Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-01-11

trying to reach his man.
Fourth Round-I1id shoots left to
mouth. He dances away and feints
with right and Tom laughs. Kid puts
left on eye and right hook to jaw and
Sharkey grlns at him. Sharkey misses
left swing, Kid jabbing on the nose.
Tom put right underline arm and Kid
jabs left and right on head. Tom
lands left on shoulder and he misses
a left swing, Kid smashing face twice
with left. Kids left goes home to the
wind and Tom slugs the ribs. The
Kid sends left to the eye, Tom wallop-
ing right and left on ribs. Sparring at
the close,
Fifth Round-Tom rushes, but his
swing does not land.Kid tabs left on
nose and Sharkey rushes again, and
again the Kid gets left in on the nose
and jumps back out of reach. Tom
follows closely, but McCoy's agility
keeps him free from harm. Tom
closes in corner, putting left on neck,
and in next clinch Hurst was compell-
ed to break them. Kid puts left three
times on face and ribs, later with left
on chin. A series of clinches and Nc
Coy puts left twice to eye, then drop
ping to ribs. Tom rushes but Mccoy
is not there Just before the bell the
Kid drives hard left on wind.
Sixth Round-Kid darts left to head.
Toms left goes over his head. Toms
left on stomach, Kid counters on ear.
McCoy's left twice for wind, Tom an
swering in kind. Toms left for wind
reaches all right and Kid pokes left to
mouth. Tom rushes, nearly pitching
through the ropes as the Kid dodges.
Mccoy twice on ear with right and
then left jab on face. Tom goes to
ribs with right, Kid LETT on eye and
right to stomach. Tom left on neck
and he misses left for wind. Right on
stomach, Mccoy uppercuts Kid back
with heavy shot on wind and they are
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Seventh Round-Each score couple
of misses. Sharkey keeps crowding
and Kid jabs at long range. Toms
left to jaw sends Kid to ropes. Tom,
still rushing plants left again on head
and they ciinch. Tom puts left on
mouth and Kid reaches eye, then he
lands right on stomach, then uppercuts
stifily with right, reaching chin. Kid
jabs face with left and Sharkey crowd
ing him to ropes uppercuts Kid with
right. Kid comes back with interest
and both appear to lose speed. Sud-
denly Kid shoots left to eye and they
are dragging each other at the bell.
Eighth Round-Opens with clinch
and hugging match. Toms left for
wind is stopped and Kid jabs twice
with left. Kid now attends to stom-
ach, landing two lefts on the mark
Kid jabs eye twice, almost closing one
OF the Sailors optics. Tom continues
to rush and Hurst is again and again
compelled to break them. Tom is very
tired and Kid uppercuts him with
right. Tom lands hard left on the
stomach and as Mccoy reels Tom
lands another left, doubling Mccoy up.
He falls in agony and takes limit to
rise. When he is up he goes for Tom
putting left and right on the head
Sharkey counters each time. 1t was a
close call for Mccoy, but he rallied
when bell rang. W
Mint Round-Kid starts with left
jab. Again he jabs and Tom swings
.e4s on ear, repeating on jaw. Tom
crowds Kid to corner, puts right on
chin and Kid sends left to face. Tom
puts his left on mouth, and a soaking
left on wind forces Mccoy to (retreat
Tom puts left then right on stomach
Kid jabs face twice with left and pokes
glove to Toms eye, following with
right over heart. A furious rush from
Tom and vicious mix-up on ropes,
swapping jabs, swings anr uppercuts.
Kid dancing away swings left to chin
and Tom rips left to wind. Bell.
Tenth Round-Kid right lively and
had no trouble lodging the Sailor.
Tom misses a bad swing for stomach
and then ducks into stiff punch from
the Kid, catching him on the bad eye.
Tom misses a swing and glares mock
ingly at the Kid in answer to right ON
the jaw. Kid darts left to ear and
jabs left on chin. Tom continues
crowding him and swings solid left to
jaw and down goes the Kid Tom
piles in and puts q right back of ear
and the Kid falls face downward
Referee declares that Mccoy could 90
no further and Sharkey is pronounced
the winner. Time, one minute IL sec
onds in tenth round. The Kid was
down the limit.
Referee Hurst apparently made no
effort to count on the second knock
down, but he touched Tom and mo-
toned him to his corner, evidently
considering the battle already ended.
When Mccoy arose he staggered to
his corner but quickly pulled himself
together, Tom walked over and
shook his hand and then left the ring.
ne was loudly cheered as he climbed
down. Mccoy, surrounded by his sym
left his chair few moments
later. 1t was great battle.
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