The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-05-25

BY judge Hayes. :
JUDGE HAYES ALMOST
COT HIS IN A FIGHT
When Mcdonald Met Peter
Mccoy For the Middle
weight Championship.
How Move to Break Up Fight
Was Frustrated by Gun
of montana Jack"

When Duncan Mcdonald fought
Peter Mccoy for the middleweight
championship Of America, I trained
and seconded Mcdonald, and was
made to take water at the latter end
of the mill. They fought two hours
and thirteen minutes with skin-tight
gloves. Mccoy was travelling with the
John L. Sullivan combination. Nc
Donald was driving team and hauling
wood to the Anaconda mine.
They fought at Butte City, Mont
ana. In the afternoon the sheriff
stepped into the ring. and said:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is going
to be fight to finish and the first
one who makes bad break or uses
indecent language will be taken out
and thrown in jail"
I was boxing instructor for the
Denver Athletic club, an organization
composed of eight hundred members.
They sent for me to come and train
Mcdonald. I worked with him for six
weeks. It was the hardest fight ever
witnessed, and have seen SOON good
ones in my days. Mcdonald broke his
right hand in the first half of the fight
and it swelled so that it busted his
glove. Mccoy saw it and made tho
referee order a new glove put on Nc
Donald's hand. Mccoy was in bad
shape. While they were putting a new
glove on Mcdonald it gave Mccoy
chance to get rested up. 1t was diff
ferent with poor Mcdonald. The pain
from his broken hand was awful, but
he was as game a man as ever stepped
In twenty-four foot ring.
Fought Until Dark.
1t commenced to get dark and I
called some friends and the other Sec
onds who were handling Mcdonald
with me, and said to them: after
this fight goes another around you
fellows get over in McCoys corner,
and will call foul. Then you start
a fight over there. I will cut the ropes
and then start a free for all fight"
did not notice one OF McCoy's friends
behind me, by the name of Montana
Jack" known the world over as
man who always shot when he drew
his gun. He heard what told my
friends to do. Pulling the gun out
OF his pocket, and pushing the bar
rell Of 1t In my stomach, he said, with
a terrible curse: you cut them ropes
and will kill YOU 4 knew he
meant what he said, and you can bet
your life the Judge cut no ropes in
that fight. :. III,
When they came isNp for the last
round two of the gamest fighters that
ever lived, staggered~to the center Of
the ring SO weak they could barely
walk, it was a etnch, who ever rot
the first blow in would win the tight.
Mccoy was the first to land ON Nc
Donald's head: As he fell his head hit
the board flooring Of the ring very
hard, and being SO weak, it stunned
him. He lay there. until the refree
counted him out: and declared Mccoy
the winner.
We Lost the Fiaht.
We brought Mcdonald to his corner,
and 1t was fully ten: minutes before
he came to. He said: What Is the
matter Frank?" I said: "Never mind
Dune, we lost"
NO! moi" he said, getting on his
feet. Il am not whipped, and he drag
ged me across the ring, looking for
Mccoy who had left ten minutes be-
fore. I took Mcdonald back to our
training quarters. He had three teeth
knocked out, his lip was split so it
hung on his chin, besides a broken
right hand. I sent for a. doctor, who
bandaged his, face and hand and
sewed UP his lip. He was an awful
sight.
A couple Of days after, while 1 was
changing the bandages, he said:
Frank let me see that small glass.
1 want to look at myself" said:
Never mind Dune; wait few days.
you look alright. Nov look here"
he said to me, II did everything you
told me through: that fight, now let
mo see that glass;:
I handed 1t to him and he looked at
himself and said: II am sight, amt
II. It looks to me as II had been in
a railroad wreck.
Mcdonald married a women in
Helena who owned+a couple Of first
class hotels, besides great deal of
real estate. Poor Pete Mccoy was
drowned from the deck Of a tug boat
In Boston harbor. Some people do not
know the meaning of .skin-tight gloves.
They are kid gloves with the fingers
cut Of, used instead Eof bare kmuckles,
just to keep within the limit of the
law. JUDGE HAYES.