The Ring.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 479, 28 September 1899, Page 7

The Ring.

KID McCOY KNOCKED OUT-

At Chicago on August 18, Jack M‘Cormack, Philadelphia, knocked out Kid M‘Ooy in about two minutes and forty.seven seconds. The bout was to have lasted six rounds, and it was generally thought M‘Cormack stood no show at all. He himself said bofore entering the ring that he was going into the ring to do his best, and let it go at that. The fight was short, and so quickly over that there was almost nothing to it but the punch that put M'Coy to sleep. The FightThe fight was under strict Queensberry rules, hitting with one arm free permitted. . When the gong sounded M'Cormack started in to rush things, relying on his greater weight and superior strength to off-set M‘Coy’s science. He received a straight left in the mouth the first time he tried it, and a second later a savage left hook on the side of the head landed him. He rushed twice more, carrying M'Coy to the ropes both times. The first time he hit M'Coy over the kidneys with his right The second time, as they came from the ropes still clinched, M'Coy freed his left and sent a hook to M'Cormack cheek, drooping him to the floor. M'Cormack lay quiet, making a pretence of claiming a foul, although none had been committed. M'Cormack rose on the order of Referee Hogyn with a sheepish grin on his face. The knock-down had not injured him in the slightest. The men squared off once more, and then came end, like lightning from a clear sky. M'Coy was moving cautiously around M'Cormack, both hands low down, neither being as high as the the belt. M'Cormack suddenly let fly his right, and it landed full on the jaw. M'Coy went down like a dead man, flat on his back, legs and arms

outstretched, his face pointing squarely to the ceiling. It was evident the instant he struck the floor that his fighting was over for to-night at least.

Pandemonium broke loose in the hall, and there were wild calls for M'Cormack, shrieks of “ Get up, Kid I” “Get up !” Hogan went down on one knee by the side of M'Coy, and shouted eis call of the seconds in the fighter’s ear, but M'Coy was past all hearing. At the word “ten”’ he raised his head slightly, and Hogan paused an instant before he shouted “ Out! ” but M'Coy was still out of it. Thirty seconds would not have brought him into condition to fight again. The general opinion seemed to be that M'Coy lost the fight through an excess of confidence.