The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-14
McCarey Fails to Post
$4,000 to Bind Match
That $4,000 Purse for the Burns-OBrien
Fight Is Probably MNhiCaI-HeaVyweig
May Not Meet in California.
By w. W. NAUGHTON.

SAN FRANCISCO. April ls.-There's a
tangle in the Burns-O Brien fight. and
il viii take some unraveling. From some
one who IS very, very close TO Jack
O'Brien # is learned that the purse Of
$50 600 with which McCarey Of Los An
geles was supposed TO outbid the Rhyo-
lite S25.010 several months ago IS q mere
chImera, and that the only real money
at issue is q sum of $1,000 which O'Brien
insists shall be posted as guarantee
that his share OF the gate receipts VIII
not bee less than that amount
O'Brien. who was In San Francisco a
day or TWO age. said that McCarey was
10 have posted this $4,000 on March IS.
Failed to Post Money.
''He hasn't done so, or he would have
warned me. said Jack Until the Sl0.-
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 re 10 box Burns on a percentage
basis without any guarantee"
From Los Angeles comes word that
McCarey denies having promised TO post
$1,000 on March is, or at any other time.
/ In delivering himself thusly. McCarey.
without noticing il, maybe, is knocking
the props from under his contention
that there is a $4,000 purse at stake. for
the merest tyro in matters pugilistic
knows that promoters who offer prizes
Of that amount have tC place some. If
not all. Of the purse in safekeeping
/ somewhere.
As the matter stands. McCarey insists
thar the match is for a $4,000 purse and
: that the fighters are to take his word
! for it, O'Brien 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 i'm a day or two, when the mat
! ter in dispute is threshed out thorough
| ly by wire ne will hear that il was all a
+ misunderstanding and that the con rest
| VIII take place on time. But whether IT
/ VIII be for $500 or less or more we will
, never know
| O'Bren, according to report, speaks
quite frankly when arguing that II
would be poor business for him to fight
/ Burns for bare per cent. He saws
4 that, having boxed Burns once, the gilt
/ Is off the gingerbread. and it is hard to
I tell whether the public really wants to
/ see Tommy and himself in action again
! The fact that the articles call for
/ twenty rounds. the same as before. will
/ lead many to expect another draw. saws
! Jack If this second match were to be
a finish it would be different.
O'Bnen May Meet Moir.
O'Brien has been offered a match with
| Gunner Moir, the same TO take place IN
| London in the autumn in connection
with Billy Nolan's grand international
passage-at-arms, in which American
/ pugiIists will be pitted against Britons
Up TO date, Nolan has been quite tact
ful in making HIS arrangements for the
| BIZ tourney across the pond. being fear
ful that if too much were said about his
rIans some unkind person might re.
mark. NO wonder they. are avoidine
Cans
The scheme. as far as can be Iearend
is as follows: A rich EnglisEman with
sporting instincts is behind Nolan. and
the series of Queensberry contests vii
be held at Olympia, the Madison Square
Garden Of London, In August next
Nolan, who came across from England
to sign up men for the tourney. told
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 VS.. Digger Stanley. Alb,
Attell VS. Joe Bowker, Battling Nelson
VS. Johnny Summers. and Sam Lang
ford VS.. Gunner MOir
After thinking matters over, Nolan de
cided he could improve upon the heavy