The evening world., 1889-03-22
HIGH STAKES ARE A BLUFF.
AND SPORTING MEN FAVOR THE ONE.THOu.
SAND-DOILAR CHAMPIONSHIP STAKE.

GAL" Smith Hauls McAuIiMe Over the
Ceals-He Won't Referee the COMING
Daly-McAuline Fight - Jack Demp coy
Failed 20 Cover ReaEan's Forfeit Money
-PittsburG In TO Have n sIx.Day Race.
That one-thousand-d dollar championship
stake is bound to come into vogue. That is
the verdict Of all the sporting men. They
are agreed that the high stakes demanded
by champions is merely a ruse to avoid
fighting. They all soy that as for
as the money is concerned as much
could be made by having the stakes
$1,000 as $4,000. Let the champions make
their money on outside bets. then the less
wealthy fighters will be given a chance to
meet the champions, and perhaps knock
them out. A Trust composed of rich pugilists
Is as unfair to other p~ugilists as q powerful
mercantile Trust is unfair TO less wealthy
merchants. If the champions are afraid to
risk meeting the lesser stars, let them give
up prize-ighting and go into some other
business. Appended are q few opinions:
j. H. Cusack-Undoubtedly the stakes
should be made 81. 600. Champions proha-
bly, cannot be forced to fight for that mount.
But some means should be devised to make
them, or forfeit the championship.
Geo. Ii. EngemAn-A stake of 81. 900 is
sufficient. If q man won't accept a challenge
for that amount he don't want TO fight very
much.
stake. Why. the champion can make bar
rels of money outside of the stake. A cham
pion might say he wouldn't fight for less
than $50, 900 or Sl00, 030. He would then be
quite sure he would never have to fight any
body. Putting the stakes 30 high doesn't
give the rising talent any show al all. The
champions just work the high stake racket
to scare of would be challengers. A standard
rule to have 1000 fixed as a championship
stake would be a good thing. 1t is quite time
this were done. Then there would be more
fighting and less blufing.
al" Smith will not referee the McAuliffe-
DAILY fight. This ia decisive. II you don't
believe it just read his remarks on his and
sundry other subjects which he made last
night to the writer Of this column
8 you want to know If I'll referee that
fight. do your. The EVENING WORLD said
the other day that it was reported that DAILY
objected to my acting as re 'eree. Well, you
Just sit down there and let me talk to you as
l never have to any other reporter.
~ will never referee q fight in which Jack
McAuiiffe takes part. l couldn't referee o
fight. in which ~ is engaged, holding the
opinion of him that l have, ever since his
fight with Carney. In that fight he acted in
the most cowardly way l ever saw q man act.
He wouldn't stand up and fight at all. Carney
chased him all over the ring and McAulide
invariably took refuge behind his seconds. l
was to have been referee and stake holder Of
the fight, but resigned in order to bet on Car
ney. / had witnessed the fight between Carney
and Jim Mitchell, of Philadelphia, and de-
cided that Carney was o better man than
McAuliffe. In the Carney-McAulife fight
the referee was dead on .McAulitfe's side;
their money by him.. Carney really won the
fight a dozen times. Whenever Carney
chased McAuliffe into his corner, he was
kicked on the Sims by MSAuliffe,s hackers rs;
unfair, proceedings at a fight in
my life. Carney constantly asked
M MsAulias w TO itsHt IF FRhd, q oso Snf h 5San sirs sdS
broken into the ring twice, when the referee
invited them to do It a third time and so save
his ~favorite. McAullffe, from being beaten by
a~nnoupcing that If the ring vas broken into
course the crowd took the hint and broke in
Immediately. That's all that saved McAuliffe.
/ wish you could have seen the way McAulife
ran for his quarters from the harm where tho
sprinters ever saw: l was referee in his
fight with Gilmore. He made an exhibition
Of himself In that fight, too. He tried TO claim
foul three times when there were no fouls
committed. He said Gilmore tried 10 gouge
him. Gilmore didn't do ANYTHING Of the kind.
McAuliffe has been greatly overrated
If he ever meets Meyer again, the betting will
be 100 to 60 in Meyers favor. And this will
he bet by the very men who laid their money
on McAuliffe in the recent McAulife-Meyer
fight. Meyer can do him every time. Now,
/ want to tell you that the reports about DAILY
objecting to me as referee are wholly I'M
founded. / Am the one who objects. won't
have anything to do with McAulife.
why, the other night Capt. William Daily
and his party were in here and offered to
make the stake 90, 500, as McAuliffe wished,
if l would act as referee. I sad / wouldn't
unde any circumstances whatever. As to
my acting as referee in other fights. barring
McAulife. 1 shall be glad TO act. That is.
those fights that / want to referee, I will ref
cree. Those that I don't. 1 won't"
Johnny Reagan, Billy Reid and O number
of sporting men waited oil the morning at the
Police Gazette Office yesterday for Jack Demp-