Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-10-18 | Page 23 | Conn Gets Edge in M'coy Bout

r r. r onn Gets dge Edge in inCoy inCoy Coy Bout r JACK CUDDY TON L-TON Oct 18 UP-Hand- UP T I Conn is the 5 3 favorite BillY lily e at Al McCoy New England Fi eight bt champion tonight at aten en and thus continue his agn t toward ward the world heavy heavy- title who already holds the thet v nn heavyweight Y cro cron n is farM fa- fa rM t over year old McCoy in tilt tnt because this youth speed seed skill and a. a jg g j- j nn M I f Wet vt many experts regard it as a aI a. a Sous I bout for Conn because lis b erOUS a slow starter because it is isA isa a round 10 affair and be because a se I Soy Coy is a busy hard hitting Mer from gong to gong whose I its efforts might easily offset I Wi Dnn's later surge Al will outi out- out i gh Billy about pounds to I Handsome Billy only 21 will be beg I g his ils first ring appearance 5 ie he stopped Bob Pastor in the theat 3 ground at New York on Sep- Sep ber r 6 after landing several low 0 McCoy has been fighting for 10 as And he was good enough to knock out Nathan Mann Mello Melio Bettina the from whom Conn won heavy diadem Impressive Sharpening for this bout Mc- Mc i. i did most of his training at atan's sans ans gymnasium New York he would have the sole euit t of Ray Arcel's instructions one aim of the best trainers in game will be in Als Al's corner Conn concluded his train- train jit at ICell Kelley y and Hayes' Hayes gym in inn jaton n but was not too lit ov promoter Jacobs of New NewIck f Ick ra apparently hopes that Conn defeat McCoy and go on to towo 5 two wo or or three other z 3 Elt heavies hemes thus readying him- him fo Louis in June Anyway bs has a finger in tonight's motion along with ith Rip Valenti I Boston and they expect a gate I