The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-17
VERDICT CHALKED
UP IN 9Th ROUND
Meow Fails To Answer Bell;
Champ Lacks Punch But
Has Easy Time
BY SID FEEDER

came back from MS SIX mOntn va
cation to an easy job Of work tonight,
but he wasn't the devastating Brown
Bombel in disposing of AL Mccoy, an
overgrown Down-East light-heavy-
weight.
It took him five full rounds to cut
down a fellow he outweighed by
q IL pounds and who had no more
punch than grape juice in his fists.
After taking a pummelling for Is
minutes, Mccoy, his left eye closed
and his ribs red from right hand
Shots, was unable to come up for
the sixth heat. Commissioner George
Laplante ruled the bell had rung for
the sixth round and that Louis was
awarded a technical knockout victory
il that round.
The second-largest crowd ever to
turn out for a fight in the Boston
Garden enjoyed itself thoroughly
while it lasted, but didn't like the
finish even a little bit, and booed as
the public address system announced,
"McCoy's eye is in bad condition and
he refuses to come out for the sixth
round"
The attendance was announced as
L 1894 customers, with a gross gate
of SAG, $3.50 and a net of $44,8 45, of
which Louis received between SIT, 600
and $18, 900. The crowd was second
in size for the Boston Garden only
Heeney tussle some eleven years ago.
Although still the most damaging
puncher in any league, Joe showed
the effects of the long layoff since
he disposed of Arturo Godoy, the rug.
ged Chilean, last June. His timing,
particularly with his right hand. was
off, and for some time he didn't
seem to know just what to do about
McCoy's circling-away tactics and
half-crouching style. AS a result, al
though he floored the Bostonian for
no count with three crunching rights
to the short ribs in the first heat,
Louis failed to put him down once
after that.
In addition, Joe took some "desper.
alton" right hand pokes to the jaw
which he should not have left him.
self open for. OF course, he could
afford to be careless tonight, but
he'd better not give away any
chances like that to some of the fell
lows he meets in his "one-a-month'
campaign between now and next
April.
Immediately after Louis polished
off the 26-year-old New Englander
tonight, New York Promoter Mike
Jacobs announced that the champion
and Billy Conn would fight it out
next June in the looked-for half-a-
million dollar battle Of the year.
Conn, who was at the ringside to-
night, announced he was giving w
his worlds light-heavyweight cham.
pionship to point for the Bomber ex'
clusively.
AS far as tonight's fight was con
cerned, it was Louis almost exclu
sively. Mccoy was game and did all
he could. but he just was shy or
"zing" in his fists.
He redeemed Joe's nose with
straight left hands several times, and
in the fourth and fifth he pitched
desperate right hand shots that
whist1ed around Louis ears. A cou.
pie landed, and one-in the fifth
nailed Joe so hard on the chin that
he blinked like a fellow just waking
up from a nap.
Otherwise, Louis was the whole
show. He stalked the backing,
circling Mccoy throughout and bang.
ed away. He drove three club-like
rights to the ribs in the first that
put Mccoy Town on one knee, but
Al was up without a count. In the
third, he drew blood from AIS nose
and started working on the left eye.
He raised a small mouse" Under
the eye in that round, puffed it some
more with right hands in the fourth,
and had it closed in the fifth so tight
ly it resembled the penny slot in a
chewing gum machine.
AL was tired and bruised as he re-
turned to his croner at the end of
the fifth. He sat down on his chair
as his handlers tried tt work him in
to shape to continue. 1t was no go,
however, and he patted his eye and
rubbed his "tummy" as his seconds
informed Referee Johnny Martin
that Mccoy was all through
At 202 IA, Louis looked like a
dreadnaught against Mccoy with his
100 3-4-pound build.
Right from the start you knew Al
wasn't going to be around for the
18th round and that it was just a
question of time until the roof fell in
on him.