Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-13
BY JAMES wAkELy.

and in strength, He needs 10 grow-to
grow older as well as stronger
KID Mccoy is to-day the finest pu-
gilist in the ring. He is the most skilful
side-stepper the best general, the gamiest
sport and best trained of fighters. When
/ he enters the ring ne is cool and calm
| and throughout the fight he maintains
! this same steadiness Of nerve. He fights
| like Choynski with the head at one side
| and the eyes slanting. This gives a fight
| er a long -distance view of his antagonist
| and enables him to take in the entire
| body of his opponent above the belt.
| When fighter stands erect and looks
| at his man straight ahead of the body, he
can only see his face or if he looks
downward he can only look at one part of
! the body at a time. The fighter who
fights with his head on the side gets an
elongated vision that is very advantage
| Gus
! Another advantage of this position, and
| a very great one, is the sway ii gives the
pugilst. He can avoid blows ard at the
same time maintain his balance and he
ready to deliver IL blow after his opponent
| has unsuccessfully tried to get at him.
'Kid" Mccoy is a gentleman, as much
I so as ever Gentleman Jim was. | like
and admire Corbett ana | like and adj
mire Mccoy.
| kid Mccoy began as errand boy in
| the hat store Of A. G. Lewis. in Louis
| willie, Ky. There he joined the Young
| Mems Christian Association of that city
and learned to box. He soon found that
| he could box better than any Of the other
(! Christian young gentlemen Of that assoc
| ciation and longed to test his mettle else
1 where
/ The " NJ H. A. Of Louisville was too
4 limited. ana he transferred his abilities
/ and his membership to other cities, box
| ing wherever he could get an engage
ment.
! After while he returned to Louisville
with an aggregation Of fighters. and there
/ at a theatre met all corners. He fought
| Dick Moore and made such a monkey of
him that spectators thought it
| fake and Kissed the result. Moore could
not land on him.
| Then Kid Mccoy went to Africa, and
| they brought all their British and South
African pugilists out to meet him. lie
came home an unbeaten man.
| When he met Dan Crcedcn a few weeks
that it wasn't d fight, and now he is
/ waiting to do up his next man.
At present kid" Mccoy could not beat
Fitzsimmons. The man does not live at
present who could do so But Mccoy is
/ every BIT as smart as Fitzsimmons and
every Bit as clever and every inch as good
a general ] might say that he is a clev-
erer man that F'itzsimmons
~ 81,
! enough. Give him another year ana then
i YOU will see.
| Mccoy il going to meet Peter Mahcr
and he is going to meet Choynski, and he
would like to meet Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons.
\ II / wanted to b d pueillatc prophet
\ ara peer into the future, / should say
\ that within a year Or two things will
\ happen Corbett and Fitzsimmons will
\ mes: again not il New York c.ty. but
\ West or South. Carson City Is about the
\ only place where they can have their
Y FIGHT. There are those VINO say ID can
4 take place in New York but This is fool
\ ish, for the legislature will not allow II.
II sim acting as a seer should say that
7 Mccoy viii meet Maher and Choynskt,
ana from his present form should best
( both Of them.
Then win come the great match between
/ Mccoy and F'itzsimmonS. or if Corbett
4 knocks out FitzsmmOns there will be
match between Mccoy and Corbett. Nc
! COY viii challenge a year from now
whcevere he may be. / understand that
he would like to fight them now. but they
will not fight him yet, though his money
| deposit is up and he is ready and willing.
And | don't blame them Prize lighting
is hard work, and when puSillst leaves