Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-08
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The hcCoole- Allen Mil.

From the Cincinnati Commercial
Either Mike McCool is afraid to face
Allen on the 10th, or his hackers fear
the meeting with their 1850 staked
on the issue. We incline 10 the Opin-
ion that the latter is the case; that
McCoOle desires TO fight, but that those
who have risked the battle money on
him fear for the result. So far as we
can learn, Jack Looney has the say
for these hackers in the matter of final
shareholders and referee. Now, what
Mr.. Looney demands is that the stakes
shall be held by nobody but proper
ty-hOlder OF st. Louis. In other
WUrdS~that they shall be held by
man who will give them up promptly
to McCUOie, il he wins, and who can
be sued by the McCOole party if their
man loses.
On the part of Aliens hackers, the
proposition is that the stakes shall be
held by any responsible newspaper
man of ST. LOUIS or Cincinnati III such
q way that he cannot be sued. When
LOoney refused this yesterday, Bob
Baker was willing that Murray, the
temporary stakeholder, should bring
the 5000 here, hand it to the referee
in the ring, and that the referee should
hand it over to the winner immedi-
ately upon naming fiHf. But no, the
St. Louis party will not have any
thing of this KIND. They must have
things all their own way, or the fight
for big money cannot take place.
This is the way the matter stands to-
day, and, unless McCoole and his
friends change their base, the fight is
"OH."
Allen, down at the Buckeye House,
is very much mortified at the cOndi-
ton Of affairs. Twice robbed in st.
Louis out Of the pecuniary h1rvests of
great victories, he has been expecting
To find here what he has been PROM
ised, a iair show for the money that
he might win by again whipping the
eX-champiOn. But he knows very well
that to accede to LOoney's demand
would be to fight again for empty
hOnOrs-to lose all if he should be
whipped, and get back only his own
If he should win. With Allen, how
ever, the csISe is peculiar. This man
wants to fight Mike McCOOle for the
excursion money, tor ten dollars, for
ten cents, at the drop of the hat; any
way, so that he has a fair show 10 be
declared his superior should he be able
10 so prove himself. We are author
lied by Allen to say TO McCOOle that
if the latteT'S friends viii not agree
10 Il stakeholder, on fair basis, they
can draw their money, and ne Is
anxious to fight McCOOie on the 10th
inst, with the profits OF the excursion
alone for stakes. But he would much
prefer that the fight should 20 on rs
now made up.
Here now is an opportunity for
Mike McCO0le to shake off the iufiu-
ence of party that are only for the
money it can make out of the show
That he and Allen propose to give,
make up the excursion party on the
10th, and fight his old foe for the
prOtits-a fair, manly fight, under the /
eye OF a just referee, who shall decide
WHICH is the better man.
There is no disposition here to do I
Mr.. McCoole injustice; only a deter
nination that MIR. Allen Snail have
here what he has never had in st. |
LOuis-fair play and juStice-Only (
that and nothing more. Under these I
will Mr.. McOoole con- (
sent to a fight, and 90 back to St. /
Louis vanquished man? or will he .
-eturn under the odium of having
backed out of fight, allowing selfish 4
men 10 bring him to disgrace out of I
.he lear that they may loose their
lOllars?