Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-19
COMING YOUNGSTER
SCARES VETERANS
Nineteen Year-Old Kid Comes
Up to Dispute Claims of Glib
bons, Moha and Others.
AL MCCOY HITS FOR HILLS
By RINGSIDE.

New lork, NOV 10 W. uiN's'"'''
have commandcercd all the attention
ofjtle boxing community since the
inauguration of the fall campaign two
months ago. These are the middle
weight and light heavyweight classes.
Never before in the history OF the
game has there been such surfeit
OF formidable combatants in any two
divisions of pugilism. As a result OF
this state of affairs, interest has been
diminishing space in the i've other
classes-bantam, feather, light, weiter
and heavy. go,
The old regime Of middleweights Is
rapidly diving out. Les Darcy, the
Australian prototype OF Bob fitzsiIn-
mons. accounted for the elimination
Of the four real veterans of the mid
dleweight clan. His decisive victories
over Eddie McGoorty, George Emp,
Jimmy Clabby and Duck Crorst PVT
those gentlemen out OF the consid-
Grafton for championship honors.
Among the hardy battlers who re-
main TO dispute the championship,
claims OF Al Mccoy, the self-style.d
champion. and Les Darcy, who is
champion by reclamation in Austria
Tia, are Bob Moha, Mike Gibbons ana
newcomer to the division, Jimmy
O'Hagen. OF the last named, more
anon.
Kid Comes to Front
Both Moha and Gibbons have prov
ed their worth. but i remains ior
O'Hagen, a lo-ycar-old boy, to cs-
tabiish his claim to recognition as
championship contender. II willing
ness and fearlessness, combined with
ability, mean championship, qualliica-
tions. than O'Hagcn must be given
due consideration. =,
OHagen, who is native OF AZ
bany. bases his claims for recognition
on his work in the last few months;
In a brief space Of time he defeated
Mike Glover, Marty Cross, X. ..
Sweeny, Silent Martin. Frank Car
bone and kid Alberts. Then o.
Haren's manager set about match
with aChampion' Al Mccoy. II was
proposed that the bout go fifteen
rounds TO decision at Providence,
R. I.
Not for Mccoy.
McCoy. who has seldom received
more than $1,000 fight--even after
his one-round Knockout OF George
Chip--was offered the tidy sum OF
$4,000 to battle O'Hagen fifteen
rounds, with decision attached.
This would involve whatever title
Mccoy possessed. Mccoy promptly
turned down the offer, making strenu-
out objections to the clause referring
to q decision being rendered.
With that clause obliterated Mccoy
would be quite grateful to accept
$500 for his services extending. over
fifteen rounds or less. For OiHagen
thinks he can stop Mccoy il the lat
ter makes any pretensc at hghting,
which he hasn't since the night he
stretched Chips length on the canvas
in Brooklyn.
Which gives fair line on the high
esteem in which Mr.. Mccoy holds
Jimmy O,Hagen. The latter's man
agcr decries McCoy's fiat refusal 10
fight, calling upon the shades OF Jack
Dempsey, and the good sense OF Bob
Fitzsimmons and Tommy Ryan to &C
count for such an action by pre-
tender to the middleweight throne.
Would Meet Mona.
Failing TO cnsnare Mccoy in a
match, O'Hagen is willing to try his
hand with Bob Moha or Mike Glib
bons. Michael also has refused to
fight O'Hagen; so it is up to Moha or
Darcy to consent to battle O'Hagen
and determine for the public the stuff
Jimmy is made OF.
With McGoorty, Chip, Clabby and
Grouse out Of the way, the middle
weight scramble narrows down to
Les Darcy, Moha, Mccoy, O'Hagen
and Mike Gibbons. O'Hagen has al
ready declared his willingness to jour-
ney TO Australia if Darcy will agree
to ring encounter over the twenty
round trail.
The light heavyweight division also
presents some interesting fodder for
thought. Up to a few weeks ago
Jack billions claim to this champion
ship was undisputed Then along
came Battling Levinsky and trounccd
the giant destroyer in twclve-round
decision bout, which logically made
Levinsky the champion. A few days
later Levinsky submitted to ten
round humping at the hands of one
Billy Miske of st. Paul.
There are two others in. the hunt
for. the light heavyweight bauble--
Charley Weinert and the same Mr..
Bob Moha, whose meat" is any one
weighing from 100 pounds to Viii
lards heft The only way to reach
settlement Of the dispute in this di-
vision is for these FIVE men TO engage
in round-robin series. Each one
must fight two or more times, as not
one stands out in bold enough relief
from the other four TO warrant his
standing aside and then meeting the