AT THE SYDNEY STADIUM.

NZ Truth, Issue 441, 6 December 1913, Page 3

AT THE SYDNEY STADIUM.

Australia Vindicated.

McCoy Conquers Brown.

(By "Boxer-Major.")

There was a magnificent ' crowd at tha Rushcutter Bay Stadium to witness the meeting between Pal Brown, of Minnesota, U.S.iL, arid Bert Me-. Coy, of Melbourne. Brown had won the admiration of ail sporting Australia by Lbe brilliant fashion m which he out-pointed that thoroughly good man, light-weight champion, Hughie Mehegan, -m the same arena, on October 4 last. He showed perfect • self-confidence, and a knowledge of the fine points of the game 'remarkable m one so young a'ud of so brief a connection with the ring. Weights were, Brown 9.0, McCoy D.S*,£. ' ...-,'■ McCoy is as fast as fire, a. very fitta boxer, and a splendid , Hitter. He went down to a knock-out by Poesy, the French visitor, m the eleventh round, on February 15 of this year, but it was entirely ' through his own OVER-CONFIDENCE and gross carelessness. ' Up 'to then he had played with Jean, and made him look like a heap. of ha'pence. ,He never showed up to greater advantage,, and his defeat m such a fashion. was a fluke of flukes. .. v The gritty little Victorian showed how very "different" he was just as soon as they got going.. He. easily evaded the sort of punches that put Mehegan to the canvas, and every time he made Brown miss h9 fitted him with straight lefts. HOOKS TO THE JAW and point, and right smashes all over the side of the head. This Pal .Brown is surely one hard man, for if Bert got the point once he got it a' hundred times, with wicked left hooKs and swings and right smashes' that would have dropped nineteen men out of every twenty. He sent Brown reeling out of nearly every bit of close work, invariably ending up . these raixups with a vicious hook to the jaw that spun the American's head over his left shoulder as he went out. It was almost invariably Brown that drew out first and he never once got away without a punch to help him. Brown swung » ' DESPERATE WALLOPS and tried desperately to wipe :■>'■<• his shorter but stronger opponent^pff the map; but McCoy's evasion was- superb and his blocking better than anything he has ever shown before, good and all as he was always considered by those who know the game. A sweet {straight left to the nose m the first round painted it pink ar.d continual jabs and some fearfully hard drives thereto drew the claret freely as the battle went on. He swung or' smashed the right to the left eye at frequent intervals, and by the lSth round that optic was more than half ' closed. Later on he cut the eyebrow with' a swift right cross, and m the same round a . , , , CLASH OF HEADS ; "resulted m a bad cut opening- on Brown's head, well tip on the. dome. In the 19th a down- swung left .cut Pal's right ear and the .ruby from these two damages trickled over his neck and chest . " McCoy was m the lead In all but the 12th> and 13th rounds, m which we saw what a determined little bulldog he is. He went m the legs and seemed all abroad and done up. But even then he presented a bold front to the foe and though lie. had -to take some hard swings to the .temples and even, the jaws and suffered some heavy bo-?y punishment he stuck to it -grimly -and by the uso of his arms and keeping' in' he weathered • •■■•••; TWO BAD SESSIONS, 9 and also evened up on . the- scoring that had seemed all against him m the J opening half of both. Brown was pretty tired, too, at the i end of the 13tU or surely he'd never | have played tho game into McCoy's hands as ho did m the 14th, when, instead of tearing into a man he had found so weak for a while, he stood. oft j and tried to annihilate hun.with big bits at full range. He couldn't land ono. McCoy was outside them every time, except when he came m and let them go round hia back or neck. Al< the while, > too, Bert piled on points at this work by JABBING THE NOSE with the left and also leading the right bang on to the jaw. It was tho only I quiet round of a fast and fiery fight, and tho spell was Just what tho Melbourne terrier needed. After that bo never looked back, but won every round. In tho 16th Bert nearly ended it He walloped end evaded as coolly as if In a gymnasium spar and walloped again and again. The rights to ear and jaw and point should have put. Pal down and out; but he evidently requires a hob-nailed boot to Btop him. Hia own efforts to hit were all to. tho bad and/ it was hero that he bled so freely and looked so done. And even then Bert couldn't send the gritty boy down. McCoy's blocking was wonderfully gx>d. Ho scorned to know by Instinct just what blow was coming, and Brown was much put out by his Inability ti land a big punch: while head to head, his favorito work, ho found McCoy hitling hard and often, but could rarely got past his muscular anna with hiß own upper-cuts aud digs at tho telly. Both mon wero down j DURING THE SCRAP, but neither was knocked down, unless tho heavy pat to tho 'lying arm as ho back-moved Brown'a swing and sent him on to hands and knes could be called a knock down. McCoy went to tho floor heavily m tho nineteenth, tho result of Btriking as ho slipped on a wet spot. Many pooplo thought that Bert had been dropped by a punch, but as a fact he fell while* standing on tip* too to tear up a fierce uppercut tliat missed. Brown's head fairly waggled from

side to side m this round, under heavy right and snappy hocks, and he bore the look of a beaten 'nan. He made a desperate effort for a knock-out m the twentieth, but McCoy kept on him and SWUNG BOTH HANDS to both jaws. Scott's verdict for McCoy found no objector m all the vast crowd,