Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-25
CYCLONE SCAREs
FIGHTING DICK
SAMMY SIDESTEPS A. MATCH
WITH THOMPSON
offered Side Bet and Wlnner-to- r AXE
, All Terms, According to His
Own Proposition, MccIin.
tic FIunks

Just why Sammy McClintic, the man
ager of Fighting Dick Hyland, is side
stepping Cyclone Thompson of late is
not known but 1t appears evident that
he or his boy does not want any more
of the Cyclones game. Twice has, he
been offered match with the Cyclone,
and twice has he backed out of the ne
gotiations.
When Hyland fought Thompson in
Ogden. where Hyland was given the
decision over him on a microscopic mar
gin. they were offered another match.
but McClntic said he was going to
Denver, where the game was supposed
to have opened up, and that he would
not fight Thompson again unless he
could get side bet of $1,000 and fight
winner take all.
A few weeks ago the Marysville fight
promoters came through with an offer
of a $4,000 purse for a battle between
these two men, but McClintic wriggled
out of 1t with the excuse that he was
under promise to fight for Morris Levy
on the January date in San Francisco.
It is we'll known that there is to be no
January date in San Francisco.
Sammy Sidesteps
This shows that Hyland does not want
any of the Thompson boys game, as he
has mixed with him too often as 1t is
Then, to add to Sammy's discontinue
Billy Roche, who has charge of the
Colma end of the fight trust. came
through with a statement to the effect
that, while he was not able to compete
with the Nevada promoters. he would
not let Marysvile get ahead of him. and
that he would raise their offer $500.
Rawhide Kelly. who has charge of
Thompson and who is in San Francisco,
hunted up McClintic, and with the $1,000
for the side bet wanted to settle the
matter and sign for the fight on the
winner -take-all basis. Sammy McClintic
again crawled out of 1t by saying that
the purse was not large enough.
Kelly had offered to fight winner take
all, as McClintic had said that no other
division of the purse would or could be
made with him managing Hyland, and
at any weight and on any date that
McClintic would dictate, and as McClin-
tic has flunked out of all this it seems
that there is nothing to it but that Hy-
land has had enough of Thompson's
cleverness and does not care for an
other meeting with him.
All this has hppened in San Fran
cisco, and while going on Manager Nc
Carey of the local club has stated sew
eral times that he would give the two
boys a date could suitable terms be set
tied upon. Thompson on hearing of this
has said that any terms that McCarey
and Hyland might state were his, as
he wanted to get Hyland in the ring,
so that he might settle the one mark
that has lately been set against his
record.
Thompson since his fight here has
shown that he has not gone back any
but is still what he used to be in the
ring. His last fight was in Ogden,
where he knocked out Maurice Thomp
son of Butte, Montana, in the fifteenth
round of what was to have been twen
ty-round battle. Thompson deserves no
little credit for this act, as Maurice is
one of the toughest men of the light
weight class of today.
Then, too, he has put away Jack Cliff
ford, it taking him just five rounds in
which to complete the feat. Just one
week before this fight he laid Fred
Ward away in the sixth round, having
beaten him to such an extent that his
seconds threw up the sponge to save
their man from further punishment.
At present negotiations are under
way to match Thompson with Jimmy
Burns before the local club, but wheth-
er this will be carried through is doubt
full as Burns is in the east and would
not want to come to the coast unless a
purse is offered for his services.