The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-09
OF SECOND
 MCOY-RYAN ENCOUNTEz

Fifteen years ago tonight was the
 slrne SI ana the Alhambra in syracuse
 counter between the two great middle
 weights. Kid Mccoy and Tommy Ryan.
 Neither of the men had been entirely
 satisfied with the result Of their for
 bout they were supposed to be our far
 r-r-reVepge. Ryan had trained little
 Tor his first meeting with Mccoy. but
 that session taught him to respect
 the Kids prowess, and he worked
 faithfully to get into condition Mo
 Coy was not at his best on that night
 affect his cIeverness. Ryan was es-
 pecially anxious to make a good show
 ing because Syracuse was his home
 town, and nobody likes to be ''ehopyr
 up' before his friends. Mccoy also
 had many supporters at the ringside.
 as several special trains had been run
 into Syracuse from New York. and
 other admirers of the Kid had come
 from all over the East The show
 opened with a preliminary ip which
 Homer Selby, McCoy's Kid brother.~
 was one of the principals. The Kid
 and Homer were as affectionate a pair of brothers as could be found anywhere, and McCoy's anxiety was all for the lad he had inducted Into
 the pugilistic profession. Instead of resting before his own battle. Mccoy insisted on acting as second to his
 performing his full duty as a second. and when Homer's arm was raised as the victor, the Kid was worn out and McCoy's trainer. By registerins Kicks against everything connected with the ring, the gloves and all the arrange about half an hour, and Mccoy was fresh when he entered the ring. For two or three rcundB there was as fine an exposition of sci entific boxing as one would care 10 see. In the fifth round Ryan became the aggressor, and landed a hard blow on the Kids body. but the latter also got in number of good ones. It was evident that both men were laboring to put over a knockout, and the going was fast and furious when the Syracuse police chief stepped fin to the ring and told the fans that it was all over. Wheerat the fans. en- tirely satisfied, filed quietly out of the hall. Not,
 Three score and two years ago to- day California was admitted into tho day that has long been celebrated by the fight fans of the Pacific Coast- Many memorable battles have been fought on the ninth of September but none more important than the light weight championship affairs in which Joe Cans, Battling Nelson and Jimmy today that Britt, the native son" Of - who aspired to premiere
 light weight honors, was definitely put out of the running by the ''old mas
  West was put down and out by the ,u1lud lad from Baltimo' in the sixth broke his "ulna bone''-a tragedy that has become one of the classic jokes 0f pugilism. Cans showed himself Britt's superior at every stage of the won if he had kept his ulna intact The first meeting between Britt and often been branded as a fake. Thoee who allege that the affair was crook ed declare that the native son knew he had no chance to win from the that Jimmy should lose on a foul. Anyway that was how he lost It was in the fifth round that Joe wsses 1own before a blow that hadn't seend- ad very hard. Jok got up on one knee when Britt standing over him. delfb- srateIy sma shed him in the face. Ed awarded the victory to Cans a foul But that didn't end the battle. If Britt wanted to lose. a g alleged he showed little appreciation of being permitted to do SO. Giving an excellent imitation of a man who was lighting mad. he went for the referee. with the announced intention or teeE-
 ng him into minute pieces. The spec -ators. or many of them as could climbed into the ring, and for a few Donnybrook fair was Tn pro- yress. Today is also the anniversary 1f the final battle for supremacy be-
 ween Battling Nelson and Joe Cans. pulled off on Sept. 9. 1908 Tn their Sans was the winner on a foul. They net again on July 1. 1908. at Colnna, when the old master went down be- ore the slashing onslauEhts of the durable Dane. taking the count in
 he seventeenth round On California A drnission Day of the same year they net again, Joe was knocked Out ir
 he twenty-first. but he made a biz pot of money He had bet every cent le had in the world that he could ;tay twenty rounds with the Dane md his winnings sslved his defeat.