Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-11
KID MCCOY KNOCKED OUT.
The Sailor Proved One Too Many for
Him in the Tenth.

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DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE
FIGHT, THE KIDS DExTROUs
FOOT WORK STOOD HIM IN
GOOD STEAD. AND THE STIFF
JABS HE DELIVERED SENT HIS
STOCK AWAY UP-LATER THE
SAILOR GOT ONTO HIS CURVES
AND SOON CHANGED THE INDI-
CATIONS-THE FINAL BLOW
WAS A KILLER AND ENDS NC
COY'S BRIGHT HOPES.
Lenox Athletic Club, New York, Jan
uary 10.-When the doors of the Lenox
A. G. were thrown open tonight the
entrances were we'll guarded by po-
licemen. From o'clock the streets
in the Immediately neighborhood were
patrolled by force of bluecoats, and
the people who had booked their seats
in advance had no difficulty in getting
admittance to the club house build
ing.
Cordons of policemen were stationed
in the vicinity of the club house and
Chief of Police Devery and his subor-
out the evening in keeping the crowd
in subsection
By 1880 o'clock there were 5000 peo-
pie in the house and the turnStileS
were clinking merily, so that by s
o'clock the attendance was nearly as
many thousands as the hours indi-
Gated.
The boxes and seats in the vicinity
of the ring were filled up by O'Clock,
and to look at the gathering of sports
one would think that all who were
interested in winter retiring in New
Orleans had by some magical force
been shipped suddenly to Gotham.
Bookmakers headed by Joe Vendig
made the welkin ring with their shouts
of ''Ill bet thousand to nine hundred
on Mccoy; come on with your money,
the Kid must win, come on with your
money
Many bets were booked at these odds
and then the Sharkey money which
hove in sight forced the lay of odds to
nothing better than even money.
Can Mccoy VIM" was the question
which went the rounds Of the boxes and
the answer to this query was Even
money if the fight is on the level"
"Sharkey can do the Kid. but let us
know how they are going to fight"
In reply to this it was generally cir
culated that there had been no meeting
of the principals, their managers or the
referee, Tim Hurst, this afternoon, and
the latter would use his best judgment
in deciding when and where a clinch
occurred in the face of the articles of
agreement which contained two, the
eighth and thirteenth, which seemed to
nullify each other
In the first of the two preliminary
contests, Isador Straus. of Philadel-
phia, won from Kid Carter. an over
grown Juvenile who halls from Brook
Ign.
They were scheduled to fight ten
rounds at catch weights. Carter was
the heavier. by at least five pounds.
Straus was always up to his man and
had all the better of the bout, when in
the sixth round Carter tried to wiring
his opponents neck. Referee White
stopped the bout and awarded the fight
to Straus on very palpable foul. Time
of round. 1876.
Kid Broad, of Cleveland and Frank
Patterson, of Brooklyn, were the par
so;r o,1s
on as the second preliminary to the big
bout.
These lads met for a ten round go at
121 pounds, and pummelled each other
in anything but friendly manner.
Patterson was by far the. more sci
entific and held a commanding lead I'M
til the ninth round, when Broad sent
his left to the face and SWING his right
on the jaw, staggering Patterson just
at the gong. The lead that Patterson
had found in the previous rounds stood
him in good stead and when they came
up for the tenth and last round Patter-
son was very spry. He morexthan held
his own in the last round and was de-
clared the winner by Referee White.
After the preliminary bouts had been
decided the betting was 500 to 500 in
favor of Mccoy. A few minutes later
the betting changed to even money.
There was meeting held in the Of
flee of the club between Mccoy, Tom
O'Rourke and Referee Tim Hurst at
1920. There were there several prom
inent men, among whom were Jim
Kennedy, Eugene Comiskiey and Ben
Benton, McCoy's manager.
At this conference it was decided
that Tim Hurst should decide as the
official referee what constituted a
clinch and thus obviate amy difficulty
after the men entered the ring. Shar-
key and Mccoy entered the ring SIM
ultaneously at 1923, both wearing bath
robes; Sharkey's dark brown and Nc
Coy's white.
McCoy's seconds were Doc Payne,
Con Reilly and Frank Erne; time
keeper, Nate Fenton, of Euffalo. Toms
seconds were Tom O'Rourke, Tommy
Ryan, of Syracuse; George Dixon and
Jack Dougherty; timekeeper, Prof.
Jimmy DeForest. Sharkey weighed
172 pounds; Mccoy 1873.
Mccoy wore white running trunks
with belt with the stars and stripes.
Tom wore green trunks with a belt of
American colors.
They shook hands at 40 O'Clock.
Tom Sharkey, the American sailor,