Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-04
THEY'RE AFTER HIM,
MANY FIGHTERS SEEK A MEETING
WITH III MCCOY.
CHAS. MITCHELL THE LATEST,
ENGLIsHMAN IS WILLING TO FIGHT
HIM FOR ANY SUM.
Parson Davies Still Has Hopes of
rinSi the Kid and Joe
Choynskf Together-JuIian,s
Latest Contribution to
War of Words.
CHAS. MITCHELL THE LATEST.

VIII return 10 chicago to-day. Davies is
Very anxious 10 make a match between
Joe Choynski and kid" Mccoy. at catch
weights only.
'The Kid has fought all his battles at
catch-weishts,' said the Parson, land 1
DO not think it entirely fair of him TO de-
mand that Choynski come down to To-
pounds. The Californian can be in prime
iettle at LOO pounds, and at this weight he
could be depended upon TO do his best. 1
am waiting 10 hear from Mccoy before l
can state anything positively about the
two coming together. He is in Cincinnati
this week, and l hope to get a letter from
him before / leave for chicago. And an
other thing l do not like about the KIDS
ultimatum to me, and that is that he wants
the fight TO come off next August or Sep
TENDER, and under the management of Dan
Stuart. 1 have nothing at all against Mr..
Stuart, and consider him a very fair sports
man, but If the TWO men are matched the
club Offering the largest purse will be sat
isfactory to me-, and whether it is offered
by Mr.. Stuart or not will cut no ice with
me at ALL"
Charlie Mitchell. who has kept pretty
quiet since the 18th of January, 1894, when
rounds at Jacksonville. Fla, bobbed into
print yesterday with a challenge 10 fight
K Ks1as Me snS t for sssy, s nTpss from omel "a" T Tpe
challenges are pouring in on Mccoy at a
pretty lively rate, and it is quite probable
that some of the aspirants may get more in
the end than they are now bargaining for.
Mitchell's challenge is as follows:
ITO Kid McCoy:-charlie Mitchell here
any sum from $3.50 upwards and the best
purse offered. The Olympic Club. of Biz
mingham, England, viii give a purse of
enough for me and should suit Mccoy.
Hoping Gn Mccoy C rI will accept sf on this fh lemaiSe
l yours sG Truly 10 he CiHARL ii Nj
"P. ST will allow Mccoy 500 ex-
penses."
Billy Newman has sent a letter to the
London Mirror of Life. saving that he was
ley. who defeated Patsy Haley. to meet
any bantam; $500 for Ben Jordan. who
Eanquished To Tommy nm WIN, White; "a and q "a q feG,
eilist Who defeated Mccoy in England in
way the other day, stated that he would
fight Mccoy again, and would face him In !,
this country If necessary. Newman will
that he will extend every courtesy to the
foreigners. Billy. may have Curley go
against asnn srd Dave sI s1lilyan nsI who sb Is dye in Ne"
kid" Mccoy arrived in Cincinnati last
Sunday and appeared afternoon and night
am in no great rush about getting on a
match. am more anxious to have Fitz-
simmons yield to me the full title Of mid
else. / am ready to meet any good man
he suggests under proper conditions: l
pounds for a match with Choynski. l can
easily do l5s pounds. ! think .Corbett and
Fitz will again come together. and have
no scruples against appearing in a car
nival in which they may figure. l want a
5000 side bet in the event Of my taxing
anyone on"
Dan Creedon is wintering at New Or
leans. In discussing the position in the
Creedon said: kid Mccoy is enjoying the
fruits of a combination of accidents. Nc
Coy claims the middleweight championship
as the result of his fight with me at eaten
weights. / weighed four pounds over the
limit. and I know that Mccoy was more
than fourteen pounds outside the middle
during my training; sick during my fight,
ard am still under the weather. In my
condition. Mccoy should have beaten me
in the sixth round. but. on my word, he
can't punish at all. l stopped because my
own exertions exhausted me. j can de-
feat Mccoy at any terms. but he is not
q heavyweight. and as a '~catchweight he
dleweight championship 1 will fight him
fer il, but it means lS pounds"
The dispute between Corbett and Fitz-
simmons. as 1t wakes hotter. is making
many persons laugh. Differing in every
thing that comes up. they are now carry
ilrg their war into the Autographs with
which they are billing themselves through
cut the country. Corbett. on some of the
bills. is pictured as clinging to an Ameri-
can flag, with these words floating out OF
his mouth.
IF l can get this Fitzsimmons into the
ring again l will bring the championship
OF the world back to the United States.'
Although Fftzsimmons is a citizen of this
country. Corbett persists in calling him a
foreigner. Bob gets back, though, on his
bills. one of which shows Corbett pros
trate on the floor of the ring. and Fftz.
with folded arms and a sarcastic express
SION on his face, standing over him. On
another bill. -Fitz IS represented as stand
ing on a sort of pedestal. surrounded by
the men he has defeated. Under Choyns-
ki's picture are the words: knocked out
in four rounds!". which is not true. as
FttZ and Joe fought only once, and that
was a five round go" which was stopped
by the Boston police when Choynski was
getting a shade the worst of the battle.
Under Makers picture are the words:
knocked out twice. which is also slight
ly wrong. in view of the fact that Maher
in his first fight with Bob. quit after the
10 Fitz by Corbett, which was probably
written by one of Jim's press agents. in
ing in all to 5000. If he will only fight. is
elso the cause of much ribald testing. Tom
pRourke, however. uses an effective ham
n,er when he says: ''Corbett and FitZ will
meet again. per secret agreement. and 1t
viii he Corbett's turn to win" O'Rourke,
by the way, will make no attempt to Sc
NNE' AAA'TN LFNA, h'iD'S " HlS iG" tlup
al Coney Island.
Martin Julian is entitled to the long dis
tance talking belt. He has won it hands
down over Corbett and Fitzsimmons. and
Shows no signs of distress. Julian's latest
contribution TO the gahfest reads as fol-
loss:
.'Corbctt's business, ] hear, has dropped
off to nothing. and he is playing 10 emptT
benches. This is hard on "A man with so
vain a head as Corbett possesses. lie is
row seeking to boost his box office receipts
by making a hluff at fighting Fitzsimmons
again. His cheap talk about presenting us
with $1,000 when We do this or that is laugh
able. Why. you could not drag Jim Corbett
into n ring with FitZ under any condition,
II he is anxious 10 fight Fitz and sincere
why don't he take on Maher. whip him.
and then pin US down 10 n fight. Maher is
easier than FitZ-was licked twice by Kim.
in fact. Now, all that Corbett has got to
listen to him. But he says he won't fight
Inn. Did you ever hear of a fighter who is
thoroughly on the level refusing a bona
foe match? No: unless you except Corbett.
That fellow allowed poor. old. decrepit Joe
Goddard TO push $500 under his nose with
n challenge right here in Chicago. and ba-
bied and crawled out of meeting him. Now,
n whipped man. he wants 10 dictate to the
champion. But he won't. lie has not got
ore chance in n million of getting on a fight
except along the lines ! have laid down TO
him. Another week or two You will hear of
the collapse Of the Cnrbett combination. and
then Jim will go back to his original graft
sweeping out the counting room of n bank
lately is the challenge made by Maher to
sbarkey. II has a genuine ring about il
that sounds doubly pure beside the spu-
rious defis issued hv contemporaneous as
pirants for pugilistic encounters. Prize
lighting is becoming more and more a long
-icua NJ lodging that is only ended hv