Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-20

it 81 to 0, and with not black mari
on her body. She pla. good foot
ball, and at times fast football, bu
she played careful football withal
The Ellis are going to come strong, Il
would seem, just when the big game.
are on. That used to be her boast
that she was always there wher
needed-but the last year or so she
hasn't made good, and she is losing
the name of the Bulldog.
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Outside of being scored upon, Har.
ward hasn't a single excuse to offei
for the way she performed against
Holy Cross on Saturday. The Grim
son played the same capable foot
ball she has been showing us fol
some time now, even though she
seems to feel as if she is all-power-
full and that her strength is not to
be denied. Her line of play and her
method of play were superior in every
way, yet Holy Cross didn't seem to
scare nohow and kept at the
Johnny" boys in true Spartan
fashion. Really, of the big Four
Pennsy having beaten Brown % to
0 and thus creating at least a mild
surprise, Harvard, while playing an
excellent game, showed much less I'M
provement, comparatively, than did
Princeton, Yale and Pennsylvania.
/ Yale, if anything, came to the front
| more gloriously than any of them,
and Princeton did well enough to suit
the coaches.
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Newark billiardists are in for a treat,
for soon We will have Willie Hoppe,
the worlds champion, and Koji va
mazda, the great Japanese expert, in
our MIDST. Thanks to the energetic
efforts of James Wheaton, these two
opponents of that most fastidious of
pastimes will indulge in an exhibition
match in this city on October 80 AS
arranged, the wizards of the worries
will cross cues at the Metropolitan
billiard parlors. Market and Wash
ington streets, and the winner will be
the expert who first succeeds in MAX
ing ESQ points. The exhibition is sure
to create much discussion among local
Knights of the cue, and the parlors
are hardly likely to afford ample
room for those who will desire to see
the men play. Mr.. Wheaton said this
haf he IL
foot forward in order to accommodate
just as many as possible and he be-
lieved he would be able to take care
of 500 persons on the night of the
Hoppe Yamada match.
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The next big pugilistic affair on the
carpet is to happen next week at
Madison Square Garden, when Willie
Richie, the worlds lightweight
champion, will meet Leach Cross,
who hasn't any title, who never had
any title and who never expects to
have any title, but who generally gets
about as much money, all told. the
year around, as the leading actor in
the game. The match, naturally, is
arousing wide interest and there is a
keen desire to see Richie ir action.
New Workers have seen very little of
Willie at all and they have not
seen him since he has been the cham
pion. For a long time, Richie,
while on his pretentious struggle to
get to the top of the heap, was ac-
cepted as sort of joke. He wasn't
given half enough credit for what he
really did and his own self-confident
predictions that he would some day
be the champion We're things to laugh
at. Now. though, despite all our say
so to the contrary, Mr.. Richie is
smiling brightly in the champions
chair and we are going to get right
on his band wagon and String
along" as the boys say, with this
bird"
G.
When Richie and Cross clash next
week it isn't likely to prove anything.
Against a clever fellow, Leach is
known to be the worst kind of an OPP
ponent imaginable. He ducks his
head and he covers up his face and
he stalls and clinches and plays only
for the finish and the cash it brings.
AS he will find much cleverness in
Richie. it is to be presumed, taking
previous occasions as a criterion, that
Cross will be seen in the imitation
of turtle more than ever. Such an
exhibition would not amount to much,
of course, and all one could say after
ward would be that Richie had
beaten Cross and Cross had put up
one of his characteristic fights. To
defeat Cross would add somewhat to
Willie's reputation for Leach has been
performing some notable pugilistic
feats in the last few months. Yet
Cross has been beaten SO often that
good many of the sports will say,
who's Leach Cross to whip?"
O
We are rather anxious to see
Richie "go to the bat" We want to
see how he shapes up as a champion
whether the title has given him
anything that he didn't have before.
To be a champion you must have
something. Titles, no matter how
despised, do not grow on mulberry
bushes. Those who sport the name
of being the best in their class have
ability of some kind or, other. You
can bet your bottom dollar, as my
good friend used to say to me when
he was sure that he was on the right
road, a man never reaches the top
unless he has class and belongs in his