Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-06
WELSH ANXIOUS TO !.
BOX AID WOLGAST
British Lightweight Champion; :
Thinks Match Will Be Step
ping=StOne to Richie.

Thinks Match Will Be Step
ping-StOne to Richie.
TO STAGE GO IN NEW YORK
Freddie Walsh, the British light
weight champion, will be matched to
box Ad Wolgast, former American
titleholder, in Madison Square Gar
den on December IS, II negotiations
begun yesterday prove successful
Welsh, it is understood, already has
accepted terms offered by the Garden
A. C. and is preparing himself for
the bout. Wolgast, who has recovered
from a broken rib, is in Milwaukee,
ready to meet all corners.
Welsh Is bent upon forcing Richie
into a match for the worlds title
He thinks that by defeating Wolgast
he will be in a position to force
Richie to accept his challenge.
Cardeu Ready for Mantler.
Young Cardell, the clever Montclair
featherweight boxer, finished training
yesterday for his scheduled ten-round
bout with Willie Mantler, of Jersey
City, at the Liberal A. c., Port Rich
mond, Staten Island, tonight. Car
dell is in fine fettle for the affray, and
is confident of winning from his OPP
ponent who has been meeting sue
cess before New York and Brooklyn
clubs for the past few months. It
will be an excellent workout for Car
dell, who will meet Banty Lewis at
the Brown A. c.. New York, next
Tuesday night. Mantler is a clever
boy and good walloper, and fights
similarly to Lewis.
Young Jack O'Brien Wins.
Young Jack O'Brien proved far too
clever for Johnny Duffy in the wind
up at the Nonpariel Club, Philadel-
phia, last night. OBriens speed was
a revelation to Duffy, and it was
hike a teacher giving pupil a lesson
in boxing as long as O'Brien mod
Grated Iris pace. Whitley Baker was
too fast for Johnny Allen in the semi
which was a rough bout. In
the best of the preliminaries Eddie
defeated Sailor Lester.
England May Stage Bout.
There Is lively probability of Dig
ger Stanley, bantam champion of
and Kid Williams, of Bal
timore, whom many look on as the
holder of the worlds title in that
class, meeting in the National Sport
ing Club, of London, shortly after
the new year, in a twenty round bout
for the worlds honors.
Perky Flynn to Box Daley
Tom O'Rourke, who will reopen the
National Sporting Club in West For
ty-fourth street, has signed Dan
Daley, the Pittsburgh boxer, to meet
Perky Flynn, of Boston, in ten
out A. Palzer in two rounds in
and his manager, Jimmy
Dime, has been challenging all the
white hopes ever since.
Big Bill in Gotham.
frankie Burns, the bamtamweight
of Jersey City, will meet young"
Rector, of that city, at Browns Gym
nasium, New York, tonight. Kid Ale
berts. who styles himself the welrer-
weight champion, will meet Al Roach.
of the East Side, in a ten round bout
at the Paramount Athletic Club of the
Bronx. "Sapper" O'Neill, the British
will box his first bout in
A. C. He will be opposed by "Spe-
cial Delivery Hirsch The other
bouts of the night are as follows:
young" Brown VS.. Eddie Smith, at
the Sharkey A. c.; Billy Bennett VS..
Harry LOFTY, at the Gowanus A. c.;
Freddie Hicks VS.. Jack Driscoll, at
the Irving A. c.; Tommy Maloney VS.. Z,
young" Hickey, at the Greensboro
A. c., and Hughie Rodden VS.. kid"
Black, at the Vanderbilt A. c.
Other boxing Gossip. q
Eddie O'Keefe will box Frarkie
Burns on Monday night at the open
ing show of Tom O'Rourke's National
Sporting Club.
George Carpenter is the favorite in :
barber Wells at London on Monday
night at odds of 2 to 1.
Jess Willard will box One-Round
Davis at Buffalo on December IL and
George Rodel, the South African
heavyweight, on December 20 at New
Haven, Conn. -
Featherweight Champion Johnny
has been matched for a ten
round bout with Joe Harang, of New
early in January at the Ken
osha, Wis, Athletic Club.
Billy Gibson announced yesterday
that he had decided to make no more
heavyweight matches for the Garden,
New Yor. The willard Morris bloom
er was the last straw. The boxing
public will not pay even popular
prices to see big fellows go through
the motions.