| Show WILL MCARTY CLIMB UP AS I JOHN JOUN L L. DID Floto ThinKs Wells More Nore X Formidable Opponent I r ii OL F Than tt r I t J 1 r I. I HOW HOV BOXERS McCarty Weight 81 81 h Roach Boach 7 2 1181 V 1 18 Neck 42 Chest contracted d. d 39 48 Chest expanded 2 12 2 Waist 2 j 2 13 Right Bight forearm 13 8 13 13 3 13 Left forearm 11 14 1 i 14 11 Right Bight bleep 15 14 Left bleep 15 i 25 Loft thigh 26 25 2534 2611 Right Bight thigh 26 2 I 25 2534 Left thigh 26 16 Loft Laft calf 16 8 B Wrist 7 10 Ankle i 91 Ia la Ia Bom Born Lincoln Nob 1 Oct 4 1890 Mar 17 1892 j Toni Tom Mgr Billy amoy I I BY OTTO C C. C PLaTO FLOTO DENVER Dec 19 Just J J after Paddy Paddy Paddy Pad Pad- dy Ryan Byan had bad defeated Joe Goss for the heavy heavyweight weight championship of the world there camo caUlO rumors of a coming comins champion from Boston Not much attention at at- on was paid to thorn thom at first but after the Roxbury Strong Boy had defeated everything in the fighting line the tho Hub boasted of he lie began to look I ok for higher ups and found one in in the thc same Joe Goss who had just lost to Ryan Byan A. A match was arran arranged cd and the stCl knocked the veteran over o tho the in short order folKs began to I look ok up and take lako notice John Lr L. was tho thu kid was i creating creat in ing all this havoc lie He was va taken to New cw York lork and ana a at Barn Hills Hill's S 'S old concert hall in in in Houston JIous- JIous ton tou street s lie he met Steve Taylor one of the best Jest fighters of ot hi his lIis day defeating him Then camo came the battlo battle at Jones Woods with Jimmy Elliott and ana again the tho Roxbury Strong Boy lor the he goods From that time timo on oU his rIse rise f was rapid over oven effort was crowned with ith victory victon until he lie met Jim Corbett I e Orleans in 1892 F other othor ni night ht at Los Angeles another another an- an other tb r Joun youngster jumped into juto tho the spotlight spot spot- f light in much tho the same samo fashion that John L. L Sullivan an was given i cn prominence Luther has met several good goodmen men incH including Carl Morris and defeated defeated de de- de them His Ui famo fame bc began n to spread but there was Ins something lacking lack lack- lug jut to g give go o him hiru real standing that that something came to him when he defeated de dc- de- de lint Jim We now r w wonder McCarty Will ill continue continua to creep to the top ris as c Sullivan did did- as CS Corbett did and a as lim lid did All had practically tho the same beginning e inning Corbett gained JJ his s' s stono stone ho defeated Sullivan Sulli and Jeffries rose when ho hodo do downed Fit Fitz at Coney island nd Of course Mccarty has not gotten n ns far along in lU hi his career or standing thal that the tho above aboc men inca had whon whoa they thov leaped eap d into the coveted co throne chair for there thero are two men that must ho bo removed re re- rc- rc moved ed from his path p Ono One is Al and the other is Bomb Bombardier Wells Tho rho former fonner may mav not lOt prove proe as JS ormid- ormid ab able 38 as expected but the the latter latter is certainty some somo shucks I T say sar this thi knowing know know- ing- ing ingwell well that defeated the Fn Englishman Eng Eng- lishman ishman in their ther New York meeting However er c i T I am nm certain Wells VeIls labored under a a. handicap of some ono sort ort at that time tim timet and a n return engagement between and aD would cause no iio sur sur at Lt all if tho the latter reversed Tc co conditions con cou- as well as s the tile verdict |
