Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-24

of the controversy, an admirer of the
i fighter says:
Orange, October %.
j. p. N:
There is a saying, Where ignor-
ance is bliss, it is folly to be wise"
believe that the Honorable Percy
/ Woodruff" manager of Jim Savage,
will appreciate the folly of being a
bit too wise, for | know he will have
cause to be sad for many day to
come for being the main instigator
of the. proposed fake fight between
Weinert and Savage. The fact re-
mains that Weinert had honor
enough to expose Woodruff, but it
seems, J. p. NJ, that you are play
ing the game of partiality towards
Woodruff, upon whom | can say. and
the rest will agree with me, the en-
tire blame rests for the frame-up.
Weinert informed us on the same day
that Woodruff approached him with
the proposition of framing up the
fight Before the match was madeg
Weinert also Informed us OF his in
tentions to agree to a frame-up for
one reason--to show Woodruff up.
The letter which Weinert addressed
| to the press and which you have
published, was intended to have been
given out on the night of the battle.
| Weinert was to have made the same
/ statement publicly from the arena
and with the assertion that he was
going to fight on the level only.
| Woodruff had no intentions of
"double-crossing" Weinert but Saw
| age would have had to fight on the
square, for Weinert would have made
him.
If you doubt this you can visit
| Orange or West Orange and find our
for yourself that Woodruff was Of
| fering odds that the bout would not
result in a knockout.
You must confess that Weinert is
the hoy of the hour and you also
must admit that Weinert is not the
type of pugilist that has to frame
up or fake any of his fights. You,
no doubt. are acquainted with that
little fable: THE man who killed
the goose that laid the golden eggs
Well, Woodruff has certainly killed
the goose that laid the golden egg
for him. When he had Weinert UNI
der his management, Weinert's popu-
larity brought Woodruff great deal
of business. When Woodruff
canned" Weinert, for very selfish
reasons, he thought that Weinert
would be through as fighter, or to
quote Woodruff's own assertion. "He
would queer the donkey and ingrate'
! (WeinerD. Weinert, however was
too good a fighter and is possessed
of too much gray matter to quit the
| game on his (Woodruff's) account.
Well, since he hasn't had Weinert
around his cafe to interest the fight
sports, who used to congregate and
admire the boy wonder, he has lost
a good deal of business. He thought
he would secure another goose to lay
golden eggs for him in the person of
Jim Savage, and, of course, the only
way he could get the fight sports in.
terested in his new goose was to get
him matched UP with Weinert and
thereby get the sports congregating
again in his cafe But Weinert would
have finished Percy's goose, and in
stead of golden eggs he would have
had one large juicy lemon.
| A CONSTANT READER OF YOUR
| COLUMNS.
The opinion is prevalent that Wei
merit exposed the fake because he
didn't want to fight Savage.s Why
he should have done so is difficult
to explain, but that is the way the
situation is viewed from unprecedented
sources. II Woodruff is such a bad
man" why give him any attention?
As to the golden egg, Weinert was
the lucky fellow. Woodruff did all
Charley's business and didn't take q
cent from him. When weinert got a
swelled head and refused to train
properly, woodruff tied can to
him. woodruff made big mistake
in making the fake proposition. but
am quite certain that the fight
would have been on the level. One
thing that is very clear is that for a
while weinert wouldn't tight Savage