New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-25
LES DARCY SIGNS
TO MEET MCCOY
AT TEN ROUNDS
BY w. o. McGEEHAN

Les Darcy, the Australian champion,
has signed up for a ten-round bout
with Al Mccoy, the more or less mid
dleweight champion. The bout is to
take place under the management OF
Grant Hugh Browne, at Madison Square
Garden. The date will be either Feb
ruary II or March 3.
The announcement was made by
Darcy himself, at Pittsburgh. where
he is striving, with the assistance of
burlesque show, to uplift the down.
trodden American drama. The frugal
Australian is to receive 100000, he de-
clares. This was the sum for which he
has been holding out before agreeing
to make his American debut.
Mccoy is the alleged middleweight
title holder by virtue of having knocked
out George Chip, who later suffered the
same fate from Darcy in Australia.
McCop is a sluggish battler, with pom
derous swing, and has retained his title
sheerly through ability to assimilate
punishment. He has been beaten time
and again, but somehow he has always
been able to keep his feet for ten
rounds.
Darcys selection of an opponent
shows that his policy is safety first.
Mccoy certainly is the least form-
dsble of the possible opponents.
The Boxing Commission yesterday
through Chairman Fred Wenck, an
nounced its intention to do some real
regulating in regard to the local box
ing clubs. The commission declares
that in future patrons of boxing clubs
who pay for seats must have seats. To
appreciate just how startling this in
novaton would be, one must have
bought a seat for boxing bout and
then tried to get it.
The policy Of at least three OF the
boxing clubs seems to be founded on
the belief that the man who pays for
fight ticket is a mild sort of lunatic
with no rights. Perhaps he is.
In three recent bouts the managers of
clubs oversold their houses. Men who
had paid from 81 to $40 for tickets
were not even able to get into the
buildings. Did they get their money
back? They did not.
The warning issued by Wenck con-
cludes: SHOULD we have any further
complaints about these conditions from
patrons Of your club they will be thor
oughly Investigated. and if found iusti-
fable your club will be recommended
for severe penalty"
The only adequate penalty for this
offence would be 10 close the club en-
tirely. But in the mean time how
about the boys who paid their hard
earned iron men for seats that they did
not get at these last three fights? This
warning of the commission is a little
like locking the garage door after some
body has done gone and swiped the
hivver.
James Jitney Johnston. the boy
bandit who was recently exiled from
Madison Square Garden. has offered
bonus of $500 for a knockout in the
bout between Ted Kid Lewis and Willie
Beecher, which is 70 be fought at John
ston's new Palace Sporting Club.
If Ted Kid Lewis should be the
knocker-out, this house will not be
hard TO pay. for Lewis is an inmate OF
the Johnston stable. But should
Beecher accidentally tap Lewis on the
jaw the payment of that $500 smack
bonus will be something agonizng.
II is expected that Editor Roberts of
"The Literary Digest" will shortly APP
ply for a boxing license. Mr.. Roberts
is the ostensible owner of Madison
Square Garden, and before Grant Hugh
Browne can stage the Darcy-McCoy
bout Mr.. Roberts will have 70 appear
before Wenck & Co.
This probably will mean that the
sporting page OF The Literary Digest"
will have a lot Of live boxing news in
the near future