Show Pugilism BROKE ALL bl RECORDS t Money lo y Realized In C e eC Coy C X ll r 4 RECEIPTS WW I 0 r T DEAN CLEAN O CUT SMASHING ALL AIX THROUGH FIGHT t New ew Tone Auff AUS 31 The spectacle sp resented presented pres p d in the th e ring ri ng of oC the Twentieth Century Athletic club In Madison Square Garden last las l night ight when James J Corbett former Cormer champion fighter of the he t and XiiI McCoy It met to fight for f or a share of the gate grate receipts which according a to Jim Tim Kennedy the manager of o f the club amounted to and were larger lar r by thousands than the re ro c at any other prize ring contest ever e ver held was a clean cut smashing mill mm There were two stages to the l McCoy Good at First Pirat One of them was the first round in which McCoy MeCo was vas as the aggressor and in Which he seemed to hold Corbett safe and him from gong to sons gong Thereafter there was yes to it at zt ajl jl l In the second round the th former Cormer champion instead of playing a Wailing game became the aggressor and soon had McCoy guess ing l ag as to what would happen next It was not the blow on an the jaw that af ar a i f McCoy The Th body punches laid him low Always Alway susceptibly to t a blow I in n any part of his McCoy Coy has blows been peculiarly susceptible tible to 10 body I Salt lakers La ers There ThereAt ThereAt At the ring thorf thre th rp were men from Chicago and Cincinnati San Francisco arid and Denver St Louis and Salt Lake City Buffalo and Atlanta From all I points they ther the came the chief cities of Canada being well vell represented McCoys McC s defeat der at removes him from the of ot the heavyweights who are ambitious to wrest the title of oC cham pion from Jim Jeffries Corbett Corbett came came out of the ring with without I out a mark nark or scratch or bruise on or L him McCoys fact fatt fa was puffed and swollen and his eye was as ored But otherwise he seemed to be benone i none the worse for his battle Betting on the fi fight ht was very tame tam It was as expected that the heavy wagers vager would be placed at the ringside but the I M Coy money mone did not materialize Corbett a pronounced pr favorite from frog the tile start Everybody seemed to want nl I the Corbett end The fight light last night differed from the th most recent contests in that it caused cause i imore more talk and speculation after it ii I was ws over than after atter the men stepped I into the ring j Was Ho No o Fake From the mo ont e nt when McCoy re reto fused to shak hand the crowd knew the thet s 3 to be no fake fak and when McCoy fL de Corbett stag ger er a little in the first round the cheers were deafening The surprise of the evening was as Corbetts nitting power I He not only outclassed McCoy in feint lag in and clever lever foot work but when the opportunity came ca e in the fourth and ana fifth rounds round the former champion bent beast down his opponent with sledgehammer blows which rained so fast that McCoy McCoo was as bewildered The knockout landed directly in the pit of the stomach stor and was the same kind of a blow blo that Fitz Fitzsimmons FitzSimmons Simmons used to finish Corbett at Car Carson Carson son C tv Corbett Wants Jeffries After the close of the contest Cor Cori Corbett belt bett tt was waie waS very happy and said sald he would try to set get on another match with Jef Jeffries fries McCoy was much dejected In Inan Inan an fl interview he said the only thing to tomake tomake tomake make him sorry was wag the fact that his defeat wits was administered by Corb tt whom he has hns disliked for some time McCoy Immediately after atter his seconds se finished with him was driven to his home where it is said he lie and his wire both b th cried over the humiliation of a beating by the hated Corbett |