Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-17
Roller Forced 20 Wrestle.

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Another roar went up as the signi.
fcance of this statement sank into
the crowd Not a person seemed to
doubt it, Curly went to Rollers
dressing room and urged him to come
out and wrestle, but the worthy doc
tor was dressing to 60 home. The
, thought of contesting on the square
terrified him.
Finally some one in the crowd spot
ted Duncan Mcdonald and set up a
roar for him to act as referee. He
accepted and there was another roar.
Everything was done with a roar and
it became so funny that roars OF
laughter were added to the terrific
noise that prevailed. -
The only quiet persons there were
Warner. who sat in his corner look
ing indifferently at the wrought-up
crowd, and Carroll who left the box
and strolled around the outside of the
ring. Had anyone been observing
him it would have been noticed that
in his circuit of the ring he. stepped
into tn" seats IL times and spoke to
IL different people, three on each
side of the ring. When he got back
to his seat he remarked to Warner,
tits all right, Bert" Warner smiled.
To Turn Out the Lights.
Curly had other matches in contem-
plation and realized that he had to
get Roller on the mat. He went back
to the doctor and told him that if he
did not come out the audience would
come ill.,, and get him. Roller at last
agreed to- wrestle Werner sif Curly
would station some one at the switch
which controlled the electric lights
and that when he saw that he was to
be thrown he would signal to Curly,
Curly was to signal, to the man and
the lights were to be turned out. :
Where Curly and Roller made a
mistake was in supposing that there
was an angle to the game that Carroll
did not know all about. When word
was passed around that Roller would
wrestle, Carroll stood up and spoke to
Warner.
Watch yourself when the lights
are turned out, Bert" he said.
Intended to Eat Roller.
Don't worry" replied Warner,
when darkness comes my teeth will
be somewhere near the big stiff and
will commence to eat"
In planning his campaign Carroll
had anticipated everything. He knew
the sort of men Roller and Curly we're
and was so sure that they would turn
out the lights to save Roller that he
went to a store that kept electrical
supplies and rented II of their most
powerful handlights. He stationed IL
men, each supplied with one light,
around the ring and gave them in
structions that when the lights were
turned out they were to get ready;
that when they heard Carroll give
certain peculiar yell-one calculated
to be distinguished in the uproar-
they were to flash the lights on the
ring.
Carroll Plans an Onslaught.
Between the time the lights were
turned out and the electric lamps
were brought into play Carroll intend
ed to Jump through the ropes, hit Roll
Ter one mighty swat on the jaw, then
guide himself by the ropes to where
Curly sat and get in one good punch
at the pudgy manager, then scoot back
to his seat and give his war-whoop.
Such an action, taken in conjunc-
ton with the determination of Warner
to eat as much of Roller as he could
consume during the temporary eclipse,
might be considered as adding some
slight weight to the general convic-
ton that Roller and Curly were not
over-popular with Carroll and Warner. |
When Roller came out from the |
dressing room he was greeted with |
the reception he had received on his |
first appearance that night. His body |
was covered with grease, the dirtiest |
Of all tricks that one wrestler can |
play on another.
A PitffuI Figure.
Roller was really a pitiful figure. |
He appreciated that his reputation |
was forever ruined in the city where |
he had stood so high, that he had |
been found out in despicable attempt
TO defraud the public that had made j
him rich. and-more menacing and
dreadful than either-there was in the
opposite corner a little man-quiet,
cool and se1f-possessed-who would
not only throw him. but would be by !;
no means gentlee in the throwing.
Warner jumped nimbly to the Gen.. :
Ter of the mat and the instant Rollers
hand touched him he lay down. thus
giving Roller his two falls and pro-
Letting Garrolrs $1,000 guarantee that
he compact would be kept.
Then they commenced to wrestle,
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