The age-herald., 1899-08-19
RIGHT PUNCH ON TIE JAW Pandemonium Broke Loose Around the Ringside. OvER-C0NFIDENcr.S1 .S1 THE CAUSE
 -2.S The Vanquished g is list Took His De- feat Very o to Heart, But
 Rem c Silent Alter Was Over

Chicago, August 1S.-Jack Mccormick Of Philadelphia knocked out Kid Mccoy in about one minute tonight. The bout was
 to have been for six rounds, and it was generally thought that Mccormick stood
 no show at all. He said before he entered
 the ring that he was going to do his best
 and let it go at that The fight was short
 and so quickly over that there was almost
 nothing to it but the punch that put Me
 Coy to sleep. The fight was under strict
 Queensbury rules, hitting with one arm
 free permitted.
 Mecormick Rushed Things
 When the gong sounded Mccormick
 started in to rush things relying on his
 greater weight and superior strength to
 offset McCoys science. He received a
 straight left in the mouth the first time
 he tried Fit, and a second later a savage
 left hook on the side of the head halted
 him a second time. He then rushed twice
 more, carrying Mccoy to the ropes both times. The first time he hit Mccoy over the kidneys with his right. The second time as they came from the ropes, still | clinched, Mccoy freed his left and sent a hook to McCormicks cheek. dropping him | to the floor. Mccormick lay quiet, making | pretense of claiming a foul, although l none had been committed Mccormick rose l on the order of Referee Hogan with a 1 sheepish grin on his face. The knock | down had not injured him in the slightest. | The men squared off once more and then
 came the end like lightning from a clear sky. Mccoy was moving cautiously MoC .xyitb baf de Iau
 down, neither being as high as the belt. Mccormick suddenly let fly his right and it landed full on the jaw.
 Like Dead Man Mccoy went down like a dead man fiat on his back, his legs and arms outsaretched | and his face pointing squarely to the ceil- ing. It evident the Instant he struck
 the floor that his fighting was over for to- night at least.
 Pandemonum broke loose in the hall, and there were wild yells for Mccormick and shrieks of ''Get up, Kidi Get up!" Ho- gan went down on one knee by the side of Mccoy and shouted his call of the sec onds In the fighters ear, but Mccoy was past all hearing. At the word "Ten!' he
 raised his head slightly, and Hogan paused an instant before he shouted "Outr But Mccoy was still out of 1t. Thirty seconds would not have brought him into condition | to fight again.
 The general opinion is that Mccoy lost 1 the fight through too much confidence. He | made no effort at an ytime to block the leads of Mccormick. Mccoy was helped to
 hds feet by his seconds and walked slowly
 to his corner. He was rapidly getting his | strength again and hy tho fiyaa ba .aoo, ed his chair he ready to fight again. He took his defeat very much to heart.
 but did not say anything.
 Ryan's Irony
 Before the fight 1t was announced by
 Iommy Ryan that he had come to Chicago
 for the purpose of making a match with
 Mccoy at l6S pounds at the ringside. When Mccoy entered the ring he announced that he was willing to make a match with Ryan and hoped to close the matter to-
 night or tomorrow. There has been bad feeling between the men for years and 1t
 added bitterness to the defeat for Mccoy to have his old enemy see his easy defeat After the fight Mccoy was sitting in his corner Ryan came up to him laughing and said: Give me match Mccoy, give me match"
 Mccoy did not even look up as Ryap
 walked away, and made no reply,
 Mccoy would say very little after tbv fight, merely claiming that 1t was {, chs7.ea
 blow which would not be landed on him again in hundred fights by man of Me- Cormick's ability. Tommy Ryan said 1T
 wasn't looking for it just that way, but it
 proves one thing to me. Mccoy has lost
 his sight. He can't see but one hand at a
 time. When Mccormick feinted with the left he drew back, threw out his right a
 little to stop the blow that he thought was
 coming. He never saw the right at all
 He thought the left feint was all there
 was to it. He simply can't see two hands
 on an opponent"
 George siier's Opinion George Siler said: "It looked to me like
 a fight lost through over-confdence. don't mean to take anything from Mc- Cormick when I say that, for he won his fight fairly and honestly Mccoy acted as though he had an easy thing of it, and his
 knock down of Mccormick convinced him
 that there was only one to do it1 He was not careful enough with his guard
 1t seemed to me, but then those very things
 are that win and lose fight. A man is
 bound to get punched If he don't stop the
 punch The men could have probably
 fought a longer time before such thing
 could happen again, but 1t happened this
 time and Mccormick is entitled to all the
 credit"