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Sport Echos mm Prince bounty

- t won't be long now. The sports d drums should be over in two weeks or so. Right now there is absolutely no active sport in Prince County. Bowling is over. The Pin- ettes malnatained their lead over the zeros and even increased it a little. so the Curran as Bri Ba

men's team and the Pinat s lsc:les' team are the champion bowlers of summerside for the

season of 1950-51.

Hockey is finally over in Canada. Imagine the last hockey game be- ing played May 12th! The season gets later and later every year. The small attendance at the last games of the Alexander Cup competition should teach the hockey moguls a lesson. There is a time for hockey and a time for baseball, and never the twain should meet.

The little town of Ddmundston may build a stadium for hockey. slanting. etc. at a cost of 8:30.000. The building will have artificial ice. seating capacity for 1,000 and standing room for about 2.000. The matter is coming up for consider- ation at a ratcpayers' meeting Tuesday night. What nerve those little Maritime centers have!

The kids in Summerside are go- ing to be given a lot of attention in baseball this year. Baseball leagues will be organized by the Summeraide Athletic Association for paperweighls, pee-wees, ban- iams, midget:-. and possibly juven- ilcs. Plans are going forward to have coaches to show the young- sters the rudiments of the game. It is possible a full-time man may be hired for this purpose if a suit- able person can be obtained.

The Prince County League will soon get organized again for the 1051. season. It is expected a meet- ing will be called in Summerslde for May 26th. Reports have it that

Miscouche will Join the league this year. spectators love the four-base

blow when the ball lands in the bleachers but strangely enough Chuck Dressen, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, right now has other ideas. His first baseman, Gil Hodges. is leading all competitors in the National League in the home run department. and seems anxious to beat Klner's best rec- ord. Dresser: doesn't like it. He keeps telling Hodges to stop swing- ing for the roof every time he comes to bat. "He's striking out too often." Dresen complains. Hodges has whiffed 21 times in 20 game.

WOKINGTON, Cumlberland. England (OP) Firemen struggled for IV; hours to rescue a 200-pound pig that fell down a 30-foot weld. Her snout was caught in a pipe just above the surface of the water. After being hauled out the pig soon recover- ed.

Veteran river trout fishermen at Norval. Ont.. have been baffled this season by the success of lo- year-old, Ronnie McLean. who has. since opirlin of season. April 28- landed two man-sized brown trout with a split bamboo fly rod with

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In a previous paragraph refer- ence was made to the derivation of what is recognized now as leg- itimate slang from expressions used in boxing and fighting par- lance. . .

The "real Mccoy" is said to have originated from Kid Mcooy (Norman Selby). The Kid was quite an ordinary looking young man. just like the average in any crowd. He was backward and re- served and had few of the physic- al sttributes extant in a boxing ring champions”. He was one of the kind that looks small and slouchy in street clothes. but looks big in ring attire. Appear- ances are very deceptive at times. The Kid went into a tavern in Hartford, Conn. The taverns were the principal a ndezvous of the sport fraternity at that time. Among the crowd at the bar was a. big, able looking youth from Down East, who had "bitten into the grape" to the extent of exhil- aration that the individuals of the assembl looked small and child- ish to films He proceeded to push several of them around. some one whispered in his ear that a certain one was the famous Kid Mccoy. He then proceeded to interview the Kid. I-ls proclaimed in a loud voice about "this four-flusher try- Inc to masque " as Kid McCoy -the 'real McCoy"'-and announ- ced hls intention of giving him a trimming for daring to do such a thing. some friends tried to as- sure him that it was the ”real" Mccoy, but he wouldn't believe it. Mccoy tried to reason with him, but he was still unregenerate. Then the earth collapsed for the man of littlp faith. The Kid had put over his famous "Mary Ann" right on the "button", with all his. energy from the heels up Xllfter two or three minutes in is prone position he groancd and opened his eyes After his brain got back to normal. one of his friends ask- ui him. "Well. who do you think he is now?" He answered with n sorrowful shake of the head, "Boy. I guess he's the real McCoy."

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There was an incident occurred in a saloon in Aspen. Colorado, in the 90's which introduced the ex- pression "I'm from Missouri, you got to show me." A big, rangy young prospector had come in from the hills and gone into it bar. The town bully l ppened to be "present and was asserting his royal prerogatives in no uncertain manner. He was interfering with customers' drinks and doing any- thing else that occurred to him at the moment to intimidate the by- standers both individually and collectively. He didn't have any trouble convincing the habitues: they knew him only too well. The tall raw youth appeared un- moved, and not paying much at- tention. The bully thought it proper to announce to the youth that he ,was the "bully" of several mining towns and that he was originally from Boise City, Idaho. The tall youth answered in a sort of Southern drawl, "Well, ah'm from Mlsaourah an' you'sli got to show me". You've guessed it. The bully was badly beaten in a stand- off bare-knuckle fight. His power and prestige gone he soon took his departure for parts unknown. The expression soon became pop- ular locally and eventually over the continent.

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In reference to Dempsey's whirl- wind victory over Willard at T0- ledo, Ohio. the "finish" was in- advertantly overlooked. Many wit- nesses of the fight stated that Willard should actually have been counted out, but the sudden dra- matlc turn of events rendered of- fials and spectators almost dumb. Everyone expected a long gruell- ing contest. Willard had the big "odds" in the betting. They knew after his beating of the great heavyweight Jack Johnson. that he had everything that it takes. viz. sire. reach. stamina. experience and ring strategy. They were all sClldCl'9d nulliand void in the sud- den and savage attack of Demp- sey. When the bell sounded for the second round. Willard kept shooting out his long left very fast, which kept Dempsey at a respectable distance throughout

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Dempsey had set such a terrible pace in the first round that his over-exertion tired hlin somewhat for the 2nd round. He was con- tent to rest a bit and not try the hectic pace which he set in the first round. Willard vas too bat- tered and woozy to try anything in the line of a real attack on Dempky. When they came out for the third round Dempsey was well rested and went after Willard in meat-axe fashion again. Willard couldn't stand the ferocity of the attack and went down for the count in the middle of the round. He had pursued the same simple strategy as he had in the first round, viz: hit a couple of punches

to the mid-section to draw down a

his guard. then shoot a hard one to the point of the jaw. Willard had received so much concussion in the first round that he couldn't stand the "quietus" delivered by Dempsey in the .third. I I

I had had previous knowleclg! of Dempsey's ability in a letter from Billy Kenny (Wild Burt) formerly of St. Teresa. P. 2. Island. The letter said: "Beware of this bear- cat Dempsey. he can beat 'em all" (or words to that effect). Billy Kenny had good reason for his praise of Dempsey. It was but a short time since he was matched with Dempsey and had been tech- nically k.o.'ed in the first or sec- ond round. which wss no disgrace. because the Manassa Maulcr had come along so fast that he was bowling them all over in a few rounds. Kenny bad decisions over several promising looking fighters at that time. People .in general didn't realize that Dempsey had potential championship calibre. The Kenny brothers were all po- tential champions also. They were plenty big and loved boxing as a real genuine diversion. but with them as with many others it was only incidental. They always had good jobs-for security. The box- ing ring was too precarious an oc- cupation to ensure an even, re- spectable wsy of life.

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Quite a large number of Down Easters. and Islanders in partic- ular. took up the boxing "science" (as it was called in England in the early days). Joe Lennon and George Godfrey were considered good men in John L. Sullivan's time. Godfrey was from Char- lottetown and I think Joe Lannon was from near Vernon River. God- frey wns colored. and a -perfect gentleman to boot. He ran a box- ing school near Bcully Square in Boston. '

Joe Lannon was a heavy. solid- ly-bullt. man. not over 5 feet 9 or 10 inches in height, who must have weighed 215 lbs. or more the clay I met him at Nantasket Beach,

George qddfrey and one of his pupils. big Dan 0'Keefe of Camp- bellton. Lot 4, 15.22. Island. toured this Province in 1898. giving box- ma exhibitions.

'.'he only Maritime Province man on record to have faced the great John L. Sullivan in his heyday was J. T. Corrigsn of New Bruns- wick. It must be presumed that John L. won the fight, because he had issued the flat "let 'em all come". and he was victorious over all comers till he met his nemesis James J. Corbett on that disast- rous day in New. oplesns in 1894.

This man Oorrigsn was the grandfather of our quits famous Corporal Warner of the R..C.l'vf.P. at Charlottetown. It can readily be seen that Corporal Warner in- herited the lethal right hand punch which perhaps saved his life and the lives of others when he captured single-handed the bank robber desperado Lauzon on the way from Covehead. P. E. 1.. races some years ago. He made use of the natural God-given weapon lnstantly- a moment's hesitation or indecision would have been fatal. It is such dra- matic and drastic predicaments that try men's souls.

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The late Police Detective Jack Powers of Saint John. N.1B.. quite

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duplicated Warner's act of desper- ation at Covehesd. An infuriated Italian had gone berserk at Fred- ericton Junction. He had shot his wife and was taking a 'bead'' on others who were with her. Pow- ers stepped up very fast and struck the Italian with his fist, knocking him down. He then took his smoking gun away, and arrested him. Powers was endowed with great: physical strength and cour- age. We were fast friends. He was in the light heavyweight class in his halcyon days of boxing. Lewiston Dick O'Brien. who was quite famous. came down to Saint John to clean up on Powers. but went back sadder and wiser. Pow- ers' beautiful straight left won the fight for him. Jack had developed such physical strength that he could take a 100 lb. bar bell lying on is counter, raise it with each forearm. then elevate it above his head with eitherarm. I I I

Bill McK1nnon. the Roxbury blacksmith was probably the most consistent and famous native-born P. E. Island boxer in the New England States. His weight was about 180-165 pounds. but he feared none. heavy or light. He had one peculiar blow. It started with a suspicion of a spiral movement nearv his breast bone. then shot out straight for his op- ponent. wlth the speed of a bullet. He won most of his fights with that one.

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It is noticeable in fight broad- casts lately that the "bola" punch is quite often mentioned. I don't know who is given credit for in- venting it. likely Pancho Villa or some of those prominent Philip- pino fighters. The "bola" is orig-

inally a form of Phllippino sword. used by the forces of the native

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Igarotie Chief Aguinaldo against American forces in the Spanish- American war (1898). Bill may have ante-dated that one about twenty years. Many old-time auth- orities on boxing say that than are no NEW blows-the supposed "new" ones are simply variations of the "old". ones-delivered from somewhat different positions. The deslderatum in boxing is to be able to deliver a telling blow without "telegraphing" it. Nearly all the champions could do just that when the occasion came, when the opponent gave them the opening. Gunboat Smith had rt devastating right: he started it from scratch (as it were), no tip- off that it was coming. but Smith had the weight' of his body behind it when it landed. That quick right won his victories. Stanley Ketchel had a. vicious right hand punch-he was the only one ever to knock down the great Jack Johnson before Jess Willard k.o.'d him in Havana.-

The German (Max Schmellngi had a great right. Joe Louis couldn't seem to be able to get away from it. Joe was vulnerable for an opponent with a good right. Tommy Farr had Joe dazed with a successi -u of rights which didn't land flush on Joe's jaw, but which put him in a bad way. If the bout had to go two more rounds the outcome might have been different.

wonnnnrvnz NORWICH. Eng. e (C?) -John Galbert, 74, flew back to his home in Canada after a 10-day holiday commenting: "I had is wonderful time. I think I did n-good job. too." He said he had come to England to spring-clean his broth- er's house.

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