Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-04
Athletics Have the Better Ball Team;
So Are Picked to Win Worlds Series

the stick, can hardly hope to make
many runs off even fair pitching,
which is sure to be doled out by
Bender, Plank and Shawkey. In fact.
Shawkey, I am told, will pitch in the
first game at the Polo Grounds, which
| is good judgment on the part of Con-
ME Mack McGraw will likely pitch
Tesreau, and this would leave Matty
and Bender for the first game in
| Philadelphia. AS much as we adj
mire Matty, we fear for him against
Bender. Besides, the Athletics have
solved Matty once, and he might be
pie for them now. It is no sure thing.
of course. but the better baseball
team is the Athletics, and the better
baseball team should win.
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The Jeannette-L angford fight
aroused great interest beforehand
and large crowd was on hand to see
the men in action, but the bout itself
was about the poorest apology for the
bear it was expected to be, that one
could not. by the widest stretch of the
Imagination. picture it. Sam Lang
ford, showing the ravages of
time and as fat as the pro-
verbal porker. has gone back so
far that he will never again be able
to polish off his opponents in such
mastery style as of old. He has
slowed up so much that his efforts
look feeble and his eye for distance and
his judge of distance have suffered so
materially that the once great colored
fighter is now little more than COM
mon ordinary. At that, perhaps, he
can beat the vast majority of our
white hopes" and he would have
beaten Jeanette if that worthy was
not such a glutton for punishment
such a gamester. Sam, truth to tell,
walloped Joe on the jaw several times
with his trusty right and his once
fatal left, but Jeanette, after sort of
a Tango wobble," would shake his
head and be on about his business
again. Once Langford shot a left
hook to Joe's jaw and you could hear
his chops" rattle in the farthest part
of the Garden. But Sam isn't there
any more His punch is not in evil
dence, his speed is gone, he is as fat
as September Morn" and he is much
older than he used to be. All these
things added and subtracted give you
a correct line on Mr. Langford.
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on the other hand, as the political
orator would say when playing for
time to collect his thoughts, jean
nette has not gone back so far. He
is not as good as he used to be, of
course. but he has always been such
a clean. honest liver, that his
strength and his speed have only
slightly deteriorated. He is fast on
his feet and he is lightning with his
hands, and he manages to outthink
most of his opponents, including
Langford. He can box well, but he
can't hit lick, yet he does so much
hitting that the constant attack cuts
considerable of a figure besides it's
tantalizing effect. In the bout last
night Jeanette at times fought like
an old, sick gray hen with feathers
on its legs. He would slap and he
would hold and he would run away
and he would do most everything but
stand up and fight. And in the end
he got away with it, because his
speed and his cleverness We're more
than match for the genuine fighting
ability of his adversary.
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The fight was a big disappointment
and the big crowd showed its disap-
prevail in no uncertain terms. Some
even pronounced it a fake, but it
wasn't that-no, it wasn't as bad as
that. 1t was a straight bout, but it
was just about as bad a bout as it
was voted. In the early rounds Lang
ford, the stronger in movement and
keen of eye, looked as if he might an
initiate Jeanette. Once or twice he
reached Joe with wallops that looked
as if they would fell an OK. But jean
nette stood up under them in great
shape, although in the fourth round
he was very tired blackberry hang
ing on a dropping bush. AS the battle
progressed. however, Langford began
to tire and Jeanette seemed to get
stronger. So on what he did in those
last few rounds, we must hand the
verdict to Joseph.
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The spectators were sadly disap-
pointed. They went to the Garden
last night expecting to see a wind
mill and they saw babbling brook:
they expected to see two Of the best
senagambians in the boxing world
wallop one another for further orders
and they saw tame exhibition by
two old has-beens, doing their best
mind you, but a very bad best at
that. There isn't any use talking,
| the patrons of boxing were disap-
pointed in the contest. They booed
the men up and down and some of
the boys in the Jury" way up in
the gallery were rather blunt and
bold in their remarks. The fight got
all the applause it deserved and It
got all the Kisses, too. The men did
their best. though, which is some
consolation, and it also is an asset,
for those two gentlemen can never
fool us so completely again. 1t was
such a good prospect that Newark
sports turned out in large numbers.
You could run your eye over the as
semblage and pick out here and there
more than few local notabies. 1t