KID McCOY COMMITS SUICIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 11

KID McCOY COMMITS SUICIDE.

A Prose cable from Detroit to-day announces that Kid McCoy committed suicide. Hie was 66.

In the. days when boxing wae outlawed practically ewrywlierc in the I'nitod States McCoy (wliohc real name wan Norman Solhy I fought many of his battles with skin-tight gloves. Hi-s lir«t prol'oKsional fight wag in IS!M. and he did not start taking on heavy-weights until 18i»9. His ring career continual until 1012. Once, in London, with hard to ;;et. McCoy took on three opponents in one night anil licked them all. It was Boh Flt-zslmmons who taught McCoy how to hit. "I met him in New Orlearne." the Kid recalled. "I put the gloves on with him. Gosh, how that fellow could nock! I found I didn't know a thing about hitting until he showed me how to throw the corkscrew punch." The handsome, soft-spoken McCoy chased, and was chased, by butterflies, ns he waltzed down Jifo's winding lanes. He married nine of those same butterflies— three itimes taking marriage vowk with the same woman. But it w«s the scorn of a woman that cost McCoy the greatest opportunity of his career, and likewise it wan th« fatal ending of a romance that sent him behind prison bars when past 30. Although sentenced to life imprisonment Uγ wae releneed a few yonrs ago. and his last job was guarding Henry Ford's pay-roll.