The record-union., 1899-01-11
The Knockout Blow Delivered by the E1-
Marine in the Tenth Round.
The Young Aspirant For Heavy
weight Honors Holds His Own
in the Earlier Stage Of the Con-
test, But Could Not Withstand
the Onslaught of the Sailor
When the Latter Began to Get
to His Man.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Tom Sharkey,
the American sailor, stands tonight
the only heavyweight possibility Tor
championship honors and the title now
held by Bob Fitzsimmons. He whip
ped Kid Mccoy good and hard in the
tenth round Of what was to have been
a twenty round battle, and by doing
so. the Irish American pugilist forged
his way so positively and undeniably TO
the front rank that Fitzsimmons must
now consider the sailor pugilist's claim
without delay.
Sharkey tonight was revelation to
those who saw him 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 improvement is almost
incredible. Great punches of muscle,
with unlimited confidence and a cool
head, are qualifications which have en-
abled Sharkey to fight his way to the
front rank of heavyweight pugilists,
and no one, not even Mccoy, who suf-
fered defeat at his hands tonight, de-
MES the full measure of praise that is
due to the Irishman.
McCoy's marvellous foot work and
that long left jab with which he has
put so many of his opponents to sleep
are two factors in his makeup that
must always appeal to admirers Of the
fistic art. He used every artifice known
to the advanced school of pugilism in
his contest tonight, and his defeat
must not be attributed to any lack of
close study on his part Of every trick
in the boxing game. 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 dispell-
ed, when the Irishman began to get to
his man.
When the doors of the Lenox Athletic
Club were thrown open the entrance
was we'll guarded by policemen. From
6 o'clock the streets in the immediate
vicinity of the club were patrolled by
force of bluecoats. Cordons of police
men were stationed in the vicinity of
the clubhouse, and Chief of Police
Deverey and his subordinates were
busily engaged throughout the evening
in keeping the crowd in subsection. By
7:30 there were 5000 people in the
house, and the turnstiles were clicking
merrily, SO that by 8 o'clock the at
tendance was nearly as many thousand
as the hours indicated.
The boxes and seats in the vicinity of
the ring were filed by o'clock. Book
makers, headed by Joe Vendig, made
the welkin ring with their shouts, I'll
bet a thousand to nine hundred on Nc
Coy" Come on with your money, the
Kid must win "Come on with your
money" Many bets were booked at
those odds, and then the Sharkey
money that hove in sight forced the lay
ers of odds to offer nothing better than
even money.
"Can Mccoy VIM" was the question
which went the rounds of the boxes,
Even money if the fight is on the
level. 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 meet
ing of the principals, their managers
nor the referee, Tim Hurst, this after
noon. said that the latter would use his
best judgment in deciding when and
where a clinch occurred in the face of
the articles of agreement, which con-
tanned two, the eighth and thirteenth,
which seemed to nullify each other.
In the first of the two preliminaries
Isidore Straus Of Philadelphia won from
Kid Carter, an over grown juvenile who
halls from Brooklyn. In the sixth
round, when Carter tried to wiring his
opponents neck, Referee White stop
ped the bout and awarded the fight to
Stratus on a very paapable foul.
Kid Brood of Cleveland and Frank
PATTERSON of Brooklyn were the partici-
pants in the scrap that was brought on
as the second preliminary of the big
bout. These met for ten round go at
121 pounds, and pumme1ed 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.
THE BIG EVENT.
After the preliminary bouts had been
decided the betting was 100 to 80 in favor
of Mccoy. few minutes later the bet
ting changed to even money. There was
meeting s,I held in T the office of the club
cree Tim Hurst at 1920 o'clock, at which
there was several prominent men, among
whom were Jim Kennedy, Eugene CO.
miskey and Ben Benton, McCoys man
ager. At this conference it was decided
that Tim Hurst should decide as the Off
cial referee what constituted a clinch,
and thus obviate any difficulty after the
men entered the ring.
Sharkey and Mccoy entered the ring
simultaneously at 1923 p. m. Both wore
bath robes. Sharkey's was of a dark
brown color, and McCoy's was almost
white. McCoy's seconds were Doc PAYNE,
Con Reilly and Frank Erne; timekeeper,
Nate Fenton of Buffalo. Toms seconds
were Tom O'Rourke, Tommy Ryan of
Syracuse, George Dixon and Jack Dough-
erty; timekeeper, Professor Jim DeF'or-
rest.
3 Sharkey's weight was 172 and McCoys
15S pounds. Mccoy wore white running
trunks and a belt bearing the Stars and
Stripes. Tom wore green trunks with a
belt of American colors. They shook
hands at 1910.
Round They fiddled. Mccoy tried a
left for the wind. but missed, Tom scoring
a left over the Kidneys Both men were
"a ref1Jl McCOv tried a left hook for the