The San Francisco call., 1910-05-02
MCCARTHY Will
BE LAID To
-.
REST TODAY
Funeral of Young Boxer to Be
Held From the Home of
Parents
Death of PugiIist Is the Subject
of Sunday Sermons in
Churches

The funeral Of Tommy Mccarthy. the
Young pugiiist who died from the ef-
fects Of injuries received Friday night
in a boxing contest with owen Moran
at Dreamland rink. will be held this
morning. The funeral will be from
the home Of the parents Of the dead
lad al AL Jersey street at $3.50 o'clock
and the services viii be held at ST
Paul's church at 10 o'clock, when
solemn requiem mass will be sung for
the repOse Of the soul of the dead
boxer. The interment win be at Holy
cross cemetery.
san Francisco brick layers interna-
.{fOnai union. Of which Mccarthy was
"a gnemher. viii attend the funeral, as
.WfIl- MiHopi tribe No. 1873. Improved
order. of Red Men, 10 which Mccarthy
<belon Eed..
MANY WILL ATTEND
The tragic death Of the young man
and the fact that he had many friends
viii combine TO make the funeral of
.Alciarthy largely attended.
owen Moran, the British champion
whose blow laid Mccarthy low, ar
ranged through Jimmy Carroll TO have
-iisSSes said for the repose Of Nc
.1:arthv's soul in st. Raphael's church,
san Rafael, for week
while arrangements were being
made yesterday by the family and by
personal and fraternal friends of Nc
i-arthy TO give him proper burial the
ira Eedy was the theme Of wide pulpit
discussion and the text upon which
-5Ti]l be predicated the general move
nent TO have the heavy weight con-
test on the fourth Of July between
Jsues J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson
stopped by the authorities of Alameda
4l7unty or the state.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
'File most definite move was made in
Oakland, when, at the close of the
'sssYs ices In the First Congregational
CHURCH OF which Rev. Charles R.
-93rpae-u is pastor, the men of the con-
-.Erdgation held a meeting at which
resolutions We're adopted calling upon
Governor Gillett. the district attorney
and. the sheriff of Alameda county TO
-s16r the contest at Emeryville. Doctor
Brown. I'm the prelude TO his sermon,
lad Bitterly depIored the fight, both
s0fl account Of the nature of the con-
tpst and because. as he declared, it
.would draw an undesirable element of
both sexes of white and colored folks
TO Oakland and San Francisco.
:: The same spirit Of opposition was
Manifested in this city Sermons on
the death Of Mccarthy and on the
spread Of prize fighting in this city were
delivered from several pulpits. This
afternoon there viii be a meeting of a
. special committee of the San Francisco
church federation in the Office of At
rorney. J., r. White in the Monadnock
building TO take steps to stop fighting
I'm this city and 10 prevent the Jeffries
johnson fight. The committee consists
df Attorney J. y. White. chairman; J.
L. kennedy. g. z. Irons, Frank Swart
and :. W. Hatch
APPOINTED MARCH -
This committee was appointed March
IS last TO voice q protest against the
holding Of the Jeffries-J ohnson fight.
This committee represents all Protes-
.tant denominations in the city
An attack on prize fighting in this
city was made last evening at Hamil-
ton Square Baptist church by the pas
tor, Rey. Louis J. Sawyer. He said
in part:
In the san Francisco university
of crime. for which our honorable
mayor stands sponsor, the school
of rOwdyism is now demanding
D. chief attention. San Francisco is
fight mad. The chief event of each
.%. week is the oebasing spectacle Of
TWO human beings who, with per-
.s Nerted mental and moral apprehen-
.s.sion. undertake to do physical dam
age to each others person IN the
-. presence Of several thousand Of
their fellow beings Of like unfor-
-.tunate caliber. Civilization at large
- has left the prize night behind as
san Francisco still hugs TO her
p. bosom this disgraccful remnant Of
Prize tights are not athletic ex-
hibiriOns in any sense Of clean sport
.+ or manly art They are degenerate
......and degenerating entertainments,
-; fostered by money getters dis
o.: guised as pseudo athletic clubs
which came into being and exist
. for the sole purpose of promoting
these demOraliZlng contests They
- furnish unlimited opportunity for
openly advertised gambling, for the
3. permission of which our city and
county officials are culpably dere-
fiCt-
- PICTURES INJURIOUS
The prize fight is Iawless, contra
evening sacred law, which prohibits
physical assault upon a human be-
ing, and perVerting civil law. both
- by act and also by training a gen
-"eration Of prospective law break
eTs. Women and children, while
not admitted to the ring. are. new
ertheless, corrupted by the unlaw-
fol pictorial presentations of those
brutalities In our nickelodeons.
Last Friday night, not a stones
ahroW from this pulpit, was deliv-
sred the fatal blow which ushered
p human being before his maker
without a seconds warning. Who
was the murderer? We have no
charge against him whose hand
lifted against his brother in brutal
Tie curse of Cain. No civil punish
rnent can equal the awful con-
SrlOuSnESS Lhal directly at MS door
lies the death of his fellow man in
an the promise of his youth, and
no condemnation can compare with
that Of his own conscience arraign-
ing him before the divine tribunal.
cur prOfoUndest pity rather than
any accusation IS his. Who was the
murderer? We have no sentiment
but that Of the sincerest sympathy
Tor those bereaved parents who are
Today reaping the sorroWful har-
-rcSt or seed sOwn in their lndorse-
-ment Of their sons fatal career
IhHre comes TO mind another fam
ilv of this city, upon every member
~ which there fell the tragic con-
.4seoeunce of the prize fight curse.
:'Wrho was the murderer We
-,5lof foo severely condemn as the
~ --srfost vicious of undesirable citi-
-zins the promoters of the disrep
. .:sIfahle sport. They are not only
.;risponeible for the six or more
3. :deaths for which the prize ring in
:. San Francisco is directly respon-
80. ei5ic In recent years, but also for
49, f3rc. inestimabIe damage to human
i5saracter wrought by these debas-
- isig exhibitions.
YOUTH DISGRACED