Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-23
BIG CHAMPIONSHIP
FIGHT NEXT FRIDAY
Some Timely Gossip from the
Training Camps - What Car
uthers Says,
LACK MONROE'S HARD HITTING
,,gries May be Greatly Surprised
When fc Faces the Miner This
Week at San Francisco.

ca,,n shcohan. Ocean Beach, Call
r,.o arrival Of Kid Mccoy, with his
.,rcnt Of cork screws upporcuts and
straight labs, at the Munroe-McGrath
.amn reminded me of the saying of Col
,orry r. sumner OF Oklahoma, when de-
,,,cr,ng the Decoration day Grafton at
n,,,hrlo in 1859, writes H. A. Caruthers,
,,,or he saw the q. A, r.
..,,erans on their march up the main
,,rce, No said when / saw them COM
,os no more joyfuller tears ever flowed
That expression IL apropos, for the
coming Of Mccoy was certainly tonic
A. tho Munroe camp. II also has given
.ocrev and interest In the great coming
,atlo when the pugilstlc history Of
he world was there ever two such gladi-
stors as Jpt and Munroe3 | can see
nothing but fierce battle between ths
,s,n most powerfu men IN the world
nbis contest certainly will place Jefrles
4, Tho limelight, for he VIII De up against
"sure enough" competitor, not egg
sbells that he mas heretofore borne down
mon and crushed, Munroe Is MS big as
1iI / mean by that expression that II
= as FAR through and to his sensitive
nerves as II Is to Jeh's
can see now ana Will predict the line
q, battle the Kid has laid aud planned
II IS the same line laid down I'm the
KIDS campaign against Sharkey the
,ime he went down to defeat at the Len
~ Athletic club In New York In 1874
That plan was straight right 10 the
sailors face and never "A siue-step nor
a step.back What was the result. The
nrst two rounds saw the sailor on his
Lark three times from the kids
straight right fhis the frail Mccoy
KEN up until he had DISCHARGED his blg
eaiibercd bullets sent from his moderate
tailbercd frame
What wonderful fighter Mccoy WOULD
have been with 20 per cent OF Jenries
iuqgedness To see him In action yes
tiiday was to compare him with 3 rigid
turug charged with electricity beating
on A solid granite wall and this granite
vau was Munroe, The miner took three
or four of the hardest blows ] ever saw
oelyored. any one OF them was as hard
s ss me blows that knocked sharkey on
D his feet in his New York fight, alluded
10 above. These blows only brought
forth from Munroe good natured smiles
and a wondering look straight at the Kid,
Nh much as TO say where does the
klds stOrehouse lay, and how far and
IN what direction nom his lightning
arms
Munroe can deliver a harder blow By
using a straight right than any man who
ever lived, This Is a bg-sounding sen
ttnce, but II Is true, believe Jeffrles
certainly was stranger TO such blow
every time he ever fought Sharkey, the
only man who can be compared with
Munroe who ever fought Jeffries, JEFF.
fries never used II In any OF his fights,
for the reason II is not IN his repertoire
livery time Munroe used II on Sharkey
the sailor felt II and felt II thoroughly.
Munroe In the best natured man In the
world. Now this Is tantamount TO fear
lssness This VIII be fully demonstrated
the night OF Aug, 26, one instruction
and one alone Is all the Kid will have to
do With IN Munroes corner the night Of
the light, and that IL a continuous boring
10 with straight rights by the miner,
No smashes TO the face but with head
down and left up protecting the miners
Jaw with his glOved fist and his stom-
ach with the elbow. No footwork Be
cause a big, pOnderous gun as Munroe
IS has no license to attempt to unload
With his feet I'm the air. II will be "A
night by Munroe designated In law as
'Posseslo pedls," meaning possession Of
the mat by the foot
What Will JeffneS do with this super.
human punching bag? He must come to
the miner and there the miner will stay
until Jef shows the world that he has
an inspired punch, for II will take one
Of them to put the miner 10 sleep,
This notion Of Jeffs friends saying he
VIII go In aud put the miner out In four
iounos or less don't look good to me.
How Is he going TO do II? Has JEFF
ever put anybody out in four rounds?
Can he do 1t?
Where is his punch?
Jen Is the worlds great "bcaring down
champion" lie don't stand there and
knock mans head off like he ought to.
lie wore Sharkey down by riding him
around the ring and leaning on him
ne can't ride Munroe because MunrOe
mas the hardest straight right punch
cxtant today, while all Snarkey ever had
was Dutch windmill swings, JEFF rode
those swings like the buoy rides the waves
.oi the sea but I'm Munroe's waves there
Is slNteen-f0ot board that comes
straight along with his stolid stand that
" II lands Joff will know It, II Jeff
puts Munroe out IN six or eight rounds.
men our time will never witness a fighter
JeHs class and he should be retired
ny custom and common law Of the prize
ring You know the common law is "A
Iohg custom Of which the memory OF
man runneih not 10 the contrary Jeff
can claim the championship OF the world
u9 we saw same custom II he disposes
Muhroe as he ought 10, Judging from
,ne cope now at our hands. This dope
says II II takes him ten or twelve rounds
20 lover a fast and shifty opponent he
should measure the miner by about elk
touhds, Can he do it2 II Ii worth com
HB 5VO miles to see