Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-29

picking Charley White to beat Joe
Shugrue In their ten-round fight al
Madison Square Garden tonight
White Is a finished boxer, and he car
hit a Knockout blow, while Shugrut
is simply rated as a fast, rough fell
low, who rarely wastes a moment and
never gives his opponent time to
breathe. Shugrue, on his fight with
Freddie Welsh, the champion, has
been installed the favorite. His
friends and his admirers are backing
him, but the cleverest men in New
York are betting on White. on their
two fights, 1t would be hard to pick
a winner and both men have I'M
| proved nightly since then. White
! Is the better boxer and the better
hitter and it looks as II he has two
chances to win against one for Shu-
grue, whose long suit is smothering
his man with speed and punches, The
fight will very likely go the limit
with a division of opinion at the end
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Sammy Clark, the Newark feather.
weight, will have an opportunity to-
night to show his boxing skill before
big crowd. Thanks to the influence
of Charley Weinert, Clark will boz
the semi-fnal bout to the ghugrue-
White contest at the Garden. He Is
clever little fellow and should make
new admirers. His opponent will be
a tough fellow in the person Of Kid
Black.
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weinert also has match on. He
is to meet Fireman Jim" Flynn at
the Empire A. C. on January 8.
This will be his nrst fight under the
management OF Jimmy Johnston.
who has a habit of making men
fight sometimes better than they
know how. Weinert has been doing
light training for weeks in expecta-
ton of match, and he will require
only q few days to put him on edge.
He has slight cold. but that will
called at the Evening Star Office this
morning, to Say that he was ready
TO meet any heavyweight in the
world.
Yin Savage?" l inquired
Say why doesn't that fellow go
to work?" was weinert's only re-
ply.
Weinert had an important tele-
gram from Jack Bolger, who is In
terested in moving pictures. Charley
remarked that he wouldn't mind be-
coming an actor. though fighting
just at present, was good enough for
him.
Jack Mccarthy. the manager for
Bill Browns Boxing Club IN New
York, says he will put on the Banty
Lewis-Jimmy Mcveigh bout, which
was suggested in these columns last
Saturday. with boxing crimped in
this city, New York is sure to get q
big play from Newark fans. Time
may come when we will have to go
to Gotham for all our sports.
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Jack stickim Is the name of Jim
Savages new manager, but that
doesn't mean anything, though Jim
was stuck good and plenty in his
fight on Christmas day afternoon
with Howard Morrow. It was an
awfully small crowd that turned out
to greet these warriors Of the ring
so small, in fact. that the would-be
contestants couldn't see their way
clear to go on and box on a percent
age basis, which was according to
agreement. That's where Jack
Stickim came in with his managerial
antee Of SIS for the bold Savage, and
the promoters finally yielded. Well,
the fight came off. and the men went
through ten of the most terrible
ing about the great battle one Of
savage's admirers said: For three
rounds I rooted for the Hopeless
Hope and then I set back In my
seat and laughed during the r..
mainder Of the exhibition" After
the bout Manager stickim collected
Savage's $15. paid Jim his percentage
and appeared happy in the thought
that he had done a good days work
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Newark is being considered as a
Federal League city. This know to
be a fact. A week or 30 ago Toronto
was selected to take the place Of
Kansas City in the OUTLAW" circuit,
but in view Of the war the Canadian
city was abandoned. Mon high up in
the councils OF the Feds have been
looking Newark over the last few
days. They were In town yesterday.