Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-24
MCCOY HAS ANOTHER VICTORY
The "l<fd" Disposes of O'Donnell in
Short ride and Wants to Meet
"Lanky Bob" Next.

a.
Short Order and Wants to Meet
"Lanky Bob" Next.
Favorites won in the two principal pugil-
istic encounters last week when KID Nc
Coy put a kink in Steve o'Donnell's fighting
career at the Broadway Athletic club in
New York Tuesday night and Tommy Ryan
whipped Frank Craig, the Harlem Coffee
Cooler" at the Coney Island Sporting club
Monday night.
The contests were both one-sided, the win
ners carrying away the laurels in a walk.
In the bout between Ryan and Craig con-
siderable interest was aroused owing to the
prominence Into which Craig has sprung
during the past few years because Of the
several victories me has won in England,
where he has made his stamping grounds
for some time. Craig was a unique and
picturesque exponent Of pugilism. Since his
return from England, where he knocked out
such b~eavyweights as Jem Smith, Ted
~Pritchard, Frank Slavin, Dick Burge and
Jerry Driscoll, he has been sporting around
in high feather, the veriest object OF English
afectation. BUT when he went ND against
the champion w~elterweight he met a decided
Waterloo. Ryan was overmatched in weight.
reach and size, but with his stiffness and
headwork had no trouble in disposing of the
colored "Englishman," and Referee Silee
called the fight in favor of Ryan before tn.
tenth round was finished. Next week RYAN
VIII be at Denver in attendance upon tho
carnival week given by the Colorado Athletic
association and Will meet Jimmy Ryan or
Australia. The latter has come to the
front lately and when he held UP for twenty
rounds with Joe Choynski he showed that h.
was a. Drattv fp1,oh .rn,>oa,%ta~
KID Mccoy made another hit for him.
self when he defeated o'Donnell, the Aus
traltan boxer, in only six rounds. O'Don-
nell mad AID of the advantage in weight and
size, towering a full head above the 1.-the
l6o-pound "kid' and looking fully able to
annihilate him. McCoy's skill, however.
more than overbalanced the advantage of
the Australian and at no time in the game
was the latter a consequential figure. Nc
Coys victory over O'Donnell has made him
more ufan ever anxious to meet Fitzsimmons
Tor the m~iddleweight championship. He has
posted a forfeit of 81, 900 to meet Fitzsim.
mons at 1853 pounds and states that if Ooh,
does not meet it within thirty days he will
claim the middleweight championship and
defend 1t against all corners, negroes barred.
at 15S pounds. In speaking of this matter
the kid" says:
fltzslmmons' excuses for refusing to
nght me are ridiculous in the extreme. He
pretends to ignore my challenge ON the
ground that had an opportunity to fight
MIN before he fought Jeffries and, having
overlooked that chance, l am not entitled
to any further consideration. I venture TO
say that had I fought Mr.. Fitzsimmons at
mat time, myself and not he would have
been Jeffrles' opponent In the late cham
pionship encounter.
Il am not on the eve OF retiring. as he
pretends to be, and am confident that l have
a rev good fights left in me yet. In one of
1hese l nope to demonstrate tina l am the
peer or any middleweight in the world. and
the ambition OF my life is to fight for that
'Itie' Mr.. Fitzsimmons is advertising him
self as the only indicated and legitimate
holder OF the ~middleweight championship
l seriously question his ability to scale 1853
pounds, and II he can I stand ready to make
a match at that weight. II he cannot, then
ne is assuming a title which does not right
fully belong to him, and which in all fair
ness he should relinquish to whomever is
qualified to defend It,"
In connection with McCoy's efforts to ar
range a meeting with the Cornishman,
Tommy Ryan seems equally as anxious to
meet the kid" Ryan has thrown down
the gauntlet to Mccoy and is ready to fight
MIN. He, however, refuses to give away
any weight, and wants the Kid to get down
to l54 pounds, which Mccoy cannot very
well make. In a letter to the Kid, Ryan
says:
your various challenges to Robert Fitz-
simmons not having been accepted by him,
l am ready to accept your proposals and
light you for the middleweight champion
ship. l do not propose to give away any
weight to you. A claimant for the middle
weigh championship should weigh 1874
pounds at the r~ingside. and that is what l
should expect you to do"
A good card is scheduled to come off In
Denver before the Colorado Athletic asso-
citation during the coming week. Tomorrow
night kid" Parker, the seemingly irwin
chile western lightweight. will meet Perry
OF Chicago and the fastest as we'll
as tho best contest ever pulled off In Den
yer is expected. kid" Parker Is a great
faVorite in Denver, where he has frequently
appeared, and the sports out that way swear
by him in several different languages. 1t is
said that the devotees OF pugilism are so
stuck on the kid" out there that they
would rather see him than to walk across
the street to see even Jeffries were he to
appear on the same night. On Tuesday
night a double bin is promised. Paddy Ma
loney and Harry Lyons, Nose LaFontise and
Eugene Bezenah will both go for twenty
rounds. Wednesday night Tommy Ryan OF
who has just defeated Frank
Craig, will meet Jimmy Ryan OF Australia.
Thursday night a heavyweight contest will
be pulled off with Frank Childs, the cele-
hrated colored heavyweight, and an equally
as good opponent as the stellar attractions.
Friday night Jack Moffatt and Frank Nc
Cornell Of California, middleweights, will
try Conclusions and on Saturday night the
fistic carnival will be brought to a close by
a twenty-round exhibition between Joe
Choynski and Ed Dunkhorst.
- -r1T
Billy Delaney. the celebrated trainer, left
San Francisco for New York last week to
lin Jafriaa for bia haftIa with Tom