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FIVEROUNDSVJim Corbett Proved his Prowess In HisBout With Kid McCoy.LATTER PUT UP AClever Head and Foot Work a Fea ture of the Mill — Kid Went Down and Out Under a Fusillade of Blows.New York, Aug. 31.—The longand rights which straightened McCoy up, and then Jim swung a left which crushed into McCoy’s body. McCoy doubled up. and in doing so held Corbett’s left glove with his Tight arm. Corbett then drove McCoy away from him with a right over the heart, and as the Kid” went back staggering GAME FIGHT. I Jim leaped after him, landing anotherleft smash on the same spot, and the Kid” dropped to the floor. McCoy bravely tried to get up. but these three blows had taken all his strength away, and while he made frantic endeavors to get up. Referee Charley White counted off the ominous 10 seconds. Neither man, when he returned to hispromised and long-looked-for meeting dressing room, showed any marks on between James J. Corbett and Charles face or body. Corbett, of course, was (Kid”) McCoy under the auspices of in the best of bumor ^ his friends.j the Twentieth Century club, at Madi- or rather as many of them as could son Square Garden, is over, and in gqueeze }nto the room, were plyingless than five rounds Ow-ett proved bjm w^th questions or shouting oon-hiraself to be the better man. That gratulatlons. Speaking of the flght, Corbett and McCoy are the cleverest 0orbett said that McCoy was veryexponents of the art of self-defense clever but hlt ^y wlth one (haod among the present generation of at a time. Jlm announces himselfheavyweights goes without saying. ready to meet any heavyweight in the And keen judges of the game, who ^jrld, Jeffries preferred, saw the flght, declare that it was thecleverest exhibition ever witnessed in the ring.Many claimed, and rightly, too, that Corbett would prove to be the stronger as well as the cleverer, and It was through his superb feinting and heavy slugging that he put McCoy down and out. McCoy’s friends all along have claimed that he was equally as dexterous with his hands, eyes and feet as the former champion, and in addition to £hjs they s^id tha^ £he !JCid” could hit harder than Corbett. However, while McCoy landed some stinging jabs, he did not cut^Corbett’s skin nor did he land a single heavy rfght hand blow during the contest. On the other hand, Corbett, when he dropped science and began to slug, landed hard rights and lefts which simply took McCoy’s guard away, and when Corbett found a vulnerable spot in the region of McCoy’s heat^t, two lefts divided by a ^right ended the battle.Both men entered the ring in superb condition. McCoy was heavier by several pounds than on any previous occasion, when he battled against other opponents.In the opening round McCoy showed up to much better advantage than Corbett. McCoy seemed very confident, though careful, while Oorbett was nervous and ill at ease. McCoy started out with his usual coolness, but Corbatt was fidgety. The entire round was taken up with the cleverest kind of feinting and sparring on Me-Ooy’s part, while Corbett’s work leftvery little to be desired. In the second round Corbett earae up in better form and his uneasy feeling had evidently left him. He gave an exhibition which could only be given by a man thoroughly posted in the innermost points of the scientific art of boxing. While not a blow was lauded by either in the first round, the greater part of the second was equally as unfruitful of damage to either boxer.Corbett got to the head toward the latter part of the second round andMcCoy jabbed his provoking left to Corbett’s face.In the third 'they got to each other oftener, but it was in the fourth that Corbett began to tike McCoy’s .measure. At times Corbett stopped Ms scientific work and resorted lt;to slugging tactics, which proved very effective.McCoy was i-orecd to clinch, and it was seen that Corbett was surely getting the upper hand. McCoy had to break ground frequently, and after the.,be 11 had sent them to their comers, while both men Showed signs of fatigue,McCoy was certainly the more weary.In the fifith and concluding round Cbrbett forced MoQoy into the.former's corner, wherp the Kid” kept blocking and sparing tor anoperrt^g to get out. Corbett swung '-trhead but McCoy ducked underneath nt very cleverly and jumped* to the OTm'ljr of the ring. Jim rushed him across the floor of the ring and by. clpver work forced McQpy back into^tlhft lt;pi -ner again, where he sent right jmd left to the “Kid’s” head. This wts the beginning of McCoy’s undoing.Corbett went to him, using both hands, swinging and stabbing and occasionally uppercutting with the left McCoy’s defease availed him little against this ouslaught, and Corbett soon had the Kid” at his mercy. McCoy saw that he was no longer able to ward of the big felhyw’s blows and be threw his arms across his face, holding his head down in hopes of j saving himself from a knoekout punch.Corbett relentlessly showered clefts
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Defiance Daily Express
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Fri, Aug 31, 1900
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