Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-24
SNOWY BAKER, FISIIC BOSS
OF AUSTRALIA, TALKS OF ring
Promoter on Long Tour of America and Europe in Search of
Ring Stars Spends Yesterday in Honolulu - Baseball
win Be Big Sport in Antipodes- to See Hawaifs
Champion Duke Kahanamoku


Snowy" Baker paid Honolulu i
brief visit yesterday The real handle
TO bis surname is Reginald L., but
he Is known the sporting world over
as Snowy" which seems to fit him q
lot better. Incidentally. he is the
Invest wire Of Australasian sport, now
practically controlling the fight game
there, through a chain OF four stadi-
ums Ia the several states. He took
over all the fight promoting interests
OF Hugh Mcintosh, when the latter
jumped into the theatrical game.
Baker, accompanied by his wife, is
a passenger on the Ventura, which
touched here yesterday. He is max
ing an extended trip TO the United
States and Europe, In search of fstic
talent, and will probably make trip
TO South America before he goes back
TO Kangarooland, not because he fig.
ures on unearthing any ring proge.
dies, but because he is very fond of
travelling, and is able to spend both the
time and the money necessary for the
purpose. He is a well set-up young
man, OF prepossessing manner and
address, and before he became a
sporting mogul, he had won high hon
ors in amateur boxing, swimming,
rowing, and half dozen other sports.
Boxing is fiourishing In Australia"
said Baker during chat with a STAR
Bulletin reporter yesterday. There
is no chance Of adverse legislation url-
less something is done to put the,
sport IN bad odor, and ] shall take
care that nothing Of that sort hap
pens while ] am at the helm. The
best class OF people attend the weekly
shows at the several stadiums, and
we have something down there that
people In the states don't see at all:
boxing maffnees at which three on
four hundred ladies are present
There has been no breath Of susps.a
cion as to the sports honesty, and
the boxers themselves have been high
class
How about Jack johnson. Is there
any chance Of your using him again -
Baker was asked
Not in thousand years, =, he re.
piled. The Australian public, while
drawing no color line as 10 dgliters,
woul sAot stand for johnson ana
there would be no syrer way of queer.
ing the game than to get him down.
{ Il am after Carpenter hard. and
viii land him while In Europe this
trip. also have several other top
notchers in mind. and should return
home with my bookings secured for
many months to come"
Baker said that all Australia is an.
xionsly waiting for a chance to see
Duke Kahanamoku IN action. 1t was
q disappointment that the Hawaiian
champion and other local swimmers
were not able to make the trip this
year. he said. but a warm welcome
would be waiting them next winter.
Baker intimated that Duke might not
find an open path TO the Australasian
champ ionships, as some exceptionally
fast sprint swimmers had come to the
fore recently.
'sFIow about baseball. VIII it take
hold In your country"
Il believe there is a great future for
baseball IN Australia, said Baker.
The Giants and the White Sox have
arrived practically unheraIded, and
have met with tremendous success.
think that properly handled and fos.
tered, the sport will eventually sup
plant even cricket
One Of Snowy" Bakers missions
In the United, States and Europe Is
10 put the fight game on an organized
basis, q sort Of combination of pro-
noting interests which would assure
4 square deal to both parties in q
bargain He would like to see both
the promoter and the fighter protect.
ed by some sort of International
but did not go into de,
tails of the plan. ..