Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-28

~ TO. continue from
the effects of the blow, but DR.. ]. b.
Prayer, of New York, who also ex-
amined Coster, declared the Brooklyn
boy was not much hurt. 'consulta-
ton of three physicians, including the
two mentioned above. in Coster's dress
ing-room. after he had been carried
from the ring resulted in a two-to-one
vote that Coster had not been hit low.
However, DIR: cummiskey was the club
physician, M his word went.
The Kline followers today claimed
that Dr.. Cummiskey later in the night
told them that Coster had been hit
neal the wound and was suffering more
from that than anything else. The
club paid Kline his money but with
held Coster's as a forfeit that he would
fight on the new date. May IS.
Zone newspaper man near Coster's
corner declared he heard Joe's manager
tell him to stay down when he at
4empted to rise. However true that
may be, all things considered, the
writer is of the opinion hat Coster did
not act like a man suffering from the
L injury he claimed he was, and that
4 Something else was the matter with
him. ~
The spell of the famous "hoodoov in
4 cidental to Jack O'Brien's ~all-star show
f5of February 8 was working at that
Whirlwind affair last night. That's the
cause of all the trouble.
lust think it over. Coster, Kline and
RAttell were the three men who were
compelled to cancel their engagements
on that February date; Kline because
Hof eye trouble. Coster through appen-
!sdicitis. Last night was the first they
entered the ring since that time. You
TASK where Attell comes .in?.s Well. the
N1ads are both claimants for Abe's title,
and last nights winner would have
laid claim to the honor in case Atteli
4 cannot get back into the ring. The
link" is ontsfges-mt .. s@
Coster, entered the ring wearing a
bandage usually adopted by Appendix
i citis patients for months after the
wound caused by the operation heals.
He looked anything but the strong Cos
ter I've seen before.
If Coster had been hit low severely
enough to cripple him he would not
have remained standing so long before
he fell and an aluminium cap he was
wearing would nav shown some mark
Rof a blow strong enough to cripple him,
as he declared he was.
"a i ilih lidt III piOW idliuCo III
ECoster's groin, zeal his wound, with
such terrible force that half the ter
5rors of appendicitis returned, and Co.'S
ter was really hurt.
HI The way he acted and the name in
which the pain fingered with him bears
out this conclusion, we think, and also
the ideas of the two physicians who
dissent from the opinion of the club
physician.
A prominent county official who at
tended the fight and was in a position
TO see the blow, he said, declared that
the blow struck Coster just about the
Vocation of. the appendicitis wound.
1t was an unfortunate night for poor
little Kline, for in our humble opinion
Coster would not have lasted more han
half the distance with hin last night.
Amy man Kline can hit on the jaw and
Fstomach with his left hand he can
Sbeat, and Coster is "easy money for
him, as is evident from the easy way
The shot his 9eft hand at the Brooklyn
hoy during the twenty-five seconds the
bout lasted.
So far as the fight itself goes, Coster
did not touch Patsy once. The local
boy missed one body blow, landed a
stiff left to the jaw and followed with
a terrific hook to the knockout spot
that shook Coster all over. The alleged
low blow followed this one, and it sure
~ seemed coster was not going to last
very long.
When Coster came into the ring he
must have weighed nearly 100 pounds,
because he tipped the beam at 125 at
8 o'clock, stripped. Patsy weighed in
dressed In his street clothes at less
than 1875 pounds.
A floral horseshoe was presented to