The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-25
SPORTING NEWS.
Kid Mccoy Admits a Breakdown
In Health.
And His Fight With Maher is
Declared OFF.
WAS SHARKEY'S BLOW
Never a Well Man Since He
Fought the Sailor.
VAS SHARKEY'S BLOW
A Surgeons Knife Necessary
to Remove the Effects.

New York Nov 25+'Kfd'' Mccoy and
Peter Maher will not battle for fistic hon
ors and so, 900 purse in the ring OF the
Coney Island Sporting club the night
of December 4. Mccoy is q very sick
mand and upon the advice of Doctor
Charles Z. Young, who has been attend
ing him at White Plains, he has aban-
dOned his training for his match with
Maher. In fact, owing to a general break
ing down of his nervous system, It IS be
HeVed that Mccoy Will be united TO com
pete in any ring contest for at least a
year.
1t is doubtful whether he will ever be
able to fight again, though his physician
asserts that rest and careful nursing IN
the meantime will result in restoring MIN
McCoy's visit to Colorado to recuperate
fit and his close friends have known that
his health was broken during the more re-
That MCCOY is far from being a well
man a. glance at him at his White Plains
cal His cheeks are sunken and clothes
that have heretofore fitted snugly, now
look baggy and out OF pace on nm m n =
least twenty pounds, and he looks any
thing but his former self: his appearance
plainly indicates that his health Is very
seriously affected. Mccoy Went outdoors
today Tor the tlrst tune IN ten days, tax
ing a drive through Westchester county,
kid said that the break down IN health
was due to too much training. 1t has been
said that the system which he followed
at White Plains mas not agreed Win nm m
Mccoy is not naturally robust, and the
extremely vigorous exercises which he
has recently taken is thought by some to
have helped in his break down.
1t is learned from another source. how
ever, that the Kid has never really been
a well man since the night he fought
Tom" Sharkey at the LenoX Athletic
club a wear ago. He received terrible
body punching in that tight and the .por-
ton OF MS anatomy punlShed on tnitt 0G-
casion has given him more or less trouble
since.
It is not generally. known, but it is, de-
clared to be fact. that for ten days
subsequent to that fight McCOy's body
was covered with black and blue marks
and he suffered intense agony at inter-
walls during that period The kid eX-
poets to undergo a surgical operation soon
in the hope of gaining relief
Il was taken i'll while on the road
training for my fight with Peter Maher, >,
got home l went to bed, thinking l would
cams 1 felt worse and sent Tor Doctor
Young. and he found had a high fever.
He said it would be some time before L
could resume training.
I want to fight Peter Maher, and all I
gladly give him under like CONDITIONS. I
viii not fight until am in condition to
to fight when I met Sharlzey last Janu-
airy. and the consequences were had to
cuse but I take it as a lesson. I fear
no man in the world in a Marquis of
for same. 1 have never before had to dis
appoint the patrons of the boxing game.
be ali right again and will gladly go on
with my match with Peter Maher as soon
Doctor Young issued the following
statement concerning McCoy's condition:
Mr.. Norman Selby Ckid' MCCOY while
training at William MuldOOn'S Sanitarium
last week. took cold. which, resulting in
fever sent him to bed.
He is out of doors as usual today. IN
DERIVING this recent illness, however, it
must be admitted. is a debilitated nervous
system. the result Of past continuous Sc
we're training
I have advised him to retire from the
ring for at least one year. feeling that
the period of rest should completely re-
store his old vigOr, which is far from be-
ing beyond redemption, as some newspa-
perS have stated"
Doc" O'Payne. McCoy's trainer said
that he noticed the decline in the kid s.
condition ten days ago
I'VE were sparring at Mu1dOOn's." said
Payne, land in the clincheS Mccoy showed
great weakness. asked him what was
the matter and he said: I don't feel
right The Kid is a game fellow and in
sisted on training for his fight with Ma
her until he collapsed and was forced to
go to bed. He needs every day of a year
to get well again.
Mccoy was matched to fight Peter Ma
her at Coney Island on December 4. His
illness viii caues the contest to be in
definitely postponed
For his weight Mccoy was recognized
as one of the greatest fighters the world
has ever produced. He was one of the
cleverest boxers that ever entered a ring
and was as game and "shifty'' as he was