The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-04
FlTz TO FIGHT MCCOY
FREAK AGREED To A MATCH
WITH THE HOoSIER BOXER
SOME DAY In APRIL
WANTS TINE FOR PRACTICE

Is Bit Rusty In Boxing, but
VIII Round 10 All Rfght-McCoy
and Maher Meet After the BuftIe
-One Of the Clever Tricks
Worked by the Winner.
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-Ex-Champ.on Bob
Fitzsimmons has promised kid" Mccoy
to meet him In ring contest some time
in April before the club Offering the larg
est purse. The young Indianian, who so
summarily disposed of Peter Maher,
CHANGED upon "Fitz" in the Hotel Metro
pole. F1tzsimmons congratulated Mccoy
upon his victory. and volunteered the
match for which Mccoy has SO long been
making challenges.
I'm a little out of practice now" said
Fitzsimnons, land purpose to get back
to form gradually I fight six rounds
with Jack Mccormack next week, and
have several other limited-round bouts in
view. I will be in condition to fight you
in April"
You're on" replied Mccoy. That's
a chance l have wanted for some time.
and 1 think we will make a pretty good
| contest" A meeting will be held later to
arrange details
There was much comment In sporting
! circles in regard to the shifting of odds
in favor of Mccoy at the ringside in the
| fight at Coney Island. Many reasons were
! advanced for the sudden change, but the
| story given most credence was that Me
| Coy's hackers had engineered a smooth
| scheme and had carried it through In
! good style.
TALK OF. FAKE"
1t appears that certain persons recoe-
| nized as large bettors and strong friends
of Mccoy were afraid that the kid"
would be the favorite in the betting. 10
prevent such condition the men in
| question thought out clever scheme to
catch the unwary. They circulated
| report last Friday night that the Kills
4 fight with Maher would be his final Gp
| pearance In the prize ring, and that as
| he was in need Of money and would never
| fight again, he had decided to lay down to
| Maher. The story was spread all over
| town Many took the bait. Immediately
| there was a scramble to bet on Maher.
| The odds, which at the time had been
| even money under pressure of the Maher
| money wagered, dropped to 10 to s, and
| gradually fell to 10 to g. The Mccoy
men having succeeded in getting the odds
where they wanted, appeared with their
! money. So strongly in evidence were
! they at the ringside on Monday after
| noon and so freely did they bet that
] the odds on Maher gradually went down
| until the men entered the ring, when 10
| to 8 and even 10 to were offered Nc
! Coy, with no takers. When spoken to
| about this matter Mccoy said that he
! knew that the report was in circulation,
| but did not know who had started it.
] 81 have always fought to win said
| Mccoy, land 1 always intend to do
So"
CLEVER TRICK.
Maher and Mccoy received their money
from Jimmy Wakely, the stakeholder Of
the match. Mccoy received $4,000 and
Maher $4,000 $4,000 being the total
amount of money taken in at the club
house Monday afternoon. The 'sKid"
and Peter shook hands after receiving
/ their money, and the Irishman asked
! Mccoy If he would give him another
match, to which the kid" replied. Ger
tainly. within six months" Maher
showed several marks of punishment on
his face as result Of his fight with
! Mccoy. There were two black swell
ings under his right eye and a deep
cut and swelling over his left(eye. Nc
! COY dlu not nave scratch on HILL.
! Mccoy explained the actions Of his
seconds in shouting buffalo" to him to-
ward the close of each round. This was
| the result of an understanding between
4 Joe Considine. his time keeper, and his
seconds. eve had an agreement be-
tween u.s." said Mccoy. that Considlne
would raise his hat to my seconds with
In ten seconds of the expiration of each
4 round. My seconds were to shout buff
| falo.' I was then to jump in and slug
with Maher taking a chance to knock
| him out. Should he give me hard blow
and knock me down / would have moro
| than a minute in which to recover, as /
4 could not be counted out before the
| round ended, while 1 might do a whole
lot of damage to Maher, who would not
| know of the disadvantage he was work.
| ing under"