The Washington times., 1907-04-14
McCarey Fails to Post
$4,000 to Bind Match
That $4,000 Purse for the Burns-O'Brien
Fight Is Probably MNhiCaI-HeaVyweig
MAY Not Meet in California
By W. W. NAUGHT0N.

SAN FRANCISCO. April l3.-There's
tangIe in the Burns-O- Brien fight, and
it will take some uuraveIing- From some
one who is very. very close to Jack
O'Brien 81 IS learned that the purse OF
5000 with which McCarey Of Los An
gelcs was supposed 20 outbid the Rlyo-
lite $1,000 several months ago is a mere
chimera. and that the only real money
az issue is a sum OF $4,000 which O'Brleu
insists shall be posted as a guarantee
that his share OF the gate receipts viii
not be less than that amount
O-Brieu, who was In San Francisco a
day or two ago, said that McCarey was
10 have posted this $1,000 on March IS.
Failed to Post Money.
"He hasn't done so. or he would have
warned me-" said Jack. Until the So
900 goes up I viii keep away from Los
Angeles. I have other fish 10 fry, and
McCarey needn't think he is going 10
get ne 20 box Burns on a percentage
basis without any guarantee
From Los Angeles comes word that
McCarey denies having promised to rost
$1,000 on March IS, or at ans other me.
In delivering himself thusly. McCs--ey.
without noticing it. maybe. is knocking
the props from under his contention
that there is a 10000 purse at stake. for
the merest tyTO in matters pugilistiC
knows that promoters who offer prizes
OF that amount have TO place some, If
not all, OF the purse in safekeeping
somewhere.
As the matter stands. McCarey insists
that the match is for a $4,000 purse and
that the fighters are to take his word
for it. O'Brieu says that the match so
far as he is concerned is for a guaran-
teed sum Of $1,000 and as much more
as he can get by the percentage route.
Maybe in a day or two. when the mat
ter IN dispute is threshed out thorough
ly by wire We viii hear that it was all a
misunderstanding and that the contest
VIII take place on time. But whether 1t
viii he for $4,000 or less or more We will
, never know
O'Brien. according to report, speaks
I quite frankly when arguing that il
would be poor business for him TO fight
1 Burns for a bare per cent He says
4 that, having boxed Burns once, the gilt
| Is off the gingerbread. and it is hard "a
I tell whether the public really wants &c
! see Tommy and himself in action again
/ The fact that the articles call for
/ twenty rounds. the same as before. vii
/ lead many to expect another draw, says
( Jack IF this second match were TO bs
finish it would be differePt.
O'Bnen May Meet Moir.
OBren has been offered a match witt
/ Gunner Moir. the same TO take place ii
/ London in the autumn il connection
with Billy Nolan's grand iuternationa
/ ssage-at-arms. in which American
[ pugiIists viii be pitted against Britons
Up to date. Nolan has been quite tact
! fuI in making his arrangements for tn,
BIZ tourney across the POND, being fear
full that if too much were said about hi,
plans some vnkind person might re
mark. NO wonder they. are avoidins
Cans"
The scheme. as far as can be learend
is as follows: A rich Englishman witt
sporting instincts is behind Nolan, an,
the series of Queensberry contests vii
be held at Olympia, the Madison Squar
Garden of London, in August next
Nolan, who came across from Englan,
to sign up men for the tourney. toll,
such as he places himself in touch witt
that he wanted four championship
events After canvassing the situation
he decided upon the following program
Jimmy Walsh Us. Digger Stanley, Alb
Attel VS.. Joe Bowker. Battling y alsoi
VS.. Johnny Summers. and Sam Lang
ford VS.. Gunner M5ir.
After thinking matters over, Nolan de
cided he could improve upon the heavy