Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-04-23
RING CHAMP IONS
DEMAND BIC SUMS
SUCCESSFUL PUClLlSTS NOT
BACKWARD IN NAMING
PRICE

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal April %.
How do latter day pugilists COM
pare with those OF years ago? This
Is a question frequently discussed
and never. for obvious reasons. set
tied 10 the satisfaction OF any one
concerned II fellow becomes in
volved In an argument OF this kind
the best he can do Is TO hold fast
TO the opinion he started out with
There Is no way of putting the mat
ter TO q test.
There is surely one direction,
however, IN which "A modern cham
pion stands head and shoulders over
his prototype of ye oldon days. lie
knows better how to capitalize his
fighting talents.
When boxing with gloves became
AN established indoor sport "a cham
pion was content to strive for a purse
There was winners end and los
cr's end. That way there was an In
ccntiye 10 effort.
Makes His Own Scale
Now It's all changed. man who
becomes champion commands and
exercises the right TO establish a
scale of charges for his services For
tacklinr an opponent who. In public
/ opinion. Is considered his most seri-
GUS rival. he will name figure that
will make the promoter gasp For
going against a boxer with slightly
damaged reputation he viii consent
/ TO cheaper terms. II asked 10 sign
with one whom he thinks is really
dangerous he will name such an i'm
possible sum that the matter viii be
dropped.
Things are coming 70 pass where
a worlds champion Is more OF "a
subject for the commercial editor
than for the man whose specially is
snort iottings. Ills quotations II
seems to the writer. should appear
in the column devoted 60 the market
prices of No steers and granted
hogs
McCarty Ipholds Tradition
Luther McCarty, the newest and
shakiest worlds champion, is no
exception TO the rule Somewhere,
presumably Manager Billy Mccartney
has arranged schedule Of early
summer activities for Luther. As a
program of sporting fixtures, the
thing may lack merit, but as q linan-
cial project Il IL all right
Here's how II reads For siN
rounds with Jim Flynn at Philadel.
phia. April 10. McCuriy viii re-.
ceiye $4,000. for six rounds with
Frank Moran ~ Pit'ghVg April IS
McCarty will ge tS5.Oop; for ter
rounds with Carl Morris at Kansas
city. May I. McCarty will be paid
$4,000. for ten rounds with Tommy
Burns at Calgary May a.. McCartl
viii receive Sio.oOo perhaps more
barring a. To- Terms
Assuredly McCarty Is upholdlnl
the traditions of The latlor-dal
champions protective League 10
naming his terms hD ha displayed
the utmost daring ln selecting hh
opponents he has been commendabll
cautious. The ouly thins about q
Is that. ON q basis 0f comparative
values. McCarty mul demand @ mil
lion if ever he Is asked To- iight Jrs
willard of Gunboai smith
I'm way Luther H not 90 blame
le certainly did uor originate the
existing order oi Things Cham
pious have set their aces against
lair division ol the .oils for years
, and n is so long since there was
, winning or losing end To- a champion
. ship fight that the memory of mai
scarcely gocth back Goo the occasion
II was claimed. OF course. that JET
ferries and Johnson ought for "sey
euty-fiyo aud tWeut. i've but Their
are good grounds fur believing tina
the loot WAS evenly .Ii
Bat Nelson. who ..ways slaimc0
to be- second John a Sullivan b.
the matter of hone. Of purpose
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