
event
81 take this means to state that Mr..
Scully tried to get me to break my
contract with Mr.. Cohen, but refused
to do so.
81 shall box Mccullough at the
Orpheum as per my agreement with
Mr.. Cohen all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding,
"(Signed) JOHN WAHILANI."
This signed statement seems con-
elusive enough, but Scully produces an
equally conclusive argument and it is
hard to say what Wahilani means to do.
Either he is simple and does not know
his own mind or he is trying to play
the two promoters against each other.
He was supposed to be at the
Orpheum at o'clock to train with
Jackson, but he did not turn up and
could not be found last night. Re
sponsible people state that Bill Huihui
is advising him to play for the biggest
| purse he can get and that those sig
natures do not amount to row of
beans. Our friend Wahilani may find
that signature does amount to some
| thing.
Mike Patton has also gone back on
, Joe Cohen. He stated both to Joe and
to an Advertiser representative that he
would referee for Joe. Taking this
word as good Cohen went ahead and
! had his name printed on his advertising
matter as referee.
On Thursday night Scully stated thai
Mike would referee for him. This ap
peared in the mornings paper and Mr.
/ Cohen, in company with an Advertiser
man, went to see Mike Patton. The lat
ter confessed that he was going to act
/ for the opposition hui at the Stal
Theater and, in explanation of his &C
ton, produced signed statement guar
anteeing him $50 if he would act al
referee.
Mike Patton can hardly be blamed
for taking such action but he shout,
have notified Cohen before doing sc
He put Cohen in bad position an,
caused the impresario much annoyance
This action of the gang that is "Try
ing to do Joe Cohen up' is typica
of their methods. Such a sum to
referee for one 60 is simply unknown
here. 1t is another proof that the hu
at the back of Jack Scully is Willing
to dig deep in its Jeans in order t.
hand it to the man whom they imagin
has done them n wrong in keeping hi
pledge as a legislator.
So far as Wahilani is concerned, 10
: E,Cohen states that he does not car
whether the Hawaiian lad keeps hi
appointment or not, but he states yer
positively that, should WahiIani nc
box at the 0rpheum, as he has agree
, to do, there will be no boxing ON tn
night of July "a "The first principl
of warfare" said Joe els, if you car
not hold the fort, blow it up, even
, you get blown up with it and ever
! man with piece of heart IN him wi
} do it," The boxing can be stopped.
Jack Scully requested last night tina
! the following statement from him b
, published:
! 81 wish to deny in toto the statemer
4 of Jacob Tavares, known as Young Ne
son, which appeared this morning an
in which my name was mentioned.
, "In the first place, it is absurd o
the face of it to suppose that boxe
: of Young Nelson s. caliber could, b
D any stretch of the imagination, b
D worth 5000 to any promoter of boxin
l bouts, even if he had contracted to be
D a dozen different men instead of two.
0 81 promised Young Nelson a luu
] sum of 800 to box Rafferty, and Dixie
0 and not only kept my world with hi
0 but threw in ffteen.dolar bonus.
o at is strange that Young NelsC
= should have reserved his roar till tn
2 late date, and it would be interestiI
4 if you could print the exact circuI
Z stances which have caused him to st
j up an already settled matter, evident
4 with the idea of discrediting mysel
Yours, JACK SCULLY.'