The times., 1898-09-29

New York Sept 2S-Jim Corbett and
Kid Mccoy, the heavyweight pugllists,
came TO blows In the Gilsey House this
afternoon. Neither men scored knock
out, but the blows were handed out at q
lively rate while the fight lasted. Inc
set-to was witnessed by good sized
crowd and a minute after it was over
the corridors of the hotel were 1ammed.
The two pugilists, each accompanied
by several friends, met in the hotel at
1:l5 o'clock, presumably to talk over the
fight which they were scheduled to en-
gage in at Buffalo on October Is. They
had been talking for only few minutes
when their voices raised and the conyer-
sation became decidedly animated IL
was not long before blow was struck.
Each was eager to get at the other un-
der any rules. When the first blow was
struck neither man had as much room
as he desired. Because of the lack OF
space the hardest blows were out of the
question, and short arm punches were
most in demand.
Just how many blows landed is not
known, as the men were so close together
any freedom. Friends of the men recov-
ering from the surprise occasioned by
the sight OF two heavyweight pugilists
I'm a game OF fisticuffs, pulled them apart,
and they soon left the scene. a by
stander who witnessed the whole affair,
said:
"Corbett was standing at the cigar
stand at lis o'clock, surrounded by sew
eral friends, when Mccoy, also accom-
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through the Twenty-ninth Street en-
trance As soon as he saw Corbett he
walked over TO where he was, pushing his
WAY through the knot of men around him.
Both began TO talk excitedly immediate
ly. Without warning Mccoy finally
knocked Corbett's hat flying. Corbett'
without a seconds hesitation, then swung
his left and landed on McCoy's right
cheek.
Mccoy jumped back and Corbett start
ed after him When Mccoy saw Cor
belts move he kicked at him hard. Cor
bett jumped out of the way, however, and
McCOy's foot failed to reach him.
'Corbett then said: 'Ha, ha; that's
your game, is II; 1 guess not He was
about to rush MCCOY, when his friends
caught him. When his friends let him
go Mccoy was gone.
Another man who was nearby when the
fight started, said:
two men but he was none too cool When
he landed on McCoy's cheek he must
have felt his coat catch his arm, for be-
fore he came back at Mccoy after Mccoy
had kicked at him he buttoned it. He
meant business when he rushed, and If
his friends had not caught him when they
did there would have been a lively time. -
CorbeIt was seen in room in the hotel
kept by his manager, George J. Considine
soon after the fracas. He was in bed and
DR.. II. 3. Penness, who was in attendance
upon him, said that he had been kicked.
The physician said:
This IS a kick below the belt sufficient
ly severe for me TO advise Mr.. Corbett TO
take several hours rest. 1t will not, how
ever. cause him any permanent injury
NO" said Corbett ' am going 10 the
fight tonight" He was scheduled to be
one OF the seconds at the Kid Lavigne-
Erne fight. Corbett then continued:
81 had been eating lunch in the cafe
with AL Smith, the stakeholder. and my
manager, Mr.. Considine. While / was
eating lunch, Dave Nugent one of the
owners OF the Hawthorne Club, came in.
Before he came IN 1 asked Smith wheth-
er the Hawthorne Club was not putting
up for the forfeit money for Mccoy. Smith
said he had letter from one of the Haw
thorne directors saying that the Haw-
thorne Club would stand good for Mccoy.
So I said to Smith: Then il is a case of
my having s. 800 in cash against nothing
but paper AT that time Nugent came
IN. / asked Nugent the same question
that I asked Smith, and Nugent said that
no one had ever been authorized 10 write
such a letter.
$50 ! said, Well, then, the letter is a
forgery and am up against a good thing,
amt ~ After that we walked out into
the lobby and met William Gray, Mccoy 5
rr-if n
him, including Mccoy. Mccoy one time
sent me a telegram calling me monkey,
So in spirit Of pleasantly, l said to Nc
Coy: You're a nice kind OF a lobster to
be calling me a monkey. I then turned
to Gray and began to talk about the way
the Hawthorne Club had treated me.
Among other things Gray said: oh,
you don't want to fight Mccoy
Why said 1, IN fight Mccoy any
where. III fight him here Then 1 went
on talking about the match. While l was
not looking Mccoy struck at me, hitting
me on the rim of my hat and knocking
the hat off. Then I squared off and made
a blow with my left at his head and
struck him, ] think, on the right cheek.
Then he retreated and l started after
him. When he saw me coming he deliber-
ately kicked me. l didn't let him know
that he had hurt me, but gave him the
laugh, and said: Is that your game?
Well / guess not No wonder, you dirty
lobster, that you tried to crawl out OF
this fight
Then the hotel proprietor and others
grabbed hold of me and the proprietor
ssked me not TO make any row. While I
was apologiZing for such action Mccoy
sneaked out of side door. ! then took
a cab and came here. / think that Nc
Coys intention was to cripple me- but
he did not succeed. I viii give him three
days in which to accept any one nf the
offers from any one of the four clubs that
have asked us to box, where we can
really box
If he don't accept then I will box with
Jeffries or Sharkey. Mccoy knows 1 can
lick him and / don't think he'll accept -
Mccoy said: 81 did strike at Corbett
first, but not until / saw him clench his
fist after he had said he was willing to
fight me anywhere. I did not kick al
him. and If he pretends that / did, he is
taking"
Wilson Training Hard.