Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-17

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IT HE First Regiment Athletic AS
ISOLATION has appointed a com
mittee TO consider the advisa-
bility of conducting q series of boxing
exhibitions for amateurs after the
fashion of the Irlsh-American A. =.
exhibitions in New York. The COM
fnittee is expected to have q meeting
Ia the near future to take some action
and to outline the manner of holding
the bouts. The success the Conway or
ganization mas had has made the Off
GERS of the association think seriously
of the plan. They are assured aid
from New York.
It's only a short time off now that
box scores of the baseball games will
be found in the newspapers. When
one comes to consider what aInuse-
inent a man gets out OF a game Of
baseball, the length of time he is
amused In the open air under a health
giving sky, 1t is the cheapest sport n
the world. Think of the money boxing
fans pay to see two pugilists punch
each other in a srnoke-f1lled clubhouse
and then cast an eye at baseball. Base
balls natural environments are its
greatest features.
Cheese Champion" was on Battling
Nelson's tongue every other minute the
other night on an 81" train on the way
home after the Hurley Smith fight
every time the name of Ad Wolgast
was mentioned. It's strange a man
tries to discredit his conqueror, there
by casting reflections on his own abil-
aty. II Wolgast who surely beat
Nelson after more than forty rounds of
grueling lighting. Is "a piece Of cheese"
what Is Nelson himself? They forget
to apply tho same situation TO them
aelves.
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TX o." Browns objection to Patsy
Haley "a a referee. that he cannot
separate boxers without going between
them, thereby putting extra weight ON
one or the other of the fighters, Is not
unreasonable. This next Brown-Wol-
CAST fight will be important to Brown,
and he should have everything SO far
as possible to his liking. A good
referee, as we have often said, should
only have to touch his mep as a warn
ing that they must separate. When he
has 20 go between them and almost
fight with tho men he has not the
proper control over the boxers.
Shadow Morris and Willie Lewis are
matched to meet in the star bout of
the McGuigan show next Monday
night. II was also announced that Jim
Savage and Sailor Burke would meet
at the McGuigan barracks within a
fortnight. It is understood that he
bout will be staged on Washington's
Birthday night.
Irish Mahon will not box In New
York Monday night, as he will meet
some good boy at the Olympic Club
Washington's birthday. Monday after
next Mahon will appear at the Post
man A. c., of New York, with Marty
Allen. That will be the semi-inal TO
the Leach Cross-Willie Beecher bout.
II In said that the National Sporting
Club, of England, has offered a $4,000
purse for a bout between Sam Lang
ford and Jack Johnson. The champion
has not been heard from as yet.
Billy Zimmerman, the clever base
hall pitcher of this city. tells a
good story about a bush" league
nitcher. The "busher'' was green as
. grass, but anxious to learn everything
he could from the older players. He
would sit in open-mouthed amazement
and listen to the talk of tho vets" He
worked out daily with the team for
awhile, and then one day his chance
came.
There were three on base when he
was sent in and II was a critical mo-
naent. He curved two strikes over the
pan and the fans went wild. He stood
lingering the ball nervously as the
catcher, crouching behind the bat, gave
the signal. The excitment was intensel
The "busher" wound up and sent the
ball plateward as straight as a string
and the batter drove it out for a homer!
After the game the catcher tried to
sheer up the disconsolate "busher."
''Too bad you lost control of that third
ball." he said soothingly.
Lost control!" said he" ousher." Il
didn't loose control. Didn't o signal
for a waist ballP"
he na0 Deen pI6NlOubiJ hlStFuStcu
that three fingers meant a waste ball
and he didn't get the right Idea Of what
kind of waste was meant.
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Billy Lewis knocked out Tommy
Moore. OF Frisco, at he Brooklyn
Beach Club last night In the second
round of a ten-round serni-final. Billy
may be matched with Dave Deshler at
the Proctor Club In the near future.
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Young Erne, of Philadelphia, and
Young Ahearn, Of New York, have been
matched to meet at the American A.
G., of philadelphia, on March 1. The
winner will meet the winner of the
-Madole bout.
.
When / looked at Battling Hurley
the other night In his bout with Cy
smith I could not help conclude that
I had never seen a faster puncher than
the Passaic boy once he gets started.
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10 the Sporting Editor of the Evening Star;
I wish to state that I am getting in
the lighting game again and win take
ON any ~120-pounder In the city, Carl
a.xy IaAaI cIuh