The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-07
CHAMPIONSHIP.
Critic and LavEgne Will Settle the
Matter at Bayonne Tonight.


The lightweight championship of the
world will be decided tonight at the
opening of the Active Athletic Associa-
TONS big amphitheatre at Constable
Hook, BayonEe.
Young Critic of Australia. probably the
most scientific lightweight the world mas
ever seen. and kid" Layigre, the Sag
inaw lad, who has had a remarkable
successful career, will be the contenders
for the title. There are two hot pre-
liminary appetizers to the big event be-
sides, making forty rounds of boxing iii
al. Solly Smith will face kid" Nc
Partland for ten rounds and Sammy
Kelly will box a like number of und
with Casper Leon.
All are likely athletes. Selly Smith
has the credit of giving Champion
George Dixon the hardest bout in the
latters remarkable victorious career.
Mcfarland is a big. strong fellow, with
a dangerous straight left and and a
right that has cut short many ambitious
boxers. Sammy Kelly ranks as one of
the foremost bantam weights in the
country and confidently expects to whip
Casper Leon, whose great battles with
Jimmy Barry, the American champion,
are too well known to need recounting.
If Kelly wins he wild be matched to
meet Billy Pfimmer.
In LeVigne VS.. Critic it will be strength
against science, and no better examples
Z of physical culture could be secured than
in presenting this pair. Lavigne a an
unbeaten career, and, beginning as a
featherweight he has scored victory up
on victory over the cracks until now he
is looked POI as the most dangerous
lightweight IN the country, As ne de,
veloped IN years he became powerful and
sturdy In frame, and soon tackled the
best in the 1926 pound class, namely, Jer-
ry Marshall. the Australian, and Johnny
Griffin, who once held the 12 pound
championship of the world. Layigpess
clean-cut victories induced his baclers
TO soar higher and hey arranged ni 4 9oH Ut
a draw after eight rounds of the hardest
boxing ever seen between ~lightWeights
In Chicago.
leans and whipped Andy Bowen in four
teen rounds. He fought Jack Eyeraarqt
rext and won in twenty ROUNDS. als
Ter, Bob Fitzsimnons' clever young
protege. The Saginaw lad won IN hye
rounds. His methods of boxing steadHy
improve, but his tactics are always the
same. His is a rough and ready styie,
and woe it is to the man that applies
dflatory tactics in facing him.
CRITICS wonderful defence work mas
often been praised. but it awaited MN
nothing in the Chicago engagement, and
it is pretty safe to say he will have to
cut loose and light in order to win this
battle. That the Australian can outlook
them ali. few will doubt after witness
ing his engagements with Jack Mcguire,
whom he clearly bested, and Horace
Leeds. the Atlantic City boxer, who haa
Charley McKeever defeated in four
rounds last winter, but in meeting
Lavfgne he will have to 90 more than
scientific sparring and he will no doubt
be Obliged to extend himself In order to
win. Critic realizes this and has trained
hard for the contest. The work has been
done at Spring. Lake. and reports say
that could not be truthfully announced
for any of his previous engagements in
this country. In meeting Lavigne he re-
allies that the contest of his life is be-
fore him, and he has wasted no time in
getting absolutely fit.
Mike Haley, who is training him, says
Critic will surprise everybody, and that
his claim to the championship will be
established without a doubt. Lavigne
he is confident is better evidenced by tho
fact that a big bundle of Western money
arrived from Saginaw last night to be
wagered in New York on his chances.
.fYank, Sullivan of Syracuse, who has a
national reputation for fairness and in
tegrity, will referee; Frank Langford will
hold the watch and Fred Burns will act
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