Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-21
FRANK cAVANAGH

the left hand in uppercut fashion.
UP to that very instant, Mccoy was
looked upon as a "piker' against a
real champion. Now Mccoy is the
champion, and you can't take it
away from him. To lose it he must
be beaten and to lose the title to-
night, according to the boxing code,
he will have to be knocked out or
stopped inside of the ten-round limit.
C.
No matter what the figures show,
or what the dope foretells, a cham
pion is a champion in any event.
Mccoy, as a common. ordinary fight
er, didn't amount to a sou markee,
but as a champion he may be worth
his fighting weight in gold. Cham
pions don't just happen. Men who
reach the top of their profession
must have something. Mccoy, when
he fought Chip, could not have sold
his chances of victory for a nickle.
and in his fight tonight against MUIR
ray he couldn't get so very much for
his prospects. Yet he will go into
the ring as the king, and he may
fight like king. 1t may be that Nc
but the fact only became apparent
when he knocked out Chip. We will
see tonight just how good he Is.
Murray is the one to give him the
test, for Murray is a young fellow
striving for high honors, and he
will not be disposed of in a hurry.
If Mccoy is beaten decisively it will
prove that he was an accident-that
he doesn't belong But If Mccoy,
fighting in his own peculiar way Of
right foot and right hand extended
clips Mr.. Murray on the Jaw in any
one of the ten rounds and puts him
down for the count, we will all have
to admit that he is there. Until he
! is beaten we are inclined to give Nc
| Coy credit. If he comes out of the
affair tonight victorious, it will prove
that champions are champions be-
cause they have the right kind of
material in their makeup.
g
The American golfers in the Brit
! ish amateur championship are all
through. Jerome Travers and Fran
! els Ouimet and others were put out
of the running much sooner than
expected and today Chick Evans, our
only remaining hope, was also
beaten. We will have to take our
golfng medicine with straight face,
but we hope to get even when it
comes to polo and to yachting.
G
President Barrow of the Interna-
tional League must be given credit
for his stand in refusing to allow the
Montreal Club to accept the services
of Pitchers Smith and Allen, who
jumped the Royals to play with the
Baltimore Feds. Barrow has notified
the owner of the Montreal Club moi
to use the OUTLAWS" and the league
president also declares that he will
never recognize contract jumpers
Barrow's stand is the only stand, ant
he is deserving of praise for his de-
termination. He has shown more
nerve than the big leaguers, who are
willing to take all the contract jump
ers back if they will only come. Tit
game is this: The players who e
with the Feds do so to better them
selves. When they jump their club
and jump contracts their wish is t.
ruin. They are looking for the bes
of it, and if they get it they will fee
, that they are smart fellows. If the.
prove failures there is no good reason
why they should be taken back int
the fold. 1t is all right to jump, blu
the jumpers should be made to suffe
; the consequences II Il comes down t
/ that. But what is to become Of tn
men who have jumped over an
jumped back and have not been ac
: cepted? And, also, what is to becom
( of the players in the Federal Leagu
who fail to make good? There ar
: several things for the young man /