The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-19
DARCY DECLARES
 MANAGER HAD NO WRITTEN CONTRACT

New York, Feb. 19-Les Darcy comes right back at Timothy O'Sul- livan. his discarded manager. in a round robin letter. In his torrid IT issive to the press, Darcy repu- diates all that B. Timothy has said about ungratefu1ness, trickery, broken promises, contracts, written and yer bal contracts whole and contracts at the bottom of the ocean, this per centage and that percentage-in chausen off his skinny old nag and slams Timothy O'Sullivan right smack into the Baron's empty sad dle.
 From Goshen, the wanderer from Maitland writes:
 Wish to contradict the stories sent out by B. T. O'Sullivan to the different newspapers regarding our split It was all brought on by MT. Sullivan himself, and had he acted fairly in the matter, he would still be with me as a trainer and pal, as looked upon him, when leaving Aus tralia with kim. He states that he had a contract signed with me calling for B 1-3 percent, and in another paper says the contract called for 25 Ter cent. of my earnings. No con- tract of any kind was ever signed by me naming O'Sullivan as my manag- CT, nor was there verbal contract.
 We had no agreement of any kind where I was to give him a certain percentage of my earnings, and we left old Australia seeking our for tune together, and O'Sullivan knew well that if he did what was right with me he would be we'll taken care of, but on my return from Chicago the other day in our room at the ho- tel, O'Sul1ivan pulled that 25 per cent. stuff on me and I simply told him that he was through if he tried to put that over on me.
 "He refused to listen to anything but stood firm in his demand for the 25 per cent. Guess he was wised up a bit during his stay in New York, and these big offers I have been re- ceiving from all over the country must have turned his head complete ly. He is not consistent in his re- marks. In one paper he states that the contract we had was lost on board the ship coming over, then again he says I tore it up. Both these statements are false, a6 stat ed before there was no contract at any time, so how could I ear it up.
 When refused to agree to give O'Sullivan his demands the other day. his parting tip to me was that he would make me wish that I was back in Australia, the way he would roast me in the papers. If O'Sullivan wishes to give statements to the newspapers he might at least speak the truth and not hand such rot to the public to read. He also claims he took such a risk in getting out of the country for my sake. He was just as anxious as myself to leave Australia and was supposed to report for military duty at the time we left, and he planned the trip and I financ- result, and I have treated him roy ally ever since we landed in New York, and he has wanted for noth- ing.
 Ut was after I had dismissed him both by mouth and letter that he went out and signed me up to box Jeff Smith and also Mike Gibbons He never did have any authority to sign me up for a match, and he thought by signing up for these Milwaukee matches he would cause me trouble and put me in bad with the promoters as we'll as the fans, who wouldn't know the true condi- ton"