Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-31
A Happy New Year.

Stugrue bested White in their match
Tuesday night. Though outpointed,
White made a very favorable i'm
preston and he won many new ad-
mirers by his cleverness and his
Furnishing powers. He has all the
earmarks OF a great fighter, but he
lacks the fighting spirit. He allowed
Shugrue to set the pace and to pile
up points time and time again with
out showing any inclination to fight
back. When he did mill, though, he
was artistic in his efforts, and he is
easily the prettiest boxer in the
game today. In giving White the
match with Welsh, Jimmy Johnston.
the manager OF the Garden A. c., is
not to be condemned, though Shu-
grue's friends may take 1t as a slam
at him This is not 80. It is simply
business. Welsh and White are a
better card than Welsh and Shugrue,
and no matter who wins, the win
ner will draw well with Shugrue in
battle later on. The Welsh-Whlte
bout is all right. It is the bout the
fans want and they will go to see 1t
in great numbers, mark my word.
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Manager Johnston signed Welsh
and White to contracts yesterday,
and he set the date for the match as
Wednesday, January 13. The con-
ditions call for the men to weigh not
more than 1856 pounds at 8 O'Clock in
the afternoon, and 1t is said that sub
stantial forfeits have been posted TO
guarantee the weight Welsh wit
messed the Shugrue- White fight, and
he said it was a hummer. He gave
the decision in a signed article in a
New York paper to shugrue. though
he gave white plenty Of credit.
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This latest lightweight fight, which
may mean the dethronement Of a
champion, Is sure to attract more at
tention than has been given to any
bout around here In a long while. It
will eclipse the Shugrue-W White en-
counter, though that match drew a
big house and pleased large crowd.
But 1t was the Shugrue-White fight
that has stirred up the interest
stirred up the natives-and the
Welsh White bout will do even more
TO help popularize the game II the
men put up as good an exhibition.
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Though Welsh Is the champion he
has been outpointed by Shugrue and
outpointed by White. Both boys gave
him an indisputable trimming. Welsh
has offered no excuses for his defeat
at the hands of White. but he did
say-and there is much truth in his
he was beaten by Shugrue. Be that
as II may Welsh will have to win
from White In the Garden on JaHi-
AIRY 13 to convince ue that he Is the
best man among the lightwelghts. 1t
doesn't seem possible that he can
hold the title very long, when there
is so much new material, so much
youth around He is an oid-timer,
who was believed to be about "all
IN" when he won the title from Will
lie Ritchie; but to his credit 1t may
be said that since winning the cham
plonship he has shown more OF an
inclination TO fight than any other
lightweight that ever held the crown.
In White he will find tough Gus
toner. We would Hike to see Char
ley extend himself and fight a more
aggressive battle than he did against
Shugrue. If he does we would not
be bit surprised to see him win
decisiveiy.
As expected, and predicted in these
columns, there was a division of ex-
pert opinion on the Shugrue-Whit
bout. but the vast majority favored
Shusrue. Joe won because ne was
the aggressor, did most Of the leading
and most OF the landing and surely
outpointed his man. White. it is
true, posed beautifully and looked like
the ideal boxer. but pretty poses DO
not win boxing matches. White has
class. and he might 10 able to beat
shrugrue In another bout, but he
didn't do IL Tuesday night-not by a
good deal. OF eleven expert opinions
seven gave the verdict 70 Shugrue.
three gave It TO White and one called
The contest q draw. The experts
figure fights from different angles All
are honest, but all do not agree.
That's Just what makes the game. It
VIII be the same thing IN the next
hght, and the next one, too. That Ia
life.
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me accusations that Platt Adams.
the famous olympic athlete. has sold
prizes won by him. and thereby pro-
fessionalized himself, have perhaps
put him on the Defensive, but they
have not disgraced him by any
means. The claim is made that the
charges against Adams were
drummed up because of business jeal-
ousies, and Adams says he is pre-
pared 20 defend his amateur stand
ing at any time. Just at present
| Platt doesn't care to say much. but
he does not fear an investigation. II
seems quite evident that spite work
is behind the whole affair. Two Of
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