The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-11
l ALKING
IT OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK, Sept. II.

NEW YORK, Sept. II.
A RRIVING at the Biltmore TO az
"A tend a wedding breakfast of
Webster, gifted British
cartoonist, it was not surprising at
all to find Dan McKetrick in COM
plete charge of everything. Nc
--~...-.. nas been that way since mis-
.o.n.er days with the Evening World
when he shocked a staid metropoli-
ten community by using an eight
column line over a first page sports
story-the first time such impor-
lance was ever attached to any
athletic activity.
McRetrick introduced the lady. Miss
Mae Flynn. rather gorgeous creature,
and proceeded forthwith to associate TO
himself a major part of the credit for the
perfection of the matrimonial arrange
ments.
MKETRICK is NOW ENGAGED IN THE
ELUSIVE BUSINESS OF STICKING
HOLES IN THE GROUND IN THE SOUTH
WEST WITH THE OPTIMISTIC HOPE
THAT OUT OF THESE HOLES SOME DAY
WILL COME LARGE GEYsERS OF OIL.
THOUGH MKETRICK HAS GROWN A
TRIFIE PUFFY AROUND THE WAIST
AND THERE IS NOT AS MUCH HAIR ON
HIS NOBLE PATE AS ONCE THERE
WAS. HE Is STILL THE SAME VIBRANT,
ACTICE, DOMINANT CHARACTER THE
SPORTS WORLD USED TO KNOW TWO
DECADES AGO.
TTANDING me a thin stemmed
II glass that beloved out at the
ton like some fragile flower and into
which a sparkling fluid was poured,
NcKetrick unanswered me into an
corner of the room and
began to tell me the life story Of
Tommy Webster.
There have been only two great
sports cartoonists in the history OF
journalism" babbled McKetrick. |
Tad was one. Tommy is another"
With a gentle frmness was forced |
to inform McKetrick that I was not |
exactly unfamiliar with the Web
ster art creations. that had known |
the young Benedict for some time.
INDEED. AFTER THE THIN STEMMED |
GLASS HAD BEEN REPLIED FOUND |
MYSELF GIVING MKETRICK AN Ar |
GUMENT ON ART. I REFUSED TO Be |
IIEvE HE CONSISTENTLY COULD COM
PARE THE LATE TAD AND WEBSTER
I HELD THAT TAD WAS CLOSER TO |
THE MAN IN THE STREET. AS THE
PHRASE HAS IT, AND THAT THE
BRITISH STAR COMBINED A SPIRITED |
TECHNIQUE WITH A SUBTLE SENSE
OF HUMOR THAT MADE HIS APPEAL /
LESS GENERAL ALBEIT CERTAINLY
WELL. I SUPPOSE THE DAILY MAIL
PAYS HIM $40, 900 A YEAR ON ACCOUNT
OF THE WAY he DROPS HIS
RoARED MKETRICK.
should have known better than TO swim
put into any sort of controversy with NE
K etrick Nobody ever won CAB fest /
from him. with no little difficulty l final
" swung him around to a point Where
be was willing to talk about hlmseH'
NEC KETRICK is a member Of the
WI old school of promoters ana
fight managers. He was in Gold
field in Tex Richards day. He came
into the metropolitan fight game
along with Charley Harvey and
others. He promoted a number of
important fights on the other side
of the Atlantic, notable among which
was a fight between Jack Johnson
and Frank Moran for the heavy
weight championship in 1913 in
Paris.
THE NET BOX OFFICE RETURNS OF |
THIS FIGHT WAS $4,000. NONE OF !
THIS MONEY HAS BEEN PAID TO |
EITHER OF THE PRINCIPALS OR THE |
PROMOTER. McKETRICK HIMSELF |
TIED IT UP. HE CLAIMED MORAN |
DOUBLE-CROSSED HIM BY REFUSING |
TO SIGN A MANAGERS CONTRACT |
WITH HIM. so ON SOME SORT OF |
LEGAL TECHNICALLY McKETRICK |
WAS ABLE TO HOLD THE MONEY UP.
He can not get any of it unless
Moran also collects and McKetrick,
still feeling that he was the victim
of an ungrateful fighter, says Moran
never will collect. Incidentally, the
original sum accommodating COM
pound interest for fifteen years has
now grown to more than $4,000.