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

over him. Rollers weight was giveI
as 212 pounds and that of Warner a!
1853
Roller Showed White Feather.
What do you think. anyway, of {
great, big fellow weighing 2i2 pound!
insisting upon a man A pounds light
err putting up $1,000 to assure the biz
one that the little fellow would no
toss him around the ring?z
AS a matter of fact, Warner weigh
ed less than 100 pounds that nigh
and two days before the match haC
been i'll in bed, something that moi
six people in Seattle knew. Carol
kept the fact carefully guarded, az
he knew Roller was afraid Of Warner
and he wanted to keep him brighten
ed. !
AS the gong rang ont the signal for
the combat to begin the excitement
in the arena was so great that it was
almost something tangible, =, albeit
there was not a sound. Such feeling
had been worked up over the match
that it was expected that something
would happen from the first.
Climaxes and Anti-ciimaxes.
Something did happen, and with be
wildering suddenness.
The instant Rollers hand touched
Warmers shoulder Warner sank to
the mat and rolled over on his back
Theaudience was paralyZed.
Roller looked blankly at his fallen
opponent, stupidity at the referee and
pleadingly at Curly, who sat in the
corner peering through the ropes
with a <dazed, expression .nnA his face.
Warner lay on his BACK ana twfd.
died his thumbs, the referee hover.
ing heiplessly over him Only Carroll
smiled. He was back of Warmers
corner, having dropped into a chair
in the box in which. l was sitting.
Carroll was always smiling, but now
his lips were curled further back than
usual and he looked across at the
stupefied Roller with a CLEAN of
triumph in his gaze. He had waited
year for that moment and it was
proving worth it.
Rollers First Fall.
why don't you; give Roller his
fall?" shouted Carroll to the referee. I
Yes, why don't you?" asked Warn
CL IOOhCu at
Herman put his hand on Rollers
shoulder.
Then things broke loose
"Fake!" came from some lusty
lungs IN the audience, and that was
the siglial for everyone else to com.
mence shouting. The noise became
terrific and high up on the seats at
one side two people commenced to
fight
Someone contracted frantic desire
to make speech and made gesticular
appeals to the crowd to give him a
hearing Others took up. the idea and
even got into the ring, but the crowd,
with commendable impartiality, yelled
at each to sit down. In the excite
ment Roller skunk from the ring to
his dressing room,s Warner sat in his
covered with his bathrobe, as
as a wooden Indian, and
Carroll just sat, in the box and smiled.
Curly wandered around the ring like
a lost soul.
The Explanation.
All the time there was man
standing about half way up the tier
of seats waving a piece of paper and
shouting something. BY sheer per-
sistency he secured a hearing and
after indulging in pandemonium for
half an hour the crowd settled itself
to listen to him.
when | came in at the door to-
night some man l do not know hand
ed me letter and told me to open it
70 h1 ofk H.
first fall rang out in his strong
voice.
sit down." yelled some cheerful
idiot, and another Is minutes of din
ensued.
Finally the man got a hearing and
read this letter:
in order to get this match, l, Bert
was obliged to post $1,000 as
a forfeit that l would lose the first
fall within rs minutes and the second
within 35 minutes. In order to pro-
tect my money l am going to lose the
first fall as quickly as possible and
the second just as quickly thereafter.
then want you (the audience) to in
sist that the referee be changed and
want to wrestle Roller on the square
and give the people run for their
l expect anything from put
ting out the lights to being arrested
by the police. l do not believe that
Roller will dare to wrestle with any
other referee but Herman. l want to
wrestle on the square and hope you
will use your influence to make Roller
wrestle me. have $1,000 at stake and
must protect it. Curly and Roller
have fixed this match and would not
agree to wrestle unless l agreed to
every demand they made that would
not throw Roller. B. R. WARNER"