The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-14
CRAFTY MANAGERS ARE
ANXIOUS FOR THIS FIGHT

subject, lie ii ever occur to you, since
last Saturday afternoon, when Packey
knocked out Mister Ulna Britt, why it
is that they call Jimmy's %conqueror
Packey? Don't you know? Well, you
know that Packey is not the usual
handle attached to a name of the Nc
Farland type. The Westerner is dubbed
Packey for two reasons. The first is he
was employed in one of the largest
packing houses In Chicago, and the
other is that he halls from the largest
pork-packing city in the world. Now
stow this away for some w~eisenheimer
who may come along tomorrow or the
next day and ask you if you know.
Tell it to him, but for goodness sake
don't say that l told you.
Is Packey FOOLISH.
| don't think this young fellow, who
in a few hours leaped from the back
ground of pugilism into the front rank,
Is nifty enough to take on Joe Cans
without a little more experience. You
know in this game of hit and break
there is an awful lot to learn. And
take it from me without any other guar
antee that there is nothing In this game
for Cans to learn. He has studied his
book from cover to cover, and he has
every trick IN the pages down by heart.
But with Packey it is different. He
hasn't got as far as decimals yet in his
pug1istic arithmetic, but he las plenty
of time to get there. No, sir. If he is
the boy | take him to be he will leave
Mr.. Cans alone until he has mastered
the first three books in Knockout geom-
etry anyway.
Cans san Has the bundle.
You may talk as you like, draw as
many deductions as it may please your
temper, but remember you will come
back to this original declaration made
by many saGes in the business, and it
is this: 'Mistah Cans. sab" still has
the bundle of knockouts up his sleeves
and he will have them until he agrees
to go a couple of furlongs over his dis
lance mark with a younger and spryer
galloper than he is. If Cans keeps
within his pacing distance then mis-
tab" Mcfarland will do well to leave
off touching him for a year or more.
When he does agree to face Joe make
the latter agree TO a long bout. Age
may help Paeleey to win the palm.
on Again, On Again.
According to reports received over the
telegraph wires that match between
Cans and Nelson is off. It is q mighty
good thing that it is. 1t looked and
smelled kind OF fishy, to say the least.
Imagine a bona-tide match with Cans
permitting the Dane to weigh as much
as he wanted while Cans was STIMULATING
to do the 133-Dound gag, What on
earth would there be in it for the fight
ers, much less the spectators? There
could be no title and the public is get
ting tired Of Cans and Nelson in the
same ring anyhow. Nelson is due TO
open up a saloon and hand out tales of
how he never licked Cans and he might
add the iuckiest NUT i'm %1ghtdom." Let
us hope that we will hear no more
about this Gans-Nelson affair again. It
is getting tiresome.
Anxious Pug.
l got a letter today signed Anxious
Pug asking me to tell him in today's
STAR what purse Mcfarland got for
winning from Britt. Here is the reply:
The winner received $4,000 fiat. The re-
ceipts of the fight reached 5000. which
was a great disappointment TO the club
members who promoted the affair. Britt
received but 81, 200, so you see, after the
referee and the men who performed in
the prelims. constables and other Off
cials We're paid off, there was nothing
left for Jimmy Coffroth n his club
companions.