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Show IFIGHT FANS ARE ALL GUESSING How Long McCoy Will Retain Middleweight Championship Is Dividing Opinions. New York. N. V.. April 18. Fight fans generally are wondering how loim ai McCoy, who surprised everybody I I I by knocking out Ccorgc Chip last week In the first round, will retain the middleweight championship gain ed by that lucky punch. The sporting public, as well as th newspaper men are divided as to the j credit deserved by McCoy for his I lc tory, but it has bepn pretty well established es-tablished that McCoy was not "stall ing" when he Entered 'he mis with Chip, and while he himself admit" that he was somewhat surprised when hlB swift uppercut to Chip's chin, ex ?ctly one minute and fifty second-after second-after time was called lor the first round laid the champion on' for tht count, there Is no doubt that he was bent on giving the champion a hard battle and had trained faithfully for (he contest McCoy a Surprise. McCoy's victory has caused the greatest sensation in the pugilistic world since Young Corbet; won the featherweight championship from Terry MeGovern on Thanksgiving dS) of 1901 at Hartford. Conn It is the first time that a championship hat been won and lost in so short a time since Joe Gans defeated Prank Krne at Fort Erie in L902 Incident , ally it is the first time that a cham pionshlp has been decided in N M York since the Frawley law has been : in force Never Trair.cd Before. Up to the time of his meeting the I champion. McCoy says he never train- ed for a fight. On three days' notice he tought Mike Qibbons, took a hard beating from him and four Dlghtl later fought Joe Chip, brother of the ex-champion. Then came a return match with Joe Chip. Later George was substituted and McCoy decided that the time had come to do some real training. That the training was not in vain Is now history. McCoy says he is going to keep in training now that he has the title and will meet all comers in defense J of his newly won honors. Eddie McGoorty, Jimmy Clabby, ! Mike Gibbons and Billy Mum) all desire a ham e r.t i I. - and McCoy has signified his intention of taking them on. Chip bas asked for a return match and in all likelihood likeli-hood will set it. Chip had held the title but a sb time, having gained it in October last year, when he knocked out Frank Klaus Klaus had taken the title from Papke. who resumed the middleweight honor after the death of Stanley j IKctchel Real Name Is Rudolph. McCoy's real name is Albert Ku dolph and he Is of German-Hebrew extraction. ex-traction. He iB the fifth champion hailing from Brooklyn Thev are Jack McAuliffe, the retired linde feated lightweight; "Terrible" Terry MeGovern; Matty Matthews, welter weight; Jack Dempsey. the famoib "Nonpareil,' and now McCoy Dempsey, Demp-sey, although born In irerand. county Klldare, did his fighting from the City of Churches first sprang into prominence in the Greenpoint section of the city |