The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-09
SILER PICKS MCCOY
THE VETERAN REFEREE SEES NO
CHANCE FOR THE SAILOR
TO WIN
SCIENCE is ALL AGAINST HIM

Bull Rashes the Only Thing He Has
to Go in ON. and Those Not Likely
10 BE of Much Advantage Against
the Kids CIeverness - Outlook
for the Manly Art Is brighter
Notes of the Ring.
CHICAGO, Jan. S.-George Siler picks
kid Mccoy TO win over Tom Sharkey
In New York Tuesday night. Siler, as
referee and spectator, has seen both
men tight several times, and he thinks
McCoy's cleverness will far outclass
Sharkey's bulldog rushes and strength.
The veteran referee gives his reason
Tor thinking the Hoosier Will best the
sailor as follows:
4 like Mccoy in the coming fight
because he is the cleverest man in the
ring today, is a hard hitter, and has
no superior as a general inside the
ropes. l cannot see where the sailor
figures at all, and I honestly believe
the Kid will come out of the fight
without ruIfiing a hair When the sec
ond fight between Ryan and Mccoy
took placeI was the referee, and I was
anxious To see Mccoy against the SYRIA
cusan- did not see the first fight be-
tween the pair and I was the first to
believe the report that Ryan was not
in the best condition when it took
place. l knew him TO be one of the
cleverest men in the business, and
could not conceive Mccoy going eigh-
teen rounds with him and not even
getting a black eye. l expected to
see a fancy man of the Jim CorbeJt
type, but l was fooled When the bell
rang for the first round to. begin the
KID assumed crouching position, in
which it would be impossible for Ryan
to land on him, and commenced a
strange sort of half-feint and haIf-lead
Ter Ryan's stomach.
After pushing his left out four or
i've times he suddenly sent his right
across Ryan's jaw with force enough
u jar Tommy. Ryan was in good con-
clifton and made a clever tight of it, but
the police stopped the go. McCoy's
style was a revelation to me. 1 thought
L had seen about all the different STYLES
of the prize ring. but his was a sur
prise. l afterward refereed the Rubin
Mccoy bout, and when 7 gave the de-
cIslon TO Mccoy Billy Madden, Ruth
Inns manager, said to me: He made
my man look like q sucker didn't he"
But, then. ne will make a good many
or them look like suckers before ne
quits the ring
HITS \ CORKSCREW BLOW.
This corkscrew blow of McCoys be-
gins with the start of a lead for his
opponent When in repose the knuck-
les OF the list are almost down, and
Nhen he leads for the head or body
with either hand the glove gradually
changes until, when it reaches its mark.
the knuckles are up. He IS a man who
can deliver a Knockout from a short
distance, and I have heard of him
guarding blow with the right, in the
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the point OF the jaw. aud be declared
the winner without any further fight
ing He is a great fighter, and l look
TO see him whip the sturdy sailor"
Aside from being the greatest referee
IN the country, Siler is a close student
OF the ring, and even when attending
a Fight as a spectator follows every
move of the men and decides in his own
mind who he thinks should be de-
clared the winner. His opinion, there
lore, is worth something and wise
sporting men Will take his advice and
put their shellels on the Endianian.
Siler says in his experience many
boxers who have had victory almost
within their grasp have lost by mixing
II with the groggy one. According to
the veteran, when a man has his op-
ponent groggy and mixes it he gives
the other an even chance of winning.
because man who is losing still has
q stiff punch in him, and his only
trouble is in landing it, If a man comes
close and gets in the way of the losing
mans swing ne is liable to go out, and
this has happened several times in
Chicago.
Stand off and feint once or twice"
Siler advises fighters. Take your time
and it will not be many seconds before
fhe one on Queer street will leave an
opening where you can plant the final
blow
BOXING PROSPECTS BRIGHT.
From the present outlook this wear
gives promise of eclipsing all previous
ores IN the number and character of
its boxing contests. Every week or
TWO one hears of another state or city
taking the ban off the fighting game,
and not a few of the states are allow
Ing twenty and twenty-fve-round
bouts. To all intents and PURPOSES
these goes are as good. or better.
than finish fights. Few of the fights
tnat nave gone on to forty and fiftv
rounds have been anything but walk.
ing matches. Then, too, the specta
tcrs grow weary of the sport after
twenty or twenty-five rounds. no mat
Ter how fast the milling and are al
ways perfectly willing at that sta ge
to have it stopped and decision rem
dered- Almost any of the large cities
OF the East will stand for long bouts
now, and, although New York is the
Cniy state with a law sanctioning box
ms contests, many of the others wink
at the sport. From all parts of the
country comes the report that the game
IS in the ascendency This is pleas
ing news to the glevemen, and also to
the numberless sportsman who would
prefer a seat at a fight to one at a
banquet table. Poor old Nevada. the
first state to welcome fighters, has, per
haps, not now a professional pugiIist
within its borders. Dan Stuart stiII
owns his Carson City land, pays taxes
on it ard hires a man to take care of
1t, but he sees no immediate prospect
of having use for it while the game is
allowed in New York and other places
Not that Dan would knock" the game
III those places-not at all. He is a
thorough sportsman, and likes to SEQ
the game boom, but as soon as a great
neral wave sweeps over the states
wherein long boxing bouts are allowed
and this is likely to happen at any
time, the genial Texan win pack his
grip, take a train for Carson and call
on all the top-notch fighters to follow
him.
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