Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-04-09
OUR NEW PuoILIsrIc MIDDLEwEIoHT CHAMPION

mother was an English women. | am
an American"
That should settle all dispute.
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While on the subject of the nation
allty of fighters, much dispute has
arisen as to what is the parentage of
Charley Weinert, the promising
heavyweight. who now claims New
ark as his home. Weinert was born
in Budapest on October %, 1895, SO
he will not be nineteen years old until
next October, yet, Notwithstanding his
youth, he has been selected by many
wise judges as the most prom sing
prospect in the business, and in Tom
Messenger as a manager he has
man who will bring him to the front
if there is a chance and who will al
ways give him fair deal. Weinert's
parents are still alive. and he lives
with them on Fairmount avenue in
this city. His fathers name is August
Weinert, German, and his mothers
maiden name was Rosa Dukka, and
she was born in Hungary.
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Manager Messenger is taking things
slowly with Wienert. Tom could have
signed the boy up for. several bouts,
but he is going to be sure that he is
in shape the next time he steps into
the ring. With that in mind, Mes
senger is a careful watcher of Wei
merits workouts every afternoon at
Gus Troxler's. Along with a small
army of more or less pretentious
sprouts at the Central Institute yes-
terday afternoon. He did everything,
including three rounds of hard box
ing with the strong Billy Lewis, and
also three rounds of light sparring
with Jackie Dobbs. He punched the
bag, did some shadow boxing and
skipped the rope. He is developing
fast, and he is getting heavier by the
day. He is learning a lot, but he Is
still rather careless, especially in the
elinches. After his rundown he dried
out beautifully, and he resembled q
Greek gladiator. He has a great
future and he looks the part. Strict
attention to business is sure to bring
him to the front. Professor Troxler
says that Wienert is built on ideal
lines. He is almost perfect" the pro-
fessor calculated in discussing the
boys future with Manager Messenger
yesterday.
The death of Charley Camel, the
old baseball catcher, recalls the days
of the famous 'pretzel battery as
Getzein, the pitcher, and Camel, the
catcher were known. In those days
these star players were with the De-
troit team, along with Dan Brouthers,
Hardy Richardson, Jack Rowe,
Deacon White, known as the eele-
brated big Four" Camel, by the
way, was considered wonderful
baekstop and was classed with
Charley Bennett, of Boston fame.
Cancels death occurred yesterday at
Quincy, Mass, at the age of fifty-four
years. He was a brother of John
Cancel the successful manager of the
Rochester Baseball Club, and who
was also a great player in his day.
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The Brooklyn ball team may be in
the running this year. Mr.. Ebbets,
sr. seems to have pretty good club
and the Newark fans, because of the
presence of Aitchison, Dalton and
MeCarty on the roster, are sure to
have an interest in what the Superb
as will do the coming season. So far
the Brooklyns have shown excellent
baseball ability, and their defeat of
the Worlds Champion Athletics yes-
terday was another feather in their
caps We will be pulling for Aitchi-
son, Dalton and McCarty when the
season is on and in that way we will
be pulling for Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn is getting lucky. Frank
Farrell has announced that the Su-
perbas will open the new ball park
of the New York Americans with
the Yankees next spring. Whereupon
the senior Ebbets smiled contented
smile. although he knew he would
get that plum all along In fact, it
may be that Mr.. Farrell and Mr..
Ebbets will arrange for a series of