Show 1 I Heres Here's Kid McCoy Again I 1 tk i t IJ I ID t MCCoy r WILL HAVE 0 j PuLL SOME OM NE Sion Ir IF HE A weLt P. P I gA At L 6 oR I MEIO I More Than Fifty Years Old OId Famous Ring Figure Is After Sam Langford By Robert Edgren Kid Kid McCoy wants to come back again He has hall been training and says Bay a ahe he feel feels ms of ot being able to sock somebody e celebrated let rat d t his fiftieth bIrthday ay lae last October 17 He did his hili beet best fightIng fight fight- log Ing back In tn 1900 judo when he knocked out Peter Maher In rounds Joe d and beat Dan Creedon Creation Jack Bonner Donner Don Don- ner nei and Tommy Ryan Byan That was wall only twenty-three twenty years yearn ego He lie had his first great comeback In 1904 when hen he be knocked out Pl the Dutch Whale hale In two rounds went to Lo Loc Lo Angeles Angeles An An- geles and beat Jack Twin Sullivan there thereIn In twenty Just at a Q time when everybody everybody every every- body thought McCoy was wall all through and Sullivan would give him a. a boxing lesson A few years after r that McCoy shipped wE fl over ov r to Europe and fought f some English heavyweight champion at Nice I forget forget for for- get th the birds bird's name but that was the fight In which McCoy pulled one ne of pt hIa hiB most moot celebrated tricks 1 The wily Kid Hid was up against It it winded weary and ready to drop when he saw the timekeeper served with along A ft long Scotch highball which he lie placed on the edge of the ring platform The Kid circled over I n near ar the drink and A a. knockdown falling wh where re he could roll over grab the glass and down the drink at a gulp before the coun count rea reached ched ten He JIe Jumped up refreshed and righting fighting bet better er than ever The English referee referee- was scandalized being sure he ought to disqualify McCoy for receiving assistance assistance assist assist- ance during a a. round but couldn't figure out who assisted him as he helped hImself himself him hIm- self elf without the timekeepers timekeeper s sl sion I IThe The he tI timekeeper was sole sore because he be lost his drink But Dut McCoy went the twenty rounds Later lIe he did another comeback In Iri New York stopping Big Jim Stewart and Jim Savage both of ot whom should have licked McCoy and would have If they hadn't been buffaloed by his lis calm cairn assurance assurance assur assur- ance alice and his old reputation McCoys McCoy's ambition Just now Is to to go godown godown 0 down to Mexico City and fight Sam Langford SamIs Sams growing old and that the the championship would be i leas easy pIc picking Icing SamIs an old bird who began fighting away back In 1902 McCoy had been fighting only sep seven I P. P n S. S l This S.-This years This hl at Is that on 11 the time level The KIdIs Kid KidIs Is working working- out and has bas sent Sam a chal chal- lenge You cant can't tell what will happen I next Harry Greb Oreb can pick up by battling bat thing Johnny Wilson In Boston Doston on Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas mad day That would ba bo a Christmas present Arthur Cummings Is said to have discovered dIe dis covered ered the curve bal bail by throwing a achain clam chain shell Anybody could ball shaped like a clam shell but that Isn't the kind used in the big leagues leas The suggestion that Bl Big Ten eligibility rules be changed so BO that a football er couldn't be bo protested for professionalism profession profession- after the beginning of the season Is absurd A professional Is always a professional whether caught at it or or not and when caught should be fire tout clout of ot amateur ranks immediately Holding up protests until the night before an important im Im- game however is unfair and un un- sportsmanlike as It prevents readjustment readjustment readjust readjust- ment of team makeup and seriously In Injures Injures injures In- In jures the teams team's chances to win There should be nothing In amateur competition The gentleman In charge of or selecting an American Ol Olympic team should be bo particularly careful of tho amateurism of every cery athlete chosen There are amateur athletes now competing in inthis tOils this country who are professional amateurs ama ama- tours ana who should not be selected to carry the flag in the coming Olympic meet An athlete who has no other means of support but athletics and who travels around the country competing constantly and living hiving 0 on hi his expense money and money and perhaps a a. secretly paid bonus v no and then then then-Isn't Isn't a II real ama ama- tt te The typo Isn't uncommon just now when amateur sports ports draw large crowds and tho the gate money is no longer longera a side issue i When Undo that hi his his' athletes s are aro amateurs aro-amateurs amateurs that guarantee should be absolutely reliable 1 This This fall fall 1 I Iwas was wall talking with T a. a N. N Y A. A C. C official about the clubs club's games at ers Tra Island and asked why a certain tain famous amateur then In New York didn't t enter as as' as the games are about the best beet held In the metropolitan district Oh said the official he ho never runs for us Wo Ve dont don't p pay y amateurs to compete compete com com- pete In III our games The football map Is all around this year We Vc have ha nian- nian teams as great as th sensational winners or of a a- year ear ago Yale Not Dame Nebraska California Cornell Illinois all Ire Ire- scoring machines with the lat hat est eat o and most u perfected strategy and ana exe exe- exe cution Hac Bac has the usual number numbe of star players Twenty years ago tb the names of ot a Q few football Ift stars r 8 season were known all over the tho country 0 and some of them are aro still stUl remembered But there are aro eo so many star players playe s in theno theae modern years that h hy y begin to form a Q whole Milky Way Vay f star slurs and star Itar dust Its It's growing r hll herder rd r and harder to select an A All Amer mer- mer iran Iran team eam that represents any anything thin but somebody somebody's best beat guess As Leo Lo P. P Flynn says They call that bird Slid Siki In tn Fran France e. e but after meeting Norfolk hoe he's ickier L Leo Lo o says saya he ie expects a a. 1 husy season Not that his stable of ot boxers boxer i Is working any harder than usual but th the snooker poo pool pooi season Is opening and when theres there's theresa a a. snooker tournament on at the N. N Y A. A C. C Leo doesn't care vaol 0 seconds his fighters Leo was up runner for lor the tha club championship last year When he lost the final match he lie had an alibi that would make nalce Lavelle's wail wall about Firpo sound 1110 a fly buzzing in a sawmill On think Battling did He stayed the fifteen rounds Norfolk which than Ulan expected expected of him It he stays around New Kew York Yorka a a. few months and learns how to fight he hs may get Into the tha money That's what he ha came over for The rather easy way In which Norfolk who saw his best fighting days day about five years ago handled SlId takes the shine I off famous o victory d in in Ireland ana manes makes Mikes Mike's MiKes champion champion- a shin ahlo look hook rather cheap Mike had bad better better better bet bet- ter get his hands into nto shape and do some lome fighting Copyright 1923 1928 by Bell Dell Syndicate Inc |