The daily sentinel., 1910-01-22

FROM standpoint OF paid attend
ance., the record was broken at the
Park opera house last night. With
the stage packed, every seat occupied
and all of the standing room sold, it
was necessary to turn away over 80
people who clamored for admission.
Between 900 and 1000 people were
present to see Jeffries, Gotch. Berger.
Burns, Roller and the other members
OF the ALTAR sporting aggregation.
1t would be hard to express the i'm
preston made by the notable COM
pany of athletes. Perhaps the first
was rather disappointing for if one
expected TO see big brawny men, with
science and intelligence sticking out
IN Jumps, one was disappointed. The
Drawn and brute strength was there
but search for the other was futile.
The shallow Jokes and by.play for
applause, which fell with flat sound
on the large audience, gave rise TO the
thought that perhaps after all you
were attending but merely a human
stock show.
The exhibition of bag punching by
Prof. Herman, was perhaps the best
feature of the program, but the inter-
est In the huge throng was keen to
secure squint at the champion, con.
sequently applause was somewhat
slack. DR.. Roller next appeared and
made a short talk comparing wrest-
ling and fighting with other branches
of sport. naturally to the advantage
of the two former. As lecturer the
clever Seattle physician is not howl
ing success. His exhibition fall with
Jack Mccormick of Chicago was In
teresting but plainly rehearsed as the
shoulders of the Chicago man did not
touch the mat until the exciting mo-
ment had arrived. The impression
was given before the bout that If
Mccormick stayed in the ring with
Roller Is minutes he would receive
a lump of money. The fall occurred
in 49, Y minutes.
Ex-Champion Farmer Burns then
wrestled with Carl Temple of this city
and while 1t was plain Burns did not
| over-exert himself the match was not
as well prearranged as the other and
was quite interesting.
Champion Gotch, next was intro
| duced to appear with the professor of
a Kansas City wrestling academy.
This bout was very interesting as
several zines occasion was presented
to Gotch to show his monumental
! strength and the huge. superbly built
| champion with his good nature won
| the admiration of the crowd.
| James ]. Jeffries and Sam Berger,
his training partner and manager.
concluded the program with a few
minutes of sparring. Berger was
easily the more clever man of the two
but in the hands OF the burly heavy
weight he was merely child. .ef-
fries will undoubtedly have TO do a
lot of training to regain his wind as
his small exertions last evening caus-
ed him to pant and gasp as though h0
had been through hard mill. In
regard to corpulence and general
form he was in very fair condition
and 1t is safe to say that the white
man will give the black champion
the hardest tussle of his career. but
if the fight lasts over twenty rounds
it is hard to see much hope for the
former holder of the belt
The training stunts given by JEFF
fries were interesting and gave the
crowd ample opportunity to see the
undefeated heavyweight champion of
the world in movement and action.
There were a few features of lesser
Importance ON the program but the
big crowd was interested in the cham
pion only.
| The exhibition did not last over an
hour and half. Given by men of