Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-05

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strange" few days ago. Is now con-
sidered q very wise fellow indeed.
woodruff, besides being short and fat
and pleasant, is the manager of Char
ley Weinert, the fighter Both men
live in the Oranges, which might be
taken as evidence that they are not
lemons Still, when Woodruff matched
weinert to fight Battling Levinsky
and Weinert agreed to the match, not
a few unlxind things were said about
the pair of them. AS for myself, 1t
looked as if the manager was sending
the fighter up against an awful strong
game and the outcome appeared to
point to disaster for the kid scrapper.
Throughout the days of training in
preparation for the bout, Manager
Woodruff maintained a stiff upper lip.
He had confidence of iron that
Weinert would win, and he kept on
telling me so at every opportunity.
Poor Percy!" I thought, his Is q
sad easel"
In discussing the battle beforehand
there was little thought given to
Weinert. To me it seemed shame
that a boy in his teens should be
pitted against an experienced fighter
like Levinsky. Then came the night
of the fight and finally the fight and
the startling and sad awakening. Out
of the mill came the pugilistic surprise
of the year. Young Weinert, the kid,
with no chance at ALL as we mag
ined, bobbed up serenely as an abso-
lutte winner. The Levinslky fellow,
whose reputation was SO tremendous,
was not such wonder after all.
Whether or no, he was beaten-out-
boxed ontfought-and weinert was
held under a pull at that.
C
So, when we come right down to
cases, woodruff was the wise man
after all. He admits that he was TAX
ing long chance, but he declares that
he felt all along that Charley would
win. Now Percy is a much delighted
manager, and he isn't like some of
the more pretentious managers who
squeal like little pigs when things
fail to go to suit them. OF this
class. Manager Woodruff brands Dan
Morgan, who looks after Levinsky's
interests, as the brand-new leader.
Morgan is a big squealer," Wood
ruff said to me during visit to the
Evening Star office yesterday after2
noon. HE is hollering his head off
because Weinert beat his man and
you gave the kid the decision. Dan
isn't the sport / thought he was at
all. He bet me his end of the purse,
less 10 per cent. against my end of
the purse, which amounted to some
thing over 5000. on the result of the
contest and then he went to Bill
Brown and collected the money. He
made a 'holler' to Browns match
maker that he would bring the mat
ter to the attention of the Boxing
Commission and, of course, he was
paid. Well. now that Morgan has
shown what kind of a bad sport he
is I'm going to give him a run for
those honors, for I'm going to bring
the matter up myself before the
Boxing Commission. The trouble
with Dan is he has been bluff1ng
everybody, but he can't bluff Percy
Woodruff, let me tell you. / have
written to the Boxing Commission
and I'm going to follow up the case.
Morgan made the threat, and I'll
carry it out. In this way I'll at
least be able to get an opportunity
to tell Morgan what think Of him
in public meeting. He is squealer
and he owes me 5000; that's what he
does"
Manager Woodruff was in temper
as he lambasted Morgan from soda
to hook
what do you think that fellow we
all thought such a great sport did?"
Percy said, inquiringly. well. made
him gentleman's bet of our end of
the purse. He selected you to decide
it and now he is crying like a whipped
child. That's Dan Morgan, and I'd
like to have you say 1t just that way
for me. Well, he can have the $500,
but you can take it from me Morgan
will never do any more business with
me because I'll not do any more busi-
ness with him.
Those who know Woodruff can best
imagine how Percy feels about the
matter He isn't worrying over the
$500. for he would give several times
that amount to see Weinert give
Levinsky a licking, but he is looking
at the principle of the thing His
disappointment in Morgan as a sport
is very pronounced, and many
of Dams best friends believe he has
made big mistake. Over in the
Garden on Wednesday night as Nor
gan was raving over the loss Of his
money and the explosion of his cham
pion, the gang was giving him the
laugh and other things. Dan was