The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1911, Page 11

nr ena ee SO PEAcRrUL MAYER HE'D LAT MR OFF FOR THA AFTARNGON = = METHINKS (Lt TRY r i Trloky but Popular McCoy Now Out of the Ring, but Still Thinks He Can “Come Back.” Funny Incident of His Varied’ Career. | NO. 63—KID McCOY. Coppright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Co (The New York World), UTER the O'Brien battle, Kid Mc- Coy laid off for the summer and fn the fall went out to Los| Angeles and met Jack (Twin) Su n | at Hasard's Pavillon on September 27 in @ twenty-round bout. McCoy thought Sullivan would be easy picking, ut found Jaok a hard nut to crack when he got into the ring with him. McCoy's stomach had gone back on him, and ral years of high living had not done him any good. The men fought the full twenty rounds. Mc- Coy's ring generalship and aggressive ‘work @eoured the decision for him, al- though it was the opinion of many of the spectators that Sullivan was en- titled to @ draw. Certainly had McCoy faced a better man, he would have gone down to defeat. One stiff punch in the stomach took all the fire out of him for @ Mttle while. ‘The early part of 196 saw the Kid down at Hot Springs, Arkansas, While there he knocked out a local pugilist, named Jack Crawford, tn one round, the battle taking place on March 3. MoCoy then came back to New York and started to be a business man. He dabbled in Wall Street, ran cafes and hotels, tried to elevate the stage, naa jamond establishment and | undertook many other ventures, On Oct, 16, 1908, McCoy endeavored to “eome back” and engaged in a six- round bout at the National Athletic Clud here in this clty with Jim Ste art, @ youthful aspirant for hea | | | | weight honors. The “battle’ was a harmless little comic opera affair, Stewart was scared nearly out of his nd McCoy was a shell cf his) Kid Scared Stewart. Aw amusing incident happened in the ring just before the bout began, The toxy Kid knew that he wo no chance with Stewart at cl wanted to "get which he did in the foll When the referee called men to the center of the ring them thelr instructions, he told men they must break clean, The put one of his gloves up around Ste art's neck and, as he foretbiy Jer Jim's head toward him, brought | other hand, with the palm open, up to| the aide of his opponent's face, sayi “Well, Mr, Referee, does this x Stewart's jaw dropped and he stared at the Kid in ludicrous open-mouthed | astonishment, It was so funny that give the the referee had to turn away to hide the amile he could not keep down But it eerved to thoroughly scare Stewart and to convince him that Me- Coy was still a strong and powerful fighter, which was what the nid wanted. He was thoroughly buffaloed before the men put up their hands an@ throughout the entire fight, ev time McCoy made a felnt, poor § | art almost doubled into a knot, The affair only served to convince the large | crowd that McCoy could not “come back. No decision was given. ‘Aside from & little private bout over in Philadelphia with “Tony” Biddle, the society boxer, and a dul! and uninter- esting @ix-round bout in the Quaker City with Jack Fitzgerald, a clumsy heavyweight, last March, the Kid stop- together. He is now out elling some kind of an athletic harness for which great medl- cinal properties are claimed. The Kid still entertains the delusion that he can ‘come back," and in a recent let- ter to a New York friend has stated that he will try to get in shape to tackle Jeck Johnson within another year, Picturesque Character. was one of the most pictur- esque characters in the entire history of the American prize ring. Books| could be filled with anecdotes concern- | ing tdm. In spite of the many shady affairs in which he had a hand, the Kid was one of the most popular fignt- | ers of modern times, As a middle- weight he was a worthy successor to Dempsey and Fitzsimmons, and, the latter, he retired from the rilddle- weight lass its undefeated champion. No more scientific, clever fighter ever stepped into the ring. Had MoCoy pos: | sessed fifteen or t y pounds more weight he might hav en the heavy. | t champion of the world the exception of the great Fitz- mo man of his weight could at is harder blow than McCoy. Being ~ | lex students, all bearing large cargoes of liquid happiness, came in, The party |was quite hilarious and called loudly for Kid McCoy, whom they had nev r j that followed the supposed head waiter ue ||4 from his boyhood handicapped by lack of weight, the Kid made good the de- ficlency by his extreme cleverness, his ability to conserve every energy, to make every movement serve eome pur- Pose. deo a damaging blow he moved away not an inch further th was necessary. He evaded by inohe and fractions of inches where other fighters evaded by feet. The Kid's suc- cess In the fighting game was won by specialization, Footwork, feinting, clever infighting, the elimination of waste mo- tion, he had everything that goes to sake up the expert. His famous “cork- screw punch” that broke or badly dam- aged whatever It hit, travelled a dis tance of only six or eight inch order to land a blow of the same force, other fighters’ fists travelled two feet or more, Had McCoy specialized tn rome other field of endeavor he did in the fighting game, he would undoubtedly have won a prominent place tn it. He | was a man who had the ability to make good in almost anything, But nothing held him long enough to bring the success that rewards only persistent application, Of a mechanical turn of mind, he was an enthustastic automo- bilist, and even wanted to enter one of the Vanderbilt Cup races. He was a good judge of horseflesh and owned a stable of racers He was a crack pistol shot, a good fencer, a clever athlete. While he stuck to ft, his diamond sh was a success.+ His athletic school w a paying venture until he neglected it. To the Kid everything new glistened and sparkled attractively, Didn’t Look Like a Fighter. Of the many stories that are told about MoCoy, quite a number had thelr origin in his deceptive appearance. While the Kid in Philadelphia he was walking down the street one even- ing, accompanied by a fine bulldog. The animal attracted the envy of tw “pugs,” who ventured to take him a from his mild-spokea, immaculate owner, Whereupon the Kid tied his cox to a neighboring lamppost and speedily cleaned up the pair, after which he the dog and resumed his stroll, leaving the plug-ugiies prone on the sidew ¥ Another time, while McCoy was run-| ning @ cafe up on Broadway, five col- , telling the occupants of the ad-| joining tables Just what would happen | to the famous Kid. McCoy, who had been walking around the cafe, ape proached the students and asked them to keep quiet. ‘Taking him for the head waiter, asked for McCoy, and were told that he was not around. The up- shot of {t Was that one of the students d for the Kid, and in the mixup put all five boys in the land of dre: and had them taken outstde, Sull another time the Kid laid out life-savers down at Brighton had forcibly objected to his tricky method of getting up to the| t window of the bathing pavilion, The Kid was fond of practical jokes and played them on friends and strangers alike. One evening, in his cafe there sat @ party of men, one of Whom lived out on Long Island. About 11.80 the suburbanite looked at his waten and saw that he had about fifteen min- utes to get over to the Thirty-fourth street ferry, The Kid, who knew this man slightly, offered to take him over to the ferry in his own auto, The offer was accepted and tle two started off, But McCoy turned up Broadway, and by the time that the scared suburbanite, with visions of estic tempest awaiting his hon had induced ns d omii the Kid to stop, the auto was up at Kingsbridge. To the man's angry protests at being compelled to spend the night In New York, McCoy sald apolo- ood that you That's where 1 was getically: “Why, I unders lived In. Yonkers, taking you.” (The Next Chapter Will Deal With <a OXFORD C.ue DRY GIN DISTILLED IN AMERICA THE person who shudders under a compulsory dose of gin would take positive pleasure | in Oxford Club. Its | rich and delicate | flavor is due to its surpassing purity. Baird-Daniels Co, Distillers In| that distance. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 191126) ous FLOOEY THE FAN @ CRRTANILY Loony!” CORY <n t-n-L-yf een ee mmewv TAKE TRE DAYS ore ee =-we Con'T NEED Frick to Be Sent After Running Records of Sheppard and Others . the Englewood H. 8. iter, who wi the Toogand daalt at’ the Antericholaste ‘cham vom | eidbe, wail attend’ Penn UV. spent year, He Mea Special Races to Be Arranged | testis mentor ot ‘the 8: at Travers Island for | ieturnin? sera" rth man tach N. Y. A. C, Crack. been tnvhis family, but it ts hoped be compete without any) worry” ee & brotherin-law of Trainer Law- gon Roderteon, is now broad j 8 jum 90 Tet, and. he will bea strong representative of iB is ep tive of the 2 cl DDI FRICK'S great showing in) eulie* opt Spee wa cates oh th in ry Sd the middle distance runs has 80 | eet all culations pleased the officials of the New| yan ruyl and Golden will hoth compete in the York A. C. that they have decided the | ae le, toga me as npste in the youngeter ie entitled to a few ohances| (hg ts show if he really tp ¢ promising runner. ft the records, some of which open mile, by “Peerless Mel" Sheppard, |. esos hs Geuikgs te aing th dnd series of special races will be arranged | and he will surely cut se Hanke "ta Spee femme ‘Travers Island shortly Satta” Svet ‘awning. Arthur Cragin to Meet Shafter in Tennis Final week Frick came wituln one-fifth of a second of Sheppard's world’s record for | He ran the “quarter’| in the fast time ot 61 seconds, and was| not there with the finish required in a record-breaking performance. 11ad done that “quarter” in LONG BEACH, June 21.—The finals of i Ph et red aided ahah |the invitation tournament of the Long tho finish line in the fastest time ever! Reach Tenniy Club, 0: ginally scheduled recorded for the distance. J 4 Frick has alw: been considere for Saturday last a prevented by quarter<niler, and few people under-| darkness, will be played this Saturday stand why the N. Y. A. C. is going to/at 3 P. M. on the excellent dirt courts run him In the half-mile at Pittsburg,|of this club on the ocean front. but Frick's recent tryouts show thi The competitors will be Arthur Cragin he {8 coming along at so rapid a galt|and Carl Shafer. Cragin |x one of the that he is even now strong enough to| three brothers of that name who are measure strides with the best of ‘em. |among the best known players of Man- sie 18 considered the most promising |hattan and Brooklyn. He has a straight runner the N. ¥. A. C, has had for|awift serve and a good drive, Shafer 1s many years. \a Princeton man who won the Columbia “Tve got the tdea tucked away Juat| University championship while a stu- an inch of 80 under this blond halr of|dent in the law school, Last year he mine that the day will come when I'!!| was in the finals in doubles tn the open be able to slow my heels to certain| tournament of the West Side A. C. parties who are now champions, Just| Shafer {3 an all-round player who, for forget this Iittle confidence until I turn|@ small man, covers a Kood deal of the trick, or at least until you feel sure| court, his special skill being in meeting I'm going to make good on this proph-|a drive with a smashing volley to the ecy," confided Frick to the writer last | unless his opponent passes him by fail well placed drive along the side line. Carefully, constantly, from then untti now young Frick has worked and trained with the object in view of run ning better than the star middle dis- tancers, and it looks as though he wi!l make good before the present outdoor season is concluded f., Chairman i A.C, | ne John Cloughen the ats send forty athletes eon June 400 and if sot take good at the junior Mets old man Clough The oldest whiskey in Amer- lea—over 122 years of prestige in New Yor! mooth, palat- able, mature. ry it. 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