Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-31
C0RbETT WINNER
MCCOY CLEVER ENOUGH, BUT
LACKED STAMINA.
LASTED ONLY FIVE ROUNDS,
Before-Anxious to Meet
Jeffries. ..I

New York. August 31.-The spectacle
presented in the ring of the Twentieth
Century Athletic club in Madison Square
Garden last night when j. j.. Corbett
former champion fighter of the world.
n Kid Mccoy met to fight for a share
Il the gate receipts, which according to
Jim Kennedy, the manager of the club.
to $4,000 and were larger by
thousands than the receipts at any other
prize ring contest ever held. was a clean
cut smashing mill. There We're two
stages to the fight. One of them was the
first round, in which AcCoy was the ag-
gressor and in which he seemed to hold
Corbett safe. outpointing and outtighting
him from gong to gong. Thereafter Their.
was nothing to it at all. In the second
round Corbett, instead of playing a wait
ing game, became the aggressor and soon
had Mccoy guessing as to what would
happen next. 1t was not the blow on the
jaw that affected Mccoy. The BODY
punches laid him low. Always suscept-
IDLE TO a blow in any part of his anat-
omy, Mccoy has been peculiarly suscept-
ible to body blows. AT the ringside there
We're men from Chicago n Cincinnati,
San Francisco and Denver. St. Louis and
Salt Lake City, Buffalo and Atlanta.
Canada being we'll represented.
McCoy's defeat removes him from the
ranks of the heavyweights who are am
bilious to wrest the title champion from
Jim Jeffries.
Corbett came ou: of the ring without
a mark or scratch or bruise on him. Nc
Noy's face was pusfed and swollen and
his right eye was discolored. But other
wise he seemed to be none the worse for
his battle.
Betting on the fight was very tame.
1t was expected hat the heavy wagerS
would be placed at the %ringside, but the
Mccoy money did not materializa. Co..
bett was a pronounced favorite from the
start. Everybody seemed to want. the
Corbett end.
STORY OF THE FIGHT.
In the opening "ound Mccoy showed
to much better advantage than Corbett.
Mccoy seemed very confident. though
careful. while Corbett was nervous and
i'll at ease. Mccoy started out with his
usual coolness, but Corbett was fidgety.
The entire round was taken up with
the cleyerest kin of feinting and SPAR
ring on McCoy's part, while Corbett's
work left very little to be recorded.
In the second round Corbett came up
in better form and his uneasy feeling
had evidently left him.. His fretful-
hess and his ~vousn had disappeared
and he gave an exhibition which could
only be given by a man thoroughly post
ed in the innermost points of the scien-
tiic are of boxing. Corbett frequently
endeavored with rights and lefts to
reach the Kid. but the Hoosier fighter
"dN loo lilillDlc vi lis 1ett anu MS STOP
ping and blocking We're marvellous. Cor
bett got to the head toward the latter
end of the second round and --cCoy jab-
bed his provoking left into Corbett's
face. In the third they got to each other
oftener. but it was in the fourth that
Corbett began to take l-cCoy's* measure.
At times Corhett stopped his scientific
work and resorted to smuggling. which
proved very effectual. Mccoy was fore
cd to clinch and it was then seen hat
torbett was surely getting the best of
it. Mctov had to break ground fire.
uuen1ly and after the bell had sent them
to their corners, while both men showed
signs o. fatigue, Mccoy was certainly
the Wearier.
IN THE FIFTH.
I. the fifth and concluding round Cor
bett forced Mccoy into the corner, where
the Kid kept blocking, and sparring for
an opening to get out. Corbett swung for
the head, but Mccoy tucked under it
very cleverly and jumped to the center
of the ring. jim rushed him across the
floor of the ring and by clever work
forced Mccoy back into the corner
again. where he sent right and left to
the Kid head. This was the beginning
of McCoy's undoing. Corbett went to
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