Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-01
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Garden. Since his fight with Savage,
McCarty has improved wonderfully,
1t is said and he promises to show
off to advantage over Smith.
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Charley Weinert has about made
up his mind not to fight Jim Saw
age at the Olympic Club. He real
ICES that the stigma attached to
their last match is sure to have its
effect, and there is no sure thing
that the bout would draw such a
large house as Messrs. Wood and
Snyder bank on. Fake talk is the
worst thing in the world to crab"
O. boxing show, and the fact that
Weinert and Savage had arranged
to fake a bout, which fake was ex-
posed by the Evening Star. and
which expose SO nettled the Olympic
Club promoters that they have been
chatting under the collar ever since,
would surely injure the business,
even If everybody was dead sure
that the fight was to be on the level.
Weinert has ambitions to become
great fighter some day, and he has
made up his mind to follow the
straight and narrow path in the fu-
ture. Then, too, there is no sure
thing that a Savage Weinert bout
would be tolerated at Olympic Park.
Despite Railroad Snyder's boast of
his great pulp up in Irvington,
there might be a few citizens who
would assert themselves if an eff
fort is made to put anything over on
them. From this viewpoint, a Saw
age-Weinert fight is impossible in
this locality.
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Why the solar plexus blow? We
have heard that question often, but
we have never heard a satisfactory
explanation until now. This ex-
PLANTATION comes from the West and
is related by Max Newberry, an ar
fist, who was at the fight and who
drew a most realistic picture of Cor
bett making a desperate effort to re-
gain his feet after having received
the terrific blow from Bob Fitzsim-
mons's fist. This is the way the ar
fist spins the yarn about the famous
punch:
ST was on the special train that was
rocking around those mountain curves
on a wild dash back to San Fran
cisco with a score of writer's and ar
lists" said Newberry. I'VE had
typewrters aboard and our drawing
boards were suspended on long
springs from the car ceiling. Jim
Corbett was aboard our train. He
was naturally very much down.
hearted, and doctor accompanied
him. We were busy preparing our
stuff when the doctor came through.
Uncle Bill Naughton, now dead,
looked up from his machine and said:
'How's your patient, Door
"'Corbett is a sick man. said the
medico, both mentally and physical
ly When he got that punch his
heart was filled full and was pressed
tight against his side just as Fits
hard fist landed on the solar plexus
here, and the doctor indicated the
spot.
"'What did you call that said
Naughton quickly.
Solar plexus,' said the doctor.
"'Solar plexus! Gee, that's bully!'I
said Naughton, and he wrote it into
his copy and ring history for all
time
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A Newarker who is playing the
horses at Havre De Grace writes:
Hello!
when I was here last year the
horses were running like trained pigs,
but this year they are running like
educated monkeys"
Which means, we take it. that the
hard times are not worrying some
people.
A former South Side player takes
exception to the selection of Smet-
hurst, of Barringer, over Fava, of
South Side, for an 'All-Newark"
eleven. His letter:
]. P. NJ:
noticed in your columns of Sat
urday evening that you disagreed
with football enthusiast who picked
Phil Fava, of the South Side High
School eleven, over Smethurst, of