Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-08


 Fight in England-Joe Cans Busy
 Pugilist.
 The "Kid" is still hitting the pipe, and here is his latest abstract from the spirit world: Kid Mccoy, the prize nghter, lost a French poodle on last Friday and grieved greatly. He said that he wouldn't have felt worse if he had lost his brother. The Kid found the dog in saloon at Seventy fourth street and Third avenue yesterday and took him home. That much seems to be we'll established; but as to how he got the dog there are two stories. Me- Coy says that he heard that the dog was in the saloon and found him there lied up. He cut the rope and was lead hag him out when the bartender asked him what he was doing. Mccoy says six men sailed into him, but he licked 4 them all. When they learned who they were up against they fled, he says, 1.-The saloon keeper, whose name is T Brown, says he demanded the reward ' Df $100 which he saw offered for q H similar animal and that when Mccoy q refused to pay it an argument fol- A lowed which attracted a policeman. 4 After that they arbitrated, but, there ! was nO hShb, DlO"A odIds GIAILOuSlA 8 Mccoy did drawa revolver at one stage of the game. Anyway Mccoy has his dog back.
 Liverpool, May Silly Barrett of 4 New York and Mansfield of Bristol fought twenty-round match here last night. Barrett won on points.
 Boston, May S.--Jimmy Briggs of V Chelsea, considered the best man of # his weight in New England, fought a j6fteen-round draw with Fred Bryson # of Waltham at the Physical Culture R club last night. The pair met once be- fore and after a slashing bout Briggs got the decision. In the bout last night Briggs appeared to have the better of the going in almost every round, but the referee thought it was an even thing.
 Joe Cans will be busy pugilist within the next two months The ] % lightweight champion, who is now try Ing to arrange battle with Jimmy Britt, has three matches on. His first light will be with Tom Tracey of Aus tralia. They are to box twenty rounds x at Portland, Ore, on May 13. On June Cans is slated to meet the winner of the Rufe Turner Kid Parker scrap, # which is to be held at Butte, Mont, | next week, and on June 15 Cans will light Buddy King of Denver before the Broadway A. O.. Butte. Cans expects 10 win all three fights in handy fash lon Tracey used to be a good fighter several years ago, but it is believed that he is too old and slow for the champion.
 South Manchester, May S.-A fair sized crowd attended the athletic car # nival in the opera house last night ! William l.. Crowley of Hartford ref creed the bouts. Leon Filiere and Kid Curtin of Hartford were matched for l wrestling, but Curtin failed to show up and Rob Tanner of this place was N substituted. Tanner was an easy mark for his opponent and was thrown three times in fifteen minutes. Young w Haley of BuckIand and Kid Corbett of Rockville went on for an eight-round boxing exhibition. They showed their lnexperience by the continual hard lighting that they kept up. Haley was given the decision. The star event of the evening was a ten-round bout be- tween Kid Russell of this place and Mike Maher of Hartford. Russell put np good fight and won in the tenth round.
 Kid Mccoy made $1oo,oOO in the ring in 1900. A few hours before he met "Jack" Root he chatted on how a boxer can make this huge sum, and of The fickleness of the American public. Mccoy had an idea that by defeating the man from Chicago, it would be possible for him to make over $1OO,O0O In the coming twelve months So much for dreams. 4 Although he referred to the time he
 ought Harry Sincere, over dozen
 ears ago, in wheatfield near Lan-
 ing,p on Sunday afternoon, for purse Of $15, Mccoy, in his affluence, never mentions that shortly after this purse was made up in Detroit to get aim out of town
 Said Mccoy: Tn 1900 made S1OO.- poo, which was the biggest amount I aver drew down in a single year. I l think the gross receipts for the appear ances I made against fighters was over
 1S0,OO0. You can figure it out your elf: Receipts Sharkey fight, $59OO0; Receipts Corbett fight, $52,OO0; receipts AIaher fight, $20,000; receipts Tommy ER Ryan fight. $18,000; receipts Creedon light. S6,000; receipts Choyinski fight, e9,O00; receipts Jack Bonner fight, S4. TOO; receipts Steve O'Donnell fight, s7. 100; receipts Jeff Thorne fight ST. too; eight weeks on road at $1,OOO per week, $8,000;. total, $18O,900.
 The old-time boxers who were in Eheir glory during the days of bare knuckle fights are fast dying off. Tom Allen, who passed away ill St Louis re- gently, was one of the most noted characters of his day. Jem Mace, the sx-champion of England, who has had the gloves on with nearly every fighter pf prominence in the last quarter of a DsnvEoInn nnd Fl