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Show M'COY'S GAMENESS PREVENTS KNOCKOUT By ED CUKLEY. Bv International News Service. NEW YOKK, Jan. 1. Al McCoy, the self-appointed champion, stiil retains i his middleweight erowu. The poor oid Xitleholdcr met not fought Jake Ahearn this afternoon at the Broadway .Sporting club and Jake handed him the trimming of his s-vcet young life. For thirty minutes Ahearn whaled McCoy around the body and whaled him so unmercifully that it didn't seem possible pos-sible lor a human being- to stand up under the gaff. When the shamble was finished McCoy still wore his old familiar fa-miliar Minile and was slightly wobbly in his underpinnings.; But he still retained his crown, and that's all he cared about. Ahearn used up every ounce of s'.Tength to. rarest the old bauble fiom Al's dome. 'He hit and hit and hurt, but could, never even shiver the champion cham-pion 's head. The showing of Ahearn demonstrated that be i? .in fit shape to tackle Mike Gibbons the middle of this month in St. Paul. Ahearn never missed a blow and shot, them over with telling force, but be was banging away at a malleable iron person. Tf Ahearn cau hit Gibbons half as often as he did McCoy today, he will pave the St. Paul phantom jumping over the ropes. |