Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-25

The bicycle riders around Newark
didn't seem to think that there was
much Importance attached to the
announced retirement of John NJ.
Chapman from the game. Some os
the boys whom Chapman had signed
to ride for him were a little anxious
as to what was going to become of
them, but all in all there was not
much grumbliug. The opinion was
never very strong that Chapman
would go into the game unless he
could see his way clear to do busi-
ness as a man among men, and l,
for one, never for a moment believed
he would become a promoter of out
law races. Chapman is a good man
in cycling, and he has his own way
of doing things. He might be in the
game now in big way if he cared
to work in harmony with Messrs.
Million and Uppercu, and he may be
back in the game before long doing
business with these same gentlemen.
He could, 1 feel sure, name his own
terms, and he could promote cycling
meets in his own way If he simply
cared to put a proposition up to the
Cycle Racing Association, but Chap
man or no one else can expect favors
when he persists in carrying a chip
on his shoulder.
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The attention given to Kid Boonton
has evidently somewhat nettled Banty
Lewis and his friends, and there are
bright prospects of another boxing |
match between these two clever Jer-
sey boys. Joe Sachs, who is repre-
senting Lewis, was a caller at the
Evening Star office yesterday after
noon, and he came prepared to make |
match for Banty against the Kid. |
Sachs had a roll of bills and wanted /
to post $50 as a forfeit to bind the |
match We refused to be the stake
holder and Sachs finally decided to !
put up his money in the hands OF |
Harry Stone, a local business man. |
friends, who have been doing lot of |
shouting since the Kid bested Banty |
at Troxler's, to come out from in I'M
der and make the match. 1.-THE Or
ange Boys" who have been writing
letters praising Boonton and dispar-
aging Lewis, will now have an oppor-
tunity to step up to the captains
office and produce something in sub
stantial way.
O.
A match between Boonton and
Lewis, judging from the great inter-
est in their last bout, should be very
attractive, and we will endeavor to
learn whose fault it is if the contest
doesn't materialize. The weight ques-
ton, it is believed, will be the only
stickler. Boonton and his friends
claim the Kid can make 125 ringside, /
but in the challenges issued on his
behalf it is added that the men give
or take two pounds. OF course, that
would really mean 127 pounds ring
side, to which Lewis may object.
day that he would back Banty to beat
Boonton at 125 pounds ringside, but
he didn't say he would give or take
two pounds. Sachs declared that
Lewis was anxious to fight Boonton
and that the members of the Happy
Ramblers would back him up to the
amount of $500. The suggestion was
made by Bantys representative the
boys fight at Browns and Sachs said
he was sure Bill Brown would be de-
lighted to give the Jersey boys a
date, as the battle would be sure to
fill the gymnasium. That is very
likely so. /
The making of the match, it would |
seem, is now entirely up to Boonton. /
For a time it looked as If Lewis |
wasn't anxious for the Kids game, as
he ignored his challenges and is said
to have told his friends that he
wouldn't bother with Boonton, whom,
he said, he could beat any time. AS
to his bout with Boonton at Troxlers,