Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-17
OFFER OF KID MCCOY TO
HELP REFUSED BY JESS
Willard Would Have Benefited by
Having Crafty Ringman in
His Corner.
CoRBETr CONDEMNS PEcoRD
Claims That Referee of Champion
ship Battle July Made Many
BiunderS and "CraCked" at Crucial
Moments Under Strain.
BY JAMES }. CoRBETT

NEW Okk, july !b.--At THIS mo-
ment Kid Mccoy retains the position Of
looking n the general direction OF Jess
willard and remarhine:
y tod you So
Der, saw Willard Just before the big
fellow lief, the coast 10 start training
in Toledo for his night there.
Jess" he said. ia like 10 help YOU
chief second IN the fight"
The battle lust s,ill is strong within
f 5ns hid his last r a Sss s bn h hs
love for tho padded ring hasn't faded.
And because he wanted 10 be in some
proposition to Willard.
No" answered Willard
And. af,erward. explaining his rea.
son for turning down McCoy, the big
Didn't Know Mccoy We'll.
u didn't want 10 have man in my
corner that ! didn't know"
How vastly different might things be
for Willard today had re but accepted
shrewGeSt. Crafticst r!nEmen OF all
time. Mccoy undoubtedly couldn',
have saved Willard from defeat, but
McCoy certainly would have saved vii
lard from lot OF heating.
Can YOU imagine Mccoy permitting
man he was secondin. go into q fight
imagine Mccoy allowing his man to
rise before taking the heneht Of nine:
And can YOU imagine Mccoy as Will
OF the rms before the Gsh, is over and
set away With it:
Perhaps Willard didn't know Mccoy
hired him he would have known him
most wonderfully Well before the hat
tie Vas over and been most grateful 10
him. For Mccoy was the one man in
all OF America that Willard needed in
his corner that day. cool. crafty. ever
watchful, lightning thinker Kid
Mccoy.
Small Crowd disappointment.
The big Toledo fight occasioncd
the receipts and attendance figures.
The fact that the paid admissions ran
below $1,000 600 and the crowd a trihe
world and It mus, have been stag
KerinE disappointment 10 Richard who
had dreams OF 100000 house
No one seems able 10 explain the
the las, ten days. time when it vas
expected tho real boom would begin.
Nearly month before the sight the
s snG nee sales we're re'or:d around
to persons outside o. Toledo. II was
presumed that the reserved sea: sales
from then on 10 hEht day would be
az least $500 900 20 100000 more and
that =, least another <25o,oo0 would
come from IN. sale OF the SO h!eache.
seats.
Ru. the sale .-oz then on was
bust and ire great disappointment
came IN ,he $40 section, where only
5000 seats were sold
Toledoans Didn't Attend.
1t was expected tina, al least 1900
To!edoans would pay 10 see The AEh;.
but Toledo vas little more than
apathetic when i came % paving out
real money. and only teu thousand
Of the home town folks responded 10
the Richard call.
Those VINO contended from the out
set that It VAS rather dangerous
plan 20 put man like Ollie Record
in the referceins job right.
Pecord served well in local bouts in
Toledo. hut mat WASH; any guarantee
Job AS the willard Dempsey hsh,.
s3a 1s'? q, cfl.s %@ 55ms predicted
have permi,,ed the dsht 10 star, un,il
real bell was IN service Pormittins
hna!ly; the use OF 4 whistle. was an
other h!undcr \ whistle has no more
place in a championship istic bat,le
Than kerosene has IN an ice cream
soda
Referees Place In Front.
uhen ms 36s fn1ihSr ETayS hlana.r
ing after one ~ the knockdowns !.
reisress plsct ~ front OF me fallen
parenily became so ratified mat he
TEN porsr.ly forgot That knowledge
The Toledo otlc ial. although nc knew
the tEht hadn't ended In the srst
round. permitted Dempsey uho as.
sumed ne mad Won. to leave the ring
MO ne allowed two minutes and four
SECONDS, time taheH hy sop watches
IN the hands ~ veteran referees 10
eiapse between the first and second
rounds.
Record did his best under irving
eircumsta noes but His bcs: was lir,le
more than tcurish Al, Of which
.convInces that IN future cham2ionsh n
bouts The proper tn3ns is 10 put =
real referee. one seasoned ny long
wears Or experience, man Of the IN.
cracHab!t 'Npe into ;hc ring instead
OF comparative ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
right. 1870