Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20
HOPE HAS
BEEN LEADING
LIFE Of HOBO
Bv W. w. Naugbton.

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q AN FRANCISCO. May 2O.-A
\ new star has appeared in the
pugilistic armament. He tum
bled big Carl Morris and his name
is Luther Mccarthy Sounds more
like the name Of historian or a
revivalist than a bruiser, doesn't it?
Anyhow. Mccarthy is the --latest
wheeze," as the Britishers say. A
fellow who was connected with the
Morris Mccarthy disaster In some
way sent kilograms night
press ra ties, collect-to several
Western sporting editors, the con-
Guiding sentence in the majority of
the dispatches being the name Of
Luther Mccarthy will soon be a
household word"
1t is to wonder If Luther would
not have it otherwise. So many
things come to be known as house
hold words principally cleaning
compounds. breakfast foods and
hreless cookers-that ii seems as
though McCarthy's threatened
greatness should be suggested by
some more inspiring figure OF
speech
If we can not disentangle Luther
from the merchandise in any other
way, let us continue to play on a
much twanged string and call him
the newest thing in white hopes.
Mccarthy, If those who appear TO
know something about him have
not been over enthusiastic, may
possibly fill d long felt want. And
the strange thing about 1t is that
there are so many persons at wide
apart points who claim the distinc
ton of discovering Mccarthy and
steering him against the game of
the ring.
One Of these we have in San
Francisco, one Douglas c. Hertz,
who says he was known as D. G.
Cox in the sporting world, and who
AYERS that he saw fighting posi-
bilities in the newest hope before
Mccarthy himself even knew that
he was destined to be fighter.
According to Cox. he saw Nc
Carthy for the first time when the
latter was doing a weight-lifting
act with some small show in a Mis-
souri, town
He was such splenddly devel
oped specimen of humanity that I
became interested in him. said
- IL
toned him as to his leanings to-
ward pugilism He told me he had
had but one fight, and that he had
won It. Being boxer myself I
arranged to spa with him at a
gymnasium | frequented and soon
saw that he had the makings of
champion in him.
He is barely twenty years old,
stands six feet four and Is as strong
as a bear He is without doubt the
strongest man | ever set eyes on,
and | do not believe il is possible
for any one to knock him out. He
had few fights while l was inter-
ested in him and won them easily.
Then my business took me out of
the country and lost sight of him,
always felt that once he got prop
erly started on a pugilistic career
he would create a sensation.
It's my belief that he will beat
every man he is sent against and
become the champion Of the world
have an idea Mccarthy has In
dian blood in him His father is a
wealthy business man. but Luther,
While he does not dissipate. always
lived the life Of hobo wandering
from place to place"
lust fancy We used to think it
added zest To a champions life
story to know tina he sprung from
boiler shop or bank desk, but
what Of q fellow who s confirmed
hobo. an itinerant cannon ball toss
CIR and who has Indian blood n
him The crowds along the vsude
vile circuit VIII surely be crazy to
sec him - - eve gs.s 10 the 500
of the tree.