The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-11
THE CURRENT MCCOY FEVER THE
LATEST CASE OFF THE
DISEASE,
BRADY is MUCH TO BLAME.
HE AND DAN STUART ENTHUSIAS-
THO BOOMERS OFF THE "KID"
FIGHTER.
HIS WORK Is CUT OUT FOR HIM.
Young Hoosier Wonder VIII Do Well
if He Gets Dan CreedOn for
Starter.

It may seem little effeninate to
speak of "fads'' in pugilism, yet that
is really the class in which the current
Mccoy fever must be put Since Cor
bett bit the dust it has been nothing
but Mccoy! Mccoy! Mccoy. Stuart and
Brady were off in the first
bunch, and the young Hoosier Is being
doomed as the coming champion, but
If he wants to meet either Corbett or
Fitzsimmons, he has more temerity
than he is given cerdit for. If he gets
Creedon first he will do we'll, since the
latter's defeat of Strong. Frank Kelly,
Of Cincinnati, was McCoy's first man
ager. They doubled up" Mccoy to
do the fighting and Kelly to look after
tn business end of his mills. Kelly was
his manager when he fought Dick
Moore the first time, Shadow Maber
and Ullman, of Baltimore. Mccoy
wanted Kelly to go to England with
him, but the latter refused. At the
time the Cincinnatian predicted that
Mccoy would reach the highest pinnacle
in pugilism. Since then he has not
changed his mind. You think that be-
cause Creedon whipped Strong a great
deal easier than Bob Armstrong did
that it makes him big man." said
Kelly 'Well, I don't. 1 think that
Parson Davies has the biggest counter
felt in Armstrong that ever pulled a
shirt over his head. l saw him work,
and I don't think he has a field chance
with any arst-class heavyweight Why,
Mccoy made a sucker of him. 1t was
when Choynski was training to fight
JIM Hall He was at Asbury Park,
Armstrong was at the training quar-
ters Mccoy was invited down to Choy-
nskis quarters While we were there
Armstrong put on the gloves with Nc
Coy. The latter made a fool of him.
He went all around Armstrong. and
made him take off the gloves in three
rounds 1t was no surprise that Strong
gave Armstrong fight, and it did not
surprise me that CreedOn 'wallOped'
| Strong easier than Armstrong did.
| Why, l would rather see Mccoy fight
Armstrong than 1 would CreedOn. 1t
would be easier for him. At that. l
think he can whip either one of them
without much trouble"
1t is possible that Mccoy will again
have Kelly for his manager.
! A fight betweien Sharkey and Maher
Is now a certainty, and Warren Lewis,
Of the Greater New York Athletic
club, has practically completed ar
rangements for a meeting between the
| two heaVyWeights. Although the ar
! ticles have not as yet been signed, the
| date has been set, the number of
| rounds agreed upon, and in less than
a fortnight both pugilists will have ar
! rived from the West.
| The combat will occur in the New
! York clubs arena at COney Island,
| Monday, May 81, the day of the Brook
| Ign handicap on the Gravesend race
| track.
! Tommy and Jimmy Ryan and Dan
! Creedon are all after Kid Mccoy.
The same Interpretation Of the rules
that governed the recent big contest
would be to Sharkey's advantage, as it
would give him a chance to rough it,
in the cIinches, and roughing it is one
Of Sharkey's best points.
DR. Ordway has written that the Ma
tional Sporting club will make an eff
fort to bring Kid Mccoy and Joe
! ChOynsli or Dan CreedOn and Mccoy
together on Derby night Ordway also
says that Joe Goddard is expected in
London soon.
Lachie Thompson, the Scotch light
weight champion, who paid a flying
visit to this country several years ago
has challenged Dick Burge. Thompson
wants to come to America and fight
Kid Lavigne, but insists on getting lib
eral expenses.
Eddie Cook, who was interested with
Jake Lift once, went broke on
the Fitzsimmons- Corbett fight He
had prepared souvenirs in anticipa-
ton of Corbett's victory and paid out
nearly 81, 500. When the battle was over
his souvenirs were useless, and he was
| lucky to get to Frisco.