The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-26
GEORGE SILER'S
PUGIL|STIC TALK
Say Los Angeles Affair Is Blot
That Will Be Hard to
Wipe Out.
BY GEORGE sILER.


The Jack O'Brien, Tommy Burns. Tom
lMcCarey fistic scandal still is the prin-
cipaI topic in the world of sport, and
their recent doings at Los Angeles will do
mueh to knock the props from under the
game.
The expose undoubtedly win send Jack
into retirement. as it also should Burns
and McCarey. as they are equally as deep
in the mire as Jack. The fact they were
the first to "squeal does not alter the
case one iOta. They had a hand in the
'frameup" and led the sporting public to
believe everything concerning the battle
was on the level. The fighters and Nc
Carey knew the $4,000 purse was made 10
Induce the RhyOlite fight promoters TO
hunch IL to $4,000. and. If hunched, 10
L split the extra 5000. That was dishon-
est to begin with. but | presume they con-
'sideTed it a commercial transaction
Where Burns and McCarey Stand.
The double crossing of o. Brien by Burns
and McCarey did not place them on a
pedestal of honesty. nor was II approved
of by square sporting men. Had their
records been free from faint the stand
they took In the affair might have met
Tith the approval of the sporting public
Since the expose it has been learned that
Burns had been mixed up in shady trans
actions, requesting his late manager
Billy Gee, to frame up some fights for
him. McCarey, it also is alleged has been
mixed up in a few affairs that would not
/
Impression that he protected the public
by having the bets declared off By the
! public he presumably had reference to
4 the Los Angeles betting public.
/ tiU my way of thinking he only pro-
fected the sure thing bettors who had
placed their money on O'Brien because he
/ was slated to win before he entered the
ring He also protected Jacks money,
~hic&, reports say. was quite sum. The
xpose. as stated, probably will send Jack
ntO retirement
"Get the Money"
But now about Burns? 1t practically
has been proved that he is as deft a hand
II JObbing as is o Brien. still he has been
lonored with match with Bill Squires
fight for the heavyweight champion
ship of this country and Australia. That
iOes not look like trying TO drive the
obbers out of the game, But then as
D Brien says, it all comes under the head
IF commercialism. The match, regardless
Of its outcome. looks good from box Of
ice standpoint, and as the slogan now
days is, get the money any old way
he fight will be fOisted on the suffer
ng public as the simon pure, blown in
he bottle goods. There is no doubt the
battle will be honestly contested, but it
Ices not look we'll for the good of the
port to have a man of unSaVOry reputa-
ion pose as one of the contestants
Fans After Mccarey.
McCarey has rematched Hugo Kelly and
dck INln sullivan 10 nSnI early next
nonth, and he also is arranging to pull
If a fight between Abe Attel and kid"
olOmOn. The probabilities are he will not
tage either of them, as d number of
rominent Los Angeles sporting men in
end to bring suit against him for obtain
lg money under false pretenSes.
In the complaint the facts will be set
orth that the fight between o Brien and
Surns was a raw fake and that the pur-
hasers of tickets were the victims of a
conspiracy to defraud- The compliments
aid $50 each for seats, and if the perpe-
rators of the deception made TO dis
orge the money they collected from a
uped public, McCarey will have to
cough up thousands of dollars. Dis
kict Attorney Fredericks intends taking
hand in the matter, and he has as
1uch love for a pugilist as he has for a
attlesnake, Los Angeles may be wiped
ff the pugilistic map.