Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-27
FOX IS TOO SPEEDY
FOR SAMMY CLARK
Local Featherweight Earns
H0nOrs in Three OF Four
Rounds.

| Yo1ng Fox, the local featherweight.
| and budding lawyer pugilist, showed
| Sammy Clara. the one-time amateur
/ boxer, the way in the main four
/ round bout at TroXlers Central In
| stitute, last night. Fox who Is show
| Ing improvement with each battle.
| had three of the four rounds, Clark
coming in for a portion of the battle
hin The third session. The hast round
was the best of the fight. In thi s
round. Fox was wrestled from the
| ring by Clark and he landed in the
| spectators among the first row He
| had been giving Clark the worst Of
| the argument and after disentanglng
| himself from the seats and return
ing TO the ring he proceeded to ham
mer his opponent in good style. Clark
showed an inclination TO foul, three
times using the heel of his glove and
ending, at times of exchange. with
some poor wrestling which got him
nothing but the I'll will Of the ma
jority os the fight fans.
The first round found both feeling
out" and ended with Fox having a
shade the better of il. Fox seemed
to get in his good work in the eX-
changes. His left jabs and upper
cuts held Clark a good distance away
in the second two minutes of fighting.
IT was in the third round that Clark
came out with the better of 1t. At
ter rushing out, Sammy landed some
hard smashes, two uppereuts doing
was good one. with Fox doing the
most of the leading and landing Of
blows. Fox worked a short right
and left to the head twice in the
final round and was also on hand
with two uppercuts. About the only
thing that Clark did was to land
blow or two on the back of the neck
when Fox drew into a clinch.
In a bout which was announced as
for the championship of Roseville,
Danny Grant had shade the better
of Danny Murray. Grant forced the
fighting throughout, although Muir
ray landed some telling blows
In the semi-final bout. Young Bell
iabbed his way to victory over
frankie Mahon. Rel was shifty on
his feet and at times was quick
enough to land three blows To his
opponentss one. Mahon shaped up
well and the bout was not one-sideo
by any means
Young Telesco, apparently out
weighed, found the going too hard in
his bout with Joe Lambert and, af-
ter receiving several wallops to the
jaw, was forced to leave the ring.
Referee Ross stopping the bout a few
seconds after the bell.
The first sleep producer of the
night came when Frankie Dodd
slipped one over on Kid Kelly's Jaw
in the second round. Dodd had
good style and reached his opponent
hard and often.
Young Clark was a sorry looking
sight at the end of his bout with
Jack Barton. of Paterson. The LITTER
was a "wildman" in the ring. and
Clarke's face showed the effects Of
heavy cannonading at the finish.
Battling frankie, Of this city, prac'
tically "jabbed the head off" Bat
Ting Herman, Of Brooklyn. Herman
found II difficult to remove his face
from Frankie's left poke.
Eddie Hester landed so many wal
Tops al Tom Sandy that the latter
decided to quit a few seconds after
the bell sandy claimed that Hester
hit in the clinches and refused TO
continue.
Young Willie Ferenzo had the bet
ter of four rounds of boxing with
Young Mack. The bout was substi-
tuted Tor the Hester Sandy affair,
which terminated suddenly.