The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-06
PROHIBIT DARCY
FROM FIGHTING
Governor Whitman Directs State
Boxing Commission To
Withhold Permit
n,.ooi.,.d Pres. ~ Federal wireless,

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ALBANY, New York, March p
Governor Whitman today directed the
state athletic commission to prohibit
the boxing bout between the Australian
middleweight, Les Darcy, and Jack
Dillon on the ground that Darcy is a
Stacker" Darcy Struggled himself
out of Australia, and it was alleged
he did SO to avoid military service.
The fight was to have taken place Mon.
day. l"a
Governor Whitman issued state
ment explaining his action.
"I have been informed that, Darcy
ran away from his own country" said
the governor. "He left under an
alias. He was afraid to fight for the
cause Of his countrymen, preferring a
brutal exhibition for purse Of $780,,
900. The United States is on the verge
of war, and consider it unpatriotic
to place Darcy on PEDESTAL. He de-
serted a nation that perhaps will be
an ally Of the United States in war;
| Governor Whitman's announced op.
position to boxing, which has led him
to move toward a. repeal of the state
boxing law, probably had as much to
do with the stopping of the Darcy Dill
Ion fight as the circumstances under
which Darcy left Australia, but those
/ circumstances were peculiar enough.
Slowed Away In American ship t
Darcy departed from Australia as q
stowaway in the American steamship
Helen G. Luckenbaeh, and made the
last lap to New York in the tank
steamer Gushing, under the assumed
name of Dawson and working as fire.
man. New York newspapermen immed,
lately wished to know why he had left
Australia as he did, and this was his
| reply: .. b..
With my first breath want to tell
you in America that / am not shirker.
There is nothing of the shirker in my
/ heart. * .ft .HH8r
"In view of the criticism that has
followed my departure from Australia,
l want TO give my reasons for leaving
home as / did. had, and still have,
every intention of going to the front,
offered Bond For Return III. 800
81 wanted to do things squarely. /
went to the military authorities myself
and offered $4,000 of my own money
as a bond that / would return in six
months if they gave me permission to
como to America in order to earn
enough to keep my mother and father,
brothers and sisters in comfort before
enlisting. ~ Ht.. H
"You know, some of the boys who
went to the trenches are never coming
back. l wanted to be sure that FIVE
brothers, four sisters and my mother
and father would not want if / was
/ not alive Mt the end of the war. They
are not rich, and the brother older
than myself is a cripple. Is it unrea'
sOnable that / should want to protect
themi s"
"That's why IN here. / want to
make three OF four good fights here,
and then o Sullivan (who accompanied
Darcy on the voyage from Australia)
and myself will go to Canada or Eng.
land and enlist. / will join the avia-
ton corps I've never been up in the
air, but they've promised me fight.
Wasn't Of Military Age "
81 WASH 7 of military age when ]
left Australia. / was not twenty-one
until ! had been on the water five days,
on my way to America. At home just
now they are marshaJing all the able
bodied men between the ages of TWEEN.
ty-One and thirty-fye in drilling camps.
They will keep them a year before
sending them out, and that was to be
my fate. " w..
Nothing had been heard here of a
fight between Darcy and Dillon Mon
day night. Darcy was to fight AL, Nc.
Coy then, but it is presumed that the
beating Dillon gave Mccoy in New
York February q in seven rounds led
to a substitution of Dillon TO meet
Darcy Darcy has been matched TO
box ten rounds with Mike Gibbons in
Milwaukee April 10 at 100 pounds.
Weighed ITS Pounds ,l....a q
Darcy weighed l75 pounds when he
arrived in New York, and this after he
had been working hard at sea and was
down to what might be regarded as q
good normal weight He said he could
get close to 100, but New York men
thought fifteen pounds a great deal to
take of. For Gibbons 100 pounds is
at least two pounds in excess of his
best weight, so that he will have
great advantage. Dillon weighed 1874
pounds to McCoy's l6lA in their fight.