Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-20

enlighten the public on affairs
The knows nothing Of BY taking
this ones say-so and that
ones say-so the expert gets
by, but every now and then, being
off his trolley in a way, he becomes
/ confused in his own line of dope
Then. too. said specie of expert tic
which 1 refer invariably has an abb
a yard wide and a mile long. Some
times it is a masterpiece of ignor-
ance; other times it is an almost in
] telligent effort. The fight expert is
the most prevalent expert and it makes
no difference IL once in a while a
lightweight is heaped into the heavy
weight class or some such other
blunder is made. But in our opinion
the expert who could by any method
of deduction figure out Murphy a
winner over Mcfarland is entitled
to the Legion of Honor" medal.
g
During the Mcfarland Murphy
fight there was much discussion over
the weight of Packey. Surely he looked
big-pounds bigger than Murphy
and some of the ringside boys said
they believed he weighed $50 pounds.
That was an eXaggeration, of course,
and I am inclined to believe that the
weight as announced-140 pounds
was correct Anyway, 1 have no
means of proving otherwise, and I am
very glad to belong to that class of
sportsmen who believe everybody is
honest until he is found wanting.
The men, as agreed, made 1877 pounds
at o'clock. Just before Murphy
came into the ring he jumped on the
scales and tipped the beam at 1873
pounds. Mcfarland was also weighed
and he scaled 14O pounds. This is ac-
cording to the announcement, and as
there wasn't any reason to cheat, why
the insinuations that there was cheat
ing is out of order and unfair.
@
That Mcfarland is the greatest
boxer this world has ever seen was
demonstrated in his bout with Muir
ply. He showed Us more with his
hands, his feet, his eyes, his head,
than any man has every shown us
before. He was simply wonderful as
he stood there and parted the blows
of his opponent one minute and
pecked him to pieces the next minute.
He cuffed him from side to side, and
he made him behave.whenever he got
ambitious at all, and no more artistic
trimming was ever given man by man
than Mcfarland gave to Murphy.
This was as it should be, notwith-
standing that in their fight out on the
coast Tommy gave PacAey a pretty
even battle, the reports said. Be-
cause the bout was so one-sided it has
brought out much adverse criticism,
but who was supposed to know that
Murphy would not be a match at all
for Mcfarland after Tommy had
made boastful claims that he had
bested Packey in California? There
are two sides to a story-one Is the
future side, the other is the past side
and it was noticed particularly that
those who were Shooting at the
moon" beforehand and picked Muir
ply were early on the job with a
roast on the fight.
g
There is no denying the fact that
Mcfarland is getting too large for
the lightweights and that he will
have to go out and meet the welter-
weights. But in that class, as in
the lightweight class, there are very
few suitable opponents for Packey.
Mike Gibbons is the best man any
where near the weight, and it is said
that Mike Is unable to do better than
14S pounds and be fit to fight. That
would mean that he would be sew
eral pounds heavier than Mcfarland.
But Packey is willing to meet Mich
ael if Michael will agree to make las
pounds ringside.
c.
Just the suggestion of a bout be-
tween Mcfarland and Gibbons would
make a habitue of the pastime miss
his best meal of the day to even dis
cuss the prospects of such battle.
Mcfarland
VS..
Gibbons
Ten Rounds.
Na1;a4r Cn,o~o
Let us have the match by all means.
but 1t sounds too good to be realized.
@
The following letter takes me to
task for proclaiming the Philadelphia
Athletics to be the best team the
world has ever seen and for declaring
that the old Pop Arson Chicago team
wouldn't be in it with them.
j. p. NJ:
have read your comments on Pop
Arson and his famous Chicago team,
You say 'If the old Chicago boys in
their best form were to stack up
against the Athletics in their best
form, Pop Arson and his team would
be beaten twenty times worse than
the Giants, If such a thing were pos
sible." I dislike to dispute such a
high authority, but tell me by what
process Of reasoning do you see such
81 great difference in the teams ?
| Twenty times worse is probably a
careless exaggeratjon. Everybody