Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-18

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Charley Weinert, the Butcher Boy
has been matched to fight Gunboat
Smith next month at the Broadway
Sporting Club in that city This
would be the biggest fight of Weinert's
career, and 1t would make him If he
wins, and Ii would not do him much
harm if he was beaten. He is
youngster yet, being only eighteen,
and he has plenty of time to show
to the front. 1t has been Weinert's
ambition for some time to fight
Smith. He has said right along that
he can beat the Gunboat 1t may be
that he can and that he has Smiths
number. just as it is generally be-
lieved that Jim Savage has Weinert's
number, and that he can whip the
Butcher Boy any day in the week.
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According to Harry Pollok, man
ager, Freddie Welsh has been offered
$4,000 for three fights within six
months. in California. Pollok says
he is not going to accept the offer,
which seems foolish on his part for
Welsh wouldn't draw $4,000 in the
! fights If Welsh means business and
Pollok means business Willie Richie
will be given return fight. That is
the only bout in which Welsh could
! hope to draw any big money and he
demands $4,000 for such a mill. OF
course, he won't get it. but maybe he
will be satisfied to pick up few
shfllings here and there in the ring
and on the stage AS a worlds cham
pion, Welsh will not receive much at
tention. and he will not get much
money either. He outpointed Richie
| in England, but Willie can beat him
any day in the week over here
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Rabbit Maranville. a good many
baseball men will tell you, is the
malkings of the Boston Braves. II
not quite that, he is at least large
part of the machinery. He is only
as big as a minute, but he is as pow
erful as an OK. He is supposed to
Pi'y ohot tSlOPt puh itS really pay
all over the diamond. His work is
always pleasing to watch and at
times he is sensational. He is the |
best shortstop in baseball today and |
he couldn't be bought for $685. 900 in |
cold cash. He looks like a spider out |
on the field, but he performs the
stunts of a giant. At the bat he is as
dangerous a man as any pitcher
would have step to the plate. He is
well named Rabbit.
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When George Stallings joined Bos-
ton, Maranville was about the only ball
player on the team. In fact, two years
ago, right after the Braves defeated
the New York Giants in the opening
game on the Polo Grounds, Stallings
said to me, after / had congratulated |
him on the victory: I'VE were lucky |
today | have a pennant ball club.
My whole team is at shortstop. That
kid, Maranville, is wonder Hub
Perdue pitched good game and he is
a great twirler. I am going to build
up team around that shortstop,
though, and I will win the National
League pennant inside of three years"
Ed Barrow, president of the Inter
national League, stood by as Stallings
spoke. George was happy over the
victory, and he was all smiles. He
has kept his word in regards to
building up a team around Maran-
Vile, and 1t looks as II he is going to
win pennant, and 1t is not three
years yet.
Whether Stallings wins the flag or
not, he has made a great name for
himself. He is the Miracle Man" |
throughout the baseball world and |
his name is famous. He is directing (
well and his team is playing winning |
ball He is a fighter of most fero-
cious type, yet off the ball field you
would take him for saint. He drives !,
his men and he always gets the best
there is in them out of them. He
viii raise the merry dickens with his
players himself, but woe be to the
man who dares say a word, right or
wrong, or points his finger at them.
/ He is an unusual fellow is Stallings,
and so per cent. at least of the base
ball world Is pulling for him to win
| the pennant.
O.
Though the Braves are three and
half games in the lead the race is not
over by any means. II looks like Bos-
ton the way the beaneaters are play
ing, but the admirers of the Giants
are banking on those five games at
the Polo Grounds later on to decide
the issue. Just now, though, the