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Show SEEKS GLORY, FINDS GRIEF, DARGTS TALE Australian Encounters Obstacles Ob-stacles to Career in U. S.; Boxing Game in Need of Governingf Body. KILBANE TO REMAIN IN FEATHER DIVISION Manager Opposed to Sending Send-ing Little Fellow Against Heavy Fighters. By T. S. ANDREWS. By Tribune Special Sport Servlc. MILWAUKEE, March 10. It wonU be hard to find ft fightor who has bumped into bo many hurdlea la o short a time as Los .Uarey, the Australian Austra-lian mid die weigh t ehn mpion, who cainn to the United States in search of glory and fortune. On top of his many x- pcrionees in New Tori;, what with fight managers and theatrical managers, tho young, man was near t ho norvoua prostration pros-tration point, and now to cap the climax cli-max three states, New York, Minnesota and Massachusetts, have barred hira from appearing in a contest with an opponent. No doubt other states would follow suit should it become necessary to interfere, but Darcy has not, tried to force himself on aiiy of them, and in that he i? wise. Why he should be. barred in New York .state is hard to understand. Ho has been called a " slacker, M etc., for leaving Australia irstead of joining tho army, but others have done the samn thing and besides the boy v. as not ol! ao at the time. No doubt he made a big mistake in not following the advice ad-vice of his friend Snowy Baker, but even if he did make mistakes, is it any reason why ho should bo persecuted over here? His troubles seem to have been the result of squabbles brought about in New York over managers, contractu, con-tractu, etc. Tt is unfortunate that the boy did not engage a real guiding baud when he first landed, for it would have saved him much trouble and annoyaneo. If Darcy is wise now he will get away from New York for a while and matcii up for a real championship contest with one of the legitimate contenders Miko Gibbons or Jeff Smith preferred and to show the people whether he is a false, alarm or not. Mike Ciibbous has been after him hot and heavy for a match. Will Mike consent now to meet Mr. Darcy over the marathon route for tho championship? Jn the meantime it looks as though Darcy will be matched with Jack Dillon for a fifteen-round match at Denver some time in April. Kilbane a Feather. Jimmy Dunn, manager of Johnny Kilbane, Kil-bane, is authority for the statement that the little featherweight champion of tho world will not go out of Ms class to battle bat-tle for the lightweight title. The statement state-ment was made in Milwaukee last weok while Jimmy was handling his new protege pro-tege Kid Wolfe whom he thinks has a chance at the bantamweight title. As-cording As-cording to Jimmy, Kilbane is really a bantamweight,- but there is some doubt about that, for Johnny, if the scales in Buffalo are correct, weighed 1 23 ij when he fought Rocky Kansas there a week ago, the boxing commission inspectors having given out the figures. ' It is really an injustce to Johnnv to match htu against boys so much bigger than himself, ' ' said Jimmy while discussing the matter, "and in the future I do not intend to let him go after the lightweight light-weight crown nor any other title. Uo wilt be satisfied with the featherweight champonship of the world, which ho I holds. We did not seek a match with. Freddy Welsh at the time all the noise was being made about it. The fact ip, some of the promoters wanted the match and wo said go ahead and get Welsh at a weight to suit us and everything every-thing will be O. K. When Johnny fought in Philadelphia some time ago he scaled just 120Vj pounds, wheh was near thf bantam wfiifht. limit., and hn can easily make the featherweight limit of 122 ringside or at 3 o'clock. I do not like the idea of sending him against men so much bigger than himself and will not do it in the future." In connection with Kilbane 's statement state-ment that he will avoid the big fellows in the future, comes an announcement from Baltimore that George Chaney, the boy who thought ho had a chance to wrest the title from Johnny, but was sadly disappointed, has decided to re-tire re-tire from the ring for a time. Chancy I has parted company with his former manager, Henry Bletzer, and cancelled two matches which had been arranged for him. Chancy says he is not right for hard battles ancl believes a good' rest may bring him around to proper form agaiD. The boy certainly had a record for hard hitting previous to his meeting with Kilbane, but on that occasion oc-casion he showed no power whatever and the feeling was that he was not in shape for such a match. The boy seems to know his own condition better than his handlers and may gain by a good lay-off. Racing Game Expensive. Two of the best middleweights America Amer-ica has boasted of during the past half dozen yearn Eddie Melioorty and Jimmy Olabby seem to have been bitten bit-ten hard by the race track game. Both these boys" made a stack of money in 'Australia by boxing and were reputed I to be quite' wealthy; in fact, thoy I made enough to announce their retire- ment from the ring and took up tho business of bookinaking. dabby even I went so far us to buy horses 'of his i own nnd rare them on the Sydney and : Melbourne tracks, but raring is a gamo that kings and queens indulge in and ninny a man who thought he was ou . the "right track to more wealth found , himself in tne mire. That evidently j (Continued on Following Page.) SEEKS GLORY, FINDS CHIEF, DARCY'S TALE (Continued From Preceding Page.) has been t It o experience of flabby and also ,M cdonrty, lor reports from tho Anlipodos nro to" tho ctFoct that both bovu uro to re-onter tho fipht gfimo and try to rocoup wonio of thmr losses on tho race track. (Mabhy is to bo matched ivith Tommy Uren, tho present holder of tho middleweight championship, and tho llitffh D. Molntoah belt worth $1000 whilo MeCioorty is to again meet either Kill Lan or one of tho best heavy woights ot the country. Some timo ao Mi'Goorty was credited with having cleared over $30,000 on the races, but ii that is true ho has no doubt lost a bunch of it again, or he would not .be talking of re-outerinp the ring. Both boys have been out of the game for aorno time and it may prove to be the namo old story of r going once too often to tho well." Tho boxiiiff game, although one of the greatest of American sports, is probably proba-bly tho most loosely handled of all sports. It is buffeted' about like a football foot-ball among a bunch of players and just becauso there is no real support back of it, except in the (dates where laws have been passed to protect it against tho would-be reformers and others always al-ways on the lookout for something to attack in order to get into the lime-light lime-light or to gain notoriety, club promoters pro-moters in somo places do aoout as they please, whilo iu others the boxers and their managers are worse. However, there should be some means of giving honest boxers some protection in the making and carrying out of matches. Often matches are made and the promoters pro-moters to considerable expense in advertising their show, etc., only to be notified at the elevonth hour that one of the principals has decided to call off tho bout. The other boxer and the promoter pro-moter suffer losses in consequence. Then again clubs will match up boys and have thorn training for ten days or two weeks and at the last moment notify no-tify them that the match is off for divers reasons. Tho boxers have probably proba-bly paid out $-50 or $100 for training expenses and are left in the lurch, even without a match. During the past mouth T know of four different cases where boxers were matched down south, in the west and east, and after training faithfully for nearly two weeks were suddenly notified that tho matches were off. Not one of them received a penny to recompense him for the monev expended. Had tho clubs shown a disposition dis-position to pay at least part of the training expenses it would not look so bad, but not a penny was turned over. As to Champions. A fight fun of Washington, D. C. recently re-cently sent a communication to this' department de-partment asking for a list of world's champions in all the classes, as arranged by the American Boxing association. Owing to efforts on the part of numerous numer-ous managers of fighters about the country coun-try the A. B. A. never got a real start, although several of these same managers man-agers who fought to kill off tho boxing association are now very sorry they did not help to keep it alive. There is really no organization iu America to pass officially on such matters unless tlie A. B. A. is revived and given the proper authority to do so. The various state athletic commissions can only rule as to the affairs in their respective, states. The accepted champions by most authorities at present are: Flyweight, Jimmy Wilde, Kn gland ; bantamweight, IYto Herman, New Orleans; featherweight, feather-weight, Johnny Kilbane, Cleveland; lightweight, Freddy Welsh, England; welterweight. Jack Britten. Chicago; middleweight (in dispute claimed "by Mike Gibbons, Al McCoy, .Toff smirh and others) ; light heavyweight. Battling Lovinsky, Xew York; heavyweight, Jess AVillard," Chicago. There is no dispute as to Jimmy Wilde's claim of flyweight champion. Johhnv Frtle claimed tlie bantam title when lie was alleged to have won from i Kid Williams on a foul in St. Paul, but there were conditions at the time which made most writers recognize Kid Williams Wil-liams as the real champion, and recently I'ete Herman won it from him on points in Xew Orleans. Johnny Kilbane stands alone in the featherweight class. Froddv Welsh is about to retire from the lightweight light-weight class, and unless he agrees to fight some of the real American contenders con-tenders before July there is likely to be more trouble about his successor. J n case Wehii is not beaten Mho title will be vacant for the time being. Richie j Mitchell of Milwaukee claimed the American championship and posted $1000 forfeit to make good his claim. Since thnt Benny Leonard and Charlie White have also made claim to it. but it seems to be the accepted feeliug'among the fans that Mitchell and Leonard are the real contenders anil that, thev should light it out betweeu them to see who takes Welsh 's place wheu he quits the ring for good, providing, of course, that Froddv is not beaten before that time. Jack Britton has clear sailing for his crown, but there is another dispute among the middlewcights as to the rightful holder. Gibbons looks like the best of the hunch, with Jo IT Smith next anil A I McCoy and Cei.rge Brown following. fol-lowing. Lovinsky won the light heavyweight heavy-weight title from Jack Dillon and no one disputes Jess Willnrd's claim, although al-though Fred Fulton is hot on his trail for the chance to grab it. |