Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-29


 Martin Duffy Wins Championship From Ferns--other Fighting News.
 Portland Ore, May 29.-Joe Walcott Of Boston, champion welterweight of Ine world, won from Mysterious Silly Smith of Portland after four rounds of furious fighting last night. smiths seconds threw up the sponge. smith claimed to have broken his left hand in the third round.
 Savannah, Ga, May 29.-Three blows on the jaw within fifteen seconds put George Feeley of Sioux City out in the third round of what was to have been A twenty round fight with Jim Jeffords of California, before the Savannah Athletic club last night. The blows caused 8 temporary paralysis of the left side of Feeley's head. and at late hour he was still unconscious. The at- tending physicians say, however, that he will recover. Little was done in the first round of the fight and neither man landed blow. Iii the second Feeley 2 got in a few body blows, but was knocked down once with a left over the heart. In the third round he land ed several times on Jeffords, but was knocked down three times. The Sioux City man was only slightly dazed by the first blow. He took the count on the second, and the third put him to sleep. It was a right swing and land cd on the point of the jaw. Jeffords has been matched to meet Philadelphia n, Tsz5,
 Louisville, Ky, May 29.-NIaryin Duffy of Chicago now claims the well terWeight championship by virtue of 8 victory over Rube Ferns of Kansas before the Louisville Athletic club last night. The end of the bout came in the thirteenth round, when Duffy, who had been winning all the way. caught Ferns on the chin with right as they came out of a clinch and dropped the aknsan over on his back. Ferns's head struck the floor. He flopped over and tried to get up. After reaching his knees he toppled forward and had to be dragged to his corner. Duffy had a decided advantage of reach and used it. He kept jabbing Ferns until the Kansan's face was bathed in blood and his right eye was closed. Ferns tried hard to get into close quarters with Duffy and rushed the Chicagoan repeatedly, pounding him effectively in the clinches. Duffy had him sized up, however. and was wary. He gradual ly wore his man down. until the oppor-, tunity came in the thirteenth round, when he put him out
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 Big Gus Ruhlin chews tobacco. Billy Madden, his manager, doesn't believe that chewing tobacco has tendency to anake man either clever or fast in the ring. He has told Ruhlin this on sew eral occasions, when fighters and their. managers meet at those little confer ences which look toward a gathering in of the box office receipts. But Gus Is not of an argumentative turn of mind and he let Madden do most of the talking The fighter would throw away his wad of plug at the time, but there were other wads. Just before Ruhlin went on with Ferguson in Bos- ton. Madden noticed that his near jaw was bulging out like bump on a log. sThow tffat awayw said Madden. 'sNow let me tell you. Billy said Ruh- lin, .ft11is chew Is all right. I've got a great scheme with this. You can see it's a pretty big chew. Every time that other guy takes a wallop at my jaw can shift the chew and make cushion for the punch to land on. See?' Mad den didn't see, but whether Ruhlin made a success of his experiment. or not, he hasn't said
 4 postponement has been granted to HN T,,4G As A. c. of Fort Erie. and the former champions fight with Abe Attell is to be decided after all At a meeting be- tween Ike Bloom for Attell and Sam Harris. McGovern's manager, at Buff falo yesterday it was agreed to hold the fight on June 15. New articles of agreement were drawn up and signed and forfeits of S1.00o posted by each for weight and appearance A com promise was reached whereby Harris agreed to allow Attel1 $500 for training expenses, and in order to compensate the club, he agreed to pay for the ad- vertising for the fight to come, which would not amount to more than $20O.
 Young Corbett was injured last even ing on his way from the Gravesend track where he had been to see the S running of the Brooklyn handicap, He i returned to the city by way of the Long Island ferry about half-past o'clock and hailed one of the cross town electric surface cars to go to the Hotel Met.opole, where he stops when # in town. Corbett was one of the last 10 get on the car. Just as he was about $ 10 board the car the crowd in the rear, . in their eagerness to seenre seats. pushed the champion. and the latter went sprawling into the street. For funately the car was not in motion at ffe time. Before he had a chance to arise hundreds of racetrack goers surged forward and almost trampled on him. Corbett yelled for room, and when he got up 1t was found that his