The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-17
LOU ROUSENAN' 5 GOSSIP
KID NrCOY's SKILL AS A sELF-AD-
VERTIsING MEDIUM OPEN TO
ADMIRATION
coNNoLLY's TALE OF WOE
England's Latest Featherweight, on
Form, Doesn't Appear to he Pos
sessed of Championship Mate
riaI-Pediar PaImer's Fight.

being on the banks of the Wabash NAV
not have accomplished anything worth
speaking of in pugilistic sense during
the past year. He has, however, sue
ceeded III earning for himself a reputa-
lion as fistic curio, and when his fight
I ing days are Ger should be carefully pre-
served and put away under a glass case
so that future generations might gaze
on him and wonder
Under the sohriquet of Kid Mccoy he
has probably obtained more free adver-
Using in the columns of the press than
any other boxer who has answered the
sound of the gong Startling stories of
vast sums won and lost on the race track
by the heroic Hoosier, and tales of his
martial wees. wild yarns of fierce en-
counters on the streets with beiligerent
toughS, wherein the Mccoy Mollies
played prominent part an wreaked dire
vengeance on his unlucky assailants-lo.
all those things have conspired to keep
the Indiana prgilists name fresh, much
too fresh, in the minds of the sporting
brotherhood
But of late the enterprising Kid has
added new sketch to his repertoire.
Whenever he perceiveS lack of interest
betrayed by the public in his movements.
the gay and festive Norman hurriedly
packs his valise dons his best sailor
suit, skips daintily across the gang plank
of an ocean liner and HES him to a
foreign shore.
Whereupon the yellow journals indulge
i'll much dire speculation as to the cause
of his departure, always winding up with
reference to McCoy's latest statement
to the effect that he expects to be cham
p1on of the world ere long, the inference
being that these trips across the briny
have a direct and significant bearing
on the heavyweight championship ques-
ton Just where the connection comes
in it is hard to see, but then everyone
knows that Mccoy moves in myster-
ious way with this vague explanation
the awe stricken admirers OF the Kid are
obliged to rest content
Mccoy left for England last Tuesday
week. ayowing that his season for seek
ing the white cliffs Of Albion was solely
for the purpose of purchasing a Norman
stallion and hackney for breeding pur-
poses, but as was to be expected, there
were not wanting dark hints of a chal-
lenge to all England to be issued by the
sagacious Hoosier upon his arrival in
Edward VII dominions.
Now the Kid is again upon the dark
blue sea bound for New York. He left
Liverpool on the Oceanic, March 49, and
before going confided to his ever faithful
friends of the press that he would not
fight again for year At the end or
all claimants for the championship crown
and wear the laurel wreath himself Ha
also remarked that with Charley Nit
chell as partner he means to open a
saloon at Buffalo during the Pan-Amer1-
can Exposition.
BY the time his 'I<idlets'' sails past the
statute of liberty his mind Will probably
warp again and a new schedule of his
future career be gotten up for the bene-
fit of fistiania's followers.
But after all there is little sense In
surmising as to what Mccoy intends to
do. He is as cratic In his movements
as will-o' the-wisp, and there is only
one thing that can be prophesied with
any degree of certainty regarding him.
Whatever his intentions may be the Kid
is pretty sure to come out ahead as far
as his bank roll is concerned.
Kings county, insane asylum, Borough
friend: Since I wrote you last week
of it. I'm in the fog hank. under q
cloud SO to speak, temporarily, and all
through professional jealousy. These
daffy guards they keep here to watch
for the whole racket. They all think
they can go bit at the rough and tum-
bic game and you know 1 can hand out
a few along those lines myself. The way
Since my arrival in the bug joint, I've
kept my good lamp focused on the morn
ing papers as l don't want to let any
thing that happens in the business at
which l was always esteemed a bloody
slick one get by me- If | didn't keep
posted as to how the 1ightin blokes was
doing where would the professor be when
he finishes his light training IN this
health resort. and starts out on the road
again in search Of the long green? Well
the other morning | was coming a long
out lot Of CUFF about Rubin being the
best that ever sprinted across the pike
and so on. Just as was about half
way through the stuff the duck that has
Here. you,N this amt studying hour:
grab hollis with that mop over there and
help to swab down the floor
Now 1 leave it to yourself if that wasn't
pretty much on the rough. Here l was.
Prof. Connolly one of the handiest mugs
with the mitts that ever travelled with
show, trying the rest cure at public ex-
pense so as to get in scrapping shape and
forty-five cases per month lobster that
didn't know cross counter from a SIDE
step. had the nerve to talk to me Of
working.
My friend says I, trying to keep
but you're stretching things too far To
lands and don't bother the professor
when he's busy improving his mind
You'll hardly believe it but that mug
carried on something outrageous. Called
me bum, said I'd been on the free list
and travelled on the sunny side of easy
street long enough since arrived on the
premises. He wound up by getting a
strangle hold on me and to the floor
my mitt if we had been left to our lone
lies, but his pals came around on the
hot foot and what the bunch didn't do
to me isn't worth mentioning. When
thew through &c
bett had got a @decision over me in a
twenty-five round go with skin tights
Then they fired me into bloomin' cell
they call the screen room that has triple
jointed iron bars on the windows and
double doors. Tomorrow 1 m told they'll
bounce me into one of the bad wards
where the real things are. stark mad
raving, screening loonies. Any one Of
that gang can make more noise in
minute than Rough House Collins could
with his megaphone and sheeny booze
jag in a day One of my Stats is drove
in, four iyories knocked out and my
glass lamp gone. I asked one of the
gazaboos that helped to trim me what ne
ha and said was just as good look
ing without as with it,
Now. Lou, you can see that some
Things got to be done. You may have
the idea that by keeping me here few
weeks I'll round into shape and be fit
to do, credit to my manager when / get
out But that gag won't work. This
place don't agree with me at ALL every
thing done by force, have to take bath
every week even if you amt feeling we'll.
Their work is too coarse. No napkins
at meal time and the social style of
some of these dizzies is something fierce.
If you could only see them feed their
faces!
But, there, what's the use of spinning
out my special any longer I've told
you enough to let you see that If you
expect to make any coin by stacking ME
up against the top notchers you must
get busy and start the wires working at
once. Jimmy Connolly