Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-20

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Gunboat Smith and Jim Buckley,
his manager, are clamoring for an
other fight with Georges Carpenter,
and Carpenter and his manager say
the Gunboat will be accommodated,
but not soon. Georges must keep a
must fight Bombardier Wells again,
and he may find other men whom he
will want to meet, but, rest assured,
he will fight Smith again-sometime.
If Smith had won, though, affairs
would have been just the same. The
Gunboat would have utilized his
drawing powers just as will Carpen-
tier.
AS to the foul blow, the moving
pictures show that Carpenter was hit
while he was on the floor. Whether
the blow was harmful or not is an
other question. Referee CORR admits
that he gave Smith a long count"
in the fourth round, which bears out
the statement of the official timer.
After summing up the whole affair, 1
guess we weren't so badly cheated,
after all. Most of the alibi producers
are losers. Frank Million, the local
cycling impresario, says Carpenter
can beat Smith again and that he can
beat Jack Johnson, also. Mr.. Million
won a thousand dollars on the
Frenchman's victory and he will back
him at the prevailing odds if he fights
johnson.
Reports sent out from London after
the Freddie Welsh Willie Richie
fight contained the information that
the championship battle drew some
thing like $4,000. 1t didn't do any
thing of the kind. Reliable informa-
ton at hand shows that the receipts
were only $4,000 and the promoters
lost heavily on the affair. Welsh,
though the winner, didn't get cent.
In fact, he may be compelled to share
in the losses. Freddie gambled and
the venture was a failure. He won
the fight and the championship, but
his opponent got the money. Richie
played the game safe. He was given
$4,000 guarantee. $4,000 for his share
of the moving pictures of the battle,
| which are more or less of a failure,
and s1,100 for expenses. That makes
| SIG. 100, $4,000 more than was taken
in at the gate. Welsh was working
on much different plan. His share
| depended entirely on what was
made on the encounter. He was to
receive fifty per cent. of the profits
after Richie had been given his
$26,10O and the other expenses had
been paid. Now, it is said, the
promoters want Welsh to stand half
of the losses and 1t may be that the
courts will DO resorted to.
@
Richie got the worst of it in bat
tie, but he was the only winner finan-
cialy. His defeat will not do him
much harm, for he was the aggres
sor throughout and is admitted to
be the better fighter. lie was simply
outboxed. He lost his worlds title.
for which he was well paid, but he
will come back here still the Ameri
can champion and he will be able to
get big money for his services. His
home is still on the coast and he can
go there and demand $4,000 for his
end and the promoters there will give
it to- him. Now that he has been
beaten he will also be able to get
any number of easy matches, and as
he is still young and a great little
fighter he will probably get more
money in the next year or so than
he would If he held the worlds title
O.
Welsh, now that he has the world,
championship to play with, will wan
ton of money every time he starts
lie will find ii difficult to secur.
matches in this country, because
strange to say, though a wonderful
boxer, Welsh could never draw a biz
house in this country. Even in hi
fights ON the coast he was a poor at
J traction, and If he came back to thi