Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 24 | Famous Les Darcy Here Ring Circles Stirred Up

Famous Les Darcy Here nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn Ring Circles Stirred Up LESTER DARCY. f, ,x N IT If vrv I ! I A ;V .A I r li A ' i Ai I L 4-:: A ? It ,4 p'" ; -tc,' f: k l A 4 I II ' .cv V : P ' '' j li ' h K 7 i i i : I II l : "'V1" i: i 1 N- EW yOEK, Dec. 23. Les Darcy is here. With all the pomp and ceremony cere-mony attending the arrival of a prima donna, the much sought Australian Aus-tralian boxer arrived in New Yrorlc City today on the Standard Oil tanker Cush-, Cush-, ing from Chilean ports. Up to the midforenoon Darcy had not landed, but Tex Rickard, the demon promoter who went down the bay to meet the incoming tanker long before daylight, officially announced lie was on board and a large delegation of fighters, reporters, promoters oh, many promoters gathered at the battery to meet him when he came ashore. Darcy finally was taken off the dishing dish-ing and brought to the Battery on t lie tug W. S. Dalsoll. With him on his trip came Tim O 'Sullivan, his life-long trainer and handler. The Australian looked to be in fine fettle. He appeared to weigh about 175 pounds in his street clothing and he announced that he was here to tight anvone at anv time. One of the first things he did was to tell why he left Australia. ;'I didn't leave," he said, 11 because I was afraid 1 would be forced to enlist en-list as reported. I left because 1 could not make the money there to make my father and mother independent of me. As soon as I make that much money in this country, I'm going to England and enlist." Darev 's affairs for the time being will be' handled by Tex Rickard, it was said. The Australian said he had no preference prefer-ence hs to who his first opponent will be that he would as soon met Wil-lard Wil-lard as any of 'em. Indications are that Georges Carpentier will be one ot his earliest opponents.