Arizona republican., 1910-11-16
WHITE MANS HOPE
ARISES IN DOUGLAS
CLAIM THIS NEW CELEBRITY.
Earl chappelI, Printer, Poet, PusiIist
and Romanticist, Ready to Fight
Jack Johnson.

For a little city of fifteen OF twenty
thousand inhabitants. Phoenix has sup
piled her share Of the worlds celebri-
ties. The latest Phoenix boy 10 gain
eternal fame is Earl Chappell, who will
go down in history as Kid Mccarthy,
the name under which he has shot like
a meteor across the pugilistic horizon
and announced to an anxious 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 Chappell. alias Mccarthy, is
able to persuade 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. however.
he is pugilist. He was ever willing
to lay aside the quoin key for the pad
ded mitt
short time prior to his departure he
distinguished himself by daring to wed
a girl of 10 without her mothers knOwl-
edge or consent His bravery attracted
widespread attention, particularly when
her mother found il out and took her
back to her Iowa home. That was a
short time after he went to Tucson.
To his most intimate friends Chappell
confided that he had promised his wife
to give up the boxing Same and be q
gentleman. Whether il is because of
her mothers cruelty or because the
white race needs a Hope that can make
good better than Jim Jeffries did. Earl
has decided that he does not want to
be a gentleman. 1t 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 now working
in a printing shop and wondering whom
he will take on after Johnson is put
in the has been class. All he wants is
an opportunity. He cares not that
Johnson weighs near 200 pounds and
that his own best fighting weight is un-
der 40. He will fight Johnson at
catch weights and prove the superiority
of the white race over the black. The
present undisputed supremacy of the
negro over the white man is CALLING to
his aesthetic sensibilities.
AS we'll as being a pugilist. Chappell
is a poet and a dreamer, who loves to
alternate bag punching with stunning
guitar and singing "Juanita." His
selection of kid Mccarthy" as his ring
name is the result of his poetic origin
ality. 1t was chosen before he left
Phoenix and his friends congratulated
him unreservedly upon his choice OF
such an aristocratic, unusual and alto
gether charming name as Mccarthy,
preceded by the extraordinary sObriquet
of Kid" 1t is understood that previ
Gus to that time only two-thirds of the
fighters who had appeared in the
prize ring had been called kid"
In the current issue of the Police
Gazette, otherwise known as the Bar
bers' Weekly, appears photograph OF
Chappell in fighting pose. Underneath
are the words, kid Mccarthy. a
Promising Young Boxer of Douglas,
AriZ"
While the Gazette does not say that
Chappell is the White Mans Hope. il
is stated by those who know him vel
that he so considers himself and is
| anxious to meet Johnson at the earliest
possible moment. There is no doubt
that Kid Mccarthy will be able 10 come
back. for he never went away.