Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-15
BOUTFALLSTHR0UGH
McCarty Wants. Too Much
Gold to Meet Bombardier.
FORTY PER CENT HIS PRICE
Wells to Box Smith at the Garden.
Maloney Talks of Side
stepping.

NEW YORK. February 1o.-Bombar-
der Wells, the heavyweight champion of
Great Britain, and Luther McCarty, the
white heavyweight champion. will not
meet in that ten-round bout at Madison
Square Garden-at any rate, not for a
long time to come. Billy Mccartney. man
ager of McCarty, held out for 40 per
cent of the gross receipts, while the best
offer the management of the Garden Ath-
letic Club would make was 30 per cent.
Jem Maloney the manager of the Brit
iSh champion, had already agreed to meet
McCarty for % per cent of the gross re-
ceipts. For more than an hour yesterday
Billy Gibson. the representative of the
Garden Athletic Club, argued with Nc.
Carney by long-distance telephone, trying
to clinch the match. but the latter, out in
Columbus, Ohio refused to yield in his
demands, and Gibson finally called the
entire affair off.
'Gunboat' Smith. the San Francisco
heavyweight. will be substituted for Nc
Carly. and the match will be held either
March II or II. Smith is out in San
Francisco, where he is matched to box
Jack Lester February %, but he viii
hurry on east to meet the Briton. Smith
has been on the trail of Wells since the
latter first appeared i'm this country.
Smith had hard time of it securing
matches in this city. SO he returned to his
home in San Francisco, where he boxed
several bouts and won them in decisive
fashion. He is a cever, hardhitting boxer
and will undoubtedly make as good an
opponent for Wells as McCarty or any
other white man in the ring
Wells and his manager, Jem Maloney
were greatly disappointed at the refusal
of Mccartney to accept the terms of the
Garden Club, but they will go ahead with
the match with Smith. Maloney said: Il
can't understand why Mccartney should
refuse SO liberal an offer to allow his man
to box at the Garden unless he fears the
outcome. 1t looks to me like deliberately
sidestepping match with a man whom
he feels is his superior, and if he is
not willing to risk a title which he never
really won. When one gets right down to
bedrock there is only one champion of
the world, and that man is Jack Johnson.
Wells was willing to box the big negro
for the championship of the world over in
London when the authorities interfered
and caused the cancellation of the match.
The mere fact that McCarty beat Al Pal
ger does not make him champion nor
does it prove that McCarty is anything
other than the master of Tom O'Rourkes
boxer. He is simply resting on q title
which is an empty one. We would like to
box McCarty here III the east. In any
case We will not box him out on the coast
unless we receive a substantial guarantee
for our services.
Billy Gibson, manager of the Garden
said: I'VE are through with Mccartney.
We have made him an offer. one of the
most liberal ever made. and we can do
no more. We will go right ahead with
the match with Smith. and if there is
any hitch in that the next best man will
be substituted. In any case Wells Will
box at Madison Square Garden. and we
will get a good man for him. There may
be man who will be more popular than
Wells, but We don't know him, and the
share of the gate receipts that we offered
McCarty would come pretty close to
small sized fortune.