Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-17

the other. To retain Solomon as
president of the club would, IN my
opinion, be a big mistake. To elect
Charles Ebbets, jr., would be entirely
in order and would not be objection
able to the fans. However, the meet
ing of the club is scheduled to be held
this evening. and it is very likely
that the men who control affairs are
big enough to decide for themselves.
@
Although Banty Lewis has wit
messed fierce battles here and abroad,
he is authority for the statement that
Young Dave Kurtz is the worst look
ing object he has ever seen as re-
suit of boxing match. Kurtz, 1t
will be recalled. met Soldier Bartfield
in Brooklyn Thursday night, and
there was some disagreement over
which man was entitled to the de-
cision. But after the fight Kurtz was
a sight, as a result, he says, of some
high -class elbow work on the part Of
his opponent.
c.
Willie Richie has made great i'm
preston in the East, and he can come
back here any time and get what he
wants for the asking. His fight with
Leach Cross was so keen and clever
that he won friends by the hundreds,
and his manner before and after the
contest was such as to make him a
most popular fellow. AS everybody
knows, Billy Gibson, the manager of
the Garden A. c., where Ritchie and
Cross fought. Is also popular, and as
Ritchie and Gibson have become fast
friends, it would be difficult to beat
that pair. To show that he was true
blue, Ritchie sacrificed something like
! $4,000 in his bout with Cross. The
contract called for $4,000 guarantee
with an option of 30 per cent. AS the
fight drew only little more than
| $20,000 of course there wasn't any rea-
| son to exercise the option. When
had been disappointing and that the
receipts were not up to expectations,
he waived his guarantee and accept
| ed the 30 per cent, which amounted
| to something over $4,000 That was
magnanimous, indeed, on Ritchie's
part, but 1t is such an unusual thing
| for a professional man to do that the
story will stand considerable investi-
eating.
1t is generally the case that pro-
fessional men-f1ghters, ball players
cyclists, etc.-hold the promoters ur
for the very last cent and they in.
variably find any number of fans anc
newspaper men to battle for their de
mands Consideration is seldom giver
to the chances the promoters take
the amount of money they invest, how
some of them have to depend entirel!
on the weather for success and hov
they lose their good money withou
saying word or making complaint
The professional man never gives tn
man who makes his living possible |
! single thought. All he is looking TO
is the best of it, and even the best O
it doesn't suit him sometimes; blu
, Richie has sprung new one. It vii
, put in the shade anything that tn
leading men of other professions hav
: ever done.
In holding a two-night meet pre-
vious to the six-day race, p. Power
/ is following the lead set by J. M
$ Chapman last year. At that time tn
r venture was not success, as the tw
I meets attracted about the same at
n tendance and patronage as would tn
: one meet. The match race betwee
Y Frank Kramer and Walter Rutt, a
+ arranged by Floyd MacFarland, ma