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Show This Champ Not Money Mad ESM Unu iSKH HHH Al McCoy Is Poor Financier By DAMON RUNYON. New York, Feb. 17. SIIADKS of Jimmy Britt, and Billy Nolan, and Tommy Burns, and all those other eminent business men who have left their $ marks on the good old Ma rquis. of Queensberry game! Imagine an American champion going into the ring for less money than his opponent is to receive, with the guarantee of a fine, royal pasting on the side! imagine that! 1 1 s a horrible strain on the imagination, to be sure, but it is what one of our champs is steaming himself up to do. Why, it is enough to drive T. 1 Jones or the current era "of llard-Boilod-Fggism in' pugilism to strong licker. j AHvrtns McCoy, recognized middleweight chumpion pardon, Albert ! champion of America, is, as we have contended all along, JT. Lester Darcy Js , tirst patient in this country. I The horrifying feature is that he will receive less money than Darcy is ; to receive. The cut mentioned $25,000 to Darcy and $10,000 to the champion caused Jacques Curleyque of the Jess Willard syndicate, Ltd., to faint dead away. " i The pasting which Albertus will probably receive on that eventful occasion occa-sion is the very least of our champion s worries. No doubt he figures that ho would get the pasting, no matter whether he were fighting Les Darcy or the Brooklyn Jackass Rabbit, the only material difference being that this Darcy thing- will be a profitable pasting. In the past pastings have not been quite so profitable to Albert. He has made money, it is true, but not much money. Certainly never anything like ten thou a dip. He has been fighting a matter of seven years, and has had a matter of mavbe a couple of hundred fights, but none of them for much money. Some fighters are that way. Jim Flynn fought many a battle in his seventeen seven-teen years service, meeting two heavyweight champs, but the most he ever got for a scrap was the $7oU0 he received for pasting Carl Morris at Madison Square Garden. Frank Moran has had four or five fights around here, and has made more than $;0,000. Jim Coffey fought little, but profitably. Other fighters and better fighters might work once a week and not make' half as much money. The reason is, of course, that one class draws the money in at the gate the other doesn't. If Albertus McCoy can draw in $50,000"at any gate, even with the assistance of Les Darcy, the Century chorus, Eva Tanguay and the queen of Sheba in tights, a lot of people are 'willing to eat their spring hats, sweatbands and all. |