The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-03
TIMELY BOXING TALk.
why There IL Such 4 Dearth OF Good
HeaNyweishts NJ Present.

Whatever i'll effect tn. dearth of good
heavyweights may have had on the boxing
game, It certainly has hustled heretofore
lethargic managers Of fighters into state
Of activity to discover some one capable OF
giving Jim Jeffries q battle for supremacy.
Clever big men are as hard to find as precious
jewels They are worth their weight in gold
and with an adroit and shrewd pilot behind
them they can accumulate more money than
the greatest OF little fellows in the same space
OF time. But big men do not take to pugilism
as readily as their smaller brethren, and this
is one Of the reasons why we have so few
heavyweights. The ma ority OF the giants 60
in for other kinds Of athletics, either from
pride or for other reasons. Only as a last
resort do they take up boxing. The big man
with athletic tendencies is apt to be vain.
He regards his good looks as essential to his
success, and is very careful to preserve them
He realizes that his features are liable to be
considerably mutilated and distorted II he
goes into the fighting business, unless he is
exceptionally clever
Billy Madden has the correct idea about
heavyweights. He has developed more
champions in this class than any other
manager. He can make more capital with
with champion little man: He is always
on the alert For new talent in this division.
He never turns a deaf ear to the letters he
receives from ambitious candidates for
prize ring fame and he gets a lot of them
from folks all over the country q He
happens to be d heavyweight he VIII get
an audience all the quicker. He has an
original method OF trying them out and
can distinguish their good and poor qualities
without stretching his neck He knows
brave man from a coward and has no
,aa for anv Of the latter breed
Madden has handled such well-known
heavyweights as Charlie Mitchell. John
L. Sullivan, Gus Rubin. Joe MoAuliffe,
and Denver Ed Martin. He took
E Khs ii 'G AND Th sde fighter e os
of him. He saw that Rubin had the
necessary qualities, such as gameness.
stamina height and weight. All he lacked
was proper training and development. The
trouble with present-day fstic managers Is
they have developed one champion and
made money. Instead of looking for an
other man to fill his shoes they either retire
or live on their reputation. That is one of
the chief reasons why We have 30 few good
heavyweights There certainly must be
ious to become pugilists. but too modest to
take the initiative. II the men who follow
the welfare OF scrappers would only keep
their eyes open and do some hustling we
might soon have a man able enough to give
Jeffries strong tussle, and possibly beat
him.
Kid Mccoy came hack to life, again.
in pugilistic sense, at Los Angeles the
other night. Mccoy met and outpointed
Jack Twinl Sullivan in slashing 20-round
bout That Mccoy did u not IT. knock . S Hi;
certainly exercised all of his skill and
strenSsf~to do the trick, but utterly failed.
He beat Sullivan after the fashion he has
whipped all Of his rivals-by chopping
them with the left and swinging with the
a man 81 his many inelegant traits
vanity is one. He delights in picking
at his man with both hands just TO show
his superiority. OF course, when the op-
portunity comes he knocks him out,
II he can This he endeavored to do with
rugged and determined quality. and as
gritty and plucky as they make EN-. He
stood the "gaf, 80 to speak, and at the
twentieth round was in better condition
than Mccoy. McCoy's victory over Sui
indicate that he has regained the form
he displayed seven years ago. Care
less living has left it's imprint. apparently.
While Mccoy still possesses all OF his old
clevernees, his former strength has dis
appeared.
Mccoy is a very weak puncher now, COM
pared to Jack OBrien of Philadelphia, The
latter met Sullivan a few months ago at
St Louis and had no difficulty in putting
Sullivan awav before the fifth round. Yet
II took the Kid all Of twenty rounds to win
on points 1t is now supposed that Mccoy
and O'Brien will fight In the West. TIE
painful affair between them is still re-
membered, and the memory OF that mill can
only be wiped out by long mill. 1t would
be an interesting encounter from every
point Of view and the winner would be
hard to pick in the early rounds. But II
O 'Brien is in any kind Of shape, and u the
Kids last fight is any guide Brien should
prove victorious. and with a knockout, too.
IF the pair are ever matched again there
will be spirited bidding for this scrap. for
on the surface it looks like an excellent
drawing card