Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-20


mount A. c., a small but successful
club. II he positively decides to quit
the Garden he will also give up the
Paramount Club, it is said.
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Gibson has been a big sporting man
around New York for years. He was
a patron of the race tracks in the
good old days." as the boys around
the corners say, and he put over
many big winner, as well, of course,
one fine day along came a 100 to
shot, and Gibson made a killing.
Those killings come about only once
| in lifetime, and Gibson needed only
this particular killing to satisfy his
| desires. He took the winnings and
| planted them into business, and
now he is very successful owner of
two large cafes and restaurants in
New York. He attends to his bust
ness ventures, which are money
makers, and gives much time to the
fight clubs, because he likes that kind
of sport The fight game will lose
more IL Gibson quits it than Gibson
will lose by quitting the fight game.
c.
The reports that Gibson was going
to retire from the management of
the Garden A. c. gained currency, it
] is believed, because of friction in
that organization. From what one
can learn the Garden people them
selves are running the boxing bouts
and Gibson is the only outsider con-
nected with the affair. Billy, of
course, has been doing all the match
making, but his inability to bring
Packey Mcfarland and Mike Glib
bons together hasn't pleased the
Garden people a little bit There
fore, naturally, trouble followed
Madison Square Garden is a big
place and it requires much manage
ment, it would seem. In fact, the
whole failure of Madison Square
Garden appears to be in too much
management At present there is G..
l.. Boissevain, the president of the
f. D. Company, which controls
the lease of the Garden, and there is
also William H. Wellman, who is
known as the general manager of
the Garden. With Gibson only the
manager of fights that are staged in
the Garden, why he doesn't cut
much figure, it appears, whenever
the Garden people desire to assert
their authority.
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That's the position Gibson is now
in, 1t seems. Billy did his best to
bring Mcfarland and Gibbons to-
gether, but as soon as he announced
that Packey wouldn't fight. Wellman
took up the task of matching the
men, much to Gibsons displeasure.
Wellman has succeeded, it is said,
in securing Gibbons's consent to
fight, but he has failed to induce Nc
Farland to sign articles. That is no
surprise to those who know Packey,
for when Gibson couldn't induce Nc
Farland to arrange the bout, why. IT
isn't likely that Wellman could.
Anyway, Gibson's authority has
been encroached upon by WeIlman,
who has the backing of President
Boissevain, and it looks as if the
Garden people intended to monopo-
lie the boxing game just as they
have monopolized the six-day bike
race. But according to a very able
authority Messrs. Boissevain and
Wellman are In for a very large sur
prise, not only in regard to boxing,
but also cycling.
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The present clash of authority in
the Garden Is sure to stir up some
thing. Men who are big in the SPORT
ing game declare that the Garden
people will not be allowed to monopo-
lie the big sporting ventures in New
York. 1t is said that just as soon as
Gibson steps down and out of the
Garden A. C. management that the
license of the present Garden club
will be withdrawn and that Messrs.
Boissevain and Wellman will have
much empty time on their hands. 1t
is also declared that the Garden
people will never again play such an
important part in siX-day racing as
they have in the past two years. If
there is to be another six-day race
in Madison Square, the Garden will
be rented at so much per day for that
purpose just as for any other show.
There will be no more guarantees of
$4,000, it is said, and there may
never be another six-day race in the
Garden, which would be the greatest
thing that ever happened in cycling.
Six day races are a detriment to the
game. Fake-talk follows in their
wake The New York six-day race
is the worst of all six-day races. If
Mayor Mitchell would put a stop to
it he would be doing the public in
general a big favor.
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There has been some talk lately as
to who would run the six-day race
next year. 1t will not be run by the
Garden people, that is almost a GER
tainty If there is a race 7 helieve