A Detroit message reports the death of “Kid” McCoy, the former • world welter-weight titleholder, who committed suicide. He was aged 66. McCoy took the welter-weight title in 1896 from Tommy Ryan and held it for a year, when he entered tile heavy-weight class.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 5
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