Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13

ping administered Dy the tnSiSn-
man. Kurtz, it seems, though,
played in very hard luck in the
fight He should have won in the
very first round, but after knocking
his opponent dizzy he lost his own
bearings and allowed Platts to re-
cover. Thereafter Kurtz took some
beating and few have seen him since,
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Although Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
has made more than 100000 during
his career as a pugihst, he is said
to be on the stoney road to Brokeville.
When Jack was fighting the going
! was easy and he battled often. He
was a business man, and he played
! the game on business principles. He
! knew that to win was to be success
full, so he made out to win everything.
He became a big favorite, and he
was in much demand by club pro-
moters Once the big card. he worked
it for all it was worth. He is self
confessed faker. His plan was to get
the other fellow to "lay down. and
O'Brien would split all the money.
But he would have to win. He kept
that up for years, but he was finally
caught. Then he became a "squealer''
"a confessed faker. He got well paid
| for his information by a yellow jour
nal, but the fact remains that all his
+! false earnings did him little good, for
| he is now said to be so badly bent
that his credit is rather impaired.
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As Joseph F. Hagan O'Brien is
known in private life, and under that
name he has filed. a voluntary petit
ton in bankruptcy, placing his la
bilities at $101, 934 and his assets at
| $10,027. Among his creditors Hagan
names hotels, boxers, newspapers.
plumbers, roofers, clothiers, telegraph
and taXicab companies, his sister, two
cousins and friends. So he hasn'
played favorites in any way. In
cluded in his assets is a $4,000 en-
dowment life insurance policy, on
which he has borrowed the full cash
value. Maybe O'Brien is down to
the last cent, which, if true, would
prove again that it pays to be honest
| in the long run.
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Bombardier Wells has asked for
another match with Georges Car
pentier, the French boxer, and he has
been accommodated. The bout will
take place in London in November
The men met before on June l, in
Client, Belgium. and Carpenter
| knocked out Wells in the fourth
round The present match came
about through Wells publicly chal-
longing Carpenter during the
Frenchman's debut as an actor in &
! London theatre. The Bombardiel
jumped on the stage and issued c
personal defi Carpenter was rather
| taken by surprise but later on hi
agreed TO the match. Wells has tn,
nerve to challenge if he hasn't tn,
nerve to take clicking" He came
over to this country and got wal
| Hoped every time he fought, yet tn,
American sports went daffy over hin
and cheered him whenever he ap
peared. The newspaper writers
pictured him as most beautiful
man, and he just won his way int
the Yankee sports hearts not be
cause of his ability as a fighter, bu
because he was a nice fellow
around here. Wells is an excellent
boxer, and he can hit, too, but he
can't stand the gait nohow The
surprise is that he is able to gel
such big matches, but the answer
undoubtedly is that he draws the
crowds Carpenter is almost Ger.
tain to beat him.
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Jack Johnson is likely to go to jai
| for year and a day. If SO, it nigh
finish him entirely as pugilist. Al
things are with Johnson, the "Bii
Smoke" is bad enough, but year ant
a day in Jail would settle him TO
fair. He is making last stand
though, and has a few days in whicl
to prepare writ of error, whicl
would allow him to bring the case be
fore the United States Court of Ap
peals. johnson has much to worr
about, but he has himself to blame TO
everything. He might have been
popular champion, all things consio
cred, if he had not been too rasf
He got fresh and he is almost certai
to be sailed down.
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Newark is showing championshi
form, and the prospects are that tt
team will win the pennant. The az
tions of some of the gambling fans
on Wednesday should be looked int
President Solomon has declared tn;
he would not tolerate the bettin
gang at the park, yet I'm told eVel
mothers son of them were there wit
bells on and flashing their bank-rol
before the game. The way the Tige
have been playing they were the 4
vorites, of course, but when the