Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-07

MN ne would be tickled with 20 per
cent.
Take on the bout, Tom,' Mahon
| said to Messenger. "and give Banty
. per cent. off my end"
Messenger is not handling any
fighters who cannot command % per
cent of the gross receipts, but he
finally yielded to Mahon's pleadings
and told Matchmaker Mccarthy to
go ahead and arrange the bout.
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This fight is going to stir up the
natives, and the outcome will mean
much to both boys. Mahon thinks he
will win easily, and says he bested
Lewis when he met him some time
ago Lewis must feel that he also has
chance, or he wouldn't make the
match. But Mahon is so confident he
danced with joy when he heard this
morning that Lewis had agreed to
meet him. He said:
Gee, I'm certainly glad that
Banty is going to box me- I didn't
think he would We should make a
great fight, for Lewis is always will
ing to mix it. If / win-and | expect
to win--I would like to meet some of
the other featherweights around here
Mickey Donley, the fellows tell me Is
good boy. 1 will make weight for
MIN. | can do 120 pounds, but | am
fighting Lewis at 125 pounds. 1t
seems everybody | box has weight on
me. / am in good shape now, having
been in training for a week, and I'll
be glad when the night for the bout
comes around"
Irish will have long wait, and you
never can tell what will happen be-
tween April and April %. the date
set by Lewis. 1t might be that Banty
will hurt his hand in the meantime,
and then we wouldn't have any bout
at all, at all, perhaps.
Q
Several Newark sports are going
over to Brooklyn tonight to see
George Chip, the recognized middle
"SASh NJ 1liaiAplplls 1IE 1T al NhtSOJg
Jack Dougherty's "one best bet" at
the Broadway Sporting Club. Tom
Messenger will be there, and he will
have Weinert with him. Weinert, by
the way, has been offered match al
the Broadway Club, and he will prob
ably sign articles tonight. Weinert
is living in Newark now, and he is
training at Gus Troxler's. He realizes
that he has a great future, and he
denies emphatically all the tales that
are being spread about town about his
late hours and his dissipation. Really,
it does look as If the Kid is being
lied about. Only the other night
couple of wiseacres dropped into Tom
Weinert was over in such place and
was very badly off Weinert had only
left Messengers a few moments be-
fore, and Messenger knew where he
was going. The wiseacres were all
wrong, but that's the way 1t goes,
and Weinert will probably get the
worst of it in that respect as long as
he lives.
Mccoy against Chip doesn't appear
to be much of a match, but it is said
that Mccoy is such a good drawing
card that he will pack the house. He
will probably get n good licking, but
his end should be sufficiently large
to heal his wounds. The Broadway
Club draws very large houses, and
the reason is plain. The prices
charged range from so cents to 50
and the clubhouse provides about
9.400 persons with seats. More than
900 ISLANDERS are able to see the bouts,
and the place has been packed more
than once. Chip should draw big,
as it will be his first appearance in
Greater New York He comes as a
champion, as the man who twice
knocked out Frank Klaus, the best
middleweight in the business. There
will be a desire to see Chip perform
and to compare him with Klaus and
McGoorty and Gibbons. Notwith- !
standing that Mccoy is on the other
end, the attendance is sure to be
large.
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Sailor White is coming back, back,
back to Newark town. The notifica-
ton of his arrival is contained in
the following communication:
Newark, N. j., April s.
]. P. NJ:
l notice there has been some peo-
pie knocking Sailor White, and one
in particular who signs himself
Eight Bug" He asks why the
Sailor does not leave Charley Wei
merit alone? And also goes on to say
1.-The Sailor should go over to New
York and earn his money" l would
like to say on behalf of the Sailor
that in my opinion, and l think in
the opinion of all the rest of the
Sailors many friends, that he has
earned his money whenever he
stepped into the ring, and then some.
And he was afraid of no man, and
willing to meet all corners.
Some of these so-called fight bugs
are strong for a fight until he is
whipped once or twice, and then they
get busy with the hammer and
knock. And as for the Sailor fight
ing to an empty house, 1 believe he
has enough admirers to pack any
fight club in Newark. And l hope
we will have a chance to prove this
in the near futures
Just before the Sailors last three
or four fights. he met with an acct
dent. In getting on a train he was
thrown headfirst into railroad
bridge, and he was injured so badly
that he was taken to the hospital.
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