Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-22
VICTOR CONFIDENT /
OF BEATING RIVAL
Clever Lightweight Re-enters
Ring Against Eddie jack
son Tonight.
MILLER MAY BOX PELKEY

Carl Victor, the clever local light
weight, will meet Eddie Jackson,
promising lad of this city, in the
main event of four rounds at the
Central Institute, in South Broad
street, tonight. Victor has been
training in earnest for thhe past few
, days and expects to stop his rival to-
night. He is one of the cleverest
youngsters ever developed hereabouts
and should make a good showing
against jackson. Jackson is a good
boy. who has met the best in his
class in this vicinity. A victory over
Victor would surely boost his repu-
| tation.
Six other bouts will precede the
star event as follows: Louis Strunk
VS.. Young Conroy, Battling frankie
VS.. Battling Stevens, Young Otto VS..
Young Londi, Young Delaney VS..
Tommy O'Connor, Kid O'Leary VS.. Kid
Kaufman and Joe Quinn VS.. Joe
Smith.
| Charles Miller, the California
heavyweight, who is to meet Al Pal
ger next Wednesday at the ST. Nicho-
olas Rink, received wire last night
from James Coffroth, the San Fran
cisco promoter, offering him a match
| with Arthur Pelky. The offer is
| conditioned, in that Miller must beat
| Palzer decisively.
| A bout that will probably have it on
| all heavyweight contests for real ac-
| ton will be that between Phil Cross
and Johnny kid" Alberts at the At
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In the semi-f1nal Battling Levinsky
will box Frank McGuiness, the Irish
heavyweight.
! Before Packey Mcfarland left New
York for Chicago yesterday after
noon he outlined his plans for busy
ring campaign. He is matched to box
Harlem Tommy Murphy in Madison
Square Garden, New York, on Octo-
Der II, and the weight agreed upon
is 1877 pounds at o'clock in the after
noon, the limit made by Packey for
his battle with Jack Britton last
spring.
! With four days left in which to put
| themselves on edge for the glove fight
! in Madison Square Garden next Fri
| day night, "Gunboat" Smith and Sam
Langford worked vigorously at their
| training quarters yesterday. Smith
went through the usual stunts at
Sheepshead Bay, while Langford re-
ceived many visitors at Woodlawn
Inn, in Jerome avenue. 81 got the
match for Smith," said James Buck
ley yesterday, because 1 am sure
that he can whip Langford." Lang
ford" said Joe Woodman, will try
his level best to beat Smith as quick
| ly and as soundly as possible"
Matte Baldwin, the veteran Bos-
ton lightweight and Eddie Murphy,
also of Boston, have at last been
signed up to wallop each other. They
will come together in twelve-round
bout in Boston tomorrow night.
Freddie Welsh, the English light
weight boxer, who again lost out in
an attempt to fight for the light
weight championship of the world.
has been matched to box Fighting
/ Dick Hyland, of California, in a ten
round bout in Denver October 2.
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight
champion of the world, has been
signed to meet Joe Goldberg, of
Rochester, over the ten-round route
Thursday night at Rochester.
Battling Levinsky, better known as
Barney Williams, has decided that he
will not take trip to Europe in quest
of bouts, as he had planned Levinsky
has been fighting so successfully in
Gotham that he will stick around and
fight some of the white hopes.