The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-06
A Chain of Suspicious Circum-
stances That Make Assur-
ance Doub.y Sure.
WHAT MEDICAL MEN FOUND.
] ke Rauer'S Lively Chase After the
rtifcate of Deposit for Ten
Thousand Dollars.

Excitement about the raw decision of
Wyatt carp. the bodyguar of "Long
Green" Lawrence of the Examiner, is in
creasing rather than diminishing among
lovers of honest sport as the facts of the
transparent conspiracy are being dragged
to the surface.
: 1t is now said that carp had been Sc
lected as 1.-THE dark horse" for referee long
before the fight, and long before the peo-
pie had any idea that there was the re-
motest chance that San Franciscans of un-
'blemished regulations, who had been con-
nected with boxing and other athletics for
years and years, would be turned down,
and a faro-dealer and gun6ghter from
: Arizona or anywhere else would be Sc
-lected in their stead.
- Since the developments which have
been made during the past twenty-four
hours additional significance attaches to
the fact that Referee carp went into the
ring with navy revolver a foot long
sticking out of his hip pocket.
.- Mr.. carp is no fool. He knew that ne
was in a civilized community; that the
boxing contest had the sanction OF the au-
thorities; that the spectators-the major
ity.of the spectators-were respectful BILE and
influential business men of this City and
State, and that they had assembled for
the purpose of witnessing a contest of
skill agility, endurance and bravery be-
tween two men who claimed to be rivals for
the worlds championship in the art of
.self-defense.
l. - L..
ondary consideration, as it is and should
be in all matters of sport and device to
give more zest to the occasion, and he knew
that, no matter what decision he might
give long as 1t bore the color of hon
esty and fairness, would be acquiesced in
aud that his person wonld be as safe from
violence and his personality as sacred
from insult as that of the Mayor of the
City.
Then why did he go into the ring with
the frontier revolver under his coat tails?
That is a question which rany people
are asking and answering in a manner not
..comp mplimentary to the referee and the
gang which secured him that position.
They argue that the referee armed him
self as though he were in an uncivilized
community, and that the reason why he
did so must have been, or appeared to be,
because he feared that his decision would
evoke such a storm of indignation that he
would su bject himself to be assaulted by
the persons whom that decision would rob.
The whole affair reeks with suspicion
against carp and his friends
One of his most intimate friends, the
man who recommended carp for the po-
sition and who did as much as, if not more,
than any other person to secure his being
selected as referee, is Andy NJ. Lawrence,
familiarly known as Long Green Law
renee, managing editor of the Examiner
Why was Long Green so anxious to have
carp referee the fight?
Manager Julian says that from the verv
start the Sharkey people, and particularly
Mr.. Lynch, objected to any person named
as referee by the Fitzsimmons people or
by disinterested individuals, and insisted
that the club should name the referee.
Mr.. Julian mentioned such well-known
gentlemen as Hiram Cook of the Olympic
Club and MIR. Fulda of the Athletic Club.
both of whom have acted as referees in
scores of glove contests. Lynch refused to
entertain their names for a moment and
man named by Julian; that he desired the
club to appoint the referee. Finally he
named three or four b. rsemen and race
track frequenters whose names were un-
familiar to Julian and in boxing circles.
Then he cut the interview short with the
declaration repeated that the referee
sEoud be man selected by the club.
Lynch's persistence on this point is re-
garded as another suspicious circum-
stance taken in connection with the
others.
he trusted i'm mplicitly to the club. Such
lamblike - confidence is
seldom found to rule the breasts of mana
gers of pugilists. Lynch was evidently
willing to accept any man whom the club
might select, and this extraordinary and
unusual willingness. this eagerness al
most. to purchase pig in poke, shades
Lynch's conduct in a suspicion so deep
that it.. is very doubtful whether he will
ever be able to swim out of it.
Even the Examiner, managed by ''Long
Green" Lawrence, did not say that
Sharkey was fouled, but published the
re port in hali-hearted way.
=. Mr.. Hamilton and Mr.. Naughton. who
wrote special accounts of the fight, do not
say that Sharkey was struck foul blow.
Mr.: Naughton begins his report with the
statement that if Fitzsimmons fouled
Sharkey he (Naug hton) did not see it.
Mr. Hamilton did not see it either, and
contents himself with facetiously calling
attention to the dexterity with which |
Long. Green's 5ody-guard lin bers, un-
i'm hers and discharges the swivel gun
hanging at his belt, and suggests that ad-
verse criticism would be ili-advised in the
lace OF that formidable piece of portable i
artillery.
The big odds OF to offered by sport
ng men who were we'll acquainted with
he capacity of both pugilists was the great
temptation added to the purse OF $4,000
which actuated the conspirators. In the
ace Of those unusual odds against his !