Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-23

BOD bltzSlmmone Is rlBnt- Inc
crop of white hopes is so bad that
he is justified In feeling that he still
has chance to again become the
champion Of the world. He said SO
last night at Madison Square Garden,
where two white hope" bouts were
staged. In one contest were Battling
Levinsky and Jim Coffey and In the
other were George Rodel, tho Boer,
and Jim Flynn. As H1tz sat watching
Levlnsky and Coffey go through their
ten-round mill he became Disguised
at their washerwoman efforts, and
Just before Rodel and Flynn began
ltostilities "old Bob" entered the ring
and made a striking speech.
After looking over the crop Of
white heavyweights," Bitzsimmons
said. II feel 1t my duty to challenge
any white man in the world. l have
here a certified check fer 81 900, which
l will post with any reputable man
to guarantee my appearance and con-
dition. have been out of the ring
for four years and people may think
that I'm old, but I've forty years yet
before j begin to wobble. Assisted by
my son and sparrins partner, L will
engage to whip them all, and will
post this $1,000 as a guarantee for my
appearance In the ring and for my
trand non5ftia,, 7 ba.ra "a oo,, % ,r1,oy,a
1 am very proud, and 1 hope to some
day see him the champion Of the
world
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Yes, Fitz said oil that. and many
of those at the ringslde who had seen
Robert perform in the squared circle
feel as IL tire old fellow could whip
the whole lot of them today. AS to the
white hopes who were on view
last night, they were bad lot. Out
Of the two bouts came Levinsky a
winner over Coffey and Rodel win
ner over Flynn; but there wasn't a
bit of real fighting class in the
whole bunch of them. The victory OF
Levinsky is feather In the cap
of Charley Weinert, who defeated
Levinslxy at Browns gym a few
weeks ago. The Battler, by the way,
fought better against Coffey than
he did against Weinert, but the
reason for that Is that Welnert Is
50 clever Levinsky couldn't get to
him. The best bout of the night was
tho one between Young Fox, an Eng
lishman, and Joe Moore The Eng
lishman is q bantam and a wonder.
He won all the way.
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The claim Is made that Nashville,
Tenn, Ia worse than Cincinnati as a
town. Imposslblel Cincinnati could
start baseball all over with Charley
Herzog, who Is the latest incumbent,
and then get SO far ahead In two
years that Nashville wouldn't be able
to find her with a spyglass.
O.
The newspapers have ruined many's
the mans career and In this particu-
lar case I'm about to refer TO they
may cost Charley Eb5ets, OF the
Brooklyn team, considerable money
and some worry. All this has to do
with Joe Tinker, who managed to es-
cape from that lovely baseball town
of Cincinnati and still be able to
command attention, Attention Is It?
Well. should say So and he is going
to command more than attention
he'll bust an awful hole In Mr.. Eb-
bets bank-roll. And It's all on ac-
count of the scribes who receive SIS
week and are always boosting ball
players salaries up to $4,000 a year
or thereabouts.
O.
Tinker is n good ball player and he
will make some money for the Brook
lyn Club, and he may make the team
the champion of the National League.
He is worth big salary worth all
he can get-but he isn't worth a
penny more than Mr.. Ebbets feels like
paying him. This, however. Is not
the view taken by the vast majority
of baseball writer's. At every mention
of Tinker's name his value Is boosted,
and IL he doesn't get his demands Mr.,
Ebbets and his associates will no
doubt be roasted as small, mean and
despicable magnates, who haveN nc
consideration or fairness for the poor
ball player" Then the fans, reading
of the millionaire club owner and the
much abused ball player, Gill get up
on their hind legs and demand that
the demands be met or else they'll
withdraw their patronage. Some
times the club owner is a hard-sense
business man and he'll go right on do
ing business In his own way and the
fans who were going to boycott the
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