The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1911, Page 11

x - oO oO m < wosey ! Gua READY | wilh aah McCoy Scored Many Knockouts | Early in His Career, but Got Little in the Way of Money for Doing So. M’COY. * Publishing Co. No. 49—KID right, T w York W king out Jim Thomas Is at Hot Springs ped over to Mile End, ré met an unkhown + Whom h knocked out in two rounds, winning a purse of $100, It fs guid that this boxer was Jack Grace, the well-known pugilistic globe trotter, and that the fight was a “plant.” The Kid then jumped down to New Orleans and fought with Frank Lamode, &@ looal boxer, knocking htm out tn three rounds and annexing a purse of $125, He hung around New Orleans from Februnry until May, making a precart- ous living around the race tracks and Pool parlors, Several big fights were held in New Orleans during this time and the Kid always managed to work his way tn to see them without paying In May the Kid came back home to Indianapolls and was matched by his 01d boss, th n n, to fight @ loca! bt Frank Murray. He knox ‘ay out in two rounds At Muncle, Ind. on| and won Checre From A SLeLPInG PAsveNGeR June 10, he n Carty, kno t and defeated Kid Me- him out in three se was $160. On July MeCoy fought twen- Ith Ike Boone, At the lice threatened referee called d 145 pounds 31, at Marton, sin one round. k« to Indianapolis and ritt In two rounds. Meets First Good Man. ut Dic went ba ik Me McCoy now Jumped over to Ohto again mm was matehed with George 1 Bennett was the “man MeCow had met sit of the fight was an ne a local cham- Welsh was ad a reputation as a 1s a boxer. He out by many pounds and 1 hard nine-round draw. came up to Pittsburg and eal athletle club with | In this fight the Kid] i what the] he was br talked and the very fact that } 7 not understand what | the Kid was sa his goat." He lost his | 1s easily knocked out tn the nd After the Pit t with the deat mute, McCoy 1 to come F Boston was t Mevea fight ' was the 7 good 1 end M ¢ won 4 4) HELLO CHIE! GLAO TA GE’ > i Acaint Ln SGSAYIOND {T Gack i HARNESS. Sh SOSEBALL - /) Yee! Had ALL THA ™ BASEBALL | WANT TA WORK ONCE \ more | Inside thieRing ( ‘Great Fighters © és Beat Stetfens This Time. ° On Aug. 23 he got his opportunity for] | m . revenge on Hilly Steffens, On that date) Missiles Hurled at Escort Cut the men were matched to fight items during those early day: good money for such things when nearly | ff every yjeither infant or adult, Poslam may lbe depended upon for immediate re 4-4. ! Now HERES AN ENVELOPE CONTAINING GILT- EDGE SECURITIES To THE AMOUNT OF - @ (0,000. TAKE + -AW COME ON’ FLCO ~ dus ONE NIKE COOL Brew Iv WON'T TAKE & MINUTE ‘Yo Kitt A BREW! NO TIME ono sot! GET TA THA BANK RuGHTO CHEF! 1 SHALL BE GAcK WITHIN THA HAW TA GET DOWN ing exhib meanwhile picking up | three round: te receipts. On| Aug. 12 fr e, who was|* supposed inknown fighter ar before. Mc e in seven rounds with WITH BOTTLES ten} to Indianapolis. He was cleaning UP | rounds to a decision in Cleveland, Met y | enough money, in his various fights to) was promised a fight with the well-| enable him to pay his fare, but McCoy | known Australian, Shadow Maber, if he had @ deep-seated aversion to paying, beat Steffens, which was an additional out good money to a big railroad corpor-! incentive, for Maber was a high-class ation, and he generally managed to get An. The Kid got his revenge and beat through without doing so. He no longer | Steffens up pretty badiy. This time he got the decision. This fight was also for! Bronx detectives are trving to-day to | gate receipts. McCoy did not get the| pound up a gang of hoodlums that at fight with Maber right away, but was) é | matched to fight ten rounds to a deci-| tacked Miss Annie Schwartz, eight sion for gate receipts with Al Roberts! years old, of No, 58 Madison street, and at Cincinnat! before the Stag Athletic] cut a painful gash in her head With a ib. Roberts was the best man around Girl’s Head—Assailants Run Away. mccoy en COULON® Ger we Cincinnati, and the result was a draw,| Dottle, She was enjoying Sunday in The Kid claimed he was sick and asked| Bronx Park with Nicholas Ryan for a return match. As a matter of fact| twenty rs old. of Brooklyn, and he did go home and laid off until Jan. | ¢y, en 7” 18, 1895, when he got his return match | ("e” Were Ketting ready to return home early last evening. Suddenly, as the couple sat on a bench, several young toughs ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-two came up and asked her to leave her escort and go with them, Ryan threatened to clean out the gang, and Miss Schwartz sald and: knocked Roberts Shortly after this M ised matoh with Shadow Maber down at Memphis, Tenn. This was a ten-round| affair for a purse of $1,000, and although the Australian was a big favorite the Kid bested him and deservedly won the decision, McCoy came East again, and this time got to Boston. On April 19 he fought Jack Wilkes of St. Louis in the | 82 would call a policeman, big New England city. Wilkes was,a| The youths left, but soon returned rattling good man, and McCoy was not| with a lot of bottles, and asked her if thought to have much of a chance with| gig was going with them or going to him, but the Kid surprised the sports by | stay, Ryan started towards the ring- beating Wilkes in two rounds. He made es t h many friends in. this fight during tis leader and a bottle was hurled at him training, especially among the news-|!fe dodged, but a shower of bottles | followed and one struck the girl over | paper men, | the eye. Then the crowd ran. (The next chapter also deals with! pr. Donahue took the girl to Fonl- Mig MeCe re carly cearser:) ham Hospital, where three stitches wer out fn five rounds, Sot his prom: | rode the trucks, unless he was particu- larly hard up. Instead of that, he walked boldly into a car and depended on his wits to carry him through, The old trick of swiping a check from the hat of a sleepy passenger and passing) it off as his own could generally be AGAL ken in the wound, Glass had cut an | relied upon to help him out. ‘That tail- SIAM’S CROWN PRINCE SAVED) tenet cu ner tn several places when t-« ing, there seldom failed to bea nice old = FROM WRECK OF WARSHIP,| vottie broke. Two young men were ar lady, or an elderly, benevolent-looking gentleman who would not turn @ deaf, : ie ear to a plausible hard luck story, par- | Passenger on Russian Wessel Whic ticularly when smoothly told by a well- k eef—A * dressed, good-looking young man. No- Struck on Reef—All Others body knows how many times McCoy Aboard Rescued, TOKIO, June 6.—The Russian volun. | rested on suspicton, jh| Mentity them and they were re iccoteeeaalaie TAFT BACK IN WASHINGTON. but she co succeeded in passing for the son of a highly respectable maiden lady or an|teer steamer Ryazan while bound for equally proper old bachelor, for the Kid| vjadivostok to-day ran ashore on a had a way Wiles nia Bae vba bo reef near Nagasaki, All of the pas- to Chicago male heart, however mid cengarar’ inalue : ; i aay erat enually. svoseastal with the| severe: moluding the Crown’ Prince! wAaHINGTON, Jun male ones. | Phe Japanese warsht> Iwate has beerr| Taft, returning from \ McCoy's training expenses despatched to assist the Ryazan. Washington at 8.45 A J CARSTAIRS RYE President Returns From Hia Vinit President reached minor | He fig- ured that there was no need to pay out town boasted a well-equipped Y. M. C, A. gymnasium at whieh @ nice | young atranger would be made welcome, | So the Y, M. C. A. Was generally one of | the first places McCoy would tackle, and until his big battles, McCoy almost invariably did his training in the gym- nasiums of their various organizations, ‘The horror and consternation of the worthy trustees when they found out later that they had been harboring a) wicked prize-fighter must have been great, for in those days the Y. M. C. A. was not as broad minded as it ls now, The Kid's First Defeat. | | MoOoy had not been home very long | before he was again seized with the| wanderlust, and went to Cleveland | where he was matched to fight Billy Steffens on May 10. Steffens was then considered one of the best middle- Weights in the Middle West. Steffens knocked McCoy down in the first) round, Later in the same round he hit) the Kid low and knocked him down again. McCoy could not get up and, although his seconds —@trenuously aimed the fight on a foul, the referee gave the decision to Steffens, This was his first defeat McCoy was very sore over the result of this fight and immediately offered to fight any man in his class In the West. Elght days later he was matched with Jim Baron of Australia at Minne- apolis. Baron was one of the best men| who had ever come over from Australia, edly challenged Tommy Rya Burge, George Dawson, and man welterweights, but they| ked him. ound After te fighting that M a, th of the spectators ad earned the ¢ thought the Kid ‘OU may disagree on politics; you y | This fight brought the Kid Pi oe rhieh was the largest amount may or may not like the Municipal showed euffictent class for managers| Government; you may think you could change things at Albany and make them better— ‘ But you and every other good sound sensible man who ever does take a drink of whiskey for health’s sake or for good fellow will agree on this one ticket JUST APPLY A LITTLE POSLAM Carstairs Rye is the best always. 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