Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-07
KURTZ AND SMITH
FIGHT FAST DRAW
Local Boys Aggressiyeness
Offsets ''Irish Jacks" Sci
ence in l0-R0und Bout.
BOTH ARE WELL USED UP

DOlH AMI WELL OOLD VI
Dave Kurtz, of this city and Irish |
Jack Smith. the navy middleweight |
boxed ten fast rounds to a draw In |
the feature bout at the Atlantic Gar
den A. c.. New York, last night. |
Smith was master of the local boy |
In the finer points of the game. but |
Kurtz managed to even matters with |
his work in the clinches. The ring |
side weights were 1853 pounds for
Smith and 1884, pounds for Kurtz.
Smith had the advantage in height |
and reach and he was able to hold |
off the rushing Kurtz with straight
left during the greater part of the
bout. He also showed great skill in
stepping back to meet Kurtz with a
right uppercut as he tore in to force
the work. In the eighth Smith came
out Of a clinch with a cut over his
right eye and it bled so much that
his face was soon covered with blood.
The first aid brigade in his corner
fixed up the wound so It caused him
no further trouble. In the same
round the sailor landed hard right
on kurtz's left eye and raised a large
lump over the optic.
Fred Husband of England, weigh
ing 1861 pounds, gained the honors
over Johnny Martin, of New York,
who weighed 1875 pounds, In the ten
round semi-final.
Young Lustig. Of Brooklyn, out
pointed Jimmy Carroll. of the east
side, In the opening ten-round bout.
bustig gained the honors by superior
work in the infighting.
McAilister to Box Gibbons.
Bob McAllister, the California mid
| dleweight, who trimmed Battling
Levlnsky In Madison Square Garden,
New York, Monday night. was
matched yesterday to box ten rounds
with Mike Gibbons of st. Paul, in
the same ring next Monday night.
Gibbons received wire from Man
ager Gibson yesterday asking him If
he would accept, providing McAllis-
ter agreed to make 1872 pounds ring
side. Gibbons replied in the aff1rma-
tive, and the match was clinched.
Levinsiky Has Alibi.
Battling Levinsky's friends vester-
day excused his defeat at the hands
OF McAllister with the assertion that
he was asked to reduce too much,
also that he had not recovered from
the hard punching he received from
Jim Coffey in Philadelphia Saturday
night. Levinsky will have a much
needed rest between now and next
Tuesday night, when he will tackle
Perky Flynn at the National Sport
| ing Club.
| New Boxing Club.
| At a meeting of the New York
State Boxing Commission yesterday
Il O H0onra xzfa<s <sr-a tod 70 H.
! tan Sporting Club to conduct boxing
bouts in the Manhattan Casino, 155th
street and Eighth avenue, New York.
| Gil Boag, formerly manager of the
Madison A. c., is to be the manager.
This place was the scene of some live
| ly contests in 1910, when the Nc
Mahon brothers ran 1t. It Is one of
the biggest arenas in the city and a
crowd of 5000 or 1000 may be ac-
commodated.
Leonard and Black Draw
Although many blows were struck
In the ten-round bout between Bennie
Leonard and Kid Black, of New York,
at Browns gymnasium, New York,
| last night, none was damaging, and
at no time did either featherweight
| have much of an advantage. It was
an even exchange all the way. most
of the punches being landed at close
range. In the semi-f1nal ten-round
bout Joe Tierney, of Elizabeth, ad-
ministered such beating to Frankie
Young In seven rounds that Young
was unable to come out of his cor
ner for the eighth round, and Referee
Bill Brown stopped the bout.
Baker Trims Ryan.
Harry Baker defeated Battling
Larry Ryan, of New York, in the
wind-up at the Paramount Club, Phil
adelphia. last night, before big
crowd It was Bakers fight in every
round, but Ryan was game and took
terrible lacing, fighting back hard
WREN he got chance to reach Bak-
| er's head or stomach. Harry opened
an old cut over Ryan's eye and kept
his nose bleeding after the third
round.
Police Save Hayes.
The chances of Chick Hayes, of In
dianapolis, for a go with Coulon went
glimmering last night. In the sew
enth round Of Chicks fight with KID
Williams, the Baltimore bantam, at
Baltimore, Chick was saved from
further walloping by the police, who
stopped the fight. Hayes was then
heiplessly beaten.
Other Ring Chatter.
Jack Britton, of Chicago. was
matched yesterday to box ten rounds
with Mike Glover, of Boston, at the
National Sporting Club, New York,
on January 10. The weight will be
14o pounds ringside. Several weeks
ago Glover outpointed Britton in ten
rounds at a Brooklyn club. Hence
the return match.
George Ashe issued a challenge to
McAllister yesterday to box ten
rounds or twenty rounds at 1853 or
100 pounds ringside, also expressing
desire to make a bet on the side.
Two New York clubs are trying to
sign George Chip, the middleweight
champion, to box McAllister at an
early date.
TRI-STATE HOLDS MEETING
The annual meeting OF the Tri-
State Baseball League yesterday was
unproductive of results because of
the inability of club owners to agree
with President Charles F. Carpenter
regarding terms of his retirement.
Another meeting will be held In Phila-