The San Francisco call., 1906-10-11
BOXING SCANDAL Is
DEVELOPED AT
HONOLULU.

HONOLULU, Oct. 10.-Although prize
fighting has been knocked out by the
law in Hawaii, there is a referee scrap
on hand that promises lively bout. as
sworn statement from Dick O'Meara
declares that gloves have been doped
and Referee Billy Woods fixed in re-
cent pugilistic encounters in the vol
.canic Territory. O'Meara's affidavit
says in part:
The fights between Sullivan and Sill
va, Welch and Sullivan and Sullivan
and McIlvain were all fixed, either by
an understanding with the referee or
by the gloves being doped for Dick
Sullivan to get the best of 1t.
Billy Woods. who refereed all three
goes, was only agreed to by. Sullivan
-on the understanding that he favor him
wherever possible, particularly in
rough work in the clinches.
The fight with Silva was fought un-
der straight rules, hitting in clinches
not barred. Woods lived up to his
agreement in this fight and when he
lighting warned him If he did not go
qualify him.
straight Queensberry rules, and here
again Woods agreed before the battle
to give Sullivan the best of it
McIlvain and Sullivan fought clean
break" and though both men broke
this rule on two occasions the referee
cautioned McIlvain, but neglected to
warn sullivan.
gloves were tampered with. There were
two pairs, a regular five-ounce pair
and a small pair weighing about two
ounces. They were distinguished by
different colored ribbons. SuNvan and
his friends were parties toy this ar
rangements, and when the gloves were
thrown into the ring one of the repre-
sentativeS would nail them as quickly
as possible and retain the small sized
pair, which Were regular hve-ounce
gloves that had been opened: the pad
ding taken out and the leather sewed
In the fight with silva the Portu-
guese was knocked out with cloves
In the Welch fight Welch's manager,
Eddie Finn, got hold of the gloves first,
but, fortunately for the Sullivan peo-
PIE, ,e1alTtu danbt tbat this had much to do
with Spider Welch's defeat.
In the McIlvain contest new gloves
were beanI sd bat e dd hHdng mot fhnK
necessary to resort to doping the mitts
When discussing the question of
referee Sullivan has more than once
else but Woods. He will do what we
tell him to. He's got the office to give
us the best Of It,"
Naturally Dick Sullivan vehemently
disclaims all knowledge of fraud. and
saws that the statements made by
and there are facts which bear out in
some measure Sullivan's statements.
The gloves he shows as having been
used in his different fights bear abso-
lutely no evidence of having ever been
tampered with. Their machine-stitched
seems are intact as far as the closest
examination can show. He said: I
won my fights fairly. Because 1 re-
fused any longer to support O'Meara
he threatened to do his worst, and 1
guess this is IL"
On the other hand there are gloves
shown In town which, 1t is claimed.
were the genuine ones used in the Sui
livan slugging bouts. Those shown as
having been used by Welch are fully an
ounce or two more in weight and had
been opened at the wrist and repadded.
The gloves were regular pillows and to
knock a man out with them would be
next door to an impossibility.
Two other pairs OF gloves were also
shown and represented to be the gloves
with which McFadden finished Nelson.
The mitts said to have been used by
Nelson were regular five-ounce gloves.
while the others were much lighter and
had the padding removed from where
the knuckles would be ridged when the
hand was bent Notwithstanding that
the gloves were ostensibly one set, the
1aces were different colored, one being
green and the other red and white.