Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-11
MCCOY WAS
KNOCKED OUT
Sllarkey Defeated Him in Ten
Rounds.
FIGHT WAS A FAST ONE
In the Third Round the Kid Knocked
Sharkey Down Twice But He
Soon Recuperated.
FIGHT WAS A FAST ONE

10.-Tom Sharkey, the American sailor,
stands tonight the only heavy weight pos
sibility for championship honors and the
title now held by Bob Fitzslmmons. He
whipped Kid Mccoy good and hard in the
tenth round of what was to have been a
2O-round battle, and by doing SO the
Irish-American forged his way SO posi-
lively mi ~Uldeniably to the front rank
that FitZs.mnons must now consider the
sailor pugilist's claim without delay.
Sharkey tonight was a revelation to those
who saw him d 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 i'm
provement is almost incredible.
Great punches of muscle, with unlimit-
ed confidence and a cool head, are the
qualifications which have enabled Shar-
key to fight his way to the front rank of
heavy weight pugilists, and no one, not
even Mccoy, who suffered defeat at his
hands tonight, denies the full measure of
praise that is due the Irishman. McCoy's
marvellous footwork and that long left
jab with which ne has put so many of his
opponents to sleep are two factors in his
makeup that must always appeal to adj
mirers of the fistic art. He used every
%artifice known to the advanced school of
! pusilism in his contest tonight, and his
defeat must not be attributed to any lack
Of science of the latest approved form on
his part.
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 dispelled when the Irishman began
to get to his man.
When the doors of the Lenox Athletic
club were thrown open the entrance was
well guarded by policemen. From 6
O'Clock the streets in the immediate vicin-
ity of the club were patroled by a force
of bluecOats. Cordons of policemen We're
stationed in the vicinity of the clubhouse,
and Chief of Police Devery and his sub
~ordinates were busily engaged through
out the evening in keeping the crowd in
subjeCtiOn. By 1880 there were 5000 peo-
pie in the house, and the turnstfles We're
clicking merrily, SO that by 8 O'Clock the
attendance was nearly as many thouSand
as the hours indicated.
The boxes and seats in the vicinity of
he ring We're filled by the people. New
Workers, headed by Joe Vendig, made the
welkni ring with their shouts Of I'll bet
a thousand to nine hundred on Mccoy"
Come on with your money, the Gid must
VIM
and then the Sharkey money that hove in
sight forced the layer of odds to offer
nothing better than even money.
Can Mccoy win" was the question
which went the rounds of the boxes, and
the answer to this question was Even
,nrn1 o {ln f~It - ~ 49, --y ,,
"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 nor the
referee, Tim Hurst, this afternoon, and
that the latter would use his best judg-
ment in deciding when or 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 preliminary contests,
Strauss of Philadelphia Won from Carter
of Brooklyn. In the sixth round, When
Carter tried to wiring his opponents neck,
Referee White stopped the bout and
awarded the fight to Strauss on a very
palpable fou Kid Brood of Cleveland
and Frank Patterson of Brooklyn were
the participants in the scrap that was
brought on as the second preliminary of
NNO rs 'N"s' iiiS All "
go at III pounds. and pummeled each
other in anything but a friendly manner.
When the lads came up for the tenth and
last round Patterson was the fresher. He
more than held his own in the last round
and was declared the winner by Referee
White.
After the preliminary bouts had been
decided the betting was 100 to 80 in favor
of Mccoy. A few minutes later the bet
ting changed to even money. There was
a meeting held in the Office Of the club
between Mccoy, Tom O'Rourke and Ref
cree Tim Hurst, and at 1920 o'clock there
were several prominent sports present,
among whom were Jim Kennedy, Eugene
Comiskey and Ben Benton, McCoy's man.
ager. At this meeting it was decide that
Tim Hurst shuld declare, as the official
referee, What constituted a clinch, and
thus obviate any difficulty, and the men
entered the ring.
Sharkey and Mccoy entered the ring
simultaneously at 1923 p. m. Both wore
bathrobes. Sharkey's was of a dark
brown color and McCoy's was almost
white. McCoy's seconds were Doc Payne,