HOT AIR!

NZ Truth, Issue 602, 30 December 1916, Page 11

HOT AIR!

Murray's Munchauseniama Marlon T. Salazar. boxing editor of tho San Francisco "Evening Bulletin" i» as fair a man as writes m any American newspaper j but he has let a lying romancer pull his leg to an immense length. In a recent issue he bad the following string of fairy tales: "The 'foreigner; who whips Les J>arcy In Australia, whether ho be American or of other nationality, Is likely to be mobbed and either Injured or killed. That m the opinion of Tom Murray, a steward of the Bteamer Ventura; Muifray was one of Oblp's seconds when the latter was whipped by Darcy. "You can't Imagine how treat an idol Darcy Is m Australia," states Murray. "When he steps In the ring: It Jh tho signal for every man to Jump up. throw his hat In tho air and begin cheev'np. You never saw anything like it. Wild Indians are nothing as compared with thoso Australians when they are cheering Darcy. "If Chip had knocked out Darcy there would have boon murder. Thoy threw bricks anil rocks at Tom Mdl&hon's dressing room when ho knocked out Leu O'DonneU. And O'Donnell l» not a champion nor a public Idol. "Chip Is very well liked In Australia, and ho was cheered when he fought Darcy, but the cheering for him didn't start until he had been taken to his corner and revived . The crowd waited to make corutfn that ho was really" ' whlppod before expressing Us approval of him." Murray tells a pathetic Httlo story m connection with the Darcy-Chlp fight. Just before Chip «tart<nl for tho rirur, while ho was adjusting his gloves, ciirnt* A cab)PK rflm trom Newcastle, Pa., announcing: the arrival of a baby at his homo . ; Chip held «»P his klovo nnd ki»s«.-<J It. •'That will have 10 do for the baby Just now." he said. "Papa will have to Win." But papa didn't. I ••Ooxer-MaJor" In (h<» "Sydney Or t»man" thus comtuwiMi: OrMinly v lovely liar l» Mister Tom Murray 1 . In it' 1 ) <irs* p'ne*. h«» lltnl when ho fi{\ lif wjmi one of Chin's sccandu pr , <;<'yr«|%ouß>it Darcy. Th* j»«?c---d« of tli« American wen: Jimmy 0: mCi i'auy Brannitfan, Tom Mc-

Mahon, and Joe Chip; and no sorefoot ship's steward could ever induce a veteran like Dime to allow him m his man's corner -when he was fighting for the championship of the world. In the second place, if , Chip had knocked out Darcy fair amd square he'd have been cheered to the echo as a wonder. Nobody "threw rocks or bricks at McMahon's dressing-room when he beat O'Donnell." In the first place, nobody wanted to, and m the second place, the feat would be impossible, seeing that the dressing-rooms are so situated that only a missile carried into the place could be used by a man leaving, and then only on the front door of the room, m view and m the midst of a hurrying crowd, eager to get outside to the cars. Even Tom Murray's "touch of pathos" is a lie. Chip had the cable announcing the birth of a .daughter nearly three weeks before he fought [Darcy, and came to me, beaming with i delight, to tell me and ask me to rejoice that all was well with the wife. He had told me the first week he was here that he was expecting that news, and when asked if he did not hope for a boy, said earnestly, "Ah don't care whether it's a boy or a girl, so long as mab little wife comes safely through it. It'll be welcome, anyway it goes." But isn't Tom Murray a ' beautiful liar; and won't Mr. Salazar be annoyed when he learns how he's been had.