The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-26
M'FARLAND'S TERMS
HALT GIBBONS BOUT
Packey Blocks Big Match by
Asking for $4,000 and
a $500 Forfeit.
MAY BIZ DECLARED OFF
No Guarantee for Jack Johnson
Moran Fight-l.angfOrd
After Negroes.

Nothing has been settled regarding the
proposed battle between Packey McFar
land and Mike Gibbons. despite assertions
| in Chicago that the details have been ar
ranged. II In true that several weeks ago
| the men reached an agreement to box at
ii6 pounds. scaling at 4 o'clock. and to
decide the question OF supremacy In this
city. But that Is as far M negotiations
nave progressed. No date has been fixed
! for the bout and II liz said that the prin-
| cipas are at odds over the division OF
| the spoils
! According to the latest Information Nc
/ Farland wants n $4,000 guarantee to
/ meet Gibbons for ten rounds Packey
/ thinks that the bout will draw $40. 600. but
/ he doesn't seem willing to accept the usual
| percentage. II is said that he also insists
ipon a $1,000 forfeit from Gibbons to
guarantee weight which the latter Is un.
/ willing to post. Gibbons In satisfied to
! take 20 per cent. Of the receipts. but Me-
| Farland. II he cannot get \ $4,000 guar
| antce. says he viii insist upon 30 per cent.
/ OF the gate. as he considers that he is the
bigger drawing card and also should re-
] yeiy. more money than Gibbons for under
taking what appears to be dangerous
/ task.
! Gibbonss friends say that his decisive
Farland put ON his thinking cap and some
OF them go so far as to predict that there
will he no fight under the weight oondi-
tions named. The assertion of Gibbons
{ that he can easily do i45 at o'clock and
/ retain his strength IL also believed to have
net,led Packey. who figures that Mike
would enter the ring with him weighing
only -four pounds less than he scaled when
/ he stopped McAllist-r Mcfarland will re-
ccive a final offer from the promoters of
] 4. H..
cept II is believed the sfrsir will be
I called on.
Recent information from Paris Indicates
that tn. proposed Jack Johnson-Frank
Moran bout To be decided there in June
isn't "a sure thing after all. When the
match was made II was said that several
Americans with money" had guaranteed
To- pay $500 10 the negro. win. lose
. or draw But Il appears now that nobody
has guaranteed anything and that
French promoter simply has agreed to
gamble with the sporting public.
Joe Woodmau. manager Of Sam Lang
ford. in letter to friends here. says
that the Moran match Is "a stall He In
sists that Langford will be Johnson's next
opponent and that they may come to-
geth-r IN the National Sporting Club OF
London, unless the French promoters
offer better Inducements. II Johnson
sticks to Moran. however. Woodman
writes he will bring LanEford home
and will try to match him with tho winner
of the Cunhoat Smith-Willard night to be
decided IA san Francisco on July I,
The propus-d twenty round mill he
tween CARPENTER and Kid Mccoy AZ Monte
Carlo IL not regarded with favor here.
Five years ago Mccoy made an attempt
To- come back In ten round bout with
sit,l. NTt ny
"A pi,iful object AS he shu'f'ed about the
ring. unable tn hold w his hands or to
ht "A sun blow. His failure was 80
pronounced that h. retired forthwith ana
devoted his time to other business Me-
COY has been spending the last year IN
Franc. on rhe racecourses ana IN said
to- be i'm need Of funds. Perhaps ne mas
matched himself with tn. Frenchman to
obtain "A bunch Of soft money for taking
m. count Mccoy would not be permitted
Ia box in the State OF New York, as he is
I'm the class with Bob Fi,zs!mmons and
other old timers who are under IN" nan
F of the Roxing Commission.
,d Wolgast made such a tne showing
against Joe Rivers iu Mlwauk'' last
Friday night that ia. critics declai" that
no has recovered his best form ana should
have n good chance 10 win back the light
foul II IL IL true that Richie has agreed
IN box Wolyast ten rounds In Milwaukee
NEXT AprU therefore. night fans may he
furn!she with surprise Ritches UNI
willingness to meet Freddie Welsh ana
his apparent inability 10 get into shape
for Tommy Murphy have caused many of
his followers tn weaken. Wolgast II VIII
IA, recalled, gave Richie a hard fight up
To- the time that a foul was declared Then
b., s,pmel
a had WAY. WOlgast said after the Rivers
. bout that hr felt as strong as sNei and
that he had entirely recovered from the
attack Of appendicitis which, II Is thought.
mayed the way for his loss OF the world y
title
owen Moran. who boxes Young Shugrue
here. tn-irorrnw night, has issued bust
n.sslikc challang. to his fellow country
man, Freddie Welsh, lightweight cham
pInn of England Welsh has never boxed
Moran. hut II the latter ran beat Sapper
D'N.ii. another Briton. who mus, first take
IN. measure uf Johnny Dundee, Welsh
MAY agree To "a SCRAP
Batting l.eyinsky is still busy. lie is
meeting second and third raters. some Of
them unknown to fame, and ~ picking M
easy lnnrry. l.eNinsky's bouts with Rob
McAlistor and porky Flynn proved be-
yund p.rad, enture that h" had been over
rated MIX" Gibbons probably could stop
L,,inskN as easily as he put the rollers
under NCAllst"r
Did Gunhoat Smith decide To- abandon
his trip to England and France because
Sam I.angford stood ready to challenge
/ him on his arrival"
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