Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-04


in the future. His victory over Young
Gradwell, who also halls from this
city. at Browns gym, in New York,
last night, is something to crow over
He won after ten rounds of fast
milling and even Gradwelrs friends
admitted afterward that their favor
lite had been outpointed. The result,
in a general way, was a surprise.
Going into the battle, though many
were friendly, few were strong for
Jimmy The general opinion pre-
vailed that Gradwell would prove too
much for him. AS matters turned
out, Mcyeigh upset calculations. He
won by his cleverness and by his SUI
perior ring generalship. GradwelI
gave battle every inch of the way,
but he was not the equal of Nc
Weigh in boxing.
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Gradwell was around town bright
and early this morning. Outside of a
swollen nose he seemed to be as good
as new. He said, in calling atten-
ton to his own bruises, "You ought
to see the other fellow" Gradwell
also had more TO say. In his own
opinion of the bout he said he was
sure that he had won, and he
couldn't see how others thought 9TH
erwise.
"Why, I beat Mcveigh surely"
Gradwell declared. IT outgeneraled
him and l outfought him. l landed
heavy blows to his head and to his
body, and made him miss like an
amateur
When told that the concensus of
opinion was In favor of McVeigh.
Gradwell seemed surprised. He felt
that he was being abused.
''If I ever beat a man in my life
he said with a full voice, 'I beat
McVeigh last night"
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During his discussion of the bout,
Gradwell said he was not at his best
by any means and that he knew he
could put up much better fight.
81 have not been we'll for some
time, and I was far from right last
night. I felt that l whipped Nc
Weigh, but if others say not, am
willing to abide by the decision How
ever, I am at least entitled to an
other chance. I want to fight Jimmy
again and I hope he will give me an
other show"
That is more like it, we would say.
For Gradwell to feel that he had
won was only natural, but for his
willingness to try again he is entitled
to consideration. He will ask Nc
Weigh for another chance, and it is
up to Jimmy to accept his def or
turn it down. Now that he has shown
MS superiority, he might consent to
give Gradwell a second match. It
should prove as interesting as the
one last night.
A quiet young man Is Fred Kiebler,
the Irvington fighter, when he is
quiet; but when he Is vexed he is
real bad man." Just at the present
writing Kiebler is vexed and sore
and peeved and he said he owed his
state of anguish to none other than
Young Kurtz, the local scrapper, with
whom Kiebler was matched to box
at Gus Troxler's Central Institute
next Monday night. That fight is off,
and thereby hangs a tale. We will
allow Mr.. Kiebler to tell 1t in his
own way:
''Kurtz is a fine fellow-not," Kieb-
Ter said during visit to the Eve
ming Star office yesterday afternoon.
He ducked out of the match with
me at Troxler's and he ran away to
Philadelphia so he wouldn't have to
meet me. This is the same fellow that
has been complaining that he could
get no one to meet him, yet when he
is matched against me he slips out
of town without saying word and
refuses to keep his appointment with
me. When the match was made l
told Kurtz to his face that he
wouldn't keep the date. He said he
would and I told him to be on hand
and also to be in good shape, for I
was going to give him a beating.
Just as I expected, though" Kiebler
said, sorrowfully, "Kurtz has backed
out: but I'm going to box Monday
night, anyway. Gus Troxler has Sc
cured Smiling Kelly, who, by the way,
and you can say said so, has beat
en- Kurtz on two occasions
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Klebler is big strong fellow and
he Is said to be a rough fellow in
the ring. He has lots of confidence
in his ability, and he not only thinks
he can defeat Kurtz but really be-
lieves he can whip Charley Weinert
in ten-round bout Kiebler has met
Weinert and he admits that Charley
proved too much for him in their bout
at Troxler's. He is one of the few
fighters who will tell you when he is
beaten as freely as he tells you about
his victories. He says Weinert beat
him in Troxler's, but by only small
margin. That was in a four-round