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LES DARCY BEGINS TO GET UNPOPULARNEW YORK. Feb 16—Lea Darcy today began to be about a* unpopular with the aport loving pnbl'C In New York as u is possible for a man who has been placed upon a pedestai. j Following hia announcement to j the United Press that he did not tend to live up to a contract Bigocd for him by Tim O’Sullivan, his manager, calling for bouts m Mi)wALk?2with Jeff Smith and Mike Gibuo Darcy declared O'Sullivan bad been dismissed ae his manager Iasi Toes- i day. He apparently forgot tba- on j faii trip up New York bay from the; Standard ;Oil tank ship Cushing he | had told several persons aboard a! tug, including Tex Rickard, Tom O'Rourke and Charles Harvey, that O'Sullivan and no one else would act In this country as his manager. Today he declared that O'Sullivan never had been his manager, but hzd been employed as agent and never had been authorized to make matches.Meanwhile, Tom Andrews, Frank Molkern, John Welamantel, and Grant Hugh Brown a.*e locked in the throes of a desperate struggle over the prospect of Darcy fighting this I or .that man. Weismantel claims to have signed McCoy some time a^o to a set of articles calling for a orut with Jack Dillon and has protested against his being allowed to meet Darcy until he has gone thru VUi the Dillon bout. Brown also has filed a protest claiming that he has Bpent a large sum that the bout fca3 cost him. He arranged to stage a bout between Frank Moran and Frank Morris should the McCoy Darcy fight fall thru. 4
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Lima Daily News
Lima, Ohio, US
Fri, Feb 16, 1917
Page 12
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