Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-01
KID" M'COY'S Def.
Believes He is the Superior Of Jim
Jefries in Science.
WANTS TO TEST HIS AGILITY
says lie L. Looking for mtg Game,
and shnrkcy T. not Too
Large,

"Kid" Mccoy publishes In the Denver
News the following interesting cxplana-
ton over hls SIGNATURE
"slncc ! met Tom sharkey last jan
uary many theories have been advanced
by sporting men as 20 what afterwards
cofnpnHfcd my defeat. when lu the
third round II appeared that had the
sailor hopclomly beaten. Some Of the
spectators ~ tho battle have declared
that victory would have been mine had
] followed up my advantage, when
had shnrloy staggering about the ring
iu the round mentioned.
"somo OF my friends meet the above
arguments with the claim that the uf-
ncial tlmckrcporH watch differed with
theirs in time. and that ! was not rlg-
nailed that the round was noar ut end.
! supplement this with the assertion
that future history viii diHCloHc some
inner details ~ my battle with shnrkcy.
which VIII tell different tnic to tho
one now generally believed by the
world. refrain from any detailed
statement about that battle. which 81
past. Tor the good OF the game Well
Informed persons know that ! was then
ana am today Tom Shurkoy'a master,
ana mo- man living pays "a more iinttcr-
Inf testimonial nH 90 my lighting cupn-
city than the sailor
NAN' NlNfN NNNN NNtN IN my llfN
had the worst N n contest. and my cN-
pcrience has taught mo that nothing
~ gained by explanations and state
mcntH after battle ~ over. u ~ the
future that principally exercises me.
what has annoyed me particularly
" the impression that has been created
by those directly Interested with that
match. TINT shurkcy was ana 81 too
big FOR me- ana that I am too light
In weight and physically incnplcitatod
from lighting the heuvywclghts. iu-
HiHt that this story was deliberately
circulated through the newspapers uf
this country Tor obvious reasons.
rho existing situation nocessltntcs
that make AN explanation. over my
own NAME us 20 Just what standing I
have among the heavyweight pugiliats
of the world.
More than over am persuaded that
] am. nt least, the peer OF any pugiliHt
living. l have taken the measure OF
Tom Shurkeyi | have Insisted publicly
FOR over % year that ! could beat Bob
Fitzsimmons, and having witnessed the
battle between JonrleH ana FitzHim-
mons I am grloyod that ! was not In
either one NJ their places that night.
1T 81 not my desire 10 dctrnct from
the credit due the new champion. but
expressions omnnatlng from him reiu-
tive 10 my challenge. Issued before the
light have placed me on the defcn-
HiVp.
1T ill becomes man like Ionrlcs.
who ~ q newcomer Ia tho pugilistic
world. 10 belittlc my challenge. backed
by 1900 NJ my own money. with
slurrlng remarks. intlmnting that
was only blufilng.
II have been In the boxing business
from early youth. and there IN nothing
In my record that will show that
have not been ready 20 meet any and
an corners. after / had once said
would Tight My career has been grad
unl ANA there ~ not % middlcwelght. OF
any prctcnHiun. whom / have not beat
on declsivcly unless II ~ Bob Fltzsim-
mons. II h but "a little over "a year
ago that I entered the heavyweight
class. and ! have beaten Gus Rubin,
Joe Goddard and Joe Choynah. My
other contest was with Tom Shurkcy
In tho same length OF time, begin
ming from May co. 1895, the date of my
first heavyweight battle. Jim Jcnrica
has fought twice. lie csauyed 10 beat
Bob Armstrong ana Steve O'Donncl,