Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-19

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Chocolate" and the barbados
Demon" would have been any the
less great if managed by a less able
manager than O'Rourke? They would
not have had their ability recognized
so soon, perhaps, and they might
have had to fight weary years with
out gathering in many shekels, but
the old saying that you can't keep
a good man down" is a pretty true
one. Battling Nelson is a case in
point He was lighting for twelve
years before he began to be noticed.
With a manager like O'Rourke he
would have been press agented and
nursed along a lot faster, but he would
have become no greater champion
than he has been and he would. have
learned no more than he knew at the
zenith of his career, which was to
rush in to close quarters and bang
away until the other fellow dropped.
No clever manager was needed TO tell
him how to do that. He knew that
much when he was fighting in bar
rooms years ago. Where a manager
like O'Rourke would have helped is
simply in having his talents for fight
ing recognized sooner.
Mr.. O'Rourke may be right in his
assertion that a manager and a
fighter have a prearranged set of sig
| nails, by which the fighter is guided
| III Ills course OIL Ddlllt. JuSL INV n
fighter in the heat and fury of a
slashing battle is going to catch such
a fine work of art as signal, how
ever, | cannot see. I have seconded
few boys myself mot CHAMPIONS, of
course, but personal friends of mine),
| and the only kind of a signal they
ever understood was to be beloved
at at the top of my lungs. And then,
nine times out of ten they didn't
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As far as the assertion which you
make, Mr.. j. p. NJ, that Palzer threw
| ORourke down after being brought to
the front by him, | would ask if ii is
not fair to hear both sides of story
before forming conclusions. A few
DAYS after Palzer's break with
/ O'Rourke he came out in the Evening
| World with a story that all O'Rourke
was interested in having him do was
to attend wine suppers and carouse
with chorus girls. That's a "heluva"
fine program for a prospective cham
pion, isn't it? Nobody hates ingrati-
tude or dlsloyalty any more than |
do, and if Palzer really treated
| O'Rourke unfairly, as you say, his
course is not commended by me. But
granting, for the sake of argument,
that he did treat O'Rourke shabbily,
what justification does that give for
| uHtTNliH HIS llSHllllS tlJliiiS iNHp1h
! his personal characteristics, if you
want to, but be just even to an in
CRATE, and, if he can fight, admit 1t,
! regardless of whether Mr.. O'ROurke
manages him or not. 1t was the hypo-
critical attitude which you fellows as
sumed after Palzer broke with
ORourke which got my goat" The
/ sporting writer's called him a bum,
said he never would be any good, and
| 4 H. l. 4 1Inxr
| streak" Think of the damnable in
Justice of that! The man whom |
saw at Madison Square Garden get
mp from a wallop that would have
killed an OK. and with the cold fight
ing fury inherited from his Berserk
ancestors, aim his wallops, not wildly.
but with deadly intent, to the mid
section of Bombardier Wells, and who
bored in necessarily against the
physical handicap of an avalanche of
crushing blows and the psychological
handicap of a mob of frenzied
fanatics, all yelling against him, such
a man they call yellow" | cannot
help protesting against such a state
of affairs. That's the way I'm built,
and I hate to see a game guy get
! ting a crooked deal. Now that Mr..
O'RoulSe has Palzer in tow, the
SPORTING writer's have forgotten all
| ABOUT I0elf lOTIll6T SUITS anu are
toosting Palzer again. On the level,
is that a sound state of mind?
Hoping you are enjoying good
| health, and with best wishes for the
success of both Messrs. O'Rourke and
| PalZer, I remain. Sincerely yours,
ARTHUR X STRINGER.
You are mistaken, Arthur when you
state that I disparaged Palzer's
ability as a boxer. My criticism was
of the fighters ingratitude, for 1
knew what O'Rourke had done for
the man. AS an evidence that
| O'Rourke was not so bad, remains
! the fact that Palzer came back to
him and is sorry, he says, that he
ever broke away. AS a fighter. I
knew Palzer from the jump, ! saw
him box twice at p. McGuigan's
House of Trouble" in Harrison, and
have followed him, in a way, ever
since. O'Rourke took him up on the
recommendation of Tom Messenger,
a very good Judge, and he spent
much time, money and influence in
bringing him to the front. No, my
dear fellow, Palzer was not knocked
by me in regard to his profession
although he's no wonder-but for his
base ingratitude. O'Rourke is re-
sponsible for what Palzer knows to-
day, just like he was responsible for
Dixon and Wolcott. Not one of them
would have amounted to a thing,
pugilistically or otherwise, If it
hadn't been for O'Rourke. He put
all three of them on the right road
and success followed. That they
made good in the ring was because
4 of his advice in their early training.
But while YOU have been a second, it
is evident that you know not fighters,
ball players or cyclists. All are alike,
only sometimes, it seems. one is more
so than the other.
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| desire to invite your respectful at
tention to the idiosynerasy of the
Newark system of aqueduct water
works. At times the pressure is so
low that the water barely drizzles
from the faucet. FRITZIE.
Move off the hill and the supply
will flow all right. Your quotation
anent the Irishman has never been
used in print and is, therefore, passed
up.
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