The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-17
MCCOY TO MEET CORBETT
MEN TO BOX TWENTY ROUNDS
TO A DECISION
to Referee the BOut-Stmilarity
of the Work of the Men, Consid-
Should Return Corbett q Winner
-FitzSimmOns Re-Opens "Gabfest."

Should Return COrbett q Winner
-Fitzsimmons Re-opens "Gabfest.v
James ]. Corbett and kid" Mccoy
are matched to box twenty rounds be-
Buffalo, on the evening Of Sept. 10,
next. The articles Of agreement were
duly signed last Friday, and it looks
as though the men meant business.
The match will unquestionably attract
wide attention, for many reasons. Cor
bett and Mccoy are boxers of similar
schools. They are both of the feint,
land and getaway class. Neither is
knocker-out, and there is chance that
their go will terminate in a draw
unless Mccoy Is beaten. Corbett should
be returned the winner, or, failing In
that, get as good as a stand-off. That
Mccoy Is clever must be admitted. But
so is Corbett. AS defensive fighter
there was perhaps never a better. His
prolonged battle with Peter Jackson
demonstrated that fact beyond dispute.
Corbett, if he is half as good a man as
he was when he met John L. Sullivan,
should beat down the guard of Mccoy
and win in canter.
MATCH IS PECULIAR.
The fact that Mccoy has abandoned
his match with Joe Choynski to take
on Corbett gives the affair peculiar
aspect Corbett has defeated Choynski,
yet Mccoy seems to prefer his game
to that Of the doughty Hebrew. 1t is
suggested that Corbett has gone back
and that Mccoy knows it. The Hoosier
lad may step in and gain a reputation
as Corbett did when he defeated Sui
livan-by catching his man on the
down-grade, shell of the former great
athlete The match will tell the tale.
Corbett's greatest danger lies in his
falling stamina. Unless he gets good
and fit the younger man may catch
him at a disadvantage, and wear him
out Corbett should not forget what
happened to him when he met Sharkey
out on the coast. He had a most
miracu escape from defeat on that
occasion. Had there been another
round to go Corbett would have been
beaten by the sailorman. Not that
Sharkey was the better boxer, for that
he was not-but because Corbett's wind
gave out, and he was nearly exhausted
when the four rounds had been con-
Guided.
MAY BE A SURPRISE.
For that matter the bout between
Corbett and Mccoy may prove a big
surprise. Corbett was beaten at Car
son City by a weight-though
1t must be admitted he is a great one
and there is always the possibility
that another middle weight, or, to be
strictly correct and fair, a light heavy
weight, may repeat the performance
The wise money, however, will go with
Corbett He is a good man, while Nc
Coy is conceded to be a good smaller
man. And a great big man can usually
beat q good little man.
GABFEST REOPENED.
The great American boxing gabfest
has been reopened. Bob Fitzsimmons
makes faces at Jamie Corbett and
says the ''Pompadour'' had better not
attempt to slide on the Fitzsmmons
cellar dcor-if he does he may find
tacks. Fitz "dares" Corbett to fight
some one of his size, instead of taking
on the "babies'' of the profession
like Mccoy, for instance. In a card
to a New York paper, Fitzsimmons
asks the editor to please abuse Cor
bett for him, and the regular theat-
rical season "Gabfest" may be pro-
nounced fully on for the season of
1889. Fitz wants Corbett to meet
Sharkey, Maher and Jeffries, while
Corbett regards the boxers named as
hard, and hurt-even to knock a fell
low out. He prefers the babies
"HONEST JOHN FOR REFEREE.
There is similarity between the Cor
bett-McCoy and Corbett-Mitchel
matches In more than one way When
Corbett took on Mitchell, he lodged
such dangerous ones as-well. as Peter
Jackson, anyway-and picked the Eng
fish middleweight He has done the
same in the present instance-dodged
Sharkey, Maher and other hard ones,
and picked up what he evidently con-
siders easy game. And, then, Hon
est John Kelly is to referee the match
between Corbett and Mccoy He also
acted in that capacity at Jacksonville
and did-well, make 1t mild-very
badly. Perhaps Honest John" has
improved. 1t Is to be hoped he has.
RING GOSSIP.
It is said that kid" Lavigne is dodg-
ing Spike Sullivan. That must be a
joke,
The next big ones to come together
will likely be Jeffries and Maher JEFF
fries should beat Peter or return to
the coast and fight no more
"Tonsiitis'' Tommy Ryan and "Mys-
terious" Billy Smith are again matched
Jeffries is to be tried out in the East.
He will be pitted against stockings"
Conroy.
Tom O'Rourke says the Hawthorne
Athletic club, of Buffalo, is a myth,
and belongs to kid Mccoy. He hints
that the police will stop any bout there
that does not suit their ideas as to how