The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
TRICKS IN PRIZE RING.
How Conversation Between Hawkins
and Cans Won the Latter the Fight.


strong arm You may not believe it,
but there really are tricks in the prize
ring. The long end of the evil root is
many times copied by other things
imam the singing stab and the Earring
JOLT A line of conversation has been
frequently known to help Ask Terry
McGovern. He is more leary of Young
Corbetts kidding wager than of the
Rothwellian wallop.
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 looked down at
DaPs trunks and whispered 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 sunset glow
and the far away lullaby for Hawkins.
When Fitzsfmmons was matched the
second time with Jack O'Brien, Kid
Mccoy gives Jack tip.
Step on the old mans feet" said the
Kid. His feet are in the cornf1eld, and
you will get his goat more by keeping
on top of them all the time than by
stabbing him in the food hopper"
All through the session Jack crowded
Fitz's hoof and had the bald headed
bruiser of Bensonhurst the hop to
keep them in the clearing. After the
fight F,itz said, among other things:
"O'Brien had a funny way of trying
to step on my toes. couldn't make out
what he was after but it bothered me
more than anything else he did"
Mccoy was in Jim Corbett's corner
that memorable night at Coney Island
when Jim came SO near, but Just missed
beating Jeffries and winning back the
championship.
You are hitting him when and where
you like said the Kid between one of
the rounds. Why don: you push his
head back with your left and send the
right over to the jaw? Take a chance
with it. You may cop him hard enough
to put him away. -.te
Corbett shook his head at the advice
and continued to tim can. Mccoy re-
peated the advice, for several rounds,
and finally Corbett, turning to him,
said go
II don't want to do it. Charley. I'm
afraid to rile the big fellow. If he gets
mad don't what he'll do"
George Dawson, an old Australian
pal of Fitzs and his principal second.
played a low-down Brummagen trick
on Tom Sharkey before the fight be-
tween Fitz and the Sailor at the Coney
Island Sporting Club. Dawson sent
Skimp Mckenzie to Sharkey's corner to
tell him that One-Eyed Connolly had
got in his dressing room an6 pinch~d u
two-dollar note from the lining of his
sock There wasn't a word of truth in
it. Sharkey had the two sewed up in
his mattress at home, but thought that
maybe he had overlooked that sock, and
it worried him so he forgot to duck
when Fitz spdung the shift.
The only fighter who chewed tobacco
in the ring was Jack McAuliffe, and he
only chewed it once. That was in the
trouble with Billy Meyer, 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 Sicily. and John L. Sullivan lost
his title to Jim Corbett.
Meyer was a tough nut, and in a pre-
vious fight had given McAuliffe a
mighty stiff argument Mack had but
two buck teeth in the upper front, with
wide alley between them. Squirting
through this crack, he could wet the
ace of clubs at 10 feet four times out of
five if any one would bet he couldn't
He kept feinting Billy out, and then
when Billy got into a lead, Jack sent
a Jet of deep mahogany juice plumb in
to Billy's eye. Every time he did this
he apologized, but while Billy accepted
the apology his lamps were being
drowned out.
Terry McGovern always made a hit
with the mob by picking up fallen Zoe
as soon he dropped him. This was
the generous act, and showed that
while the terror was out for the win end
and the gate, he was there with a fell
dow-feeling.
II am not letting the sucker stay
down and get rest with short
count" was the way Terry viewed it.
ct pull him up on his feet while's he
tired and then wallop him out"
Which he very frequently did.
When Kid Mccoy fought Peter NAH
err at Coney Island Peter was a Danger
Gus 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 tnmbling in. and the next
day they had to be planed off so that
the ferryboats could get by. On the
level.
Peter climbed in the ring dressed in a
fea therbed. The Kid,up against a nine
foot base burner in Billy Brady's Of
fice-Brady ran the show-kept the
harp waiting in his corner for three
quarters of an hour. Peter had the
reputation of being a stiff punchera that
afternoon, and then to help steady the
harps nerves Mccoy had telegram
delivered to him at the ring.side telling
him that his wife had just died in
Pittsburg.-P Inquirer.
Cox Sells Interest In the Reds.
Cincinnati, April 1.-THE deal for
the transfer to Thomas J. Logan by
George B. Cox of the latters third in
terest in the Cincinnati National base
ball team was completed today. Mr..
Logan is a warm personal friend of
President Hermann of the club.