Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-30

Charley Weinert is to fight Battling
Levinsky over in Brooklyn tonight.
| If he does as we'll as he did the last
| time he met LeyinsSy, he will win.
| He beat Levinsky over in Browns
| gym and there is every reason why
| he should beat him again. Weinert
| has improved and Levinsky, if any
thing. has gone back. Weinert gives
promise of being a great fighter some
day, if things happen to break right
for him. If he beats Levinsky he will
likely get other bouts, for his mana
ger, John Weismantel. is the owner of
the Broadway Sporting Club, where
he boxes Leyinsky tonight. Weinert
has been training up at Eagle Rock
and he is said to be in good condition
for the battle. He has been talking
some lately of going to Australia,
where the game is very good. A New
York fight manager is going to leave
for the home of thekangaroo in week
or so, and he has a string of fighters
on his staff. He is undecided whether
to take Weinert or some other heavy
weight.
1t is a case of "be right if you do
and be right if you don't" with Jack
Johnson. The big black fellow won
from Frank Moran, and he is being
roasted numerically. If he had been
beaten he would also have been
panned. Johnson's offense at the
present time is allowing Moran to last
twenty rounds. If he had been beaten
himself his offense would have been
lack of condition and living a riot
Gus life. All the "panning,' however,
cannot rob johnson of his victory
The statements that he allowed
Moran to stay the twenty rounds
sounds like a joke TO those who
know the game and have seen john
son fight Those who are doing the
most criticising are experts who have
not even seen Johnson in his touring
car, let alone in the prize ring.
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The Johnson Moran fight, | would
say, was all right. Johnson won in
twenty rounds because, the way ne
fights, he couldn't win in nineteen
rounds. He has one method. He
fights one way. 1t may take him all
day to win. but the other fellow
l.;
century. Against Moran, Johnson
fought a Johnson fight If it was
any worse than the Johnson-Jeffries
fight at Reno | would like to see It.
through. 1t might have lasted
week if JEFF" could have stood up
that long. The Reno fight was the
worst fight I have ever seen and [
have seen some peaches. II the
Johnson Moran fight was any worse,
I am sorry that l missed it.
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Yet. rotten fight and all, Johnson
was given some credit. but I'd bet
that Jack put up a hundred-fold bet
ter battle against Moran than he
did against Jefries At Reno, at
first, Johnson hit whenever he got a
chance and whenever he was sure he
wasn't going TO get hit himself.
Soon he discovered that Jeffries
wasn't going to hit him, so he be-
came a little more brave. In the
fourteenth round it looked as if the
fight was going to last the full forty
five rounds. In the fifteenth round,
to the surprise of everybody. includ-
ing Johnson, Jeffries fell out of
clinch and through the ropes. Friends
and seconds. against the rules, helped
JEFF to his feet He was still strong
physically, but all in mentally. AS
JEFF" stood before him a helpless
man, Johnson, for the first time
showed real fight. He let go rights
and lefts and he didn't knock the
helpless Jeffres down until he fought
him, without a return blow, mind
you, from one side of the ring to the
other. Then JEFF went down, but
got up. and he was on his feet when
the fight was stopped. So, Johnson,
you will see, is not such knocker-
out after all.
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In a fight against Jack O'Brien in
Philadelphia it was declared that
Johnson didn't try to whip O'Brien,
although in the first round johnson
drove his opponent through the ropes
with right cross to the head. o Brien
came back and fought the six rounds
and really outpointed Johnson. In
the last round he hit Johnson ten
blows right in the face, and Johnson
couldn't get back at him at all. He
fought little Tommy Burns for four
teen rounds and Burns wasn't
whipped when the bout was stopped.
He fought Stanley Ketchel twelve
rounds and won in a spectacular fin
ish after he himself had been knocked
down fat. He fought Jim Flynn nine
rounds and Flynn was good and
strong when he was disqualified. So,
you can see for yourself, Johnson
isn't a knocker- out--a finisher. He
fought his regular fight again Moran,
He did a lot of kidding the same as
he did in Reno That is perhaps an
asset, but it won't win a fight when