Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-01
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the ring several times when the pugs
have commenced %pummeling each other,
but 1t is doubtful If he will do so
again.
People who have watched the motor
cycle races IN Clereland's motordrome
complain of a new disease. 1t is called
motordromitis or swivel neck" The
track Is n quarter-mile affair, which means
that the riders shoot around twenty times
In n hve-mile race. Consider what this
must mean to spectators who watch the
races closely. If your fancy fails you
Just twist your neck around twenty times
and then you'll nave some idea of what
1t means to suffer with motordromltis
or Swivel neck"
Fishing is good in the vicinity of Jim
Flynn's training mi but that aspiring
young gentleman is spending no time with
the hook and line these days. He claims
JeTries's defeat at the hands of johnson
was due more to the fishing game than to
the punches that came from Jacks arms.
None of that fishing for mine" says
Flynn. That other big lobster lost the
fight more on that account b anything
else, and Johnson will not face II fisher
man on July 4, but a well-trained athlete.
| backed by a strong heart, and ] assure you
that ! will set a pace that will astonish
even my own best friends
1t looks as II Cy Young, of the Boston
Nationals, were done for in the big
leagues. His good right arm, which In
twenty-three years has won scores of
victories, is no longer to be trusted. Cy
is now resting up at his farm at Paol,
o. He still hopes that be will be able TO
pitch the remainder of the season, but
the chances are against him..
However, let us not mourn too deeply
for the old veteran. He has had almost
a quarter Of a century of 1t. Besides, lie
has SIS, 900 tucked away In his sock, which
IL properly handled should keep him out
of the poor house for several years to
come. -
Great is Mike GibbonsAthough one Of
She latest stars to shine In fistiana ne Is
already one Of the brightest In the whole
galaxy. When Mike first went in for
fsticuffs he was content TO clean up only
on aspiring youngsters OF his home town
Paul, MINI. He wiped the earth
with them, tore them into shteds, and
pounded them into soft and plastic jelly.
1t was hard to get him away from st.
Paul. He seemed to think that his sun
rose and set in the suburbs of that Mime
sofa town; but finally his friends induced
him to step outside the city gates. He
soon made wide ~conQuests, and now
Paddy LAWN, Freddy WEIGH and other
lending pugilists declare him to be the
most remarkable man for bis weight that
has happened In a long time.
Mike Sweeney, the former worlds rec
ord-holder for the high jump at 6 feet
59S inches, will journey all the way from
Hill School, Pa, to see George HORNE,
the Western champion, perform In the
high Jump at the Stadium June 8. You
can Just put II down, too, that Mike will
be the first one to shake the Westerner
by the hand II this youngster clears the
dizzy heights reported.
Buddy Faulkes will meet Leo Johnson
for the negro featherweight championship
at the Brooklyn Beach Club. New York,
/ Monday night. Faulkes Is now n Benedict
and Is residing in Waterbury, Conn. bav-
ing obtained a position with a watch
company there. He Is training there with
Joe Shugrue, who also resides in the
New England State.