Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-07
O'BRIEN PICKS
DIGGER STANLEY
FOR TOM O'TOOLE

TACK O'BRIEN put a plug in the big
hole that threatened to sink the
~ American Athletic Club ship and
swamp the fght-card schedule for
Wednesday night He signed Digger"
Stanley. the English bantam champion,
to fight Tommy O'Toole, the famous
Attle Quaker City scrapper. They are
TO meet at LIZ pounds, weigh In at six
o'clock. This is practically an inter-
national championship, and puts the
Quaker City promoters big star box
ing night on even a better footing
than 1t was before the link" put up
g. permanent camping ground on the
clubhouse steps.
With Knockout" Brown and Ad.
Wolgast fighting for the lightweight
championship, Joe Jeanette n jim
Barry raising a rumpus in the heavy
weight division, n Jimmy Carol and
| Young O'Leary to round out the pro-
gram, the menu offered the fistic fans
could hardly be surpassed. The great
interest manifested in this bill by the
tremendous rush for seat reservations
at the clubhouse and on The special
train, which will leave the Pennsylva-
mia depot at 6:38 and return to Gotham
Immediately after the last bout. arriv-
ing in New York very close to l
o'clock, shows that the experts appre-
ciato philadelphia Jacks efforts 70
serve them the greatest freat of the
year. The special will also pick up a
delegation at Newark, stopping at 1902
on the way to Philadelphia. and At
1904 on the return trip. Reservations
for the train and seats for the club
house can be secured at room sos, Flat
iron building. Telephone, 52S Gramercy
Cyclone Johnny Thompson, the
American w~elterweight, gave pounds
away to Dave Smith, the Australian
middleweight champion at Sydney, N.
S. W., but the best Smith could do In
the 20-round bout was to gain the de-
cision on points. Thompson, Who not
so long G was fighting as a light
weight and who appeared to be carry
ing severa. pounds Of superfiuous flesh,
surprised the crowd by not only stay
ing the limit, but by giving Smith a
tough battle.
The Postman Athletic Club on the
East Side gave a formal opening last
night, the feature entertainers of the
evening being Joe Bedell n Willie
Beecher. who battled ten of the liveliest
rounds to a draw that one would care
to witness.
The club-rooms were packed to the
rafters and each principal had a fol-
lowing thai could be heard all the way
to the Bowery. There was no end to
the arguments after the fight was over
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Taking everything into consideration.
clean hitting. forcing. leading. clever
ness in general. It was a pretty even
fight when the last bell rang. Beecher
made a wonderful finish in the last
round after taking a terrible body
punching in the previous rounds and
having the first. third and fourth
rounds in his favor. with an ever break
in the seventh, he was clearly entitled
to a draw.
"Packy' Mcfarland, of Chicago. and
Bert Keyes, of New York, fought six
rounds in a mediocre display of boxing
at Pittsburg last night. Mcfarland APP
peared to be toying with Reyes through
the bout. although the latter. despite
his Witness, got in several long-range
iabs. with no steam behind them. 1t
was the opinion of the sporting writer's
that Mcfarland held himself in re-
straint and at no time let himself out.
Sammy Kellar, England's champion
bantamweight, easily outpointed
Tommy Houck, of Philadelphia. In a
ten-round bout at the Olympic Athletic
Ciuh tozt NIGHT Kallar Gcorad tha onIv
Touchdown of the fight In the third
round. The Briton was clearly Houck's
superior all the way.