Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12

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sonable locations for it's ball parks,
| the real rub will come. Then will fol-
low, too, the cost of erection. Years
ago, when the American League
broke out, conditions were not the
same as now. Then you could build
a wooden grandstand and bleachers
In almost any part of the big cities,
but now you must use steel and ce-
ment, if you want to build in town at
all. The way the OUTLAWS" are
starting out. they do not appear to
have much of chance for success.
| 1t will cost at the very lowest $780,
900 to float the league. and then the
clubs will have to be self-supporting
| to maintain their existence.
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f, The big leagues, by the way, are
not going to have all the trouble, by a
long shot. From present indications
the International League is going up
against it rather hard With teams in
Baltimore, Buffalo and Toronto. as
planned, considerable opposition is in
| sight. The patronage is also likely to
| be better in those cities than in the
big league cities. This will be brought
about by the playing of stars, who
will have so much drawing power.
| In the big league cities the outlaws
are sure to suffer by comparison, and
no matter what you say or what you
do. the fans will go where the best
ball is to be found.
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Dyspepsia is prevalent these days.
A case in point:
j. P. NJ:
am an ardent reader of your
column, and in the last few weeks
! have taken particular notice that II
Is full of boosts for Charley Weinert,
the man who Is as clever as Jim
Corbett and with a punch like JEFF
fries. Now what | want to know is
who did he ever whip? You speak of
about the "piant'' Weinert fought
from Brooklyn couple of weeks ago
at TroXler's, a man twenty pounds
lighter than himself. Why, this fellow
is getting away with murder He is
an advertised boob" When he fought
Battling Levinsky / noticed you gave
1t to Weinert, but every other paper
gave either a win or draw for Lee
whisky. Why, If he ever fights the
Battler again there will be funeral
in Orange. Why doesn't he fight Jim
Savage? You can see he doesn't want
any of that kind of stock.
T. A. M.
Yours is a bad case, Tom; and you
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To set you right, I'll answer your ac-
cusations just as they appear in your
communication. Weinert isn't as
clever as a Corbett and he hasn't the
Corbett in boxing style, in way,
and he has a pretty fair punch. He
has beaten everyone he has met so
far, which isn't bad at all. Tommy
Madden, whom you refer to as a
plant and twenty pounds lighter
than Weinert, appeared to me to be a
pretty fair fighter and very few
pounds lighter, though much shorter
Weinert isn't committing any crime
by outboxing all his opponents and
the advertising he is getting is de-
served so far. Yes, I gave the deci-
sion to Weinert over Levinsky and he
earned it. Your statement that the
other papers gave either win or a
draw to Levinsky is so in way. A
Newark paper said that Levinsky
won, but he didn't, and the New York
Sun and the Associated Press, which
supplies the country with news said
that Weinert won. All the New York
papers outside of the Sun said the
bout was a draw, so "either a draw
or win" is stretching it some. AS
to the funeral Weinert is the one tc
see about that, and as to another fight
with Levinsky that is also his affair
weinert would fight Savage in a min.
ute, / understand, but Percy Wood
ruff won't stand for the match. Out
side of the few discrepancies pointed
out, Tom, your letter is a peach.
c.
An indignant but witty reader Of
Sport Topics takes exception TO tn,
Passaic River, the Public Service
Company, the Bridge Commission
the, but read his letter:
j. P. N:
AS you can decide bets, consol,
loye-stricken hearts, advise the way
laid and do most anything from ref
, erecting a battle royal to an exciting
game of dominoes, 1 come to yol
, with an affair of no small Importance
You know thousands cross the putrit
Passaic to get to work at a. m.
well, most every other day, "at least,
the bridges are open just around tina
} time to let some tug or large row
boat pass. Meantime the street rail
way passenger sits fretting in tn
car and the whistles blow 7 o'clocl
while he or she is being locked ;
quarter of an hour, a half hour, ant
in some places one hour, for comini
in late through the carelessness O
the Public Service, who will not fur
nish enough early cars, and the bridg
J authorities, who do not care to max
, a ruling that the boats should no
ask passage from 6.45 to a. m TIL
navigation on the Passaic would no
even feel (perhaps not know Of sucl
a ruling unless notified, as there
nothing of Importance doing then
But those who work at that hou
must be dOcke0 from nVe 10 1ort,
cents, besides getting rats" from tn
bosses and sometimes get canned.
OF course, while you wait for tn
: bridge to close you can smell tn
!, Passaic-that's one Consolation!
Perhaps what a friend from Bostol
. told me is right, namely: A city tina
can stand for the Passaic river de
} serves a Public Service and Bridg
Commission to match. In fact, j. F
NJ, is it not folly to have to go fror
Down Neck to Broad and Bridg
streets, then to Harrison, when car
oh a 0ISaon