The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-26
MORAN KNOCKED OUT
TOMMY FELTz THE WINNER OF
ATHLETIC CLUBS FIsTIC BOUT.
MORAN WEPT OVER DEFEAT.
WAS PUT OUT IN SEVENTEENTH
ROUND BY A BLOW OVER HEART.

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Routs Scheduled for Next Month.
Tommy Feltz of Brooklyn knocked
out Tony Moran of New York last
night in the seventeenth round or
what was to have been twenty-five
round bout for a decision. The bout
was remarkably clean, as well as cleV-
er. and both men put up an exhibit
ton of boxing of which each may be
proud.
Moran showed up remarkably strong
and full of ginger, and, for the hrst
eight rounds, set the pace as often as
he followed it. He landed often and
hard. ducked and blocked skillfully,
and for the first half of the mill"
had a large following among the spec
tators, who thought that he would at
least go the limit. Feltz, on the con-
trary. though he did some remarkably
clever foot work, did not appear as full
of spirits as he usually does, and,
though he punched his man good and
strong every once in while, his leads
were mostly for the head and worried
his opponent apparently very little.
Neither man showed any bad effects
from the "go" until after the third
round, when one of Moran's left-hand-
ers to Feltz's right eye caused no
ticeable swelling, while Moran's nose
showed decidedly the impact of
straight jab that Feltz had landed
early in the game. In the fourth round
Moran landed three hard stomach
blows without a return, and in the
break from clinch that followed got
in two more on the neck. Feltz. too,
got in some effective punches just be-
fore the round was over.
In the fifth round Moran made Sc
ries of rushes leading always for
FELIX'S stomach and frequently land
ing, but getting in return some trou-
blesome blows on the face and head.
FELIX'S foot work in this round was
remarkably clever. In the following
round F'eltz landed two hard punches
in the face and made several vicious
swings that Moran escaped by clever
Feltz landed right over the heart
that effectually stopped 1t.
Moran in the clinches resorted to his
favorite style of fighting: pounding his
opponent over the kidneys, which,
though legitimate under the straight
Queensberry rules by which the bout
was governed, did not at all please the
spectators, who several times Kissed
when he tried these tactics. The sew
enth round was marked by a vicious
exchange of blows to the body and
head of both men, who went for each
other hammer and tongs" style; 1t
ended in a clinch near the ropes, with
neither man having any apparent ad-
vantage.
In the round that followed. Peltz be-
gan showing up better, probably be-
cause, as he wanted a Knockout, he
had been saving himself in the earlier
part of the game. He landed oftener
and harder, punching for the heart,
over which he landed several times,
and on the ribs, to which he swung
with resounding blows. Both men were
on their mettle when the gong for the
ninth sounded and rushed for the CEN
ter of the ring. where, after exchang-
ing blows, they clinched. The pace
was even then beginning to tell on
Moran, for before the round was end
ed Feltz managed to land three jolts
to the face and get away without q
return, and also by a rush put Moran
half out of the ropes. This round was
decidedly Feltz's.
Feltz's superior foot work was again
displayed in the following round,
though after a short time in clinches
the men broke and mixed up in one of
the liveliest scrimmages of the bout.
Moran STOPPING low, his favorte pos
ture, and landing repeatedly right and
left on Feltz' stomach and Feltz re-
turning blow for blow to the head and
neck. Rushing tactics were again re-
sorted to by Moran in the following
round, and he landed on Feltz with ap-
parently as much force as he had done
in the first part of the bout: Feltz was
satisfied with fewer punches but each
of them told.
Again in the twelfth Moran recovered
some of his former spirit and dash,
forced the game but was met by such
= determination by the other man that
the round though one of the fiercest,
If not the fiercest of the entire bout.
resulted in an advantage to neither
man. This was Moran's last squirt,
however. for the thirteenth round
found him too weak to be effective
when he did land. while Feltz appear
ed to grow stronger as the game pro-
crossed. Moran swung and jabbed, but
either failed to land at all or had so
little steam" behind his blows that
they gave Feltz no trouble. He, on
the other hand, had things his own
way, punched Moran at will, especially
on the head. and skipped away from
the other mans leads for the body.
The fourteenth was a repetition of
the preceding round, with the eXcep-
tion that Moran was weaker. He was
game, however, and though he appear
ed to know that he could not go the
limit and that he had no chance for
the decision even if he did. he, never
theless, took his medicine like a man.
and swung and punched at his fresher
and more agile opponent with all the
strength that he had left. He was so
clearly out. of the game by this time.
however, that the spectators began
calling to Feltz to go in and finish the
business. He did go in and put two
hard ones on Moran's left ribs and
another right swing to the neck, and
might have finished the Knockout with
another punch, had not the gong de-
MED the chance.
Moran was stlll game, though, for in
the following round he managed to
send a hard jolt on Feltz that the lat
ter claimed reached his hip. and which
made him caution Moran TO be more
careful where he landed II was a useless
precaution, for the blow was last ef-
fort. Moran came bravely forward in
the seventeenth. but was very weak
and after a short mix up, went TO the
floor from a left handler on the jaw. He
lay while Referee owen Zeigler count .
ed four, then struggled 10 his feet but
laast Oh D.