The Washington herald., 1915-12-03
fight CARNIVAL
At BUENOS AIRES
Championship Fistic Bouts
Planned for South Ameri-
can City~Ihis Spring.
REPRESENTATIVE IN N. Y.
Baron Nicholas Mihanovich Claims
Capitalists Are WilEns to Stage
Enterprise.
REPRESENTATIVE IN N. Y.
BY ED. CURLEY.

New York. Dec. IA pugfistic
carnival-the greatest ever held in the
worid-wfll be arranged next week The
scene OF this nstic epoch viii be Buenos
Aires. South America, and the time
next spring. The amount Of the purses.
Sl2Soo0, will be posted with q New York
bank within the next ten days. About
$iS.ooo Will be spent for advertising and
travelling expenses.
1t Is planned to hold four champion
ship matches In the carnival. The battles
Will be staged, according to the plans.
are as follows:
Jesse Willard. heavyweight champion.
with best man that can be secured; Mike
Gibbons VS.. Les Darcy, the Australian.
for the middle-weiSht title: Johnny
Ertle vs.. Kid Williams. for the bantam
weight title.
The fights will be scheduled for forty
ive rounds. In the Gibbons-Darcy nghr
1t Is the intention to recognize Gibbons
as the middle-weisht champion. The
signing up of White and Welsh will
force the syndicate to get busy I'M
mediately on this battle.
Baron Nicholas Mihanovich. now In the
city, Is the representative of the South
ern American capitalists. who will finance
the proposition. The baron il said to be
one of the wealthiest men in his country
and Is credited with being a real SPORT
man.
Outside Of the sporting angle of the
plan. he and his companions expect to
reap a fortune through the advertising
which will bring Buenos Aires to the
front
Tom Jones and Jack Curley. who
managed the Willard-Johnson battle.
have been appointed American repre-
sentatives and will Immediately start
out to sign up the fighters desired
They expect to have the signatures
of the eight fighters attached to
agreements within the next two
weeks. Bob Vernon, the stakeholder
Of the last two championship fights
Willard-Johnson and Welsh -Ritchie-
will act in the same capacity in this
affair. In addition to the pugilistic
part Of the program, Jones and Curley
also will endeavor to sign up other
big events.
Automobile races and aviation
meets have made a hit in the South
ern country. The American repre-
sentatives will try TO arrange for ex
hibitions of these two branches OF
country to compete.
Jess Willard will be the big feature of
the carnival Efforts will be made to
arrange for Georges Carpenter. the f.
nous French fighter, to get a leave OF
absence and tackle the worlds cham
pion. II this can not be accomplished.
then the next best opponent will b.
sought. Darcy and Gibbons appeared to
the promoters to be the logical middle
weights Darcy Is in Australia. but has
been informed Of the plans by cable
Though the articles signed today b =
tween Welsh and White call for tine
fight to be staged within eight weeks
after the opening of bids. Jones and Cur
ley feel confident they can furnish =
the agreement between the boys The
middle in the bantam-weight class caa
be properly adjusted IL Williams sEd
Ertle come to an agreement. Williams
has been claiming he WAS jobbed In II.
Paul. and this will give him chance to
redeem himself.
Baron Mihanovitch wants the carnival
to last three days. He is planning 10
arrange special excursion rates from all
parts of he world to Buenos Aires. He
believes that the advertising will moTr
than offset the $4,000 invested. The di-
vision of the s125. .oOo in purses is left TO
the Judgment of Jones and CuIley. Nat
urally Willard will receive the largest
amount, but there will be a balance larSN
enough to comfortably pay the other
fighters.
The seating capacity in the arena
where the fights will be staged VIII b.
unlimited. The last biz show held az
this place was an aviation meet. at which
more than 10000 paid admission.