Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-09
HOWARD PUTS
X. o. SIGN ON
JACK MARTIN
Silent One Mo Match for the
Speedy Hobokenite in Hill
side Bout.

Johnny Howard. the Bayonns
fighter. won another fight by the
knockout route last night when
he disposed of Silent Jack Martin.
of New York, in the fifth round Of
their scheduled ten-round go at the
Hillside Athletic Club. Martin, who
is deaf mute, was no match for the
clever and hard-hitting Howard, and
IL seemed as If he was looking for a.
| soft spot on the mat when Referee
| George Monroe stopped the battle.
| Martin WAS substituted for Jack
| Denning. who on Monday injured his
right hand by smashing It through q
pane of glass in escaping from a
street car that was on fire on the
viaduct near the Palisades in Bergen
| county.
/ Martin was willing to mix with
| Howard for the first three rounds
! but the Bavonne lad simply toyed
with him and would stop all the dear
mutes rushes with straight jabs to
the lips and nose. He had the lips
bleeding before the end of the firsE
round and kept peeking away att
them throughout the fight.
Martin possesses little science but
packs hard wallop and can take a
| lot of punishment. He has a habit
OF grunting every time he starts a
SWIM, and as NEST OF them were
| wild last night about the only effect
1 his swings had were to bring forth
each time a loud ugh" from him
sell
In The opening round Martin mada
the 2.e00 fans present sit up and take
notice when he rocked Howard with
a hard right to the side of the head
and followed 1t with a light left TO
the jaw. Howard then settled down
1 to business and before the round was
a minute and half old had Mar
tins lips bleeding.
Howard Lands at VIII.
In the second round Howard hit
Martin almost at will, but he was
suffering from the effects of an ac-
cidental low blow and did not seem
to have much steam behind his val
Tops. 1t was the same in the third
/ Howard seeming to be content to
lab and walt until his strength came
back.
lie got that back in the fourth and
slammed Martin all over the ring,
raining rights and lefts to the Jaw.
but Martin showed he could take a.
lot of punishment. He was all but
helpless at bell time, and 1t was APP
parent that the fifth would see his
finish.
Ii did. Martin came out with 2
rush but Howard stopped him with
a couple of jabs. Howard then shot
a right hook to Martins jaw and he
went down in heap. Howard
walked to his corner apparently
thinking 1t was all over, but Martin
got to his feet at the count of nine
and ran and clinched with Howard
before the latter could land a blow.
IToward fought himself loose and
then landed another right hook on
the jaw and Martin went down on
his hands and knees, He remained
in that position as Referee Monroe
started to count but it was appar-
ent that he was all in. and Monroe
picked him up and helped him to his
corner.
IT was funny to hear Dan Nc
ISetrick, Sailor White and the others
who were in the deaf mute's corner
i Yet1lfK 1ftStIuttlDHE at MN uQtt AtH
the battle, knowing full we'll that he
could not hear word they We're
saying. After the knockout Nc
Ketrlck disowned Martin as one of
his stable of fighters. and said he was
only lad he had picked up in New
York to take the place of Denning.
semi-ffnal n Hummer.
The serni-Anal brought out six
rounds of the fastest kind of fight
ing with Eddie Jackson having an
infnitesimal shade at the end over
Battllng Jimmy, both of the lads be-
ing from this city. The bout was
fun Of action every minute Jackson
taking q big lead in the early rounds
only to have Battling Jimmy come
back near the end and all but even
things up. Both boys had good
healthy swings that swung often and
connected regularly. but neither could
land the sleep wallop on the other;
both were bleeding freely at the finish,
Jimmys lips having been cut wide
open in the very first round, while
Jackson had a flowing nose and a
CORY ear in the last two rounds OF
the fight. 1t was one of the fastest
and most pleasing bouts that the club
has put up this year.
The third preliminary fight was a
grudge battle between Kid Black
and Kid Shelton, both of Pnter-
son. Neither of the boys knew any
thing about the science of the box
ing game, but both were willing to
take all sorts Of chances in order to-
get an opportunity to land hard
wallop on the other fellow SHELTON
was the luckier and landed the most
punches, and had Black pretty we'll
marked up at the finish of the four
rounds while the sides of the crowds
were sore from laughing at the antics
of the pair.
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