Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-03
M'CARTY TO DRAW
|. LINE ON NEGROES
New Champion Says Unwritten
Law Forbids Mixing With
Black Fighters.

with the statement that the terms IN
der which he accepted the champion
ship belt prohibited him from fighting
a negro. Asked If there was any pos
sibility of his ever fighting Jack John
son, McCarty had this 10 say:
When l accepted the heavyweight
championship belt agreed to an IN
written clause that should never fight
negro. The idea of this series of
scraps was to pick out a white cham
pion and keep the tile, in the white
race. Well I'm going 10 live up to my
contract
q have no doubt that can beat
Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, or any
O her fighter in the world. l know l
can win from any one of Ehem or all
OF them. But l shall never try-ex-
cepting on enc condition, and that is
when the public demands the match.
IF my right to the championship is
still under a cloud and if the public
demands that / figh. a negro, then 1
must do it. AS long as am in the
/ fight game l must do as the public de-
mands. They pay the money that
makes fighting profitable. They ought
to get what they wan.
81 have had just 81 offers of theatri-
! cal enga gements, but have not yet
signed any contracts, nor even decided
which one / will sign. In any event, l
shall take trip to the noun aims and
enjoy a rest After that I'll probably
put on a rope-throwing act in vaude-
Vile Beyond that, l haven't decided.
LAS for the story about my having
left wife and child 20 shift for them
ing to say"
McCarty bore no marks, other than
bruised lip. that would show he had
been in a championship encounter and
had gone IS hard rounds with one of
the giants of the ring. He appeared
to be in decidedly good spirits and was
as talka-ive as he was shy before the
affair took place He admitted that
he was becoming more and more fas-
cinated with the fighting game and
said that he would not be averse to
a hard battle each month of the next
year.
Billy Mccartney, manager of Nc
Carly, says that the rest in the noun
tains will not be for more than 10
days, and after that McCarty would
be sent behind the footlights for sew
eral weeks. He showed contracts, I'M
signed. by the score, and asserted that
he could sign up McCarty for $500 a
week in several places. McCarty prob
ably will open his theatrical week in
. Los Angeles, jumping from here to San
Francisco and then east.
Palzer, after spending the greater
} part of the night in the Turkish bath
remained in seclusion most of the
day, and when he did show himself. he
tried to hide behind Tom O'Rourke
j his manager He looked a sorry sight
, His nose was pulled and bruised. both
( eyes were blackened and his mouth
: looked as if it had been hammered c.
for days He said that he was stiff
and sore. but thought that he would
be shipshape in a few days.
|. Palzer is seeking another se,-to witt
n McCarty and says that he thinks hi
X deserves another chance in that h
G was not counted out He asserted tina
3 he was strong when the referee stop
n ped the affair and that he could havt
8 finished the 20 rounds without injury
IS He SAYS that he was careless in tn
e early rounds and was stmg by one o
Il MCCarty's right swings and never dit
2 come in long enough to find his bear
tings.
q was half-blinded by a jab in tn
eye in the l4th round and could no
see McCarty af er that. l fought tn
last four rounds of that fight on m
intuitive powers" said PalzeT. 81 know
that | can make a better showing
against McCarty and would like an
other chance to prove that | am no
the dub that critics have branded me
| will meet any terms that Mozart
wants to pnt forward and will be gle
to fight on a winner take all basis.
was beaten, but | think he was
mighty lucky man to put one over
Palzer probably will return 20 Ney
York with ORourke and says that h
will be open to meet any of the heavy
weights before any Gotham club. II
asserts that he has an offer from Bill
Gibson, the New York promoter, TO
match with Jess Willard, and tina
he will be only 100 glad TO take O
Willard to prove that he is not in TIN
down-and-Cut class and that he ca
come back and win the title.
McCarty was asked whether or no
he would appear in a New York rim
and If ne would meet Willard. whor
the New York promoters are boostin
as the coming heavyweight champion
He said that he would be only to
glad to take on Willard again, bu
would not be able to fight for at leas
three months, for he has Theatres
work billed for tina length of time.
Dining Wins IS Mile Race.
Edinburgh. Scotland, Jan. 3.-Di