Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-14
Manager of Luther McCarty
Has Had Stirring Times as
Handler of Boxer


One of the picturesque characters
of ring affairs is Bill Mccartney, the
herr direktor of Luther McCartys
Queensberry ambitions.
Glib or tongue, possessing a ready
wit and careful in dress. Mccartney is
just the type to get his fighter ac-
Guainted with the world.
Mccartney has dark, curly hair and
looks more like an actor than a prize
fight manager He is probably around
the 40 mark in age. but could easily
pass for 80 on the streets, and were
he on the stage and fortified with an
!. actors malteupy he could look the
part of 81. He is the kind Of man ia
vored by nature, who never seems TO
age. and at 40 years has not changed
one iota from the day he celebrated
his thirtieth birthday.
In Game for Years..
For nearly twenty years Mccartney
has been identified with boxing in
some role. Either it was manager of
a preliminary fighter or manager of a
boxing club, but he was always in it
and put up his last dollar to stay in
il.
These twenty years of McCarney's
lhe have been full of yieissitudes and
he has been known to have a wad of
yellow-baeks one month and be down
to the proverbial smooth dime the
next. But the ''down-and-out" peri
DDS i'm McCarneys career were differ
eut from other sporting men, in that
he was always decently attired,. wore
clean collar and was as high in
spirits when he hadn't cent as when
he was flush.
In the darkest days of his adversely
this light-hearted Irishman never sug-
gested the crouch.
Just now he is in the zenith of his
glory He is bossing the fighter that
tie world has been so eagerly looking
for since the day Jim Jeffries gave his
pledge that he was done with fighting
"a promise that he didn't keep, much
to the detriment of his pride, but not
his pocketbook.
Where is, real white heavy
weight?' asked America. The coun-
try was fine-combed and anybody out
of work who was six feet tall and
weighed around the 200-pound mark
was measured for set of gloves and
put in the ring as real white hope.
Real middleweights and light
heavyweights went down the line and
chased the ''hopes" back into Oblivion
as quickly as they came. Some of the
hopes had temporary success, but
when an extra test was demanded of
them they were never equal 10 it.
McCarty, who is just 81, was the
exception. He made good every de-
mand made of him. Not only did he
rout the homes, but he decisively
whipped the best of the white yeter-
an heavies in the ring. In order he
has knocked out Carl Morris. A. Kauf-
man, Jim Flynn and Al Palzer.
Shows Rapid Development.
No young heavyweight ever showed
more rapid development than Nc
( Carly; and there are untold possibili-
ties for him. McCarty denies that he
has drawn the color line. but declares
that he will meet Jack johnson If the
public demands it He doubts wheth-
er such match would be wanted be-
cause OF the unpopularity OF the
negro resulting from the recent
scandals.
This is the phenomenon that good
natured Billy Mccartney has under his
control. Mccartney can now afford
to sit and smile and name his own
terms. for McCarty is the fistic idol of
America. IN fact, it looks like Nc
Carty is going to become the most
no,nlar heavyweight fighter since
John L. Sullivan. Others held the
title after sullivan, but for some rea.
son never held the unbounded Rffee-
tion. of the masses. And MeCarney IS
tho man who is helping, the other Mac
to become popular.
In the olden days ii was said TO DC
successful manager one. had to b.