Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-03
''YOung Foster" Found to
Have Sustained FraC-
tured Skull.
MADE DEBUT BEFORE
HARRISON FIGHT CLUB
Police investigate Report OF
Manner in Which He
Was Injured.

Police of this city and Harrison are
investige ig the mysterious circum-
stances mantling the manner in which
Angelo veneziano, a young fighter, who
made his debut at McGuigan's Boxing
Club in Harrison last night, received
the injuries which will almost certainly
cause his death.
Veneziano, who assumed the battling
soubriquet Of Young Foster" took q
terrific beating. but managed TO stay
in the ring during the four rounds OF
the bout. Early this morning. it Is said
by those who claim to have seen f.
an automobile drew up in front Of
Veneziano's home, at Al Garside street,
this city, and an unconscious man
taken from II and placed on the side
walk.
A telephone message to the Second
Precinct station conveyed these facts
10 the police and a patrol wagon was
hurried to the spot Meantime the
unconscious man had been taken in the
house. An investigation revealed the
fact that veneziano was the injured
man. and that he had engaged in
prize fight the evening before at Nc
Guigan's. The police of Harrison were
notified Immediately and an ambulance
was summoned from the City Hospital.
At that institution il was discovered
that venexiano had sustained . frac-
ture at the base of his skull, which
When the police were told of this de-
velopment In Che case the investiga-
tion was begun.
Discredif story of Friends.
But for the fact that veneziano was
brought home In so secret and mys-
terious a manner, and that occupants
Of the automobile did not remain to
see that he was carried in the house,
but hastened away, the explanation Of
the Youths friend that he received
his injury when he fen from a bench.
might be credited more readily by the
police.
According to the stories the police
have been told Young Foster. who lives
at Il Garside street, this city, went
into the ring for a four-round bout
with Packey Honey. He Is 10 years
old, and had never foul - in public be-
fore Honey hammered him around
the ring throughout the unequal con-
test. But Young Foster was still on
his feet and still fighting back at the
last bell. When his friends, Joe Vic
toreIlo and Rocco Cicchetti, took him
to his dressing room he said he hadn't
been hurt by the punches at all, and
insisted upon returning to the ringside
to watch the next bout from the
vantage point of bench, on which all
three of them stood.
His two seconds say that Young
Foster must have tainted and toppled
off the bench upon the back of his
head. for the next they remember he
was lying unconscious on the floor with
half dozen other spectators trying 10
bring him back to life. He was still
unconscious when somebody sent him
to the City Hospital In an ambulance,
and he had not revived this morning
No other arrests than those of the
/ two seconds were made. They are held
to await the outcome of the fracturs,
which is at the base of the young
prize-fighter's skull. Homey's name is
| William Kennedy, and he lives at :
South Sixth street, Harrison.
Says Bout Was Tame.
Patrick McGuigan said this morn
/ ing that the bout between Veneziano
and Kennedy was very tame one,
and had 1t not been the opening one
he would have stopped 1t because OF
the lack OF action. He declared that
there had been no knockdowns and
positively no knockout.
The men locked up in the police sta
tion declare that the fighter fell about
twenty-five minutes after his bout.