Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-29
Is Spelling FOR A FIGHT
Kid Mccoy Wants a Bout with Any Old
Thing.
READY TO PUT ON MIrTs WITH THE BEST
HencefOrth and Hereafter the Lad
VIII lie His Own Manager
Hoping Thereby to Get the
Best of II.

Kid Mccoy. too youthful and ghostlike
In appearance to be picked as a man
likely to give a burly pugilistic San
dow like Sharkey a ten-round arsu-
ment. passed through the city last FRI
day with Mrs. Mccoy. The pair are on
their way to the coast, where the Kid Will
hibernate during the rest Of the winter and
figure out pugilistic plans for the future.
The fighter hobnobbed with some OF the
local sports for an hour or two and then
journeyed onward to San Francisco. He
looked good, said he felt good and declared
that he would be ready in the course of a
few months to try conclusions again with
some of the star heaVies.
There are four men whom | want to
meet" he said, land | will take them in
this order: Choynski, Corbett, Sharkey and
Fitzsimmons. When | hop into the ring
again, however, it will be when l am fit
physically to fight with any man in the
world. From now on / I'm my own mana
ger, and hereafter l will try to get some
OF the shade of the best Of it that my OPP
ponents have been getting.
Il am not trying to spring the losers
usual excuse continued Mccoy. by this
] mean that l am not endeavoring to make
the public believe that the burly man-of-
war's-man keeled me over on a fiuke or a
chance blow. But l do mean to say that II
l had been in the fettle l was in when |
met Rubin and Creedon a different tale
might have been told. The critics will tell
you that in the third round of the fight
i had created a groggy sensation in the
Uranium Of the Jack tar and they were sur
prised that | did not take advantage Of 1t
by planting a knockout. l was wrong, as
a matter of fact, and l realized that l did
not have the steam that ordinarily l have
behind my punches. At that, however, I
will admit that in a good many respects
Sharkey is a wonderful fighter and / appre-
ciate now that l made a mistake in taking
him on just yet. However, the fight will
furnish the material for a leaf in a little
private volume which | may call The Ex-
perience of Kid Mccoy and it will teach
me a lesson which will be a red letter guide
TO me during the remainder of my pugi-
listic days.
MY future plans? Well, / have some,
but they are enveloped in an indefinite haze.
i am running away from the east and will
stay away for a couple Of moons. During
the next two months l will spend an outdoor
life upon the coast and will aim to add as
much as possible to my strength and avoir-
dupois. My big handicap is my lack of
weight, which places me at a big disad-
vantage as compared with the other as
pirants for the laurels of the heavyweight
class. These fighters have to make great
efforts to divorce themselves from many h
pound of too affectionate flesh before a
scrap, while my whole energies are always
devoted to building up.
I'm the meantime it is not likely that !
will make any engagement. After my
Sharkey battle Tom O'Rourke was kind
enough to offer to back me against any of
the heavies, barring Sharkey. He, of course,
aimed at Corbett, but the latest pronuncia-
mento from Fitzslmmons has made any such
match impracticable. Therefore 1t is very
probable that l will spend the next couple
OF months in communing with Dame Nature
and then when ] emerge from seclusion
will endeavor to make the matches | have
named and in the order that l have men
toned"
AS has been said, Mccoy looks we'll, bu,
one would think that he would fade away
like a wiil-O'-the-w isp before one of the