Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-11
WRESTLING.
LOTS OF TALK
 BUT NO MATCH
Jessey Foley. Manager Mad. den and Dave Cronin
 Fail to Come to Terms Bahcock After Wrestlers.

After a discussion lasting about thirty minutes in the Demo crat office, Jesse Foley and Dave Cro- min failed to come to any satisfactory agreement for a wrestling contest be- tween the two. Manager Michael Madden accompanied Cronin> to the meeting and Jesse Foley did the talk ing for himself. The question of g. match really hinged on the weight question
 Manager Madden made the follow ing proposition which started the dis cussion: He would match Cronin against Foley at catchweights before the club offering the biggest purse and let the winner take everything. Tn answer to this Foley made the follow ing proposition: As Cronin was many pounds heavier he would wrestle him provided Cronin agreed to throw him four falls in one hour of actual wrest- ling. He said he was not looking for middleweight or heavyweight lau- rels.
 Cronfn smiled at this proposition and then Manager Madden stated that Cronin had but six months ex- perience on the wrestling mat while Foley had years of experience and he should not ask for a handicap. Cronin, he said, would not weigh over 146 pounds in his clothes and he believed from the looks of Foley there would not be so much difference.
 Well, if you talk weights will do business with you right away. I be Iieye the proposition I have made is a fair one and no light wrestler would attempt to make any different propo- sition to a heavier man, no matter what may have been his experience" ," Manager Madden replied: If you take him on at catch weights he will wrestle you 10 a finish or for one hour and will bet you on the side or let the purse go to the winner"
 Foley again replied: If he will make weight I will sign articles at once and will be prepared to make as big q side bet as you want"
 Manager Madden then stated that Foley at one time had agreed to meet him (NIadden) at catchweights and had offered to bet him $50 he could beat him. As Madden weighed over ITO pounds he thought it strange that he would not meet Cronin at 145. He stated that Foley's manager, young Cowles, had made the proposition to him.
 To this Foley replied that he had no manager, that COWles was not author ized by him to make any such propo- sitiOn. Foley then asked if that was the best proposition that could be made and Manager Madden replied that it was. Then Foley stated that he would make one proposition. He syv1OlIId wregtlo CrOnin at rsatchweightS if Cronin would agree to throw him twice in one hour. winner to take ev- erything. This proposition did not meet with approval by either Madden or Cronin and then the conversation drifted toward the unknown whom Foley would back against Gro min, Foley said that the man he would hack against the Brooklyn boy was named Sundstrom and he would weigh stripped 14S pounds. Cronin replied to this at once. saying that the man was too heavy. Foley stated that if Brooklyn would guarantee to furnish TO people at fifty or seven ty-five cents a head he would guaran- tee the same number from his side and Sundstrom and Cronin could meet for the whole amount This was not satisfactory to the Brooklyn contingent as Foley seemed to be the man they were after After a few more ques- tions and answers the meeting broke up without coming to any definite un- derstanding. Foley stating at the close that if the Brooklyn people decided to accept his terms they could let him know at any time