Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-16
THE PUGILISTS.
n'COY WAS
THE WIZARD
Experts Say O'Brien Was
Outclassed by the Tricky
Hid O. Brien Did All the
RuShing-NOteS.

An expert at the ringside describes
the Mccoy and o Brien battle as fol-
lows:
When Mccoy faced OBrien in that
first round and saw that whirling
dervish with ten boxing gloves
swirling about him look of wonder
came into his eyes. O'Brien was In
and about him like spectre at a
dance. There was rain OF blows
that made him glove blind for fully
two minutes of the three.
Then the Kid came to. but the fox
in him forbade the placing of the ia
nous hook until he had figured out
just how dangerous O'Brien's right
was.
Hes purity fast said Charley
Mitchell in the minutes rest Keep
away until you get his gait
The Kid kept away and stalled I'M
til he got a good hard punch in the
left eye in the first minute OF the Sec
ond round. 1t made him angry. He
laced IL right across in II rally, and
landed high on O'Brien's head. Jack
fripped at the same instant on Me-
Coy's left foot and went down.
He was mp and fighting like a wind
mill in Il gale before Referee Crow
hurst tabled three. A minute later
Mccoy lunged with his left. 1t came
over so fast that the spider-like Phil
adelphian had to drop instead of duck
lie landed on both hands and one
knee. but was up before the Kid got
back to the perpendicular.
There was never much to it when
Mccoy got going.
Throughout the entire fight he was
the master at intrigue, at slipping and
ducking. at placing his blows.
His wallops We're of greater power
than O'Brien's. This may be explain
ed in part by the fact that Jack was
the aggressor in the entire six rounds.
He chased Mccoy about the ring
from the time he got into it until he
got out, but he never got to him right.
His blows-the one out of five that
landed-did so when the Kid was go
ing away from them.
Mccoy, on the other hand. won the
eyes of the wise by his clean and ter
rife counters and his marvellous slip
ping out of tight corners.
In the third round Mccoy had plen-
ty of strength within him. He got
mixed up in the windmill near the
center OF the ring, and when his eagle
eyes saw no loophole-he was off foot
like flash of lightning he gave
EO'Brien the left elbow. UP went
Jacks head and swish went Mccoy
arm about the Philadelphian's neck
When they broke, Crowhurst said to
the Kid:
mo more of the strange, Mccoy"
s.Sorry," said the diplomat, and
ripped a left to O'Brien's wind that
got grunt.
Jack gave his one-time mentor a
fearful race. The half-mile pole was
agony for the Kid. He had left his
tantalizing smile with Mitchell after
that first round, and he looked like
he was regretting lack of road work
hardness.
O'Brien kidded him and laughed i'll
his face as he said time after time:
well, I'm strong yet. Amt going
back, am I?'
The Kids only answer to this was
a wink at Mitchell. He didn't Kid
back He was entirely too busy, Slip
ping. darling in and out, here and
there, like the creased spectre mat he
u.s.
ssThat is the finest piece of defensive
work i ever saw in my life," said IN
old ringster, land / have seen every
great fighter in the last twenty-five
years"
The Kid brought O'Brien to his own
corner in every round. He would
feint Jack into a clinch. twist
him around, poke his curly head mp
against Jacks nose and smile down at
Charley Mitchell not five feet, away.
keep your chin down, you chump,'
Mitchell told him dozen times.
keep your chin down and so easy
don't go too fast"
Then he would wallop O'Brien in
the belly with his right, stall off 4 re-
turn and prance out OF the clinch like
d FREELY in a swamp. The consequent
rush of the flying O'Brien would wind
up in fusilade of marvelously block
ed swings in exactly the same corner
Mitchell about five feet away
from which the rush started.
The Kid tired in the fifth, hut he
always had his wallop up his sleeve.
That was his reserve fund, and he
drew on it only when it was neces-
sary to even up the round.
This proposition of evening up these
rounds was one OF the three great eff
forts that mark the battle as one OF
the most beautifully adroit performs
ances that ring experts have seen in Il
quarter of century.
The Kid had TO round out three dis
tinct departments OF endeayor in each
whirling three minutes.
His legs had to move like cent?
pede's to slip O'Brien's hurrying fails.
When he got into Il corner he had to
block with the rapidity of snakes
fang-darts. In between, as swift as
sun glints he had to wallop that on
coming avalanche of flesh and bone to
keep his place In the argument. He
had not second to think it out.
O'Brien was at him, tooth and nail,
for the whole eighteen minutes of act
ual fighting If he threw away wall
lop it told on him, and he took the
chance of a stray cop in the jaw that
might have finished it.