The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-03
5000 BACK OF FELTz.
ru,T AMOUNT TO BE BET IF HE
MEETS FORBES.

Al ,IcMurray Wants to Arrange a
Natch as soon Os Possible-Be-
,;oves the Forbes Crowd Took Adj
.,ntage of Feltz at st. Louis-Ir
- savannah Boy Is Given a Fair
chow His Friends Say He Can
.rrim" .Forbes-Win Fight Any
where.
Al MeNIurray. matchmaker of the
savannah Athletic Club. returned from
CHARLESTON yesterday, and is busy ar
raretng for a number of matches to
.ota place in Savannah in the near
f,,,re. McMurray's chief concern,
nouever. is to arrange for another
Meeting between Tommy Feltz and
Harry Forbes. He has no hesitancy
in saving that the Forbes crowd took
every advantage of the Savannah box
OPP in the meeting in ST, Louis Thurs
d.v. both in arranging. the match and
afterward in securing an unfair de-
cision.
This decision McMurray says was
nlrely a robbery, and that it was con-
tamplated from the beginning of the
arrangements for the bout he knows,
because he was tipped off that Tommy
would have to score a knock out to
vim McMurray says further that
FaItz should never have entered the
ring under the conditions that were
imposed on him as no worlds cham
nionship battle should be fought for so
short a time as fifteen rounds, nor with
= clean break The latter, he says, is
something that has no standing what
ever among professionals, and has been
adopted only by amateurs and by par
lor lighters.
So thoroughly convinced is McMur-
raw that with anything like a fair show
or halfway decent treatment Feltz
can trim Forbes that he has made
the proposition to Forbes that he make
match with Feltz at lis pounds for
twenty-five rounds, with Charlie
White the referee. If Forbes will do
this McMurray states that Feltz will
be backed by purse of $1,000 on a bet
that he will knock out Forbes before
the expiration of the limit of the mill,
and says if Tommy does not do that
much he doesn't want a, cent of the
money.
The savannah Athletic Club will give
Forbes any date that he may want
for the bout, if he doesn't want to
fight in Savannah Feltz will meet him
before any other club.
1t was reported in Savannah yester-
day, though the rumor could not be
verified, that Feltz has signed an
agreement to fight Johnny Rea-
gan of Brooklyn in st. Louis
March 10 and that because OF
tri- natch he is not on his way home
with Mcbride and Zeigler, but will re-
main in St Louis until after this
match, McMurray is trying to arrange
erWeen 'roTnny Feltz and Kid
St Clair to be pulled off in Louisville.
The next bout in Savannah will prob
ably be between Jack Sheehan, the To-
cal amateur, and MILDLY Hennessey,
who some time ago was defeated in
Charleston by Tommy Feltz This
match with a couple of wrestling bouts
will be made a popular price show.
Should it be satisfactorily arranged it
will take place next Monday night
McMuTay is also ready to match
Hennessey against Kid Henning and let
them hold the bout anywhere that suits
Henning. His only stipulation is that
it shall be case of winner take all.
So soon as zeigler returns-he. is ex-.
pee ed to-day-McM Murray will endeav-
or to arrange a bout between him and
Jack Grace. the weller that recently
reached Savannah in quest of go"
If the Sheehan-Hennessey bout takes
place next Monday the Zeigler- Grace
game will be pulled off one week later.