New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-29
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
By IGOE

Jim Savage will live up to his name
tomorrow night at the Pioneer Sport
ing Club or die a natural hstic death.
Jim fights his pupil Charley Weinert,
and if it Is 10 be anything like the
bout they put up in Madison Square
Garden a few months ago it viii be
worth giving the once over again. saw
age has contract on tomorrow night.
lie has GOT TO win. There's reason,
a musical reason, IL you please.
Jim's father has promised sonny that
if he whips the Beau Brummell OF
Newark he will meet him at the Orange
depot with a band of thirty native
pieces on his return home, no matter
what the hour. If Jim should lose
father Savage has sworn 20 have
lone oboe player there to usher his van
ouished son into town with one OF
Chopin's rollicking funeral dirges.
That's one of the main reasons why
Jim is going 70 win this fight or give
up trying. Now that all this talk about
contenders for Wizards title IS beng
buzzed about, it behooves Savage and
Weinert to do their level best, because
the good ones are limited.
You can name the men Mt TO meet
less on one hand. and that's stretching
il at that Outside of the tuneful angle
TO a Savage victory, Jim wants TO WIN
because the heavyweight championship
of New Jersey goes to the victor. "
course, that is liable 10 wreck willard 5
whole life, the passing 10 and fro OF
the New Jersey title, but then New
Jersey must have its thrills. SO, on
Thursday night. as George AIDE would
say, let small boys and cripples get
back of the ropes. 1t is going to be
SOME night.
The State Boxing Commission eX-
onerated the Clermont A. c. from all
blame in the matter of short changing
the Zulu Kid at a special meeting
Yesterday. The Zulu Kid fought Young
ALearn, and got but blue eye in re-
turn for his athletic endeavors. shorty
RAYMOND, a former manager OF the
Zulu, booked him 10 meet the British
er without letting the Kid in on the
secret. When he came in on pleasure
bent Christmas afternoon he wens
through with the obligation just TO
please his many friends who had as
sembled. Shorty Raymond. short IN
stature and short in memory, forgot TO
paw The Zulu for his part in the Christ
mas festivities. When the club and
RAYMOND were ordered jointly to pay
the Zulu sl25 the club baked, saying
that il had left the club money bags
In the keeping of Shorty with the
understanding that he would pay OF
the steaming performers after the
show.
The commissioners thought that a
fair excuse, and lifted the suspension
tackled onto the club on Monday. Ray
mond, however, has been barred from
every club in the state until he makes
good the Zulu's belated turkey money.
Florrie Barnett, the man who ref
creed the bout between Soldier Bart
field and Italian Joe Cans at the same
club on Christmas Day, reported 10 the
commissioners that he had failed TO
ses an alleged foul committed by Cans.
Bartfeld went TO the floor and was
not able to get up. He claimed that
he had been struck unfairly. Barnett
was summoned at the request Of Dan
McKetrick. Bartfield's manager, who IN
sisted that Bartfeld's reputation had
been besmirched, inasmuch as the re-
port had gone abroad and to Ionkers
that the good Soldier had quit. As
Barnett had not seen foul committed
the commissioners dismissed the case.
A nice little sarcastic letter from
Harry Pollok. the potato planter from
Port Washington. Here IL Is:
at. about time that some one put
n bride on Charlie White-Nate Lewis
combination. An earful from them
would convince any one that they are
both sprouting wings. and that MI