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Pe ee | WE a} REAL CHA mines WE KRARN HOW We ONAL, BE MUCH GETTER Aste To HOLD cur: \PAACES IN HE sociAL weet Ricwvo- Friend wier | BNVY You shinscatineccusopocmrusonmoronesesoenaaanecn LLS LOOKS LIKE | NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT MPION FLOOEY THE FAN HOW THET ARS. PRUNE JUICE WiLL | Kid McCoy Graduated From a; Restaurant Waiter to the} Prize Ring and Scored Many) Quick Knockouts During His| Early Career While Wander- ing Around the Country. ! NO. 48.—KID M’COY. (Caperight, Le we The Prem, Publishing Co. UTHOUGH Kid McCoy did not A start on his.career as a pugilist until he was about eighteen years old, he was always handy with his fis! and had many adventures during his wanderings. He was quick and shifty on his feet and possessed surprising strength for such a slight youngster. Many a fellow older and heavier by many pounds Jearned to his sorrow that the thin, cadaverous, flatechested youth was as handy with his fists as he was with his tongy The story is told of McCoy that one time, when and a boy companion vere travelling through the West, they | Were caught on a freight train by the} eonductor trainman ordered them | to get off the train, and whi fused hit the Kid's comp knocked him off the car. McCoy tm. | mediately jumped off to see if his pal| had been hurt found the injurtes | were not! ou the two] Jumped t next freigh: i came along and rode to the next big railroad town. Conductor Got His. They hung around the town couple of days, and one might, around the yards, they the conductor who had thrown off the train, Hot words passed and| th pugnacious Kid challenged tne con- | ductor to a figit. The latter sized up | | for al while met | then: | the boy with a contemptuous glance and accepted the challenge. Mo d@ not weigh more than 140 pounds, while the conductor welghed close to two hundred. Spectators formed ring and the two contestants took off thelr coats and went at it. The sal- low, hatehet-faced proved to be ore than @ imate he big, burly al | yan, and } ad him in shape. The Kil was out for re- ge for the injury e bis pal and/ continued to cut up onductor un+ til at last the crowd interfered, conductor did not take his train that night, but spent several days ting over the encounter, and the Kid and his pal made tracks ou: of the town as quickly as they could, While the Kid as still at home be- | a circus came to town near which he lived, most boys, McCoy hung around the | show and did some odd jobs in order | to get in to see the circus. But when he came to go in he found that the man who bad promised to let through was not at the ticket gute. Tho one who was there refused, of | course, to believe te boy's story Several times the Kid tried to sneak through in the crowd, but was alwa ected, Finally, with the reat of th¢ wn boys at his heels, he approashed the ticket taker spain engrsed in an argument. M w his op- portunity, and when the big fel the Telaxed his vigilance for @ ralnute | m Kid made such @ sudden spring a that the ticket talcer was caught by surprise and went down ina leap, B fore he could untangle | f from the Ines of ropes the nimble footed ¥44 and the rest of his companions } alipped through into the tent and were Tost in the crowd Kid's First Keal Fight. MoCoy’s first t ovcurred tn 1890, | was then in indlanapolls, and had ed a fob ina resiany en om- sporting men and prise 1 one of the Fr: form and ring, where ever Bilistic aspran tried their Coy was a quick, willin) nd in youngster, sharp of tongue, and soon ¢€ in the proprietor’s favor. ‘Cae , phletor himself had once been a prize fighter an’ train: ight in. the hearing of the boss MeCoy got Into an) ahercation with ano nibus over yome money matier’ © proprietor told the two dispurants t after the place clos tho wight he would take them up ring and jet them fight the matter out, and that the fellow who lost would also jose his job, So about A @clock in the morning, after NcCoy | Inside theRing with the Charley was w! had been working a number of hours, When the proprietor had closed up the D he corrailed the two omnibuses and took them up to the ring. Although the other fellow was a head taller than the Kid heavier, McCoy was He wanted to keep that job ver and he intended to fight for it. > that the job itself was euch a vahuable one, but it gave the boy an opportunity to be around prize fighters and learn something about ring affairs, and that t le was very anxious to do at that time. The boys stripped and the proprietor brought out some boxing gloves and put the two up in the ring to fight it out while he looked on. Al- though the Kid had never seen a prize fight and knew comparatively little about fighting, ae had planned to let the otiver fellow tire himself out. The other fellow did 0, and vainly tried to reach the nimble footed, wily young- ster. After ‘his opponent’ was winded and tired it was an easy matter for the Kid to jump tn and give bim such @ beating that he was soon ready to} quit The proprietor saw that McCoy could be taught to become a good boxer, He} Was #o pleased that he raised the Kid's falary $3 a week. After that he h McCoy go out and get fellows to com: In and box him at nig perienc id the coac: g he received “WITH CHASE LEADIN Base Running Helps York Team Fo the Front. New rge to Only a Few Games Behind League Leaders and Sure of Catching Up. BY BOZEMAN B ITH Hat Chase to W the Highlander ULGER. t the pace, players have fallen in line and are now going at a merry clip that w right back in the fighting you know it. Do you fai the Hilltoppers are now w one-half games of third pl five games behind the Athletics? il land them bunch before s realize that ithin two and lace and only Those last figures may sound a Ittle harsh at first, but when we bear the Athletics, who were behind Detroit three weeks ago, in mind that twelve games ha knocked off six games of that lead, It Is not at all foolish to say t landers have a chance hat the High- of doing the same stunt before the middle of July. The season is young yet, and the hard rest of the summer. slowly but surely coming and there are any to bet that the Tigers wil number of These ex-| sports around this burg who are willing |iuck cannot stick in one place for the The Tigers are back to earth, young 1! not cop the from the bons before long nade a quick | punting. They will be here pretty soon, and with the Hilltop pitchers going Itke and clever boxer out of the boy. The Kid stayed at this place quite @ while, 2 2 a |} pe = | = = == - | we DIO SOME DEMONSTRATING and in June, 1881, went up to St. Paul. | As soon as he landed he made for the sporting places of the town and pes- tered the fight managers for a chan to box. 80 he was finally matched to fight a negro rousjabout named Pete| Jenkins, | This was really his first ring fight and| McCoy won the decision in four rounds, For the next year MeCoy jumped from place to place, wherever he heard that there wax a chance for a match. He was continually on the go, making a pre=| Like |carious livelihood by means of his wits, | 8°" Games of chance, billiards, and what] few dollars he could pick up in small fights were his means of getting money. Sometimes he had plenty of money and! good food to eat and other times he was hard put to it, One of his favorite stunts was the old two-headed cen This he worked wherever especially In restaurants against d stupid walters, | In June, 1892, MeCoy wan Indianapo which pla fou low fi » morn va rf of oy i the men es. MoCoy Knock: x younds and won ght_champtonship. On ht Bob Lewis and ker 1 out in one round, "This fight was 4 | eld on the turf, At both of these at-| faire the purse Was What could be col-| lected by paveing the hat among the was again selzod w ; nd went (9 Columbue, There he fought an eig with Hervert Hall on purse of $15 was dlvide r two After @andering around Onto for a time the Kid beat his way down to Hot Springs, Ark., in January, When anded in town, ssual, he hunted me ing pla which were ful in MW nd Issued a to fight man of his welg e town. There were plent of fl » Hot Springs at that time, | and in von made for the Kid, On Jan, ght Jim Dick son and hnoeke in five winning @ yurse of On Jan knocked out Jim mas in three rounds, ‘The next chapter d jale with Men Cor’ they are now, amble. must be wat In the meantime Hilltop m sure of second place If t keep close to the heels of With Chase in landers have begun to sh. step fas been to show vantage of base running that the best form of i knowledge is by doing it ed is Philadoiphia. say that they at least fee the game, there will be an excellent chance for us to give them an additional the team that hey can only the Athletics the High- ine. His first them the ad- and he finds mparting this himself. Of the six runs scored yesterday four of them were the result running. It is this abilit extra bag and make bas live wire and knows this bettor than ¢ example they will be rig of clever base y to get that hits figure as runs that brands @ ball club as a real a contender, No one “hase, ahd if |the other players will ony follow his ht up in the race before they know that they have The | struck their stride. The brightest flash in what start- ed out to by a listless game atealing of third by Manage in the sirth moment later ining and sc on a long fly. was the r Chase ny a Chase saw that he could get the junp on the Brown pitche he had the and was safe by sive feet ud he minute lead he darted for third But for that steal no score would have been made that inning. 4 stolen base also permitted Johnaon to score in Wagner, was the ntar of tween the Pirates and clouting and all around largely responsible for Honus 1a one run, retired five sisted in the retirement of The world’s champion raised the champlonship at thelr grounds though the down 1) as they managed to trim team in a seven-inning runs to 1. Thom: * top of the Athletics, was with the stick pinch. He laced ont two pr one of them a three-ba . nt two rung over the pla Besides thit good cluoting he 1 | five men. Hughey Jennings's Tigers, who ave! still leading the American League | race, Ww. fven an awful wailoping b JN y MeAleer's Nationals of Wasiingto' pitchers 0! teen heavy Cunningham, fielder, feat hits, vecompllshed — th flekl fence at the Washington's ‘ounds fur ® home run, This ‘9 the first time that a ball has ever been | sent over that fence. ‘That waa surely wonderful pers | formance of Vyed Tenney’s Boston team whd beat out the Reds in thelr last ning yaiting ont enough hits to ore four rans and win the game. | MoQuiiian, the ex-Quaker, was the piteher who got this terrible wallop ne Joe MoGinnity is still able to ‘pitch |e some. He won anotner game f Newark team from the Provide by only altowing them All the Games WHAT THE BOX SCORES SHOW ‘Phat mighty German swatter, Honus @ two hits, one @ two-bag: yesterday and flag was put up upside tneldent brought them luck, who knocked three of his of the box, making seven- | Washington's great riving tha ball over the center the game be- Phillies, his work being the victory. men f six Sihere Athletics pennant flag al- the Cleveland | game by 5| in: | he = wonderful five to ite off bie delivery, Before the geome ws hi EAus. make at a Glance in A few weeks ae were asking: ‘Why does and th ack the question, Murra ing ball like a hou cleaning up in there with the wi yesterda up and defeated field w as Wi en he Cubs. of Mca Im with a big hor, brought Hans Lobert made good between tho” Piles atid three hits out of as many timer at U Wave him & latting average of 1,0uC With the exoe the Urea viber bas ern clus semtenia Glants wi bunch tr Daubert, the Dotarre saine Hugiey out of the vent Dntty is W Rr _>- ‘ouday, 3.80 PM What Will McGraw Do With Murray? some of the fans Yes, he can fle N MoGraw p Murray {n He all in, they sald. He is a back number, ow, F and he cleaned at, Wh ber cent ¥ Amar. G Amer, Langue Para, Adm, 600, a net sey eich j He and Adelaide Get the Sooiety Bug—Good-Night! EDITED BY | ROBERT EDGREN DAHLEN BOASTFUL AFTER TOR OVERST OU Bell Will Try to Capture other Game in Clash To-Day. G THE WAY the third, and Daniels did the same thing in the eighth. For the sake of comparson, jist eliminate thoae stolen sacks and we find that New York uid not have won, The score would have been tied. When managers begin preaching con- trol to the pitchers in the spring, most of the twirlers do not realize the im- portance of it until the season gets well under way, Bases on bails cause more trouble than any other one fault in baseball. It was the wildness of the Brown pitchers that allowed the Higns landers to win, Incidentally, it Was the free walks that lost the game for the Cubs out in Chicago. Five of the six runs ma y the Highlanders y the direct direct terday were or re- (Spertal to The Frening World.) sult of free walks to first Brown} ST. LOUIS, Mo., June .3.—Commander pitchers allowed eight bases on balls.| HiIl Dahlen of Brooklyn ts sound tn Five of them scored, his claim that his machine js going ‘A striking {llustration of the advan. t travel at a fast clip in thie whirl tages of, control was shown by the around the Western end of the Na- smooth work of Brockett up to the time tional League circuit, and that if ft falls to climb out of seventh position it will return Kast right on the heels of Cincinnatl and St. Loum. Dahlen claims t has # good ball team, and on what it showed in its maiden game |of the campaign on Missour! soil his | statement proved correct. | St. Louis baseball goers have just | had elght peeks at Clark GriMith's Reds in four days, and they did not pull a single performance half as thy or ai | sound ax that uncorked by the Trotley + | Dodgers: Dahlen intends coming back with Bell, the big) right-hander, out of the box in the Senerally beats the Cardinals when Louls made just as+ Tight, while Roger Bresnahan will rely Bob Harmon to make the series he was taken eghth inning many hits as New k, but Brockett | upon allowed but one base on balls, and right) @ tle, xplanation of the Hilltop | — Danten Nas bis full family back in [the game. He big smile and 1 other players | his happy chatter. For a while both for the past) Pooley and Daubert were out, but he er, who stepped into t when [day and they are evidently back In things J¢oked bed. and team | Uptop trim. ‘Tooley operated tn St to victories that otherwise ld have | Louis for the first tine in his career. sone by the board. When be-| Coulson, too, was showing here for came tll en the road and was confined] the first time. Zimmerman has been to his room he told Frank Farrell that|soen at League Park before; in fact, Hemphill was the 1 to temporarily | jradie was a Cardinal. { the affairs of the teain and t desc voteranine gerne Hemphill saved hia | Tooley made the bebt impression, The former baseball pride of Rochester ‘om defeat by yanking out the When the opposing club had three men} He got one of the Troiley Dodge on bases and none out in the ninth inn- topes, runs and flelded his position inj cleanly anager Chase says that one of the] wares é Ae his quick recovery from his| Zimmerman went hitless, and was not severe illness Was the fact that he did] offered a single chance on the defense, not have to worry over the work of his|but Eddie stuck in a perfect sacrifice crippled team as tong as it was in the lin the ffth inning that helped Coulson hands of Charley Hemphill around with what proved to be the winning run, Rig Wallage held up his end splen- didly in thd fleld, but went hitless. His one-handed catch of Bergen’s linc drive in_the second inning pulled while on tho full run was one of the most spectacular ever made at either St Louis yard. oe eibwold Now a “Pro.” Sam Letbgoid, the old Pastime Ath- etle Chib walker and many times champion, yesterday sent his registra Yale and Tiger | Meet on Diamond | in Great Battle NEW HAV Conn,, June 2.—"Te the nine plays as well to-day againet veton as it did against Brown tn ‘ovidence Memorial Day, it will beat college team in the world,” said| tion card to James E. Sullivan, Secre- ‘ Billy Lush, Lush and Capt.|taryof the A. A. U., and honorably re sy believe that the Ella have recoy-| signed from the amateur ranks, He from their slump and should play | ius accepted @ posltion as director of edab ball track athletics at DeWitt Ciinton Park, san ty the probable box| Which of course makes him a profes- nae sional. will « ran Carhart made good as ajl over the three players | Yale's Bothner Mee! Goorge Hothner has finally agreed to who have been ill have all returned to the game in first class shape Bingham, the champlon of “h nds pat on the Ine-up that ‘The von- swept Brown from the Held on Tuesd Johnny Yale's batting orde ywa: Core Monday i Be clever . 11 Iso appeas | ka of Kobe, Japan. —_— > cugue Standing, otor Boats in Match Race. | 16 i AG ng Bay Motor Hout Chub | 13 io ‘te ' a twenty-fiveen eri ye ae a Bd a nty-fiv Special is atch race to-morrow morning between | Andres’ Kummy and ¢ Heoht's Oriole, The race starts from Muff's ywathouse at N rth Beach at 9 o'clock, | | Games Se ore at de n's veteran coxswatn n declared ineligih Varsity boat race at P Richardson, hus to steer in the sikeepale, ridenca at, Newark,” | 0 ter at T ‘Tro games, Batt st Lowe: 4 0 "3 10) H RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES. ane Ae “GAMES who | Giants Outwit Cubs In First Western Game and el First Victory in West Gives McGraw’s Players Confi- dence for Future Struggles. (Special to The Evening World.) Chicago, June 3. T ds the unexpected things that hap- Pen !n baseball that makes the game the x«randest pastime the sports. ‘There {+ nothing certain about a ball game until the last man is out, The Glants were able to hold their lead at the head of the National League procession yesterday by one of the freakiest victories that was ever Played on the Ciricago grounds. visitors were handed the opening game of the series by the Cubs in about as unique a manner as @ game was ever handed to another. ‘The Giints deserve credit for the vic- tory, Just the same, for the: the game without any hesitation where some other ball team might have over- looked the opportunity which was thrown in their way and fost out. With the ecore 6 to 0 in favor of the home team, any fan in the big «rand- stand would not have risked one cent thatthe Glants would pull out with the gaine. was bad pitching on the part of the Cos and good hitting on the part of the Giants that ‘turned the tables so completely and saved the day for the visitors after they seemed to be beaten by a one sided score, Of course it was poor pitching by Raymond that gave the Cubs thelr first four runs, but the Cubs are a team that generally come out ahead after getting such a lead a that, and eo the feat of making en runs and winning the ball game in one round was something out of the oniinary for the leaders. The battle, for first place will con- tnue this afternoon, and the settings will be more interesting without @ doubt. Some way or another yester- day's game lacked the usual excite- ment that attends a Chicago-New York contest. To begin with, the crowd was only half of what it would have been if the weather had heen clear. Manager McGraw was detained in New York by the fllness of his wife but ix expected to be on hand for the game. to-day. Manager Chance has whetted up his implements of war over night nd the Aight for fret piace will con. tinue this afternoon with more than the usual spirit if the signs are not wrong. For four innings yesterday the Gants They looked like a lot of dead men were aroused {n an instant, in the fifth when they got thet to make a few runs and they p thelr opportunity hard and after that round they subsided again without any of the usual warlike tactics that they nave always shown here. of McGraw was very noticeable, Larry Doyle will likely draw a three- days’ suspension for his strenuous kicking on Umpire Johnstone's deciston in the seventh inning on Devore at the plate, Larry had retired from the game | 2 at that time but he was punished by being sent to the club house and after he reached the club mouse he made many motions denoting his dislike of the umpire and of his decision, and if Johnstone follows the rule of the ordi- nary umpire he will send a report back AMUSEMENTS, Wier Gare Tk SL RICAl CASINO." shelves B00, to BEVEL OF 4 iA AKG. 4° SINS oR tes @. 6.00. 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With these two piteh-" ers on the slab the fans are always sure of a lively battle and it fe a certainty that there will be no seven there there is more life put into the ball thi is at present, It begins to look if Manager Chance is up against a serious ailment and that he will not be able to get back into the game for some time if The his head may be much consid- trouble. with more serious than even he hi ered it. The peerless | worse than he has ever been during the hardest grind of a championship season, and thore that are close to him accepted fear that an operation will have to be performed. Would you wash your ‘hands in the same water used by everybody? Why then sacrifice your A ~ stain brush? Ask your barber for iss tale Sterilized Cup, Brush and Soap. 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