The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-21
DOPE ON THE
BOXING CAME
Prospects of Smith-Reilly and
SuIIivan-PeterS0n
Bouts.


Messrs. frankie Smith and Charlie
Reilly, the two boys which Joel Cohen,
to use his own terms, imported at prodi-
gious cost, and who are matched to spar
fifteen rounds on the night of the 30th
inst, at the Orpheum.
Of course the usual line of hot air is
being handed out about the match hav-
ing been made in San Francisco, and
Cohen having had to bid against Coast
promoters. This, of course, is interest
ing press work, the facts of the case
being that both Reilly and Smith found
very little demand for their services
at the Coast and were glad enough to
embrace the opportunity to return to
this good old easy burg.
Reilly and Smith are nice enough
boys and will doubtless furnish scrap
which will be worth paying dollar or
so to witness. 1t ism It a high priced
card, however, and if Promoter Joel
wants to see his house well filed he
will do we'll to bill the show at popular
prices. At that he should make money,
unless he has set his mind on making
it all at once
The Miller Sullivan go left bad taste
in the mouths of many ring goers and
now that Cohen has got card which
doesn t look like turning out to be a
gold brick he should leave no effort un-
spared to gather the boxing enthusiasts
under the Orpheum s roof and show
them that he can deliver the goods.
As to the Reilly -Smith fracas, it
looks as if Reilly should win. He is a
clever little boxer and as gritty as
they make them. Also he can sting
some.
frankie Smith was expected IT, do
things to Sailor Trinkle of the battle
ship Maryland when they met in the
pavilion of the Independence Athletic
Club last year. He showed poorly,
however, and had he faced Reilly that
night the latter would have made a
monkey out of him.
1t is true that Trinkle outweighed
Smith, but at that it was a case Of an
untutored sailor stacking up against a
touted professionalism getting de-
cidedly the worst of it.
Had such a decision been given in
San Francisco as was rendered in the
Trinkle-Smith bout, the crowd would
have torn the place down getting their
money back.
Smith is working hard, at least, he is
said to be. In this he shows wisdom
for he will need to be in the ittest
possible physical shape when he stacks
up against Charlie Reilly.
The preliminaries look good The
four-round affair between Kid Boquet
and Eddie Hines will introduce in the
latter boxer new to Honolulu. Hines
came here with Cohen g bunch and
must be able to go some or he wouldn 7
| have been brought along. Boquet hash =
| shown much up to the present, but hi
is ambitious and willing to learn ant
may have improved since his opera
bouffe bout with Young Scott.
The other preliminary will be al
eight-round affair between Soldier Mil
| Ter and "Punchbowl'' Silva Miller i
the man who undertook the task O.
lowering Dick Sullivan s eolors, an,
! who got decisively lowered himself il
the attempt.
Silva is some scrapper, even it h
has a streak of gamboge in his makeup
as broad as the dragon flag, and has
| kick like mule if he even lands l
Miller doesn t show better than he di
when he opposed Sullivan, the Portu
guese will surely slay him.
The mill between Dick Sullivan an
George Peterson will probably tax
/ place two weeks from Saturday nigh
and should draw record crowd. Fo
some reason the big men draw bette
than the little ones.
Sullivan is better than he ever wa
in his life just now. The salt waite
and open air system of training hav
worked wonders in his condition and til
duration of the coming bout, fftee
rounds, will suit him to a nicely. Tt
extremely improbable that Kyle Viii
ney could stop Sullivan in fftee