Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-14

meet Mccoy, while with a man of
Murray's reputation his end ought
to be nothing short of $500 OF
course, Murray is liable to give Nc
Coy fine old lacing, but so is any
one Of the numerous second raters
who go into the ring with a champion
half beaten and who sometimes, with
nothing to lose. come out the victor.
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Mccoy can fight. Don't forget for
a moment that he doesn't know lot
about the game. He has beaten a
whole raft of Indifferent scrappers and
he has been hard man for the best
of them to get at. He is what is
known as an awkward clever fellow.
He defies all the ethics of boxing by
assuming an attitude with his right
hand and his right foot extended. The
Mccoy style is not new, of course, for
Knockout Brown became rather
famous through it's use, but in all our
born days We have never had left
handed champion" as men of the Nc
Coy pose are called. Nevertheless, it
has been proven that style isn't every
thing in fighting. When Jim Corbett
first came into the game his boxing
was tabooed and the old timers scoffed
at Gentleman Jim" going up against
the great John L. Sullivan. Even
Corbett's father, who was a rare old
Tad" worried himself sick when the
Corbett-Sullivan fight was arranged.
The old gentleman felt sure that Sui
Ivan would kill his son, and he said
time and again that it was a shame
to allow the fight to be held. But
when the battle was over and Corbett
had won, the cold Man" said, with a
show OF much pride: well, why i'll
Hades wouldn't he win" That may
be the way with Mccoy, who also has
a father and who thought his son was
going to be annihilated when he met
Champion Chip.
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Champions spring up from no
where sometimes. Dark horses be-
come the real kings of the day. Nc
Coy may have championship material
in his makeup. He may have just
come into his own the night he met
Chip. He may be a new wonder with
a new style and he may beat Murray
next Thursday night and he may go
right on beating other fighters of note
from time to time. To be a cham
pion you must have something Men
without class and ability never get
an opportunity to reach the top, let
may prove a lemon of the easiest
kind, but he will have to be given
credit for his achievement and he
should be accepted as the real goods
until he is found wanting, To his
great credit he knocked the cham
pion out. 1t wasn't a fluke alto
gether. He tented with his right
hand and as Chip ducked the blow
Mccoy sent with terrific force his
fatal left-hand uppercut to the jaw
When he fights Murray he will still
have that left hand with him and il
Murray gets a taste of it he may
find himself in the same boat as
Chip.
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Joe Benedetto, manager of .KiG
Boonton, will make good the declara-
ton of the fighter that he would give
$25 to Banty Lewis if Lewis woulc
meet him in the ring. Benedettc
called at the Evening Star yesterday
afternoon to say that he had the $2I
with him and asked if it would mo-
be all right to post it with Gus Troxlel
before whose club the match is tC
take place. Benedetto will also ash
Lewis to put up a forfeit as al
evidence that he will be in the rims
on the night of June Is, ready ant
willing TO fight Boonton. This mattel
~low as good as made, and the bou
should be a good one. Boonton /!
also willing to fight Jack Coyne, O
Orange but he viii insist that Coyn,
make side bet Of at least $50.
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Federal League magnates, in {
round about way, are beginning t.
talk compromise. Robert B. Ward
the angel for the Brooklyn Tiptops
shouts il the regulars" want figh
the Feds will put team in New
York. If the Feds were on the job ant
had as much money back of them al
they claim they should have been II
New York long ago. The truth is TIL