The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-29
DRAW AT rs ROUNDS
FELTZ AND MORAN SHARED HON.
ORs IN BOXING BOUT.
BECK WON WRESTLING MATCH
LUCAS REFUSED TO TRY THIRD
BOUT AFTER HE HAD WON
ONE, AND LOST ONE.

| The Boxing Contest One OF the best
Ever Seen Here-was Pulled of AT
Catch weights With Moran the
Heaviest by Some Fifteen Pounds.
FeItz Rather Than Miss the Bout
Accepted This Weight and Also
Refused to Insist on Forfeit
Money-Lucas Much Heavier Than
Beck but the Contest Neverthe-
less q Very Pretty One.
The hardest fought bout between
little men" ever seen in Savannah,
took place between Tommy Feltz and
Tony Moran last night before the Sa-
vannah Athletic Club, and resulted in
draw after rs rounds had been
fought. AS to the actual points of the
4 game in question, the decision is all
right, but the result of this match does
not by any means show the real abil-
| tiles of the men, for Feltz was the
cleverer throughout, and except for
| the fact that he gave away to Moran,
Is pounds, would probably have knock
ed him out as a easily as he did In
| their former match, Nov. 6, when
Moran was put down and out in the
seventeenth round.
| The bout was fast from beginning
to-end:-Eeltz- as tire cifev ERE hm f
Moran demonstrated that he was de-
| cidedly in the game himself, for he
was quite as aggressive as his small
| opponent, and though he landed less
often than Feltz, yet managed to get
in a good deal of punishment.
Feltz in the first several rounds did
not greatly exert himself but the
crowd that has seen him box SO often,
recalled that this is his style; to play
waiting game during the early part
| of the bout; and so they reserved their
| enthusiasm for the time when he should
start to work in earnest, but their faith
| in their favorite nearly ebbed entirely
! away in the seventh round, when Mo-
| ran landed a number of stiff punches
that apparently made Feltz groggy.
The round ended, however, before the
symptom had become very pronounced,
and when the next gong sounded Feltz
was promptly in the centre of the ring,
| and had so far overcome any weak
ness that he might have felt that he
went for Moran in his old fierce style
and landed so often and so strongly
| that he easily took the honors of the
round.
The whole of the earlier part of the
bout was married, from a spectators
view point by the amount of wrestling
that was INDUCED in. In all of this
work Moran had the best of it owing
to his superior weight, but in these
| clinches F'eltz was not idle; on the
contrary, he landed short jolts to the
stomach and, in the breaks, to the jaw.
After the seventh round, up to which
| time Moran had shared the honors of
| all the rounds he had not captured,
| Feltz warmed to his work and had
much the best of it all through to the
| twenty-second, when Moran again took
a squirt that he kept up to the end of
| the game. The fiercest round of the
| game was the fifteenth, when both
men got to smuggling, passage of
arms in which Feltz took the honors.
Again in the seventeenth round Mo-
| ran seemed to be completely played
| out, for he was unable to hit Feltz at
all, though Feltz landed on him re-
peatedly. Feltz, however, lacked the
steam" behind the blows that would
| have put Moran out. In the next round,
too, Feltz landed often and fairly hard,
hard enough to distress his adversary,
though still without force to accom-
| plsh a Knockout.
Moran rallied in the following round
and tried rushing tactics. which, be-
cause of his greater weight, were de-
cidedly in his favor; but though he
| landed often he got in return some
straight jabs to the breast and stom-
ach that gave him a distaste for this
style of boxing, and in the next round
he got back to the straight leads.
Often, too, in the exchange of blows
the honors were SO even that the fav-
orites of each man thought their man
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| go in and put the other chap out. This
Feltz apparently tried to do in the
eighteenth round, but though he land
| ed almost at will he could not put into
| his jabs the strength necessary to ac-
complish the result.
| In the twenty-second round Moran
took a squirt and did some good work,
and kept it up in the two following
rounds, when he again tried rushes
and landed often, but Feltz gave blow
for blow.
The twenty-fifth round, next to the
fifteenth, was the hardest fought of the
bout. Moran again started his rush
ing tactics, swinging wildly in the
hope, evidently. of landing a chance
blow that would put Feltz out Feltz,
on the other hand, was collected and
clever as he had been in the begin
ming. and, biding his time, landed
some exceedingly hard punches when
the other man exposed himself. The
men were still at it savagely when
| the gong ended the last round
While there were many of the spec
tators who thought that Feltz should
have received the decision because of
the splendid showing he made even
against the great odds of the other
mans weight, yet they made no dem
onstration in the matter, for they were
all of the opinion that Moran had
shown the best form that he has eX-
hibited since he appeared in Savannah,
and that his improvement since he last
took part in a bout has been most
| marked.
Feltz showed uD as he has always
done in his bouts here. as an exceed.
ingly clean clever boxer. calm at all
times. and still with a hitting ability
that is the envy of many men in the
heavier classes OF pugilists.
The bout was preceded by a wrest-
ling match between Emil Beck and
Chic Lucas. the latter of Washington
II was a splendid exhibition, for.
though Lucas weighed some thirty
pounds more than Beck. the latter
was the cleverer. and by his adroit-
ness kept the first half of the bout GO
| ing thirteen minutes and half before
he was finally thrown. This was with
the Greco Roman style. In the sue
coeding bout. catch as catch can. Beck
! put Lucas down after fourteen min
utes' work. Lucas refused 10 settle
the tie by another bout, and so the
| decis..<n was given 10 Beck.