The Washington times., 1907-09-22

Britt hurdle with the bit In his teetn,
but now comes tough obstruction la
beled Memsic.
This fellow Memsic Is a good specimen
or the only type Of fgnter that will
ever have a chance 10 defeat Joe Cans
while the latter retains his strength
A clever man will never stand ghost
OF a chance with the old master.
Cans is a marvel at the game OF feints
and counters He steps in and out, his
long left arm at full stretch. prodding
about with his left hand until SATISFIED
with the opening presented and then
like a fash the right shoots through to
the mark Never a wasted movement
never an uncertain step. Joe fights his
fight very much as an expert chess play
er-cvery move means something; every
thing Is done for a purpose
The man who stands up to box with
Cans is lost
Is This Correct Dope7
The only man who has chance with
him is The hard-headed individual who
comes In on the run. banging away with
both hands. And then the odds aIc
about 1000 TO / against his landing an
effective punch.
Nelson stayed forty-two rounds with
Cans skeleton at Goldfield. There was
one round in the fight which caused the
Cans people a lot of worry and that
was the round in which Bat landed
hard left swing TO the pit OF Joe's empty
stomach. The colored boy bent double,
staggered erect and his eyes rolled in
his head. Had Nelson the punch OF Il
Young Corbett or a Memsic. he would
have won his tight right there.
1t was the only really effective blow
he landed in the forty-tvo rounds, but
Il was enough TO show that the old mas
ter is not an ironclad. Joe was caught
mapping The punch was telegraphed
in advance. but he failed to block il.
Such oversights have lost fights.
Kid Mccoy was a marvel of a boxer
but he came near defeat in his last
twenty-round fisht-the one with Jack
Twin Sullivan. For fifteen or sixteen
rounds he had been prowling around
Sullivan like an Italian around a dane
ing bear. Time after time Sullivan went
down, took a count and came back
again. The Boston boy was game and
desperate enough to fight back like
wild man, but Mccoy slipped out Of
the way OF all the swings and crosses
The tight was a joke. 1t was like beat
ing a blind man.
Had Mccoy Beaten.
Toward the end OF the fight Mccoy
gave up trying to put Sullivan away
and. his own strength falling. devoted
himself 70 footwork and an occasional
lab. Sullivan tented and Mccoy, grin
ming, dropped his hands and took wide
step to the right At the same time Sui
livau swung a low haymaker with his
left Mccoy walked straight into it. 1t
sounded Ike a thump of a bass drum
Mccoy. in telling about It afterward,
said:
He didn't know that he had me be-
cause I danced away, but TO save my
life I couldn't have raised MY hands.
For perhaps fifteen seconds 1 felt as
II 1 had been paralyzed from the waist
up. I never suffered so from a body
blow in my life and it served me right.
I thought he was too easy and I drop
PED my hands and walked right into it.
One rap on the jaw would have fetched
me- and it was only because I made
faces at him that he stayed away
Memsic Has Another Guess.
Mems!s saw the Britt fight. taking
great comfort from the fact that Cans
did not floor Britt during the FIVE rounds.
A man with a glass eye might have seen
that Cans never put his strength into
a single blow delivered during the fight.
IIe beat Britt with short right jolts.
and never once did he whip over the Old
! sleep producer as he did at Goldheld.
% II Memsic thinks that Cans can hit no
harder than he did against Britt, he
should think again.
Up TO date. there has been little or no
betting on the fight The Memsic people
want race-track odds for their money
TO ! would suit them very we'll. This
Is a very lop-sided price. but on form
! and past performance it should be
ta 10.
Bohemian's Battle Plan.
Cans is hard at work. Last Monday
y, he started his road work, doing the
usual bag punching and rope skipping
in the afternoon. At the end Of the
days work he tipped the beam at 1874
Memsic. on the same day weighed in
az lSS pounds. A week before the fight
\ both men will weigh IN public on scales
which have been balanced by an expert.
NcCarey Is determined that there shall
DtN -A-N~AA Al NAA4n AbllA. dII al the
present writing there seems to be
little tchance OF anything going wrong.
as both men are within easy reach OF
the weight.
Memsic makes no secret of his plan of
campaign He says the way Cans
smothered Britt at the boxing game has
convinced him his only chance lies In a
toe 10 toe encounter and he means &c
meet Joe coming out Of his corner and
stay with him until something happens.
Meinsie carries heavy punou In either
hand, the right being the most danger
ors. He needs time in which to set
himself for this punch. but IL he hits
the mark with IL. he can whip any
lightweight IN the world
hite Boy Has Punch.
e once iioored Tommy Burns with
punch to the jaw and It was this
driver wallop which caused the
gyweight TO add Memsic TO his
-. II Memsic wades in to make 1t
< bee, the fight viii not last
the Bohemian fights al ter