Show Sport News I r By Robert Edgren I Ind And nd Gossip i Promoters Running Around in Circles Trying to Separate Separate Separate Sepa Sepa- rate Rickard and Darcy 1517 by Ly th the Ole rv J-e J le Co ERr YORK Jan 18 1 Stealing Les s N NEW Darcy from Te Tex Tox Rickard or rather attempting to do so Is the popular pastime these days among promoters promoters promoters promo promo- managers and advisors advisers E Everybody concerned Is 18 running around In circles A certain theatrical promoter who has tho the Australian signed Bignell up for a 1 fifteen weeks weeks' vaudeville tour Is going around town Sa easing Ing ho has Darc Darcy tied upland and foot Rickard ho he risks asks In Ine e effect effect ct Why h who Is 18 be ho Anybody that wants to do business with Darc Darcy will have to see sec me This vaudeville booker r really Intimates that he has ha a trick contract contract contract con con- tract with Daro Darcy and that the tho Australian really didn't know how far reaching a document he signed when he put his signature signature signature sig sig- sig- sig nature to the Rickard smiled cynically when he ho heard this Ho He knows nil all about Darcy's vaudeville vaude- vaude ville contract and tho the clauses It contains providing for tor interruptions Interruption of ot tho the theatrical theatrical theatrical the the- tour of ot two tl weeks at a time In Incase C. case caso o the tho Australian is signed signal up for a a. match I X am not Darcy's mann manager manager er h he explains ex tx- plains but I have havo the boy boys a word that ho no will do as I suggest In tho the event of any an matchmaking and I dont don't think hell he'll break brek It When I am thoroughly satisfied that Carpentier can not get here hero from France to box hox him Ill I'll not stand In the theay way ay of Darcy's Darcy s 's signing up for match any RICKARD allows the theatrical mans man's mansI IF I pretensions pretension to bother him he doesn't I show It It The theatrical tour is liable to wind up tiny any time especially I If It Darey's weekly stipend said to bo be 2500 doe doesn't nt materialize So fan far there havo have not been any an record breaking br turnouts turnouts turnouts turn turn- outs to see ECO the Australian and tho the show v built buill around him But tho the attempts of rival promoters promoters' to lure Darcy Daroy WI C away with fancy offers offer cant can't help but be bo annoying to Rickard One promoter rushed off ort to Trenton lost last night accompanied by b the tho boastful bookIng book- book bookIng Ing agent with ith Inducements ments to Darc Darcy to meet either Battling or Al Ai McCoy McCOy McCoy Mc Mc- Coy and theres there's no telling what the re result result re- re sult of the trip will be Darcy's rcY's head may be turned who turned who knows Dan Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- gan manager of or Le Is not In sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy with such harum- harum harum rum methods While ho he would like to match the Battler with the Australian he hc do doesn't want to I become mixed up In nn an any flivver ver d kale alp Mick King King- Ing- Ing the other Australian middle mid mid- I lIe cue weight who skipped out for America will bo ho Jealous of Lea s Darcy when he gets the Australian news dispatches patches Micks Mick's lIck getaway received a mere mention while Darcy got as much space and attention as asa asa asa a first t class elass divorce case or a mysterious murder To a mere mer outsider there seems to be beno beno beno no difference between tho the flight night from tho the war zone of a champion and of a former r champion But theres there's a difference In Australia Darcy was wall a great cat gate at at traction When hen he fought It mean meant money for the tho promoters Mick was In Inno Inno Inno no such uch fortunate position |