Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06


Willie Fitzgerald at the Atlantic
| Garden A. C. show in New York to-
night paid a visit to The Star office
this morning, and really looked the
part of a well-trained athlete. KUIrtz
has been taking a long rest and he
says he feels much better for 1t. He
! is confident that he will beat Fitz-
gerald and so are his hackers Here
is another boy who might have
amounted to something "if he kept
away from the gang" Like Patsy
Kline, he tried to play two games.
| Whenever he lost at one he would
| go back to the other. He Is back at
the other game-the fighting game
he needs is good man to drive some
! pugilistic knowledge into his head.
Then he would be able to play that
| game for some time and allow the
other game to go to grass. The same
is true of Kline, His prospects were
brilliant, but he stuck around the
! corners and he never did get to the
| top.
The winner is generally the great
fellow in any game. but Frank
Moran, the winner over Al Palzer
last Wednesday night at the st.
Nick, finds himself in a peculiar po-
sition in regard to a match with Gun
boat Smith, who is looked upon at
present as the best white hope" on
the market. Moran, as is well known.
is being managed by Little DAN
McKetrick, and Smith, also no
secret, is in the hands of the shrewd
Jim Buckley. AS McKetrick is no
mans fool and as Buckley is a noted
bear for getting the best end of
every bargain it will be interesting
to note the developments leading up
to a fight between Smith and Moran.
If you take a pretty wise sporting
mans word for it there won't be any
Smith-Moran bout, because Buckley
will see to it that the asking price
for his end will be so much that the
Moran end of the argument will be
unable TO see it at all. That's the
way the sports are talking and the
plan now seems to be Smith and some
one else or Moran and someone else
at the Garden on September 10. If
Palzer won. though. it would all have
been different. In fact, it was all ar
ranged for Palzer to meet Smith at
the Garden on the 10Th of this month.
Yet Moran, the winner will have to
beg around to get the match, and he
may not get it even then.
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Manager McKetrick, of course, is |
anxious to have Smith meet Moran.
1t is a long chance, but so was the |
bout with Palzer, which turned out |
all right. Anyway, Immediately after |
the Smith-Palzer bout McKetrick |
button holed Buckley and urged Jim |
to do business right away. Buckley |
couldn't see it at all, and said:
why, who is this fellow Moran
you have, Dan? Is he any good at
all? He fought like an old woman
tonight and he hasn't got any
Of allowing the Gunboat to fight your
second-rater. If Palzer won, Smith
would have fought him. and he was
already matched to fight him, but
Moran, not on your life, especially |
on percentage. I'll have to get big !
guarantee if the Gunboat ever meets
your man."
@
McKetrick said, in discussing |
Buckeyes argument, that Jim ought |
to have better sense, and then added: |
"Smith will fight Moran in the Gar
den all right, for the public will de- |
mand it. Frank put up a great fight |
tonight and beat Palzer decisively. |
He will do the same thing to Smith |
and that's what's ailing Buckley. If |
Jim really believed, as he says, that |
Moran was so easy he would make |
the match in minute but he knows |
full well that Frank is there and he !
is not anxious to take a chance. |
They'll fight, though, and they'll |
draw a tremendous house. Buckley |
can take a guarantee, but I want to
gamble with the percentage"
That's the way the story was told |
to me by a reliable sport, who heard |
the conversation between McKetrick
and Buckley.
At nearly every fight. especially |
when the crowd is large, the fans,
just for pastime, discuss the number
of persons present and the amount
of money taken in at the gate. There
are some good guessers and there are
some who are not so good. Over at
the Moran-Palzer fight the general
opinion prevailed that there was
about $4,000 In the house and sur
prise was expressed when it became
known that the actual paid admis-
sions amounted to just $3.50. OF that
sum the State got per cent. or
$275.90 and Moran and Palzer each
secured 80 per cent, which totaled
81 ,572 80 a share. The bout was we'll
advertised and the crowd seemed to
be large, yet the receipts were aw-
fully small for such an important
contest. 1t goes to show, though, that
there isn't much money in the fight
ing game and there isn't much money
in any game that depends on the
whims of the public for support.
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Although Palzer was pounds
heavier than Moran in their fight
Wednesday night, the weight as