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.FELTZ PUT HIM out
SENT SMITH TO THE MAT IN THE
SECOND ROUND.
THE SAME DOSE FOR DILLON.
WAS HANDED OUT BY CORCORAN
IN THE PRELIMINARY.

| at the Theater Last hiEht-BOb
Dillon and TOmmie COrcoran
Showed some Hard WOrk-COrcO-
| ran Has Greatly Improved - His
Foot Work Is Excellent - Solar
! PIcxus Did the Work for Dillon.
Foul Was Claimed on FeItz, But
an Examination Showed That
Smith Had Not Been FOuIed.
Tommie Feltz of Brooklyn, world
champion in the bantam weight class,
made good his title last night at the
Theater by putting Sammie Smith of
| Philadelphia out in the second round
of what was to have been a twenty-five
round bout. 1t was a lucky blow,
whether chance or not, for Feltz, and il
came just in the nick of time, for
Smith had him worried just at that
stage of the game.
Sports talk wisely about fights, and
they get into quite warm arguments.
! Just how Feltz was feeling about the
time he put Smith out was a feound
subject for lovers of the game. They diff
fered widely, some insisting that Feltz
looked as if he was good for all the
rest of the rounds the bout was sched-
uled to run, and others declaring that
he was going. 1t did look as If the stiff
| jolts Smith landed were telling, and it
was lucky for Feltz that he pulled him
self together long enough to get in the
blow that put Smith out of business.
Many thought Feltz had fouled
| c1sn
| ing with one arm free, and it could
| be seen that Feltz was worried. He
dug into Smiths stomach with his
right and Smith went to the mat He
| lay there and writhed, as if in great
agony, and his seconds put up a hol-
/ Ter. They thought Feltz had fouled
him with his blow. owen Ziegler was
particularly wordy, as he wants all
that is coming to him when he is in
| the right. Shorty Jenkins, the referee,
saw things differently, however, and
that there was nothing to do for Smith
in the foul line.
| After the referee had announced that
| he gave the fight to Feltz, an an
nouncement, by the way, that few
heard, because of the excitement on
| the stage and in the crowd of specta-
tors, Smith was picked up by his sec
| where he was laid on a cot. Two ply
sicians, who had witnessed the fight,
were called in. and they said, after an
| examination, that Smith had not been
| fouled. Then Ziegler withdrew his
| contention, admitting that Smith had
been fairly put out of the game Sam
mic, though, was in a bad way, and,
| as he lay on the cot, 1t looked as
though he was not having a good time
one bit.
COrcOran and Dillon.
A six-round preliminary to the little
| fellows bout had been arranged be-
| tween Tommie Corcoran of Savannah
and Bob Dillon of New York Dillon
is one of the trio that is travelling with
| Al McMurray. They call him the
brute. That's because he stands I'D
and gets himself punched in training
the others. The small boys in the top
of the house had caught on last night,
and they We're calling Dillon by that
endearing name when he appeared in
the ring and throughout his short fight
with Tommie.
Corcoran surprised the sports. Since
his last appearance, he has improved
greatly. He has learned things about
footwork that he didn't know before,
and he showed some cleverness in
moving about that his admirers hadn't
thought well of the way he handled
his fists, but he had always looked to
them as If he was nailed to the floor.
They were agreeably surprised to see
him tumble to the fact that he had
legs, and his stunts in the moving line
We're all right.
Dillon thought he was going to put
'Tommie on the bum in short order
He was pretty confident about what
he was going to do to the Savannah
fighter. The wise ones thought the
same about ii, and 1t looked during the
first round as IL the New York lad had
the things sized up about right.
The preliminary started not more
than five minutes late, and the crowd
that saw the fights liked that first rate.
These long waits have grown to be I'M
popular, and the Savannah Athletic
Club will do well to pull off the bouts
as promptly as last night. After the
| preliminary there were just a few min
utes too long spent in doing things that
should have been done before but, on
the whole. the crowd had no kick COM
ing on the score of delay.
Tommie Feltz, Jack DAILY, AL McMur-
ray and Kid Davis handled sponges,
bottles and towels for Dillon, while
Corcoran's bodily comforts We're looked
to by owen Ziegler, Tom Rafferty, and
Frank Hart. Corcoran got the hands
as he entered the ring, for he is a
favorite in Savannah.
At the sound of the gong the two
men, welter weights both. with any
| difference in Dillon's favor, got
| together wasting little time
in preliminary sparring. They were
out for results. too. as could plainly be
seen. After the fights were over some
who saw them were talking about
| fakes but they were wrong. The only
trouble was that they thought they
hadn't seen enough for their money. II
| they had been faxed. they wouldn't
| have been wound up in the second
round. When fight is faxed, the crowd
| gets just a little more sparring for its
| money.
When the first round was about a
minute old Dillon threw Corcoran
| heavily. Then the crowd roasted him
! Corcoran was up all right. though. and
some of the hardest stiffest fighting
! that has been seen in "A ring in Sa-
vannah for long while followed. Cor
| coran's right swing, with his duck In at
| the same time. was favorite move
| and Dillon couldn't seem to figure Just
when II was coming. Honors were easy
| when the gong sounded upon the first
round though, and the fight belonged
| 10 either man.
The second round opened up in the
same way. first one leading and then
| the other. Quick work Il was, and the
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