The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-18
Les Dacey Won't Come to United States for $4,000;
Saws He Can Get More From Home Folks in Australia
Prefers to Reap Golden
Harvest Where Glib
bOns Isn't


American fight deyotees will have
10 defer their anticipation OF get
ting ringside view OF Les Darcy.
the Australian middleweight cham.
pion. Not that Darcy would not
like 10 meet US folks. but he has
decided aversion against deserving
the home heath while there is still
a stray farthing in the antipodes.
Australians have set Darcy up
as demigod. and they worship
him as such And Darcy fairly
oasks In the idolRtry.
Darcy does not plan to come to
America for over a year, II then.
He has bookings that will carry him
along ill next summer: then he
will get more bookings. Whether
he is TO continue as the idol OF
Australia will be determined in a
week or so, when he takes on Ed
die McGoorty in return engage
ment.
The American who was knocked
out in rs rounds by Darcy quite
recently. virtually bounded the
young blacksmith into the match.
as he is of the opinion that he can
turn the we'll known tables on Oar
cy.
Should the latter repeat his first
triumph. his standing in the fight
community will have been estao-
lished beyond a peradventure. he
needs but another knockout victory
over the tough McGoorty 10 show
that he has been tested and found
not wanting. Such a victory would
entitle him TO an equal claim with
Mike Gibbons on the worlds mid
dleweight championship.
And then a match between Oar
cy and Gibbons for the undisput-
ed possession of the middleweight
crown. II is too much TO contem-
plate. for 1t would be too good to
be true.
Darcy's feat in outpointing jim
my Clabby in a 20-round bout
fortnight ago strengthens the i'm
preston that Darcy possesses the
goods" He showed his punching
power in his fight with McGoorty:
and In the Clabby match he showed
his skill by outboxing a past mas
ter In the science OF the game.
Truly. Darcy must be wonderful
fighter 20 possess such essentials as
hitting power and boxing skill. Up
to this time we had doubted Oar
cy's prowess: but here is convinc-
ing evidence OF his ability. More
credit 10 him.
Americans would like to see this
/ Darcy person in action. They
would pay well for his services. too
II has been impaired to the writer
that Darcy has been offered $50.
600 TO come 10 this country and
participate In FIVE bouts. Darcy
did not even dignity the proffer by
answering via cable He was cour-
teous enough, however. TO write the
promoter his views OF the matter.
And here is the gist Of his note.
In the first place. Darcy has an
established reputation in Australia,
while In America Of he came here),
4 he would have 10 build up one. And
be does not think he can do this In
few fights
Then. again. he is not so sure that
he would become acclimated, ~and
his work might suffer In conse-
quence. Darcy does not feel con-
strained TO take the risk Of the long
and tedious journey to show his
wares and then not make good. He
breads even the thought OF Il.
Darcy probably can make more
money for his performances in Aus
tralia than he would In America.
unless be showed startling ability
in his very first fight. Anyhow. he
does not feel quite ready to visit
us--and that's all there is 70 II.