Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-27
HOWARD TOO MUCH
FOR BILLY GRUPP
Bayonne Scrapper Makes St.
Louis MiddIeweight Quit in
Sixth Round.
WILL NOW BOX M'ALLISTER.

SlXt1 KOun0.
WILL NOW BOX M'ALLISTER.
Johnny Howard. of Bayonne. made
Billy Grupp. the st. Louis middle
weight, quit in the7 sixth round of
their scheduled ten-round bout be-
fore a big crowd at the Olympic
A. c.. New York. last night. Grupp
received a severe trounclpg from
Howard, and when he walked to his
corner at the end of the sixth ~ound
he told his seconds that ne would
not continue to box.
Grupp made a speech from the ring
and told the crowd that he had
been fighting long enough and was
going to retire from the ring for
good. Grupp was scheduled to meet
Bob McAllister. of California. on
c., New York, but Howard was sub
stituted after last nights bout
Howard outclassed Grupp from the
start and battered him around the
ring in nearly every round. In only
one session, the second. did the st.
Louis fighter manage to hold Howard
to even honors. In this session
Grupp landed several hard wild right
hand swings to Towards face. but
short right and left hand hooks to
the jaw that shook Grupp up.
When the bell rang to start the
third round Howard rushed Grupp
and landed two straight lefts to the
face and then backed the st. Louis
fighter to a neutral corner with a
volley of lefts and rights to the body.
The blows weakened Grupp, and af-
ter this, at every opportunity, he
clinched to avoid punishment.
Howard continued his assault to
the body in the fourth round and
Grupp was a tired lad when he re-
tired to his corner at the bell. How
ard shifted his attack to the face in
the fifth, and several times Jared
Grupp with rights to the chin. 1t was
only Grupp's clinching that saved
him from being knocked out. Grupp
was in a dazed condition when he
went to his corner at the end of the
sixth. His lips were cut, his right
eve nearly closed and the other eye
damaged.
George Chip, the middIeweight
champion, was matched last night
to box Johnny Howard, of Bayonne,
at the Empire A. G., New. York. on
February 6. Battling Levinsly and
Tom Mcmahon, of Pittsburgh, were
also signed for the first ten-round
bout of the night
Papp Draws with Lowe.
Bert Papp, of this city, battled to
draw with Tommy Lowe, a light
weight of Washington, in ten
round bout, preliminary to the How
ward-Grupp fight last night. Papp
was to have met Otto Koehler, of
Cleveland. but the latter, for some
reason. did not go on. Lowe was sub
stituted and put up a good mill. al
though Papp handed him just as much
as he received. Both boxers scored a
Touchdown and, although each was in
poor shape at times, they rallied
enough to continue throughout the
ten rounds. Papp will box Jack Mad
! inc in the main event at the Central
Institute next Monday night.
Chip Batters BorreIl.
Fighting feats of the late Stanley
Ketchel, when in his prime, were
wildly pictured on the minds of the
older heads of 5000 mercy begging
patrons of boxing at the Olympic
A. A., Philadelphia, last night, as
+, George Chip, of Pittsburgh, beat
down Joe Borrell, one of Philadel-
phia's best middleweight boxers. A
more decisive defeat, in which the
! loser was not counted out by the
referee, has probably never been seen
in a local ring. His face marred be-
yond recognition, Borrell was enabled
to stay the six-round limit through
his superhumanlike ability to absorb
punishment. The terrific, head-rock-
ing blows scored by Chip would have
probably sent to Sunderland any
other knight of the padded mitts but
Borrell.
Investigate Johnson's Charges.
Grand jury investigation was con-
tinued yesterday in Chicago in the
vague rumors that attaches of the
United States department of justice
had benefited by the disappearance
of Jack johnson, who had fled to
Paris after being convicted of violat-
/ ing the Mann act. A search, 1t was
stated, was being made for Sol
Lewinsohn, former professional
bondsman and private banker. Lew
insohn left Chicago after being sum-
moned into the United States courts
in connection with a questioned bond
transaction. An investigation by a
receiver appointed for his bank
showed only IS in the vaults.
Levinsky to Box Smith.
/ Battling Levinsky will meet Cum
boat" Smith some time this spring,
declared Danny Morgan, Levinsky's
manager, yesterday afternoon. Ac-
cording to present arrangements the
men will meet in a ten-round con-
test in New York. probably at Madi-
son Square Garden, as soon as Smith
closes his theatrical engagements.
! Smith at present is matched to box
Jess Willard twenty rounds in aCli-
fornia on July a, and is also contem-
plating an invasion of Europe, there
, to meet Jack Johnson for the heavy.
weight championship of the world.
Denies Mcfarland Story.
Billy Gibson, manager of the Gar
den Athletic Club, denied last night
that the Gibbons Mcfarland match
would not be held. He said that Nc
Farland had made the match prac-
tjcally at his own terms and would
live up to his agreement.
Welsh Outpoints Fisher.
Freddie Welsh, champion light
weight of England. won a newspaper
decision over Earl Fisher. of Gin
cinnati, in that city last night after
ten rounds of fast boxing. Fisher
showed wonderful footwork in the
first six rounds, but Welsh's ring
generalship and his fast work with
his left hand more than equaled
things up.