Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-04-22 | Page 9 | Jerry Will Meet Gibbs

- - ' :J ........ t t yf ; L ' ... r . -rf -' J Fighter .Declares: Dc Has E;c:: Misrcr resented in Salt Lr.!:d y ' J:rry McCarthy declares he is willing to noet ;Young" Gibbs again May 6th or 3?th, providing there is money enough In sight to make the bout worth the efTortC At Eureka yesterday McCarthy said: "When we csrne down from Montana to fht Gibbs, Manager McGinnis . of the bait Lake club told us that we would have a li:,vO houae, but we had less than half that sn-.ount, and after the club had taken its rake-off thee was but little left for the f ghters. Our expenses took about all we had coming. I'll fight Gibbs on the Bth or 10th of May providing they, can make a guarantee of $1ia pate money.' Mc-Ginnls Mc-Ginnls says that I am afraid to fight. Z am not afraid to fight anyone, but when I do fight I have gt to see a piece of money not Just enouali to cover expenses, ns ny last fijrht in Salt Lake netted me. McGinnis mustn't think that I am in the same class as Baker or Attell, and willing to take any kind of a game that is passed up to Tnc He Is the Prst manager to coma out publicly and bawl a tighter out as he has Who ever heard of a manager of a clutf coming out and attempting to dictate dic-tate terms and taying how the fighters should cut the money. Fighting is my . business, and I'm In it for what It's worth; and when there is nothing , to be made then vou will find me making a living liv-ing in some other way. Nona who ever i saw me tight can say one word against .iy fighting, because 1 do tha best I can, J there are not many losses against hie. . McGlnnla misrepresented things ta fne, and. now attempta to roast me through the papers. We got a telegram from him yesterday, which read: 'Will you tiRht Gibbs on 7? Fighters take auV I misunderstood the- telegram and thought he'd give us all -the gate money, but found out afterward that It was a wln-ner-take-all" proposition." Manager McGlnnls of the Salt Lake Athletic club says McCarthy ha mia-understood mia-understood his policy. He aald: . "I thought." he said, "that Jerry as trying to evade this meeting with Gibbs again, and took thia method to do it. He asked plainly for a guarantee that the fishters would get the entire purse, or gate money, thus-making rae bear the expenses of the contest without getting anything In return. Thinking he was a little leary of Gibbs, I decided upon the winner-take-all proposition, and informed him of this. I don't question the ability of McCarthy as a fighter, and I think that those who saw him go with Gibbs before will agree with me that he Is game. I am not giving It as my opinion that Glbba. is a better man than McCarthy, but It seems like he didn't want thia return fight. ' Bo far as his statement that he was not satisfied sat-isfied with the purse last -time is eon-terned, eon-terned, I can only say that he got awaj better on the equal division of the money than several others I know."