Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-28
Gentleman Jim Offers Battling
Levinsky as Example of ISL
lent Dams" Ability.
MORAN LOSING NO TIME
Frank Gathering Easy Money
in Event of Losing to Jack
Johnson.
BY JAMES J. CORBETT

Former heavyweight Champion OF
the World.
There may be those among us who
do not always approve of Silent
Dan" Morgan's methods of securing
publicity for his large stable of box
ers, but there Is no gainsaying that
those methods are certainly effective.
For a boxer To get in Dams stable,
means that he will be plentifully sup
piled with matches-f Possessed or
ordinary abiity-and through his
well organized press department
Daniel frequently manages to obtain
a great deal more publicity than the
merits of his men call for.
Take for example the case of Bat
Ting Eevinsky. For several years
this individual was boxing under the
name of Barney Williams-and get
ting an occasional match here ana
there. But outside of his home town
of Philadelphia, and possibly Buffalo,
u thera< were few sports who ever knew
=. hsfhgas on earth. During one Of
g trips out of town he saw will
'senons" perform, and the obvious abll-
itchy of the young man was patent TO
), ae discerning Morgan. who immedi-
ately arranged to take him under his
protecting wing.
Morgan Discards Old Name.
discard the assumed name of Will
Jams, and make Levinsky travel UNI
der his proper monicker. Daniel, be
ing. as above intimated shrewd
manager. realized that the making
public of his boxers proper name
would not injure his drawing powers
here in New York, where 1t was
planned to have him fight a majority
of his battles, and where more than
q million of Levinskys own race hang
their hats. Crazy like a fox, that
Morgan. He knew that Barney
Williams" might do outside of the
city, but that "Leyinsky" was worth
more money in New York.
outside of that Morgan has shown
O. great deal of talent in making
Levinsky's matches. He was shrewd
enough to grasp the idea that the
Battler, who was fairly fast and
clever, would have no great trouble
In short bouts with the average white
heavyweight of today. So Morgan
made match after match with men
of great bulk, and of practically no
skill or experience. and thereby mas
built quite a reputation for Levinsky
which always comes to a fighter
who comedies weight to his opponents
and gets away with 1t. Seldom does
the public take into consideration the
fact that weight and strength are
worthless to man In the ring, II
he doesn't know enough about box
ing to benefit by those advantages,
Levinsky Profits by Experience.
However, Levinsky has about gone
the limit with the second and third
raters and in so doing has accumu-
lated much desirable experience and
a talent for administering and avoid
ing punishment that could not be
developed in ten years gymnasium
work That Levinsky has profited in
the school of experience there can be
no doubt; he is q much better boxer
right now than he was six months
ago when Morgan grabbed him-lt
the critics who have followed his
career closely that they may keep the
fans posted are to be believed. Per
sonally / cannot say, as the only
time L ever saw him in the ring was
ahe night he boxed Jim Coffey, and
while he certainly was entitled to
mt least a draw decision on that oc-
casion, / did not permit the fact that
he was boxing a comparative novice
10 escape me, In trying to estimate
his real worth.
But to get back to Morgan. Since
managing Levinsky he has made few
mistakes in the matchmaking line
once when he arranged the bout with
Bob McAllister. My representative,
who is present at all important
matches that / can't attend, informed
me that McAllister made Levinsky
look ridiculous, and when it Is re-
called that several weeks later Mike
Gibbons. weighing in the neighbor
hood of $50 pounds, put the Cali
fornian out, we have much better
line on LevinslSy's worth, and also a
fair notion of what he might hope
to accomplish in a bout with a
heavyweight of experience and skill.
Then, again, permitting Levinsky
TO go against the tough Bob Moha,
when, according to reputable au-
thority, he was in poor condition,
was a regular bone" and experts
about here think he has pulled an
other in matching the Battler with
Gunboat Smith. Dan pestered jim
Buckley the Gunboat's manager, 80
rersistently that Buckley's Irish
finally got the better of him, and he
consented to match--the date set
for May next Morgan believes that
Levinsky knows more about the
game than Smith and that he will
& not only hold his own but will easily
earn the popular verdict. Dan must
he extremely confident, for he was
sincere in his efforts to get match
That he was not blufling was evident
by the way he went AFTER Buckley 8
goat" There is nothing the genial
Jim dislikes more than to have any
ono belittle the Gunboat's fighting
ability--aud that's exactly what Nor
gan did, knowing full we'll that that
would be the very best system to use
to get Buckley's consent to n match
The latter. by the way, thinks Gun
boat the greatest fighter that ever
climbed into a ring, and when Nor
gan began to question Smiths cour-
age and prowess it was too much for
Jims Irish blood. So the match was
made.
II is too far off just now to go
into details concerning the chances
Of the men. Suffice it to say for the
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