Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-12
MCAREY IS
STILL OUT
FOR MONEY
WILL KEEP ON TRYING FOR
GOOD BOUTS
SAYS TEN ROUNDS WILL CAUSE
LESS WORRY
out of Town Promoters VIII Get Busy
and May Blossom Forth as
Real Thing Mag
mates
BY j. G. GRIFFIN

dian sign on the fight trust which has
long been overlooking the muck rake In
Los Angeles there is something doing.
The fGling powers decided that ten round
bouts. six ounce gloves as minimum
and no decision at the end of each aralr
ought to be enough to appease the ap-
petite of the most blood-thirsty, and only
Mayor Harper's Jawn Hennery is needed
to make 1t go.
According to the wise ones, his honor
cannot refrain from taking pen in hand
and making the thing stick. The loud
pedal is trod upon too heavily by the re-
formers. and all that was left for the
council members to do was to pass the
ordinance which puts all sorts of dampers
on fights in this mans town.
Tom McCarey says 1t won't cut bit
of ice He wishes 1t known that the
Pacific Athletic club will stay in bus
mess Just the same, and no matter how
the game Is hedged with restrictions 1t
will go on and collect the money as Of
yore.
If It was the intention of the council
to open the game up the members there
of failed dismally. Fighting in Los An
geles is still tied down to the little two
or three acre block wherein the Maud
Junction pavilion is the chief object of
oIs
temple of fisticuffs, is still the only man
able to pull Off a fight without police
interference, and although his monopoly
is curtailed 1t is far from broken.
The action of the council, provided
Mayor Harper signs the ordance, means
that no more championship battles can
be gone through with in Los Angeles.
Many shows have been advertised as
fights for the premier honors in one
fxrfc or ha other and In fact
or two of them have been bona fide, but
even those billed as such must be done
away with.
VIII Spoil Glass
To begin with, the no decision phase
of the ordance will be enough to block
all efforts to give high class fights in
this city. Not many of the real ones will
care to mingle over such a short route,
for the pay is considerably less than it
would be were the battle to go to twenty
rounds or more. In the east six and ten
round bouts, while amusing. and enter
tanning enough, are never decisive, and
the no decision part of 1t kills great
deal of interest in any event.
Tom McCarey has not given up all hope
of defeating the ordinance. Although he
refused to make such a statement last
night it is known that the managers of
the Pacific Athletic club and his fellows
in the trust" will test the law, and
their attorneys will go to work at once
in an endeavor to find some loop hole
that will let them by the city law just
enacted.
The bunch connected with the Pacific
Athletic club is a pretty wise outfit, as
has been shown in the past, and If there
is a way around the barrier they will
find it. 1t is not the first time that a
setback has been given to the fighting
game here, but some way or other things
came McCarey's way when it came to
lining them up. Even the long hairs
seem to realize that "Uncle Tom and
Nick Oswald carry certain amount of
prestige when 1t comes to election time,
and their power Is not disregarded alto
gether.
The recent action of the council, pro-
yided Mayor Harper signs the ordinance,
as he Is expected to do, means that the
out Of town resorts will become active
at once and If they can swing things
some Of the hitherto despised bush
league promoters may blossom out as the
real thing. Arcadia and Vernon are both
on the map, and 1T is only question of
weeks before some move is made toward
enticing the sports to witness goes be-
yond the limits Of the city.
The ordinance which was carried yester-
day will not go into effect until thirty
doJo cAlSA uuayOA dlllA6S MS Sig
nature to the article, so the Pacific Ath-
letic club still has time enough to take
another whirl at the game and handle
what will probably be the last big fight
that Los Angeles will see in many day.
But the main question is-will the ordi-
nance do any good?
Argues for Ants
Nathan Newby of the civic righteous
ness committee of the federation made
the first argument for the ants.
He referred to the state law on the sub
5ect and pointed out the joker provision
by which sparring exhibitions were toll
Grated. He argued that because of this
joker the Los Angeles council had the
right to pass the most stringent regula-
tion possible to cover the case.
Attorney Newby cited the states which
had prohibited fighting saying California
and Nevada were the only exceptions
DR.. Dana Bartlett, whose settlement
work in the eighth ward is largely among
men and boys, said the pavilion at Maud
Junction had caused many of his best
efforts to be wasted because young men
would talk of nothing but fights.
'fI want to see this city stand high, not
only in beauty but in morality" said, he.
1--WE have sent east for talent to make
plans to beautffy Los Angeles and 1 be-
Heve every councilman wants to see it in
line WITH OLneE CLUES III Olner respects
H. c. Wilmer and John T. Pope spoke
in similar strain. Mr.. Pope opposed the
motion of Councilman Healy to refer the
question to the people at the next cleo
ton, saying it was trick to stave off the
issues for two years.
Manager Thomas McCarey then got the
door and had hardly opened when Kisses
came from the lobby.
Mccarey Resents Kisses
Resenting this demonstration McCarey
said warmly:
II am as honest as any man that lives.
will die that way. But 1 am not actu-
ated by this spirit find here. believe
these ministers have been misled.
''There is money involved it is true.
only recently gave 800 to the Y. NJ c.
A. for its new building and asked that
my name be kept silent as 1t might be
misconstrued. This is the first time ]
have ever mentioned that I am freely
called on to contribute to many causes.
IF wrong has been perpetrated it has
been done by your state legislators, many
Of whom have sat with me at the ring