The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-13

MATCH IS in AIR
Owen Moran Arrives to Prepare
for His Coming Fight With
Tommy Mccarthy
By WILLIAM J. sLATTERY

| Unless Tommy Burns sees mt TO mark
down the value of his services. a la
, bargain counter. there will be no finish
fight between him and Sam Lansford
at Richmond or any other city on the
afternoon of Labor day. Tommy in
/ ssts on s25 900 for his bit, win, lose or
draw, but Sid Hester. who had fond
\ hopes of making the match, can't see
/ $4,000 worth in Tommy at the present
| time.
| When Hester read the Australian dis
| patches on the Burns-Lang fight two
/ days ago he quickly came to the con-
| clusion that the once champion Of the
| world must have gone back a bit. He
remembered that he had wired Burns
an offer of $25,000 to meet LangfOrd on
Labor day. so he hastily set himself to
/ doing a little adjusting in order to pro-
| tect the Mission club.
| Hester cabled Burns that there was a
/ mistake in the first offer and that the
| $4,000 was meant as a purse for Lang
/ ford and Burns to cut up as they saw
it He dispatched the cable and
waited patiently for a few hours for
| the reply. 1t came late in the evening
and it informed Hester that the S25 600
must go for Burns end or there would
/ be no fight.
In the meantime Hester dispatched
| one of his agents to Los Angeles to
| have a talk with Joe WoOdman and
| Langford in the hope that the colored
| fighter will reduce his demands a bit
and thus make IL possible to talk more
business with Burns At the present
| time LangfOrd is holding out for a
| larger cut than Hester sees fit to give
! him.
/ 1t goes without saying that Hester
| realized he had made a bad move
when he learned that Burns could not
/ put Lang away in a 20 round battle.
/ a year and a half ago Tommy cleaned
I Austria rtTaf cr1 in, efx-
/ rounds and he did not turn a hair in
! performing this trick. 1t is only nat
ural to assume that Tommy has gone
| back in the meantime.
owen Moran. the sturdy little Brit
| ish lightweight, arrived from New
York yesterday morning and took the
/ afternoon train for Boyes Springs.
where he will work out for a week
before beginning his regular training
Moran is billed to step 20 rounds with
| Tommy Mccarthy at Dreamland on the
night of April 90 under the auspices
/ of Jim Griffins Broadway club.
/ Moran surely looks good and he must
/ be in shape. otherwise he could not
| have fought Abe Atten of his feet in
4 10 rounds two weeks ago or beaten
Matty Baldwin in 10 rounds week go.
| Moran is just trffie over the required
/ weight at the present time and a
I weeks good work will put him on edge
for a hurricane mill with the lighting
/ brick layer
! Moran has more to say this time than
ever. He looks upon Mccarthy as a
soft one, and he expresses a desire to
bet $1,000 at even money that he will
| put our Tommy out Of the way within
Is rounds. In the event that Moran
makes good with this. he will get
plenty of action for his money, as
there are many who believe that Nc
Carthy will surely fatten him.
Moran. as usual, will be handled by
Tiv kreling, who accompanied him TO
the Sonoma county resort After a
weeks mountain climbing. hunting and
all around rough work. the little Brit
| Usher will take up his quarters at
Shannon's San Rafael resort and there
finish up his training. He will have
more than two weeks in which TO get
set for action
In the meantime, Mccarthy Is getting
ready TO do his work at the ocean
beach. where he prepared himself for
that sensational bout with Cyclone
Johnny Thompson last January. Tom
my will be handled by Spider Kelly.
the greatest second OF them all, and he
will have his brother Johnny as his
principal sparring partner.
Mccarthy and Moran figure to put up
a great battle Both are fast little
fellows. Mccarthy is far and away the
better puncher. He showed this the
night he knocked Thompson OFF his
pins in the first round. Moran knows
more about the ms and outs OF the
game, but he is no faster than Nc
Carthy, and the chances that the bet
ting will be very near even.
Ad Wolgast. like all champions. is
not overburdened with modesty. Now
that the lightweight crown reposes on
his head, he is going to make his pres
ence felt Nobody has been hunting
him or pressing him for an engage
ment, but he took it upon himself to
wire Sid Hester last night as follows.
viii fight anybody you pick. June
or July, at 1913 ringside. but must have
$4,000 my end and 81 per cent OF the
moving pictures"
Hester threw his hands skyward
when he read this Up to the present
time the Mission cIubman has not even
thought Of bringing Wolgast out here
for a June July fight. Evidently.
the new champion is trying to SCUM
things up to suit his own extravagant
fancy