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Show of biui. and .for; 3Ioran lo show fha la still Entitled to rati vUi Hie ioir 'mosJ-i- The purse a( Issue. 1 no lot', 't.mc. probably. bul tbc wlruioof tho r.illl wilt Command lmportut.ougag nvnts In (be near future, and no raster ras-ter which way one looks at It. thoro i every promise of a lir-termlncd bout. ' - . i - Moron has boxed a numhor of. times In San Francisco and Now York ami needs no Introduction to tho figatfol-lowing figatfol-lowing phalanx of.eltnrr city. Sr Carthy Is btill lu his salad days .-o far as experience Is concerned, and sports at a distance no doubt cannot conceive why the San Kranc:sco boy should bo considered a match for Ownn Moran. McCarthy, In a way. Is .an oddity. Like Battling Nelson, ho Is a clcaa-livlng clcaa-livlng lad. He doeg not drink or smoke, and for that matter Is simplicity sim-plicity Itself so far as his habits are concerned, lie Is a devout Catholic and abhors vulgarity. -It Is said thnt once when an opponent resorted to vilification in the hoiea. of rattling McCarthy, the red-headed youth promptly chlded him. saying: "I didn't talk crosB or use baa words to you." ' Tommy's gamenoss was well tested test-ed before he left the amateur ranks, aril It was also proved that he knows how to figure- what Is best when tho fighting Is fast and furious nn stie'e to the plan he has mapped out. When boxdng Taylor at Coffroth'. Arena one afternoon. Tommy soon dls-fnviiriwl dls-fnviiriwl that hl nnminr-nl Iinil n ilnn- serous right. For that matter, tb? spectators noted tho fact to, whun they saw Tommy flop to tno fioor after aft-er taking a riff ht swine. When Tommy Tom-my arose he decided that the wisest plan was to brln his opponent tJ terms with the left, and he follownt this course. He cut Taylor to rlh-hor.s, rlh-hor.s, In fact, and while he was do-Inc do-Inc it Taylor's rl?ht kejit whistllns through the air whhout nndlng the mark. Even when Ta;or was In a bad way Tommy withheld the fire cl Ms rlfcht He had learned that It was dangerous to trade with the boy before hliii, and with the left, an.1 the lett alone, he conquered Taylor and earned tho award. :-fir Carthy shows in nrovement every ev-ery time he boxes, and that Is why his ilmlrers predict great things from hiu:. Sports of sober turn recognize that Ix'lng sent against oran Is a Kurprl for McCarthy. If McCarthy is wonttrd It may not mean that ho will peg back very much as u ring man ns he is new to tho game, it will, however, be quite a rebuke to thi large nunTber of fight fans who seen) to have made up their minds that this practically untried youngster Is invincible. HT CARTHY AND NIET (By W. W. NaugTiton.l San Francisco. April 30. This even lug at Dreamland, San Francisco s pet lightweight. Tommy McCarthy, will try conclusions with the clover Britisher, Brit-isher, Owen Moran. it Is seldom that this city enthuses over a prize ring novice as it Is doing iu the case of McCarthy. Low Powell, when be struck a winning streak, was quite a favorite with the local fans, but there were always divisions of opinion opin-ion In respect to Powell's ruggeJnoss and punishing powers. And there was no surpriso to speak of when Lew-went Lew-went under to Ad Wolgast. The ma-joilty ma-joilty of the experts think McCarthy has all the earmarks or a coming champion, and as a consequence tho Interest In the event Is of the keenest. It is a match which, on account of the circumstances surrounding It, remains re-mains free from any taint of suspicion sus-picion On the one hand, we have a youngster who has barely crossed the threshold of 'professionalism, and who has as large a following as though be had been working his way to victory vic-tory for years and years On the other hand, we have a traveled ring man, who has stacked up against tho best of his inches , on two continents. contin-ents. Owen Is probably a little nettled because some of the wiseacres are hinting that he Is not quite so good as he was a few jears ago. It will be for McCarthy to try aud live up to the golden opinion formed |