El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-21
HAS KID" MCCOY
REBLLYG0NE BACK?
He Saws He Has, but His
Age Makes His Claim
Doubtful

san Francisco, Calf, OCT @l-JuSt
az present number of pugilstic de-
rclscts are talking Of coming back.
Kid Mccoy goes a little further. He
says he is back.
Dn the night Carl Norris and Jim
Flynn boxed at Madison Square gar
ler. New York, the writer had a pleas
ana greeting from Mccoy
We discovered Ehe secret sara the
kId I'D like 20 see you before YOU
le-He town and talk it over with you
Lriefly. what is it- I asked
First Of all. TO forget the past en-
IN ely. I mean not TO count upon per
10; ming wonders because you were
able to perform them once upon
time lf man is confined TO his bed
thrcl gh sickness for several months,
he has 10 learn to walk ali over
alain, hasn't he-and it is the same
win fighting. II you are out Of II
year or two you cant take il up where
YOU left off. You have to begin all
over again. That's what I am doing
] Still remember the things 7 used TO
do and 7 am hammering away at them
Ike a fellow learning TO play the fid-
die. Another great help is to obey the
laws OF nature-tO live Cleanly- And
above all, you must see TO 1t that the
mind dominates the body thoroughly
Radiantly Talkntive.
The changing OF the gong broke up
the conversation and was sorry. The
KID was radiantly talkative and sur
prisiugly interesting and I had not
thoroughly grssped what he was driV-
ing at I wanted to know whether
the domination Of the body by the
mind meant a new cult I'm pugilism,
e different order OF things under
which the effects of wear and tear
and punching should be reasoned
away an advanced system Of milling
in VI hich the mind would insist upon
continuing when the body felt as
though it were knocked out.
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since that night to assist me i'm form
Ing conclusions, ana ] see that he is
thoroughly satisfied with his progress
so far. He seems to think that his
nav theory has worked out to the
greatest satisfaction; that he has
leaned to walk all over again, that
simple living is reaping its reward and
that the Mccoy mind has the Mccoy
body under perfect sCbjectiuI.
And all because he has bOWled over
a tr3ng Of nObOdies in such order that
there was not really ample OppOrtun-
fly Of deciding If the Mccoy physique
as the Kid imagines.
May Do If Not Too Old.
IFS all very well for the mind to
boast of its powers of domination
when there has been no particular call
urOn the physical resources When
the journey lengthens and the legs be
gin 10 drag and when the heart begins
TO pump violently and the lungs feel
OvertaUed, the most persistent mind in
the world may fail to make the body
respond. Mccoy, If the record speaks
correctly, viii never see his 38th year
aEC5u. And that from an athletic
standpoint, is a good round age. He
has been in the lists fun 20 years, so
Ions. in fact, that reading his past
doinEs within the hempen corral is
like strOlllng among the tOmDs IN q
country church yard and noting the
names Of the dear departed
Jim Baron, Shadow Morrow, Jack
O'Irien.
Where are they now
Steve O'Donneu, Tommy West, Tom
my Ryan, Joe ChOynskil
Bow can a man disentangle himself
from such wraiths as these and come
Jim Hall, George Lablanche, Dan
CrecdOn, Nick Burley, Joe Goddard,
Billy Swift. Jack Root Peter Maher!
Can anyone blame the Kids body II
st refuses to dance attendance on the
mind after reading a list Of former
associates like that2
isn't it quite time the poor body en-
jOved a well earned rest2
Mind ia Young, However.
This much can be said for the Kid
His mind is young His manner and
his conversation attest this But that
proves nothing, that is so far as com
ing back is concerned. They say you
can't put an old head on young shout
ders and by the same token you can't
very well hitch young mind to an
able in the way Of team work.
There have been iron men Of course
though that was more a question OF
the intellect George Godfrey was one,
Bob FitzsimmOns was another They
U-er- exceptions to the rule that, IN
Meter Of athletic activity, man has a
preEC ribed span.
Vow. il Mccoy is a Godfrey or Fftz-
simmons physically. and has the pow
ers Of mental domination he hints at
he may prove one Of the greatest mar
vais of them all in the line Of pugflis-
tic longevity.
But the test is the thing. And it
isn't supplied by tumblinE tyros like
jim Savage and KID Ely in bouts last
inE less than five rounds.
am interested in the Kid and his
claims and I would like to know how
far he can go. And when I have seen
hjm-or have read Of HMM a brisk
bout Of at least 10 rounds duration
with q man Of the caliber Of Jim
Flynn, sam LanEfOrd OF Joe Jeanette
7 viii be better qualified to express
an opinion as to what learning all
over again" clean living and mental
domination have done for him.