The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-22
MD MCCOY
|sek HIS Ring Name from n Burglar
Killed on II Monday Night.

COX His Hing Name from II burglar
Killed on IL Monday Night
Kid Mccoy, the new champion middle
eight, took his ring name from the re-
red burglar who was killed Monday
igm in New York by a Bowery lodging
puse keeper. Charles Norman Selby Is
s right name of the new champion; he
the headstroug son of an Indianapolis
Focery man. who until this day operates
slnail store in the Hoosier metropolis.
fom his earliest boyhood Charley was
sdmirer OF the manly art, and then
now the height of his ambition was to
successful prize fighter.
The Louisville Courier journal tells of
|n in the following article:
louisville people will be interested in
pcSoys history. Part of it has never been
aosned in any paper and the story OF
vs. NE Will be read with sgreat interest
tier last nights affair.
Aetoy dresses well. He wears his
ptnihg with the ease of a gentleman. lie
Vu!et, good locking, and withal is about
" last man one would choose from a
ioNu as a professional prize fighter.
Anowihg that he is Il prize fighter. one
FVnders how he came to adopt such a life.
10 fancy builds a story different from
Ne real one. Mccoy was not an athletic
Peung eollegian who discovered that he
r1s good with his hands" and having
Pldae this discovery allowed himself TO
caop, me squared circle as the stage of
~ NE drama. That sounds we'll, but it
4 not true.
~ tae days OF his youth Mccoy was
~ " rather romantic turn. A runaway
P,uin meme, dime novel reading sort OF
~. Inc name that his past ring career
la" made under and that his future will
T. naue under was adopted from the
Y! esfSacksman, kid Mccoy who. with
,spAe Hennessy, another reformed safe
power, travelled the country several years
~ WIN the "Stowaway," melodrama.
= Selby, the youth, heard the name
~ liked 1t. 1t smacked of the yellow
- novel, and he adopted it.
sae Wearer Of this sobriauet made it
.no"u 70 people in Louisville several years
~ IN 1898 the present well-dressed young
80 80 hehter was 4 very successful young
sAamp, VINO 'hoboed" his way from his
! IN indianapolis across the continent
49,. an francisco by circuitous route
, r-'eu eook MIN through Texas. All of the
.S ,s,s rare and rough riding and cuffs and
'a., We're suffered patiently, so that he
~ oe IN Frisco when John l.. Sullivan
,.u raady Ryan fought their second bat
,s, mere He thought glimpse of the
ssus and chance of slipping into the
,,snuihs where the battle took place suf-
rs.sht pay for the arduous journey. John
,IerV' a member of the Memphis fire
49, tlnent and an ardent admirer Of prize
, y ing was with Mccoy during part
Il sns trip- Doherty left his home in
'ra and wandered into Texas. One
ssu.ug IN Denison, Texas, he went into
y, ,hairoad yards TO catch freight
{ - eaVe Tor any place the freigh; might
: oouhd for. Doherty was then IS years
. aye. In the yards he met lad of
~ ms own age, struck up conyersa-
!, ~ win him, and finally agreed 10 be his
uer and g West with him. This lad
J. . Ma Mccoy" and he was then bound
fisco TO see the Sullivan Ryan fight.
49, and Doherty Travelled together as
49, A. Trinidad, Col, where they parted.
10y TO continue his journey TO San
! - -a,' and Doherty. tired of the West,
= return home.
~. was In Memphis that Mccoy won the
- e.. 'nat started him up the ladder. Seven
80 after he met Doherty in Denison