Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-08
0 BRIEKS GREAT
BOXING SHOW IS
ON TAP TONIGHT
Odds Favor Wolgast to 0utpoint
K. O. Brown in Main Bout.
0'To0Ie Expected to Have a
Job With Digger Stanley.
Klaus Knocks Out Willie
Lewis.
v HESE are the four big "~little''
men ready to do battle at the

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men ready to do battle at the
American Clubs al-star show Ia
Philadelphia tonight. The most impor-
tant battle will be the meeting Of
Knockout Brown and Ad Wolgast in
the star bout. Wolgast, the champion
in the lightweight class. was, of course,
the favorfte this morning by odds of
100 to go. but New Workers were there
with their coin in backing up their lit
tie Gothamite champ" and showing
their loyalty.
II would be a nice valentine for the
X. o. kid" whose real cognomen Is
Va entine Braun, to bring home to his
mother the lightweight championship
and the fat bank-roll that will go with
II. st. Valentines Day Is rapidly APP
preaching, and it is here for this VAL
entine.
The Digger Stanley-Tommy O'Toole
(the other little mem bout is causing
as much speculation as the main fea-
ture of the a~ll-star bill. The English
bantam champion, Stanley. has fought
but once since arriving in this country,
and then. according to a consensus of
opinion, he was beaten by Frankie
Burns. Tommy O'Toole originally was
to have met Joe Coster. then Patsy
Kline and now Digger Stanley.
The first bout goes on at 9 o'clock,
when Jimmy Carroll, the California
bantam champion, meets Youug
O'Leary, of New York. Then the Stan
ley-O'Toole fight follows and then Joe
Jeanette and Jim Barry furnish the
semi-f1nal. Wolgast and Brown meet
in the last affair of the evening. All
of the bouts are at six rounds
Frank Klaus, of Pittsburg, knocked
out Willie Lewis. of New York. in the
sixth round of what was scheduled to
be a ten-round bout at the Fairrnout
Athletic Club last night.
In the first round the Pittsburger sent
Lewis to the mat for the count of nine.
Only the bell saved Lewis in the fifth.
n in the sixth he went down twice
from hard swings to the jaw. After
rising h second time he dropped to
the floor without being struck and was
unable to rise. Klaus was the heavier
of the two
Young Wagner and Johnny Daily have
been matched to meet In the main bout
of ten rounds at the new Postwar a.
Ss hCAA n1OildaS HlSlll. All AllSEa6tl1S
battle is promised, as Wagner IS an ex-
ceedingly clever boxer and Daily one OF
our earnest fighters.
johnny Waltz. of Jersey, knocked out
Fighting Dick Nelson, of Brooklyn, in
the third round of their ten-round bout
at Browns gymnasium, in New York.
last night. Nelson never lived up to
his name once.
George Deniea, of Pittsburg. a light
weight boxer, is in a critical condition
at a hospital as the result of injuries
suffered in a fight with Jake Abel at
Chattanooga last night. Denlea crawled
from the ring after he was knocked
out In the fourth round. but collapsed
soon afterward and has not ~regained
consciousness.
Pal Moore. of Philadelphia. claimed
his matched opponent at the Armory
Athletic Association. George Alger. oc
Cambridge, was overweight last night
and refused to go on with the bout.
Kid Scala. of Spokane, who arrived
from the Pacific coast during the day.
was substituted for Moore and put up
a game fight, but lost the decision In
twelve rounds to Alger.
When George Cotton appears at the
National Sporting Club tomorrow
night the boxing fans viii SCI
Jack Johnson's idea of "a coming
champion" When Cotton was John
sons sparring partner in Reno the
negro champion was never done sing
ing his praises. Cotton showed well
with johnson. Cotton will make his
New York debut with Morris Harris.
a big negro who has fought all the
best men in the heavyweight division
and even now shows few battle scars
He is about as good a trial horse as
could have been secured for Cotton