Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-19
KID MCARTHY IN
RING AS WHITE
MANS HOPE
Southern Arizona Heavyweight
Can't Come Back, for He
Never Went Away Is Re-
formed Newspaper Man,
Especial Correspondence 10 Morning Journal

Phoenix. Ariz., Nov. 17.-For a lit
tie city Of fifteen or twenty thousand
inhabitants, Phoenix has supplied her
share of the worlds celebrities. The
latest Phoenix boy to gain eternal
fame is Earl Chappell. who viii SO
down in history rs Kid Mccarthy,
the name under which he has shot
a meteor across the pugilistic
horizon, and announced to an anXous
world that he is the real simon
pure. name-blown-in-the bottle White
Mans Hope. Now the white race
can sit back, draw a long breath and
trustfully await the time when Chap
pell, alias Mccarthy, is able to per-
suade Jack Johnson to leave off
vaudeville acting and racing Barney
Oldfield long enough To step into the
ring for about fifteen minutes.
Chapel lived in Phoenix until last
spring, when he went to Tucson. BY
trade he is a printer, and he worked
on the local newspapers. including
the Republican. BY inclination, how
ever, he is q pugilist. He was ever
willing TO lay aside the quoin-sey
for the padded mitt.
A short time prior to his departure
he distinguished himself by daring to
wed d girl OF 16 without her moth
er's knowledge or consent. His
bravery attracted widespread atten-
lion. particularly when her mother
found it out and took her back to
her Iowa home. That was a short
time after he went to Tucson.
To his most intimate friends Chap
pell confided that he had promised
his wife to give up the boxing game
and be q gentleman. Whether It Is
because Of her mothers cruelty or
because the white rae needs n Hope
that can max good better than Jim
J~effries did, Earl has decided that he
does not want to be a gentleman. II
is the call OF the blood. He wants to
see the Floor of the ring went with
the blood of a negro antagonist.
After going to Tucson. Chappell
went to Douglas, where he is nov
working in q printing shop and won
dering whom he will take IN after
johnson is put in the has-been class.
All he wants is an opportunity. He
cares not that Johnson weighs near
goo pounds ana that his own best
fighting weight is under l40. He Will
fight Johnson at catch weights and
prove the superiority of the white
race over the black. The present UNI
disputed supremacy OF the negro over
the white man is CALLING to his aes-
thetic sensibilities.
As well as being q puSilist, CHAP
pell is q poet and a dreamer, who
loves to alternate bag punching with
stunning q guitar and singing
"Juanita." His selection of kid Nc
Carthy" as his ring name is the re-
suit Of his poetic originality, IT was
chosen before he left Phoenix and.
his friends congratulated him unre-
servedlv upon his choice of such an
aristocratic, unusual and altogether
charming name as Mccarthy, pre-
ceded by the extraordinary sobriquel
Of kid 1t is understood that prev
ious to that time only two-thirds OF
the fighters who had appeared in the
prize ring had ben called kid"
In the current issue of the Police
Gazette. otherwise known as the
BARRIERS Weekly. appears a photo
graph Of Chappell in fighting pose.
Underneath are the words, kid NC
Carthy, a Promising Young Boxer OF
Douglas, Ariz."
While the Gazette does not say thai
Chappell is the White Mans Hope, II
is stated by those who know him well
that he so considers himself and Is
anxious to meet Johnson at the earl
lest possible moment. There Is no
doubt that Kid Mccarthy viii be able
to come back. for he never went