The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-31
"Kid" Mccoy Decides to
Fight Joe Choynski
Regardless.
Sincere in His Desire to Ar
range a Battle With
FitzSirnmonS.
Lanky Bob Gives His Ultinaatuna OF
the Manner in Which Corbett and
Others May Meet Him.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Dec 30.-Kid Mccoy
has decided to make match with Joe
Choynski, regardless of the weight
limit. The American middle-weight
champion arrived at this decision to-
night. There is only one condition at
tached to the kids offer. and that is
that the contest take place next sum-
mer at Dan Stuarts carnival in Car
son City.
Mccoy, when asked why he had
changed his mind about fighting
Choynski at the middle-weight limit,
15S pounds, replied: Simply to show
that 1 am thoroughly sincere in my
desire to eventually secure a fight with
Fitzsimmons for the middle-weight
championship of the world and also
not to work a hardship on Choynski.
THE Californian says he cannot get
below 165 pounds and do himself JUS
tice. Well, if 1 beat him 1 want all the
credit I am entitled to. I don't want
to handicap him in any particular, and
therefore I have decided to concede
him a few pounds By the time Dan
Stuart arranges his carnival the
weather will be warm and conducive to
weight reducing, so that Choynski
should have no trouble in getting down
TO about 1872 pounds.
Local sportingmen do not place much
confidence in the ability of O'Rourke
and others to hold the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons fight at Coney Island. They
say the authorities would interfere
and point to the fact that the talk of
the fight between Corbett and Mitchell
four years ago, in the halcyon days of
John Y. McKane's reign, killed fighting
at Coney Island.
Tom O'Rourke has wired from Fort
Wayne, Ind, as follows:
Julian and Fitzsimmons have
named Joe Walcott at the middle
weight limit to meet Mccoy and Peter
Maher to meet Corbett. If Mccoy and
Corbett win from Walcott and Maher
Fitzsimmons will meet both of them
afterwards. These are the only condi-
tons Fitzsimmons Will make with Nc
Coy and Corbett."
CINCINNATI Dec. 3O.-James ].
Corbett to-day gave a copy of his chal-
lenge to fight Fitzsimmons, as follows:
Robert J. Fitzsimmons, Champion of
me World; Your published declaration,
Mr.; F1tZsimmons, that you intend re-en-
ter1ng the ring, pleaseS me more than l
can at present express TO you. and the
public esteems me to be the only candi-
cate Tor the honorS you thus place in
reach. am sorry, however, to note that
in wording this declaration YOU give me
the impression that since we last met you
stance. you say that before 1 can claim
return match with you ! must prove
myself to be worthy of II. You certainly
intend this as d joke, for no one in the
world knows my ability better than your
SELF. You cannot so soon have forgotten
your remark to me at Carson, just after
the battle: Jim you said in your sim
pie, earnest way, "Ill never fight again
You've given me bloody good licking"
You, the winner, uttered these words
with face and body battered as to leave
no doubt OF your sincerity, while L. the
loser, listened with never bruise or
scratch from head to foot which could
contradict you.
Is this consistent with you now request
ing me to prove myself to be worthy"
You will find the confidence of the public
in my ability TO entertain you still
You will find the confidence of the pub
claim that you must meet me again.
But surely you have been misrepresented.
/ refuse to credit you with the lame
memory, the broken judgment, the poor
taste and entire untruthfulness which
the printed remarks alleged to have been
made by you would imply. 1 prefer to
think that those who have entered the
ring with me were men, brave and in
capable of the vulgar, lying and cowardly
language in which the newspaper version
OF your remarks was couched. However
well / know that the great journals try
to be and usually are accurate to the
letter in reporting utterances made by
important men upon important subjects,
j prefer to believe that in this case
grave error has been made somehow,
somewhere and for purpose not worthy
of one who wishes to be considered above
contempt.
What the public expects from me is
TO maintain the manly dignity Of the ring
and not be a brawler, nor a shifty evader
of the honest principles which govern
honest men when adjusting their respect
i've merits.
This is all have to say. But this is
what l propose to do. The day we sign
articles / will give you $1,000 in reeogni-
ton of your courtesy. The moment you
enter the ring, ready to offer me battle
l will give you a second $1,000 in token Of
my pleasure. Upon the completion of the
tenth round, If you are still undefeated,
l will give you q third $1,000 a souvenir
of my surprise. Upon defeating you, no
matter in what round, | will give you
$1,000 more as a reminder that am not an
ungenerOus foe.
On the other hand, should you again de-
feat me, promise, If still able to move,
to place my hat upon my head and then,
removing it in your honor, to proclaim
you in frank and unmistakable terms my
superior, and TO state that l then and
there quit forever all possible claim 10
the championship of the world.
Let further remarks on this subject be
made by $1,000 clean, honest American
money, given me by the public that be-
lieveS in me. / have this day forwarded
this to WIN ]. Davis Of Chicago. in tes-
JAMES ]. CoRBETT,
CHAMPION of America.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-"We shall pay
no attention to it," said Martin Julian
to-day when asked what he and Fitz-
simmons would do in regard to Cor
belts formal challenge to the cham
pion. Fitzsimmons refused to discuss
the subject in accordance with his new
plan Of operations, which is to let
Julian do all the talking.
I'VE have told Corbett what he can
do" continued Julian. Bob did not
want to re-enter the ring at all, but at
last l persuaded him to promise to
fight again on certain conditions.
These We're, as l explicitly stated, that
he would consider fighting only two
men-Corbett and McCoy-and that he
should fight them only after Corbett
had defeated Maher and after Mccoy