Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-27
SPORTING GOSSIP.
Notes and Comments ON the Say
fmgs and DOings of the Fancy.

Notes and Com ments ON the say
tngs and DOings of the Fancy.
The irritation consequent on the un-
successful attempt made in this city to
bring Dempsey and Ellingsworth to.
gether, does not seem to have in the
least abated-anyhow in the case of the
great middleweight-a least if he is cor.
rectly reported by the Sacramento Bee
He is reported to have made statement
to the following effect to a representative
of that paper;
In regard to the claim of the Southern
California Athletic Club, that he had
agreed to meet Ellingsworth in Los An
geles, Dempsey said the arrangements
had never been completed. There were
negotiations for match, but the Los An
geles people did not come to time, and in
the meantime President Fulda, of the
California Athletic Club, exacted prom
ise from Dempsey that if he fought at all
on this coast it would be at the rooms of
that organization. 81 don't fight for my
health" said Mr.. Dempsey. "Why, /
spared once with Jack Burke, and we
divided $4,000" Mr.. Dempsey says
that he was in Los Angeles short time
since, and the directors of the club treated
him rather shabbily, intimating that he
was afraid to meet Ellingsworth. "When
they got too loud" said Mr.. Dempsey, 1
II flashed couple of checks under their
noses, and you ought to have seen how
quick they quit. They kept up their end
of the talk, but when it came to putting
up, they were not there. The fact is, all
the directors OF the Les Angeles club are
1 Co nd IN, To-
stances that city got too hot to hold
| them"
We can hardly believe that Dempsey
ever said such thing regarding the per-
sonnel of the Southern California Ath-
letic Association-in the first place be-
cause it is absolutely untrue, and, in the
second, because it is by no means like
Dempsey to say such things. 1t is true
that in the S. G. A. A. there are indiyid-
uals, here and there one, who do not pay all
the regard to politeness and civility
which the canons of good breeding re-
| quire, and who may on occasion behave
with plentiful lack of good sense and
good judgment, and there may be some
1--WE do not say that there are) whose
record would not show up quite spotless
under ''double-million magnifyin' gas
microscope of heKtra power" but they
are the exception, and not by a
long shot the rule in the Associa-
tion. The best men in our city
are either in the directorate or strongly
interested in the success of the associa-
ton, and there are very few, if any, oi
them who are old San Franciscans.
Those of them who did happen to live
for time in the Bay city have no blot
on their 'scutcheon.
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We hope Dempsey never gave utter
ance to such mean SANDER and slur on
good men. The blow, if he did strike it,
| is somewhat OF a cowardly one, and, in
the capacity of referee, we declare it a
"foul."
| *x*
| Dempsey, moreover, lays the blame of
the bounding" he got from certain out
siders on the association. That is palpa-
BILE injustice. The club, as represented
| by it's eminentlv gentlemanly and cour-
teous President, did nothing but what
was right and fair and business.like
towards Dempsey. Nor has he any buBi-
ness to say that the directors created
him shabbily," or "intimated that he
was afraid to meet Ellngsworth. They
did not, to the writer's positive knowl-
edge, do any such thing, and Dempsey
knows that they did not.
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| Another misrepresentation which, if
Dempsey made it, was undoubtedly in
territorial and malicious, namely, that
"when it came to putting up they were
not there" He knew that the $4,000
were up in the Farmers and Merchants
Bank at the time, and his flashing" his
$4,000 check (Which, by the way, he tore
in two in his agitation), did not bluff the
Association worth cent.
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In short, if the Nonpareil ever gave out
such a lot of rot to the Bee man, he must
either have been "joshing" him, or have
been looking with more than usual in
tentness ION the wine when it was red"
*x*
Joe McAuliffe has doomed his stock
(Which has been on the down grade fol
some time), at least fifty per cent, by the
neat and workmanlike way in which he
disposed of Lees, in their recent mill.
But, after all, neither in height, weight
or reach, was he match for the Mission
Pet. The first good man of his weight,
inches and skill, that meets McAuliffe
| Will uOWH buTb, IL u6 D6 u QUICK
fighter. Joe is, and always was, too slow
in his movements to have any show with
a lightning-striker.
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Joe Soto, in his fight with Jones, in
this city, last week, displayed his old
time characteristics of great quickness,
capital powers of lodging, and good
hitting powers. Joe is good enc for his
weight.
1t is to be hoped that Ellingsworth W i'll
be matched shortly, otherwise he will be-
come trif1e stale. The proposed meet.
ing between him and the winner of the
La BlancheLucie fight should be brought
about by all means. 1t would draw like
everything, and be a capital send.off for
the club.
The following description of Lucie
would seem to indicate that the Marine
has not, by any means, the "pudden''
many believe him to have in meeting
him:
"The expert inspection of Lucie
showed him to be a typical middle
weight pugilist, with a cool. gray eye, an
iron jaw, q taurine neck, extremely COM
pact body, and symmetrical legs. He
stands five feet one-eighth inch (sic) and
tipped the scale last night at 16S pounds.
He will enter the ring, in fighting rig, at
l56 pounds. In height and reach Lucie
has some advantage over the Marine.