The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-09
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WILL BE fine
Fans Express Pleasure Over
Certainty OF Bouts on
Saturday.

General pleasure was expressed along
the Rialto yesterday that the Peterson
Sullivan go is not off, as was persist
emily rumored With the unsatisfae-
tory ending of their last appearance
and the ill-feenng that was thus bred
between the two camps, everybody
feels sure that the bout will be great
one.
When Sullivan and Peterson hook up
on the stage of the Orpheum on Satur-
day night, they viii both be fit, men
tally as well as physically, to go right
in and land the curtain-drop If they
can only find the opening.
Peterson wants to wipe out the mem
CRY of the unlntentional foul blow
which he delivered, and he is willing
to stand all kinds of gait to get that one
chance to bore in with a sieep-pro-
Queer and put Sullivan away
Peterson has announced his intention
of wagering his entire wad on his
chances, and states quite positively
that he viii put Sullivan to the bad be-
fore the fifteen rounds are over. Then
he will get his chance at Kyle Whitney,
who, since his defeat by Al Neil. is
anxious to come here, and may be
brought over to meet the winner of
next Saturday night S go.
Neither one of the middleweights
stopped boxing at all while the pilikia
was being settled, and they are both
in such shape that the few days left
will put them on fit street. Sullivan
works at the Fort Shafter gymnasium
regularly every afternoon and is keep
ing his sparring partners busy
Yesterday afternoon Dick introduced
new stunt. He has been handling his
partners pretty hard, as he is practising
with certain punch, and he thought
it was time to get another one before
they got busted and the sawdust ran
out of them With this end in view
he arranged with the indomitable Her
cules II. to go out and work with him.
Now Hercules is very willing
puncher, and can give good practise in
that way, but he has no idea of de-
Tending himself, so, in order that he
should not get hurt, Sullivan borrowed
a baseball eatcher's body protector
from one of the soldiers and hung it on
the willing Greek. Then followed as
fast and furious sparring exhibition
as one would want to see. Hercules
could hardly feel Sullivan's blows
through the air-cushion and padding
and SO was able to come back as hard
as he liked 1t was so funny that the
little crowd of soldiers present was
eonvulsed with laughter, and the four
rounds were hugely enjoyed by every
body.
The preliminaries are to be repeti
tions of those that made such a hit last
Saturday night as introductions to the
wrestling match, Kid Terry will re-
peat his four-round stunt with Corporal
Bird and Soldier Mccullough and Young
Sharkey will double the length of thei1
engagement and go eight rounds.
The first lads are hghtweights and
both are puncners of extraordinary
ability. They 60 at each other like
young tigers and no sooner break from
a clinch than they are at it again as
hard as ever. Iney are SO evenly
matched that one can not draw a haiI
between them, and, if there is to be a
decision, it looks as though it would
be lucky punch that would save the
referee any DOUBT.
Mccullough put up a splendid bout
with Sharkey, and, though the latter is
distinctly the cleverer of the two, the
soldier comes back so hard and with
such determination that Sharkey will
have to use all his cleverness to avois
the fatal punch.
There is much more talk about this
show than there was about any of the
! previous ones, and it looks as though
the Orpheum would have the S. r. O
sign out before the lads enter the ring