New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Goshen Promoter Fails to
Meet Payment on the
Garden Property
By FRED HAWTHORNE

The most serious obstacle that has
vet been put in the way of tho Les
Darcy-Jack Dillon ten-round bout a
Madison Square Garden next Monday
night doomed up yesterday. and for \
time threatened TO prevent the much
advertised meeting between the
Australian and American middle
weights.
At noon yesterday the time limit
expired when Grant Hugh Browne, les
see OF the Garden, was to make his
second payment on the lease 20 the
New York Life Insurance Company,
the owners of the property. Browne
could not obtain the large amount of
cash needed 1T ran we'll into six fig
ures), and the insurance COMPANY
threatened TO take over the Garden
and Gust Browne from the premises,
which meant that Browne would have
TO hold the Darcy-Dillon scrap in the
street, if at all.
hours trying TO make up the cash, IT
was reported yesterday. but failed. In
his extremity ne appealed for a short
extension Of time % meet the pay
ment. The New York Life Insurance
Company, in view OF the fact that
the bout had been so extensively adj
vertised and the time intervening was
so brief, finally consented The bout will
come off, therefore. but Mr.. Browne;
troubles do not end there.
II be fails TO meet the payment
within the added time limit. he will
be thrown out Of the Garden, bag an1
baggage, and the owners will again
assume charge
Tenants Vacate Building
When Browne assumed the lease of
the Big building he cancelled all the
sub-leases ana concessions 10 tenants
who had been there for years. These
expired yesterday, and for the frs.
time since the famous building was
erected the Tower was clothed in
Stygian darkness last night Not
person was stirring. not even
mouse" Even the Tower elevator was
shut down, and to-day. " the Goshen
squire wishes 10 reach his Offices un-
der Diana's feet, he viii have =
mount the stairs. To those acquaint-
ed with Brownies avoirdupois. it must
be evident that such thing would b.
nothing less than catastrophe.
II was reported on excellent author
ity last night that another announce
ment Of startling nature concerning
the Darcy-Dillon bout would be made
to-day. If Mr.. Browne has not lost
weight during these last few hectic
weeks, he had better join Darcy in
skipping the rope
Al Mccoy. the more or less middle
weight champion Of America, scored an
easy decision on points over Les
Darcy, the Australian. yesterday. but II
was a bloOdless victory and did not
occur IN the roped arena. The mere
thought Of Mccoy winning any kind Of
ii battle, however, impels us to hastily
add the information that AIS triumph
was purely Of the legal kind.
Promises Mccoy Bout
The threatened injunction that Al
and his father. Pa Rudolph. contem-
plated getting from the courts to pre-
vent the scheduled bout between Darcy
and Jack Dillon at Madison Square
Garden on Monday night resulted yes /
tcrday IN Grant Hugh Browne agree
ing 10 put Mccoy on for ten-round
bout with Darcy some time within the
next thirty days. The men will meet
under the terms Of the original con
tract made between Mccoy and Browne
before the recent DiIlon-McCoy bout a
the Broadway Sporting Club.
Brownies decision 10 allow Mccoy 10 .
meet the Australian n the Garden
some time this month was undoubtedly
FASTENED by the action Of the Boxing
Chairman Wonck, backed
up by one OF his fellow commissioners.
ruled that If the Dillon Darcy bout was
10 come of on Monday night Darcy
must agree 10 face Mccoy in the Gar
len arena within the month For his
md Of the affair Mccoy is TO receive
10 600. win lose or draw.
A soon a. Wcnck had issued his ul-
imatum. MIR Browne hustled by tube
md train TO his Goshen farm, where
Darcy has been IN training for the last