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Show c: Lockout blow ready two, dared and unable to comprehend Just exactly what had happened- Then he lurchM forward and clinched a If It wer Peter Maher cr Tom Sharkey that had delivered th blow. "Did I hurt your ch laid, for sh waa somewhat frightened. "Oh, not" anawerd McCoy a he' grasped htr hand, "but many a good man has tried to do that and failed." v; Athletic Young -Jtoan - - Nearly Put Out Kid ; McCoy With a Straight 'Li: Punch to His Jaw. . ( ICEW TOHK, March 22. Mia L,acUlo Et. Clair, an athlotlo young woman, for- - i mtrly of Louisville tut now of Nw '.i-' York, has achieved reputation aa k boxer that might ontlUe her to chal-- chal-- Itng Champion Jtffrlea, In a friendly bout aho a rung her right on Kid Mc- Coy Jaw and flaaed that clavor boxer mora than many a great fighter ha . fceon able to do. It fairly itaggarod Mo-T Mo-T Coy and ho promptly clinched to avoid. r! further punishment. t Mlaa JSC Clair la a oUnot typo of th. American athletio girl. Thero 1 hard-'X hard-'X ly a phaa of athletics for women to which aho hag not excelled. Bhe 1 a, clever yachtawoman. and la perfectly at oaa whan at th wheel In a yacht race. Eh 1 an oarawoman, a clover borao-woman borao-woman and wlelda the golf cluba with the graco and poise of a professional. . ... "Whil aho waa working with the bell and cheat weight the other day In M-. M-. - Coy's gymnasium she asked th genial ""Kid" if ho would mind putting on the gloves with her for a friendly round or two. "I Jurt want to box with the moat T,v clever man that over donned a glove," aald Mlaa 8L Clair, with a smile that - waa Irresistible. What could McCoy do with that plea confronting him? It waa an entirely new game to him, so ho consented con-sented "Just," as McCoy remarks, no . please the girt." , 1 ' - They had sparred for a minute.' McCoy Mc-Coy would leave an opening, and the little lit-tle gloved. flat would come over Just far - w enough to graze his nose. 1 There waa a Quick shift of little feet . and a small-cloved hand shot out with T speed that waa lightning-like and landed land-ed fair and. squar on the point of McCoy's Mc-Coy's Jaw. The clever boxer, who has - met the best that the world of pugilists has produced, wobbled for a second or |