Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-21
WHITE-MURPHY
BATTLE SLATED?
Plan Is to Ditch All Star Bout
for Monday Night-Up to
Promoters.
PACKEY AFTER BIG GAME
Stock Yards Fighter Will Quit Light
weights-May Sign With
Gibbons.

| II the Wisconsin boxing commission
can induce Promoter Steinel of Mil
waukee TO give up staging an all-star
local card next Monday night at the
Cream City, Charles White of Chicago
and Harlem Tommy Murphy of New
York will box ten ROUNDS at the hippo
drome. This match will be a sub
stitute for the Wolgast-White battle,
which was to be .4eid Friday night,
until Wolgast announced that he could
not go on because of an injury to
his side.
Murphy wired Promoter Mulkern,
who was back of the Friday night
bout, that he is willing to meet the
local battler, but asked more time to
train. and for this reason an effort is
being made to set the match back a
couple of days. AS Murphy defeated
! Wolgast twice in their bouts on the
| coast, it is thought that he will give
! White a sitter battle than even VOL
CAST could put up. He was defeated
| by Mcfarland the other night, but
| Packey had several pounds the better
| of the weight.
ASKS RIVAL TO POSTPONE CARD.
| According to the promoters arrange
ments they are given their dates far in
advance, and, as it is Stencils turn on
/ Monday, Mulkern is having his trou-
bles trying to get his rival to postpone
his card. If the clubs are unable to
reach an agreement the commission
will be appealed to in an effort to
reach some sort of an agreement.
According to a report brought back
from New York by one of Packey Nc
Farland's friends yesterday, the South
Slider has decided to give up trying
to battle lightweights. His bout with
Tommy Murphy is said to be the cause,
for the match only drew a little over
j $4,000, when as a rule the mere men
ton of McFarland's name in Gotham
meant the sure use of the S. r. o. sign.
Another reason advanced is that there
are not more good opponents in the
field. Richie has refused to meet the
Chicagoan unless he does ringside
weight, and, as this is impossible.
Packey is going after heavier game.
OFFERS PACkEY $4,000 PURSE.
Billy Gibson, the Madison Square
Garden promoter, is said to have of
fered Mcfarland $4,000 to box Mike
Gibbons, the st. Paul streak, and Nc
Farland is willing if Gibbons will make
4 las pounds. When Mike was here a
few weeks ago for his battle with
Spike Kelly he weighed 142 pounds a
couple of days before the clash, so il
it is not thought that he will have any
trouble doing the weight, Mike has
cherished an idea of meeting Packy
} ever since he broke into the spotlight
J Kenosha promoters held a confer
} ence yesterday and decided that they
} would not stage an all-star Chicago
, card, Oct. 81. Although the match was
, creating a great deal of interest about
} town, they refused to take chance or
: losing money on such an attraction
} preferring to get a couple of stars in
the hope that they might induce Chi
scagoans to fill the house.
, The proposed match between Nc
Goorty and Dillon, which was to mari
the opening of Milwaukees auditO
, rum, is still up in the air. even thougf
| it was announced several days agC
: that final articles had been signed
McGoorty, so it seems. has refused Il
bind himself to an agreement for ths
bout until Dillon posts a forfeit. Nc
Goorty has given the Cream City pro
moters until Thursday to get the thiDl
straightened out