The Washington times., 1904-05-16

thus before. Judgment of distance had
always Deen his forte. Here he was
swinging away like a drunken long
shoreman.
1T was at this point that the crowd
began to get suspicious, and Hurm4r3
OF surprise started in the front rows.
spread through the audience. and final
" swelled into a roar of contempt, de
r1Slon. and resentment
Money Comes Easy.
The philadelphia Record" under the
caption, ''Why Do Fighters Fake?' says
in part;
when it is considered how easily
popular boxers of the present day get
money as compared with old-timets. it
is surprising that they should ever think
Of resorting to taking to make it come
still easier. Jack O'Brien says he has
made $4,000 at the boxing game in the
last five years. and he probably tells
the truth. for Jack is not given to eX-
aggerating.
kid Mccoy has made considerably
less during that same space of time,
for the reason that he has not been
on the top wave Of popularity since his
shameful lay-down to Jim Corbett in
New York four years ago. Previous 70
that Mccoy had been a big winner
financially. his great skill as a boxer
nave made him great public favorite.
o Br1en has worked his way up from
the bottom to the topmost round of
pugihstic popularity in this city by
strict attention TO business and by never
under any circumstances allowing an
opponent TO catch him in anything but
the best OF condition. He is a Shrewd
cessful way he has conducted his own
affairs. in and out Of the ring, and this
fact makes II seem all the more strange
that he should have allowed himself
pulled OF with Mccoy at the Second
Regiment Armory on Saturday night.
McCoy's Reputation Bad.
Mccoy having been previously caught
in a similar or even worse fake had
less to fear IN the way of damage to
his reputation as a fighter. but in
O'Briens case taking is supposed to be
an entirely new game.
But there was nothing TO excuse Sat-
urday's nights show. O'Brien was in
condition for six rounds of hard work
and yet he never really cut loose. Nc
Coy looked better than he has for sew
eral years. and. barring the fact that he
was not quite as spry as Of yore, seemed
TO possess all his old-time skill. He
seemed to grow somewhat arm-weary at
times, but was always strong on his feet.
Both men we-A I'm condition to have
given the public a run for it's money
and yet they never tried an inch. 1t was
an exhibition pure and simple. and for
a time Il was a decidedly interesting
one, for both are very clever boxers.
There is just one point that the bout
cleared up. and that is that Mccoy can
still make the middleweight Hmit-l5s
pounds"
Have Gone Back.
Charles Sommerville, in the New York
Journal" says:
ITO take the stamp of Fake and stick
T. on Saturday nights dainty slap work
in Philadelphia might perhaps be too
raw a performance. But If these two
men, bruited to be entitled to top seat
places in the band wagon OF glove glad
iators, honestly and sincerely put out the
best that was in them last Saturday
night. then they got into their places
by mistake and ought to be riding some
where near the tail OF the cart
mccoy has been great, but II on Sat
urday night he was the best that he can
be now, then II is a mournful certainty
that his greatness has preceded him to
the cemetery. He barred his face to the
LATEST jabs ever-Jabs from O'Brien
that started about on a Monday and ar
rived az tie end Of the week And the
Ia bs landing were as forceless as the tap
of a pups paw. Mccoy took no end of
them. but at the end of the bout his face
bore no marks that a man can acquire
on his toWls seated on a piazza IN New
Jersey, where the mosquitoes come from
A mosquito would have done him con-
sldera5iy more damage.
Anyway, neither Mr.. Mccoy nor Mr.
O'Brien has left with us any deep, un-
dying yearn TO see them sweetly swat
ting each other again"