The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-29
M'CARTY IS
 NOT RIPE AS
 CHAMPION YET
Jim GOTbett Says Luther Must
 Beat Willard and Smith


 GBy James J. Corbett, Former Heavy | weight Champion of the WorAd.) NWritten For The Evening Earmer) | Luther McCarty has wisely decided To retire from the stage for the time | being, and will try to convince the sports that his is a just claim to the l title of white heavyweight champion | l believe a great majority of the fans of the country will agree with me that Billy McCarney's big youngster is one of the most promising prospects of the present day crop of heavies. That's all that can be said of the lot-they are prospects, and that lets them out But anyway we will all be glad to see Luther back on the job.
 dcCarty cleaning up the hopes one after the other when Tom McCarey gave him a gold belt and proclaimed him champion" Since then he has done nothing but travel around on his rep-and Ruess it paid pretty well for a while, too But he found that his refusal to accept any of the many challenges hurled in his direction was decreas- ing his popularity, hence the an nouncement of his plan to resume boxing at early date
 Luther will conhne his enorts Tor the time being to the lesser lights. He will first meet Jim Flynn in a six round bout in Philadelphia. A week later he takes on Frank Moran over the same distance in Pittsburgh Carl Morris is scheduled as the next victim at Kansas City early in May, and if everything breaks right May 24 (Queen Victoria's Birthday, will find him boxing ten rounds with Tommy Burns at Calgary, Alberta These four bouts will net Luther nice piece I of money. And there is small chance of his getting ncked-thats the chief consideration.
 Jess Willard and Gunboat Smith. HFcCarty's most persistent challengers, are to be passed up until later on. While in San Francisco recently l was told that Jim Coffroth had McCarty' word to box at his club on the Fourth of July, and it is thought that Will lard will be given the preference over Srnitt- The Gunboat will likely have to wait until Luther and Jess have set tied their differences.
 victories over Flynn, Moran, Mor- ris and Burns will not strengthen Mo Carty's position as white" champion The public will not accept him as ti- tie holder until he has disposed of both Willard and Smith Of this , pair I think Willard will prove the hardest nut for McCarty to crack. On what the big Kansan showed against Luther in their ten round bout last Summer, when both were green as grass, he has considerable ability. However, the sports will welcome Mo
 
 with great acclaim. With Luther on the job 1t is just possible that a man worthy of the title of champion may be developed before the Summer is over.
 Since Eunboat Smith fiattened Bonn bardier Wells in a couple of rounds several local critics have been touting him as a regular world beater. Just how the Gunboat. game fighter that he undoubtedly is, comes in for all this praise I am at a loss to figure. The recent battle at the Garden did not stamp Smith as great fighter SC much as it did Wells a decidedly poor one. That everyone was deceived by wells and his f1ashy showing against Pa1zer last Summer was quite natura as Palzer at that time was looked upon as the very best white heavyweight ir 4he business. Luther Mcarty proved otherwise little later on, but still the sensational battle Wells and Palzel had put up was fresh in the memory of the fans.
 The Gunboat's record to date doe! not make him the '1ogicaT' opponen for McCarty- The Critics who ar' boosting Smith so enthusiasticall! have apparently forgotten the fac that Jess Willard not only held Luther even last Summer, but went it on' better and shaded McCarneys cham uion. On that battle alone the bil Kansan has a better claim on McCar ty than the Gunboat or anyone else.
 ViIlard's record is more impressiv than Smiths, to my mind The Gun boat is a very crude fighting machine say what you will Of skill and sci ence he knows little; he has might, punch, that's true, but that is the mos that can be said for him. Willar' would, believe, give Gunboat a grea deal of trouble. Smith would hav a hard job trying to land those over hand swings the elongated kansan Willard, besides his advantage il height, has a natural defense agains the slugging, swinging type of miller He illustrated this forcibIy in the bat tie with Soldier Kearns, whose style similar to the Gunboats.
 Smiths chances would not be s great opposed to McCarty or Willar as against the Bombardier- Neithe is afflicted with a glass Jaw To tn contrary they are both as tough a they come these days, and bette equipped physically and mentally tha Jim Buckley's candidate.
 The Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst re ported the recent Jack Britton- oun Brown contest for the New York Ev score much of a hit with the reader of that publication. Compared wit the stuff turned out by the Journal regular fight man the Reveren Doctors s efTOTC was a boomer It extremely doubtful if he gets anOthe such assignment in the future.
 Dr. Parkhurst, among other thing said: +@I wish very much that the pee ple of my own church could have bee with me, etc. Evidently the bot made a big hit with him. At that
 is likely had he canvassed the hous thoroughly he would have found quit a few membes of his congregatio among those pesent. Lovers of boa 7TI fIrxry IN-
 Freddy Welsh, the English Hgh . weight champion, is due to arrive New York some time to-day, (Satul