The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-13
ALL KINDS OF BOUTS
GIVEN IN BENEFIT PERFORM
ANCE To FRED DOUGLAS.
NEGROES IN BATTLE ROYAL.
FURNISHED SPECTATORS WITH AN
ENDLESS LOT OF AMUSEMENT.


COrcoran and Douglas, Tommy FeItE
and Kid Henning, and Sheehan
and Long, Gave Exhibitions.
Young ROeber Won Both Falls of
wrestling Bout From j. Barnes.
standing of Teams and Players in
Bowling LcaRue-Hussars First
Among Teams and Stein Bryan
First Among PIRyers-Yacht Club
but Two Games Behind Hussars.
There was all sorts of scrapping at
the Savannah Athletic Club last night
in a benefit that had been arranged for
Fred Douglas. The bout Of chief in
terest, of course, was that between
Fred Douglas and Tommy Corcoran, of
especial interest not only because the
men have twice met before, but chiefly
because within less than two weeks
Coreoran will meet Owen Zeigler.
This bout went only three rounds
but that was plenty long enough for
the spectators to see that Corcoran is
in excellent condition-fit to make the
hardest battle of his life when he
as might well be understood, there are
no efforts for put out" and so by
far the greater number of the
passes" hast night were made with
open gloves, but Corcoran showed him
self remarkably quick with both feet
end hands, and had decidedly the bet
ter of the game all through.
The next match in interest, though
it preceded the Douglas bout
in point of time, was a three-round
Ego" between Tommy Feltz and KID
Henning. This too, was rather tame.
for Tommy was satisfied to demon
strate that he could land if he wanted
to and that was about the extent OF
his ambition for the time being. Hen
ming showed up stronger than he has
yet done, however, did some pretty
blocking and with any man less clever
than Feltzl would have made a very
creditables showing. Feltz was given
the decision, though it was not an
nounced from the ringside.
Young Asoeber and j. Barnes, the
latter ofiSu Louis. put up a very lively
wrestling4aout, Greco Roman style, pin
fall. strangle hold barred. Roeber
proved himself decidedly the cleverer
and threw1his man twice, the first time
within less than a minute and
the second time in a minute and a few
seconds. b
ing number of the programme, was
given by yeck Sheehan and viii Long,
his sparritg partner. The liveliness
was all Oh the side of Sheehan, how
ever, for he punched his man, skipped
away. punched and kept his opponent
on 'hot EooI' around the ring all the
time. Long was much the heavier man
and appe7psd to have twice the hitting
power OF his lighter but agile opponent,
but Appearances counted for little, for
Sheehsn literally made a punching
bag of him. -
The liyeliest number of the pro-
gramme. and one that afforded no end
of amusement to the specta tors, was
battle royal between four negroes,
who. before beginning each round,
dipped their gloves in flour. 1t was
rough ard tumble, go-as-you please,
swa t-thHznearest man performance,
with absolutely nothing but razors
and axes barred.
The fsen were q little slow about be-
ginning the row, each seeming to wait
for some casus belh on the part of his
opRonants. but. after the scrap was be-
gun there. was a rough house of the
TOUGHEST hiHu anu plenty OF II. vi
science there was none but of energy
quite plenty. At times the whole four
scrappers would be a tangled mass of
feet and arms, each man punshing
away at no one in particular, but who
ever happend to be within striking dis
tance.
AfteT.uthe first miX-up. though they
became wary and had to be urged to
further exertions, Then one by one
they dronped out. one man because,
being a heightened scrapper, sab, he
didn't like hitting in clinches, and felt
that ''buttin" had been barred by the
Marquis of unsavory fame. whose chief
claim of greatness was the formulation
of prize ring rules; another because
o7e she eor'aDpers had given him the
Knee and the third because he had
stood for all the punching that he felt
was comdng to him. and thought he had
the bout on foul because the fourth
man punched him on the cocoanut
while he was trying to emulate the pos
ture and spread of pancake in order
to take in comfort nine counts before
continuing the battle.
Jones. the last man left. was declared
the victor, and may be matched with
some other Joe Cans to- be in a prelim-
mary to the Sheehan-Kid Henning bout
that will take place tomorrow night in
Labor Hall.