Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-20

trdIldL never DeIOTe saw d nfuule
weiglft lighted like the Les Darcy who
battered Eddie McGoorty for eight
rounds on December % Boxing
rightG and finished up fresh, easy
and smiling; but left McGoorty in
such "a state as he had not been in
alter any other fight OF his career
Az TIM end OF the tornado OF fighting
Eddie Cooked as if he had been opeF-
ated % with hammer rather than a
paddt4 glove, and went away to a
hospital TO have five stitches put in
his lbs, but Darcy bore no signs of
having been IN an engagement at all.
The Ga fiction that when Darcy beat
McGd9rty the first time Tin L.
roundsD the American fighter was not
Going ahis best, or not aDle to do his
best, 3 now buried. w. +. Corbett
OF thNiSydney Sun was the last sport
ing Iltessman to accept Darcy as a
v,orldbeater, and refused To do so
On tlIe strength OF previous fights
with Jeff Smith and McGoorty. How
ever. The furnishings which the Aus
tralian gave to Clabby and McGoorty
a. succession have dismissed all
doubt regarding his quality, and the
knowing ones who have seen his best
work in. Australia are satisfied that
he could send Mike Gibbons or
Ahearn along the same path which
Eddie and Jimmy travelled.
Jeff Smith 10 Fakir.
Darcy up TO date has done every.
thing asked Of him against the best
American ! and Australian fighters.
The dope spread so busily through
America by that runaway gutter JEFF
Smith and bis prompter. Al Lippe. is
proved d6ite false and very foolish.
Smith in the u. S. A. has tried to
build the story that Darcy is a fake
champion, owing his place to crooked
decisions ty q referee: but while Jeff
was trying TO put bluff over his vel.
lowstreak with this campaign OF sian.
der, Darcy was proving on the bod;
les OF Glabby, Mc0oorty and others
what q marvellous boy he Is. Austria.
lians are satisfied TO leave Smith
looking the bad gutter and romance
spinner which subsequent events have
proved him to be- Nobody wants to
see him here again. except that it
would be satisfaction If enough
pluck could be injected into him to
make him try TO stand up against
Darcy Tor six rounds or So BY the
way he licked other Americans, the
Australian boy has proved that the
Jeff Smith who bolted from this
country was at dead-finish bar in
tongue fighting and press dope.
Downfall of Betting Group.
In the Boxing night fight, McGoor-
tvs friends failed to reckon up how
great an Improvement Darcy had
made. Eddie himself had been win.
ming steadily by knockout over a
nc ofvnot very near champions, some
OF them big fellows, too: they includ-
ed Htffy Reeve. Billy Murray, Mick
King and Harold Hardwick. Against
these fellows Eddie made himself in
vincible,. and a group of heavy-betting
sports with whom he Is on good
terms in Australia backed him against
Darcy With extreme confidence. They.
inclufe some Of the boldest betters in
Sydnty, and they laid 2 to 1 on Nc
GoorG on the racecoufses 1.-THE only
place. in Sydney where open betting
Is permitted BY law). The way they
bet W on Mc0oorty' was a caution. to
witness on the day Of the fight. But
Eeithtn1 that nor anything else shook
the 6nnfidnhee OF Darcy. who ham.
mered Mc0oorty just as he chose, and
himself suffered nothing.
Money support for Darcy.
There Il IDbody in the Common.
wealth. whether Australian or Amerf
can, whom Ilg sportsman would now
dream Of bao|ing to defeat Darcy. He
has an engagement with the u. S.
niiddIeWeighE George (Knockout)
Brown In Sydney on January Is, and
there Is some talk that canvasses
CIabby's chances in a return match.
But such betting as is talked about
Is confined 10 the offer of wagers
from 1000 a0 ~, 900 dollars that Oar.
cy viii NOT knock out Brown or Clab.
by inside the 20 rounds. None of the
men With money venture the belief
that either Of the Americans can beat
the new champion.
AS for Aheafn, II he chooses to
make a Journey to Australia he and
his hackers viii find a number OF
sports In this city who have guar
anteed TO put up wager of $4,000
dollars that Darcy can beat the Amer
scan. and II Nike Gibbons would
undertake to come here for 20.
round fight he or his friends could
find a similar even-money bet in adj
dition 10 the purse. Either Gibbons
~ Ahearn would find big money II