Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-15

terday when Marty presented Eugene
a baseball with all the names of the
members of the Detroit baseball team
inscribed on 1t. Kavanagh called on
Kinkead at the capital and made the
presentation. Marty, as is we'll known
hereabouts, lives in the congressman's
district and when a youngster on the
city lots he played with the Harrison
A. c.. which was a yearly contest for
the Kinkead cup.
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Young Johnny Strahan. who used
Newark Academy, played for Hart
| ford in a twenty-three inning game
yesterday and his team finally won
out. Salmon is also with the Hartford
team and he is pitching fine ball.
| Strahan has only recently Joined the
| club. He gives promise of becoming
! big Lacquer.
/ The returns of the fight in London
tomorrow night between Gunboat
Smith and Georges Carpenter will
| be the means of creating new inter-
est in the heavyweight situation.
This will be true in many respects
| In the first place, the battle should
furnish a worthy opponent for Jack
| johnson, who holds the worlds cham
pionship. and will have to fight the
winner sooner or later. johnson. it
is said, is quite willing to accommo-
date either Smith or Carpenter in
a match, and he really has signed to
meet the F'renchman. If Smith should
win, though, there is a feeling that
Jack will not be so anxious For
! that, however. we will have to wait
some time to see.
@
The fight is attracting great inter-
est in London. where the sports are
discussing the probable result from
sun-up to sun down. The bout seems
to be the one topic of discussion over
there and business is matter of
small moment now that the hour of
the mill is drawing near. The talk is
/
the women are buying tickets for
the bout in large numbers. 1t Is said
in the cable dispatches that fifteen
per cent. of the attendance will be
made up of the fair sex. This will
insure its success, and the claim is
made that all records for big fights,
with the exception of the Johnson
Jeffres bout at Reno will be broken
for the amount of money taken in at
the gate.
To the surprise of Americans, Car
pentier is an even betting favorite
with Smith, but it is believed that the
Gunboat will be the choice before the
men enter the ring. However, the
Frenchmen are very enthusiastic and
will back their countryman to. the
| limit. Carpenter has improved as a.
pugilist in the last six months or so.
and he may surprise everyone. He
put up a great twenty-round fight
against Joe Jeanette. and he has
twice beaten Bombardier Wells. He
is q. good match for any man. Smiths
advantage viii be in his terrific punch.
With It he cuts his opponents down
like so many weeds. 1t will be the
biggest feather of his career IL he
4 whips Carpenter. And the Yankee
sports are hoping that he will do it.
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! A fanness airs her views:
i j. P. NJ:
1t is really amusing to read the
comments about the two-thirds of n
mile pro race Sunday. Nothing could
be more natural than Kramer 10
start after Cavanagh. IL he hadn't
he would be foolish to say the least
Our friend. "The Railway Veteran. .
says your opinions are all in favor
of Kramer If he would read The
Star regularly he couldn't say that.
A few weeks back, when Kramer
didn't ride up to the mark, you sure
did knock the champion, and you
have done the same a few times
since, and. it would seem, unneces-
sarily. / wrote letter saying things
to you that weren't altogether nice
It would seem poor Frank would
have a hard time trying to please
! everybody If he don't go out and
ride the three and five-mile races tc
a finish the poor fans aren't getting
their moneys WORTH and if he goes
out and wins the money he ISM
doing right, either. He should let the
other riders get that money. Poor
Kramer You have my sympathy
You should sit up on your wheel and
let Cayanash or Rutt win the race