The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-06-17
LUCK M'CARIHY
in LIMELIGHI
FORMER FARGO HEAVYWEIGHT
BOXER GETS COLUMNS WRITTEN
ABOUT HIS CAREER, AND ALL
THINK HE rs ROUND TO MAKE A
CAREER.

Luck Luther Mccarthy, our Luck
is getting in the limelight and getting
there fast. Luck will be remember
career in this city where ne trimmed
up AL Withers and others whom he
could get to go against him, The
United Press association, the rival of
the Associated Press and other big
news dispensers carry the following
story about Mccarthy which will be
read with interest here:
Luther Mccarthy, the latest giant
heavyweight to assume large. proper
tons in the newspapers, wandered all
over the world before ne knocked out
Carl Morris. He was born on st. Pat
rick's day, 1892, on a ranch owned by
his father, thirty males outside Lincoln,
Neb. Until he was 8 years old Luther
enjoyed an open air life, riding horses
and minding the cows.
When his fathe sold the ranch in
1901 Mccarthy truck out for the home
of a relative in Colorado Springs, Colo.
In that city he attended school for two
years, much against his wishes. He
had no liking for the classroom and
to vol 1T, took French leave one
night and started out on life'S journey
alone and penniless.
He had not yet reached his 18th year.,
and unacquainted with the ways of the
world and minus the advice necessary
az his nSO ~ lltlO III SOIAllACtND
of Kansas-on a freight train. The
corn shocking season over, he ambled
into Omaha and landed a job as bill
distributor for an advertising concern.
He held this down for a few months
and then became a messenger boy.
From the messenger service in Omaha
he graduated to a similar position in
st. Louis. After six months he went to
Los Angeles, gathering just enough to
live on by all manner M all kind of
work along the route.
mccarthy then spent several months
in southern California, whence he re-
turned to st. Louis for a weeks stay.
Boston was his next stop and there he
shipped as an able bodied seaman"
He was able bodied all right, but not
a seaman, and after a couple of days
was reduced to the rank of apprentice.
The boat he was on was an old wind
TANNER" that took -four months to
reach Bueno Aires.
From the South American city Nc
Carthy shipped twice around Cape
Horn, then on a Norwegian bark he
sailed for China and Japan. 1t was
off one boat and on another for him for
the next three years. He finally grew
tired of the sea and deserted his boat
at Mobile, Ala,
out of Mobile Mccarthy roamed into
the lumber camps of Pine hill and later
into the coal mines of Blue creek. AT
Nashville, Tenn, he took a try at dairy
work, but left it to join a gang of
bridge builders. After one week of
hard work he decided to quit, when a
swinging girder broke his leg. He
was kept on the pay roll six weeks
longer, however, and when he co. we'll
chose the open plains of North Dakota,
and lived in Fargo, where he developed.
Having seen a large part of the
world, he went back to his first love
looking after cattle on the wide range
of the northwest. There he remained
for a long time content with life.
interference at a time when the
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| trouble, won for Mccarthy the owner
ship OF a fne saddle horse. With his
gift steed he started out to do some
riding. He landed in the Sioux reser-
walton and spent about a month among
the redskins, then wandering to Mon
tana. Lack of funds caused him to sell
the horse and soon he halted In Cul-
bertson, Mont, where a boxing match
was scheduled to go on.
From his earliest youth he had liked
boxing, and, having nothing else to do,
hired out as sparring partner to an
unknown pugilist. This was in the
| fall of 1910 and he was 10 years old.
After the match he returned to the
range, where he stayed until q few
months later, when Watt Adams, Cana
dian champion heavyweight, was billed
to fight a big fellow who had intro
duced himself as Yank Kenney of Chi
cago. The day before the bout Kenney
disappeared, after having touched ev-
! eryone with a kindly disposition.
1t was UP to the promoters to get a
man to oppose Adams and they sought
Mccarthy, Who had come to Culbertson
to witness the mixing. That night
Mccarthy became a pugilist, fighting
and working on ranches. He won two
contests.
Tommy Burns, former heavyweight
| champion, happened to see him knock
out Joe Grim of Philadelphia ard told
| him he had the making of a good man.
he then took up the game seriously.
From the time he was 10 until he
rode into Springfield, Mo-, to fight Nor
ris. he had never paid a lailroad fare.