Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-12-17
BOXERS USE
MUCH TRICKERY
ENDEAV0R TO PLACE 0PP0-
NENT OFF GUARD
Jim corbett Was Careful Not "a
Arouse Jim Jeffries' Anger
at Their First
Meeting

You may not belive it, but there
really are tricks in the prize ring. The
long end of the evil root is many times
copied by other things than the sting
| ing stab and the Earring jolt. A line
of conversation has been frequently
known to help. Ask Terry McGovern.
He is more leary of Young Corbett's
kidding wager than of the Rothwellian
wallop. says Gym Bagley.
Dial Hawkins had 1t on Joe Cans one
time for a round at the old Broadway
Athletic club. In the second stanza,
after a breakaway, Joe looks down at
Dal's trunks and whispers to him:
Dial, your supporter is hitting your
knees"
Dial falls for the gag and takes his
eyes off the dinge for an instant. The
instant is enough. Joe whips the right
over to the jaw, and it's the sunset
glow and the faraway lullaby for Haw-
kins.
When Fitzsimmons was matched the
second time with Jack OBrien, Kid
Mccoy gives Jack a tip.
step on the old mans feet" said
the kid. His feet are in the cornfield,
and you will get his goat more by keep
stabbng him in the food hopper"
All through the session Jack crowded
Fitz's hoofs and had the bald-headed
bruiser of Bensonhurst on the hop to
keep them in the clearing. After the
fight Fitz said, among other things
"O'Brien had a funny way of trying
to step on my toes. 1 couldn't make
out what he was after, but it bothered
me more than anything else he did"
VIZ m
that memorable night at Coney Island
when Jim came so near, but just
missed, beating Jeffries and winning
back the championship.
Corbett Cautious
you are hitting him when and where
you like" said the kid, after one of
the rounds. why don't you push his
head back with your left and send in
the right over to the jaw? Take a
chance with it. You may cop him
hard enough to put him away"
Corbett shook his head at the advice
and continued to tin can. Mccoy re-
peated the advice for several rounds,
and finally Corbett, turning to him,
said:
II don't want to do it, Charley I'm
afraid to rile the big fellow. If he gets
mad 1 don't know what he'll do"
George Dawson, an old Australian pal
of Fitz and his principal second, played
low down brummagem trick on Tom
Sharkey before the fight between Fitz
and the sailor at the Coney Island
Sporting club. Dawson sent Skimp Nc
Kenzie to Sharkey's corner to tell him
that One-eyed Connolly had got in his
dressing room and pinchd 81 note
from the lining of his sock.
There wasn't word of truth in it.
Sharkey had the two sewed up in the
mattress at home, but thought that
maybe he had overlooked that sock,
and it worried him so he forgot to duck
when Fitz sprung the shift.
The only fighter who chewed tobacco
in the ring was Jack McAuliffe, and he
trouble with Billy Meyers, the Streator
Cyclone, at the carnival in New Or
leans, when Jack held on to the light
weight championship of the world,
George Dixon silenced the challenger,
Jack Skelly, and John L. Sullivan lost
his title to Jim Corbett.
Meyers was a tough nut, and in a
previous fight had given McAuliffe a
mighty stiff argument. Mack had two
buck teeth in the upper front with q
wide alley between them. Squirting
through this crack he could wet the
ace of clubs at ten feet four times out
of five if any one would bet he couldn't.
He kept feinting Billy out, and then,
when Billy got jollied into a lead, Jack
sent a jet of deep mahogany juice
plumb into Billy's eye. Every time he
did this he apologized, but when Billy
accepted the apology his lamps were
being drowned out.
Terry McGovern "kidder"
Terry McGovern always made a hit
with the mob by picking up fallen
foe as soon as he dropped him. This
was the generous act, and showed that
while the terror was out for the win
and the gate, he was there with a fell
low feeling.
IT am not letting the sucker stay
down and get rest with the short
count" was the way Terry viewed it.
Il pull him up on his feet while he's
tired and then wallop him out"
Which he very frequently did.
When Kid Mccoy fought Peter Maher
at Coney Island Peter was dangerous
piece of going, and was always there
with the paste that sung the curfew. 1t
was on New Years DAY. and so cold
that the breakers on the beach froZe as
they came tumbling in, and the next
ny they had to be planed off so that
the ferryboats could get by. On the
level.
Peter climbed in the ring dressed in
feather bed. The kid, up against
nne-foot base burner, in Billy Bradys
office-Brady ran the show-kept the
harp waiting III his corner for three
quarters of an hour. Peter had the
reputation of being a stiff puncher. He
was a pretty stiff puncher that after
noon, and then to help steady the
harp's nerves Mccoy had a telegram
delivered to him at the ringside telling
him that his wife had just died in Pitts
burg.