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Show DARCY 1ST BATTLE Oil DEFEiMIT Promoter Says Kc Has Contract Con-tract That Will Stand Legal Test. By International News Service. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 3 7. Lea Darcy is going to fight Mike Gibbons before be-fore the Cream City Athletic club in Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, April 10, or Frank Mulkcrn, the club's promoter, is going to know the reason rea-son why. He intimated tonight that lie had an Inkling why Les has "cold feet." but said that he would take his contract, signed by Tim O'Sulllvan of NewXToik as Darcy's manager, to the highest cC"L I In tiic land rather than let Darcy back ourV of the mill. I On the other hand, Darcy says O'Sulll-j O'Sulll-j van had no authority to slsn articles 01-i 01-i agreements. O'SuIlivan says he has witnesses wit-nesses who will testify that Darcy verbally verbal-ly commissioned him to act and that he can force him to do it. In the meantime Mulkern is here busily engaged in preparations to stage the scrap. He has put the case In the hands of a firm Of New York lawyers with ln-' ln-' structions to go through with it, and he is confident that when the bell rings the Australian will be in the ring. Milwaukee is especially eager for this fight. Business houses, believing it would be a big thing for the town, responded noblv to Mulkern's appeal and subscribed to $30,000 worth of tickets. Mulkern guaranteed ?5O,000 to the fighters, so ho cannot see where he can lose. Morris and Moran. By International News Service. NEW YORK, Feb. 37. Grant Hugh Browne, new manager of the Madison Square Garden, has signed up Carl Morris Mor-ris and Frank Moran for March 12, one week after the scheduled Darcy-McCoy bout in the same ring. There is a chance that the Darcy battle will be blocked owing ow-ing to differences that the Australian is having with his manager and the claim of another promoter, who says McCoy must meet Jack Dillon before he boxes for Browne. |