KID MCCOY'S SCIENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1919, Page 5

KID MCCOY'S SCIENCE.

- AN .‘EXPE§RT’S _DPIN'ION.; -SECOND ONLY /r_o_‘ emrro. “Jim Corbett. beat_L‘Kid McCoy in five minutes,” said, Jim Ba-rron, the Australian boxer; recently, “but ‘McCoy ‘was giving away nearly 30lb in weight. Still, I consider that Mccoy had a. wider knowledge of the game than Co:rbe-t‘t.’’ ’ . It Was while Jirn Barron, accompzxllicd by Griffo, was on his second trip to America that he fought Kid McCoy at Minneapolis. The American middleweight was 11st: 61b, and Barron scaled 2~llb lighter. This was a big concession ‘in weight, but Barron was taking on anyone who looked like big money to him. The figh-11 lasted ten rounds, at the end of which the police stopped. it, and a draw rv-as M declared.

“My eyes Were_ nearly closed,” Said the veteran, “and McCoy’s were 110 i Open too wide. In the first round ’ I oroke my right hand, but McCoy did not know it till nfter the bout. I pushed him so hard in the first session that the handxvas smvashed, and to this day I carry a lump on it as :1 result. McCoy ‘never forgot that punch, and was always wary of. my A right during -the contest. I sent it out dozens «of times, but I did not try, of course, to lland it. He was as cool as an_iceberg, and as for V tricks—Well,' he was quicker than Griifo on his‘ feet. He would never‘ be in the same spot. half a second. It: was -hard work finding him to get a punch in.- And what :3. great hitter he was. He never la.nded so often as Grifo, -but one of his bl-ows was equal in power to a hundred of Griffo’s. Witliz a wonderflul knowledge" of how ‘to get the most. weight into a punch he could land from only a few inclpes away and knock a man cold.) His corkscreW__ _Wallop., V<“TE:L'S‘V:,;/a‘ ,. blow. He "u"‘sp‘d =t't4lle‘?A’s't;'i‘§i;g»l;‘t' léftjéi in ' lathe ._olfthod‘ox ,_xy;«.y, : a"'good deal, but-,tp,lle lp‘eoVl_3ks;ere‘x-V?‘ -lniitll ~fSame~ hand ~xy}xs l_i_i§__ 'fo-vourite, ‘travelled a fewiiliilclieslf It was t.w,isted"‘-1 inwards when about ‘to ':'l‘ea"ch 'tllejla.w,_r, and the contact made the receiver of"; the blow generally get a nerve shock, ' pi‘.-'hicl_l he >n§_\(e_lf_‘..fOi'go.f:._ I will forget his punch to the kidneys.After our contest I sufferecl for several dayé from it. As a. double‘ ’an"d triple hitter heptw-a.s a marvel, and for ‘eoxnbinatioais of blows I have never:,_ gknown his equal. _

JUDGE OF HUMAN NATURE.

} “The Aniericanwvas -.1 great judge }of human nature and from a tempo :1lmengal pci.=lt of view he generally aknew how to handle a man. His ’va'r7iiety of Work was so great that he was‘. '[.ral'§ly at loss to size a situation iahd work it out ‘to his own advan‘tago. I-Ie changed‘ his tactics so of!ten that he hadvrhis opponent hiostly "i guessing as ;to: what he was ‘going ‘to ido. Barring‘ Gliffo I take off my haiii ‘to McCoy. _ V ! j“Of all: the .e7Alnericall~ fighters I {have seen in action in Aiistfifiia not" i one "could stand ‘on ’the same line .'a~3 'Mc_Coy -as a scientific= ririgman. -- ‘_ . ll" “Always a good sport-and a fellow witha big heart", McCoy came to my ‘dressing room after‘thc' cont.est'.' 'As ghowas shaking hands with me he iremarked: ‘Well, you’re an"ugly lookiing guy.;” I replied, ‘VVeII, you don’t glook like ‘an oil painting_’ He. laughed, fiandi then_handed me £50,. sayin‘g, ;‘Send that to your wife. It's a pre~ ésent to her out of my share of the ’igate money.” ‘