Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-07

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names. Here we have Just a few of
the boys who are supposed to be
| clamoring for a match with Kill
bane, and at the same time willing
to meet any featherweight to show
they are entitled to a match with
the champion, but still refuse to take
on the crack Newark boy when a
good business proposition is offered
them. Take a peek at the would-be
champions in Teddy Hubbs, Irish
Paddy" Callahan, Kahoma Kid,
Artie Edwards and few others. OF
course, to be fair, one cannot blame
a boy for not wanting to box on q
certain date, but when they deIiber-
ately specify that they won't meet
Mahon, but would consider some
other opponent, 1t is time to call a
| halt.
Irish is down here hard at work
| training for the bout with Wagner,
and will be in tip-top shape for the
contest when the time rolls around
| for him to enter the ring. Much de-
ponds on this bout, as in event of him
being returned the winner he will
be Immediately matched to meet Kid
Kansas, the Buffalo boy, at Buffalo,
the latter part of this month.
Yours very truly,
JIMMY DE FOREST.
Manager Irish Mahon, featherweight
champion of New Jersey.
IT'S all right from Mahon stand
point to claim the featherweight
championship of New Jersey, but how
about one Patsy Kline, also a New
is the best boxer in our common
wealth, but has rather solid idea
that he can beat any boy of his
weight in the world? At the present
writing it is generally believed that
Kline would be able to beat Mahon,
but a match between the boys would
not be out of order at all. In fact, a
Kline Mahon fight at Browns should
draw WE'LL and if Irish insists in his
State championship claims he will
very likely have to prove his case
And what a great opportunity it
would be for Mahon. A Win over Kline
would give him great Jersey prestige
and he would also receive country
wide credit If he proved himself
equal to defeating Patsy. Kline, no
doubt, would be willing to take on
Mahon at any time. 1t is said of
Patsy that he is better right now
than at any time during his career,
for, it is declared, he realizes that he
has a grand chance to make good
and reach the top now that Johnny
Kilbane, the titleholder, is to fore
sake the feathers and go into the
lightweight class.
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A ten-round bout between Kline
and Mahon would stir up Jersey
fandom, and would give the winner
something to crow about. Kline, of
course, would be the favorite, but it
would surprise some of Patsy's fol-
lowers to know how many of the
boxing enthusiasts really believe
that Mahon would defeat Kline. That
same difference of opinion would
create wide interest in the battle
and rafting good bout would be
sure to result. Kline, with his ter
rifle left hook, would be the favor
lite, but Mahon, 1t Is said, has i'm
proved so much under the care of
Manager De Forest that he is looked
upon as being able to hold his own
against any featherweight in the
land.
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Newark patrons of boxing are clam
oring for club in which ten-round
bouts may be held, and it may not
be long before their appetites in this
respect have been satisfied. Just now
a local club would do a thriving busi-
ness, for several local boys, who are
generally the best attraction, are
very much In the public eye. Charley
Weinert, for one, would pack any
place around here in a bout of ten
rounds duration. and Kline and
Kurtz and half dozen other good
boys would attract satisfactory at
tention.
G
If rumors were to be taken seri-
ously, several clubs would now be
uoluB DuSltlC5S III OuI DttduS6
of the persistency of Eddie Wood,
talk that there would soon be some
| thing doing at Hillside will not
down. Wood called at the Evening
we doubted his word and to inform
US that he intended to stage show
at Hillside Park on the night of
! Thursday, January Is. He didn't like
some of the references which have
been made to him, and he asked for
chance to make good, which has
been granted. If Wood can conduct
boxing club at Hillside in good,
clean manner he will receive the sup
port of all lovers of the game. His
previous efforts as a manager were
not very flattering, but this was not
all his fault. The shows Wood pro-
duced were all right, but he tolerated
a gang of hangers-on that eventually
proved the undoing of boxing at Hill
side. If Wood can make good, good
luck to Wood. Let him show us as
soon as he can get things in shape
to make start.
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1t was generally believed that the
star bout for the opening show at
! Hillside Park had been decided upon,
but 1t is now learned that Young
Gradwell and Jimmy McVeigh, who
were billed to exchange wallops in
the big number, are not to meet.
Wood. it is said, has informed Grad