The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-22
SPORT is SPOILED
POLICE INTERFERENCE SP0ILS a
FIRST-OLASS SHOW.

Kid Mccoy and Joe Choynski Appear for
Six Rounds, But the Captain i'm Charge
of Police Arrangements Forbids a Meet
ing on Merits and the Referee Declines
to Render a Decision-It is the Same
With the Four Preliminary Bouts
Spectators at No Pains to Conceal Their
Disgust With the Fiasco.
New York, March 21-Thirty-five
hundred people gathered at the Grand
Central Palace tonight to see what was
expected 10 be a first-class boxing show
and everyone was Disguised and disap-
pointed. Kid Mccoy and Joe Choyn-
iski were to have boxed six rounds At
catch-weights, and four other bouts,
three of six rounds and one of four,
were scheduled for the evenings enter
tainment. Captain Delaney, who had
charge of the police arrangements, in
terfered with the management, and his
efforts in that direction were loudly
missed by the spectators, who were cha
grinned at the police captain for spoil
ing what would otherwise have prov
ed a first class show. ChOyniski and
Mccoy, when they appeared in the ring
were ready TO box on their merits, and
were as much disappointed as the spec
tators when Announcer Dunn stated
shat the police authorities would not al
low the boxers to fight on their merits.
Referee Jimmy Carroll announced
that he would render no decision ow-
ing TO the stand taken by the police.
The men boxed four one-minute rounds
amid derisive cheers, groans and cat
calls, and as soon as the first round was
over, Choynsk stepped to the middle
of the ring and said:
Gentlemen, it is not the fault Of Ell
Their Mccoy or myself that this state Of
things exist. 1 have always done my
fighting in the ring and / came on here
from Chicago to meet Mccoy for six
rounds, and our meeting was to be on
its merits. While Mccoy has kindly
feelings toward me, 1 can assure you
that when l enter the ring all friendship
ceases. L am sorry the police have in
terferred, but we will do the best we
can.
After the exhibition had been stopped
at the end Of the fourth round, Mccoy
said substantially the same as Choyn-
ski did, and it is quite possible that the
men may be matched to meet at some
of the wellknown clubs in the near fu-
ture.
The preliminary bouts, four in num-
Der, were also cut short by the police.
Solly Smith Of Los Angeles got the de-
cision over Jerry Barnett of this city,
after forty seconds of fighting, in the
first Of the opening bouts. Barnett
was so far gone that the police cap
tain ordered the referee 10 stop the fight
and Smith was declared the winner.
Maurice Hagerstrom, the young
Swede of Providence, bested Charley
Bannon Of Jersey City in four-round
bout, at catch weights
Paddy Purtell Of Kansas City proved
himself too good for Jim Butler of
Brooklyn, and after the latter was floor
ed with right handler on the head. the
referee stopped the bout and awarded
the honors to the western man: time
Of third round 40 seconds.
Jimmy Handler of Newark had such
a decided advantage over Jack Murphy
of Long Island City that the bout was
stopped early in the second round by
order of Captain Delaney and Referee
Carroll refused 10 give a decision