Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-08

me this morning by PERCY Woodru1l
and a few minutes later Tom
O'Rourke, manager of the Sporting
Club, called me UP on the phone tc
tell me about making the match
o'Rourke has promised Woodruff tc
secure Bob McAllister to meet Wei
merit, providing the Kid defeats Ashe,
which is likely. Weinert met Ashe
before and from what I can hear
Charley outpointed George rather
handily.
Johnny Burns knows that he can
fight, but what he wants Is man
ager. He has written, he says, to a
well-known manager, who, have
since learned, is none other than
Percy Woodruff, who is gaining fame
through his management of Charley
Weinert, the New Jersey champion.
Burns in writing to me has the fol-
lowing to say:
]. P. N:
I have written a letter to a we'll
known manager asking him to take
me in charge and look after my in
terest in the boxing game, and I'll
agree to fight any 1870 or 133-pound
man he can match me against. l do
not bar anyone at the above-named
weights. K. o. Brown, Willie Beecher,
Cy Smith, all look alike to me. Thank
ing you in advance for your trouble
and hope you will put my challenge
in the paper so the public and boxers
can see it. I'll accept any offer and
fight any way they want me to, win
ner take all preferred, and any num-
Der of rounds from one to a finish.
remain, respectfully yours,
JOHNNY BURNS.
237 Mulberry St, Newark, N. j.
Maybe Woodruff will take charge of
the boy, and if he does, Burns, If
nothing else, will be given a square
deal. That's one thing that Percy
is a stickler for, and that's why
Weinert is so content, as he knows
he will get everything that Is coming
to him, which is so different from the
way fighters are treated by some of
those highbinders over in New York.
C
Manager Woodruff, by the way, is
being showered with offers for Wei
merit, but the match he is after in
particular would have Bob McAllister
at the other end of the string. Such
a match has been promised Woodruff
by Tom ORourke, matchmaker of
the National Sporting Club.
c.
AS far as Weinert is concerned,
he is only too willing to box Nc
Allister. The Kid witnessed the Nc
Allister-Levinsky bout, and after the
ten rounds were over he said:
"I'd like to fight McAllister. He is
clever and can box some, but think
he is made to order for me. I may
be mistaken, but I hope Percy is able
to match me against him"
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Not a few have the same feeling |
about the match as held by Weinert. |
His fight with Levinsky was good
enough to show that he has class,
and the New Workers are just now
waking up to the fact that he beat
Levinsky and are giving him the
credit, and from Bill Browns Gym
comes the news today giving Weinert
credit for outpointing Levinsky.
"Weinert's first showing in New
York against Battling Levinsky has
given him much prestige among the
Jersey and New York fight fans"
writes Manager Mccarthy, of Browns
Gym. although only novice, he
fought the marvellous Levinsky off his
feet and at the end of the contest
was given the popular decision"
That's the way we viewed the bout
and gave weinert the decision.
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Weinert is training hard for his
bout with Roy Kenny, which is
billed for Browns Gym next Tues
day night. The Jersey champion is
trying to build himself up and he is
following a system of training by
which he expects to put on at least
ten pounds during the next month.
w iltti ilt AlOt6 SCI u AthAN O455NAs law
withstanding that he is only eighteen
years of age, he will make all the
heavyweights around here jump
through the proverbial hoop. Vein
ert says he isn't worrying about the
challengers who are seeking motor
iety at his expense and he declares
that he isn't going to pay any at
tention to their bellyaching methods.
"Some fellows don't know when
they are snubbed," Manager Wood
ruff, in talking for Weinert, said
over the phone today I'VE are not
looking for matches with has-beens
and dead ones; we're after the live
boys like McAllister. Good luck to
the fighters and others who are
knocking Weinert, but all the raps
in the world won't keep the Kid from
getting to the top of the heap. I've
got a real champion in Weinert and
every real honest sport in the State
of New Jersey ought to be proud of
him and be out with a boost for
him. However, Woodruff concluded,
1.-THE knockers are always losers and
that makes me feel that Weinert will
be a certain winner"
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Well, I've been very fortunate in
getting on live ones, which has al
ways been my aim in life. My ambi-
ton is to be with winners and boost
the winners, and when I get on a
loser it isn't because I didn't think
that 1 was on the right one. This