The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-11

Ring Work and Generalship-A
Clean Fight.
Lenox Athletic Club, New York, Jan.
10-Tom Sharkey, the American sailor.
stands tonight the only heavyweight
possibility for championship honors.
land the title now held by Bob Fitz-
simmons.
He whipped Kid Mccoy good and
hard in the tenth round of what was
to have been a twenty-round battle.
and by doing so the Irish-American pu-
gilist forged his way SO positively and
undeniably to the front rank that Fitz-
simmons must now consider the sailor
pugilist's claim without delay
Sharkey tonight was a revelation to
those who saw him a couple of years
ago. His ring work and generalship
are so vastly superior to his exhibitions
when he first came to the east as a
fighter that the Improvement is almost
! incredible.
Great punches of muscle, with unIim
/ tied confidence and a cool head are the
/ qualifications which have enabled Shar-
! Key 10 hght his way TO the front of
] nav y fNAss4AA EfN5l4&StSs anu no one, not
/ even Mcj0y, Who suffered defeat at his
/ hands tonight denies the full measure
/ OF praise that IS due TO the Irishman.
McCOy'S marvellous foot work and
( that long left jab with which he has put
so many OF his opponents to sleep are
! two factors in his makeup that must
/ always appeal TO admirers Of the fistic
art He used every artifice known to
the advanced school of pugiiism in his
contest tonight and his defeat must not
be attributed TO any lack Of the close
study on his part Of every trick in the
I boxing game. Many of his friends feel
tonight that he ought to have gone up
against smaller game than Sharkey.
When Mccoy sent Sharkey twice to
the floor in the third round no one
doubted the Kids ability to hit hard.
and many thought he had Sharkey at
his mercy. This idea was soon dis
PEELED when the Irishman began to get
to his man.
When the doors of the Lenox Athletic
club We're thrown open the entrance
was well guarded by policemen. From
6 o'clock the streets in the immediate
vicinity Of the club were patrolled by a
force of bluecoats.
By 1870 there were 5000 people in the
house and the tUrnstiles were clicking
merriiy, so that by O'Clock the attend !
ance was nearly as many thousand as /
the hours indicated. The boxes and 4
seats in the vicinity Of the ring were /
filed by O'clock.
ODDS ON MCCOY.
Bookmallers. headed by Joe Vendig,
make the welkin ring with their shouts /
III bet thousand to nine hundred on I
mccoy, Come on with your money,
the Rid must win, Come on with your
Many bets We're booked at these odds
and then the Sharkey money that hove
IN sight forced the layers of Odds to
o1ter nothing better than even money
can Mccoy VIM was the question
winch went the rounds Of the boxes,
ana the answer 20 this question was:
level"
'sharkey can do the Kid. but let Us
know how they are going to fight"
In reply to this il was generally cir
culated that there had been no NEE
ing oS the principals their managers
nor the referee, Tim Hurst, this after
noon, and that the latter would use MS
best judgment in deciding when and
where clinch occurred in the face of
the articles Of agreement. which con
tanned tWo, the eighth and thic teenGh,
which seemed to uullify each other
IN the first Of the two preliminary
contests. IsidOre Straus Of Philadelphia
Won from KID Carter an overgrown
juvenile VINO halls from Brooklyn In
the sixth round, when Carter tried to
wiring his opponents neck. Referee
White stopped the bout and awarded
the fight 10 StaUs on a very oalDable
foul
Kid Brood OF Cleveland and Frank
Patterson Of Brooklyn were the partic-
ipants in the scrap that was brought on
as the second preliminary OF the big
bout. These met for a ten-round go at
III pounds, and pummeled each other
in anything but friendly manner
When the lads came up for the tenth
and last round Patterson was the
fresiler. He more than held his own in
the last round. and was declared the
winner by Referee White.
THE MAIN EVENT.
Sharkey ana Mccoy entered the ring
simultaneously at 1923 D. m. Both {
were bathrobes. Sharkey's was of a
dark brown color and McCoy's was al
most white. IcCOy's seconds We're Doc :
Payne, Con Reilly, Frank Erne, time {
keeper, Nate Benton of Buffalo. Tom 5 ]
seconds were Tom O'Rourke, Tommy ]
Ryan OF Syracuse, George Dixon and
Jack DougheTty. Timekeeper, Profess =
;or Jim Deforrest. !
Sharkey's weight was 172 and Nc c
-oy's 15S pounds. Mccoy wore white !
'unning trunks and belt bearing the
stars and stripes. Tom Wore green
-runks, with belt Of American colors. :
They shook hands at 1910. q
FIGHT BY ROUNDS.
Round They fiddled. Mccoy tried
eft for the wind, but missed. Tom scor- I
ng a left over the kidneys. Both men 5
we're careful Mccoy tried a left hook c
or the head, landing lightly. Tom up
Dereut with a right on the chest. Mccoy
made half circle Of the ring and then
,aught Tom on the stomach. Sharl1ey Z
lid not reply. Mccoy sent left to stom-
zen and brought X up to the face. Shar-
Iey hooked light right TO the ribs. Both
ound. d
Round mccoy side-stepped to the a
eft for q half circle Of the ring and let t
rs left 20. landing lightly on the face.
'Om stepped back and Mccoy ran close a
o him. Two OF McCoy's reaches for his L
nan were futile. but he caught Tom on i
he ropes and caught a light left on the n
Ose. Tom came to the center of the ring %
nd tried left and right without effect, p
nd then the KID sent left lightly TO the (.
ace Mccoy continually kept side-step- v
ing and eVaded Toms attempts for a q
1T hook or swing very cieyerly. Mccoy b
ut light left on Toms face when near
nc ropes on the west end of the ring. v
nd Sharkey sent a hard left hook 10 the b
ms Just as the gong sounded. h
Round tom tried 70 force matters.
nd McCoy, at close quarters, sent a left
2 the ear and ducked away from left
VIM l.ach sent lefts to the head at
lose with off nj t., | 4