Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-07
WRESTLING
MATCH IS MADE
John E. Kelly and Kid Kehoe Were Matched Last Night to Meet
 February P.

The one match that the sports or this city have been hungering for was lcliD.hed last evening, when all the
 pal aes interested met at J. J. Mur- phy's cafe and came to an agreement.
 This match will bring together John
 F. Kelly of this city and Kid kehoe of Brooklyn, New York, and Will rake
 place at the Simonsville Athletic club |on Thursday evening, February @. 1t is d match that all will want to see, because it will be strictly on it's nier- Ijts and you will be assured that it WEI
 take place. There are no flukes down
 lin the Simonsylle Athletic club rooms land no star matches arc made unless lthey are positively on the level. The Ireferee of this club has been engaged
 principally for the purpose of insist ling on clean contests. free from any lsrispicion. and the public. who have SD lliberaIly patronized the matches in the Ipast. know that every one given down I1bere has been q hummer. When It was announced some weeks ago that Ikellv, and Jack Roach were matched ]therr were some who intimated that the match was ''phonay" one. and ycr if was one of the fiercest contests that has ever been pulled off in this city. So gruclling was it that to-day
 Jack Roach has not recovered rom the effects of that match. John F.
 Kelly is back in his old form. His friends have focked bacl1ato his side snd are today standfift bthilM nm. just as staunchly as they ever did. He will face comparatively unknown wrestler in these parts. but still he has no fear and he wants all his old fol- lowers to remember that hc has made tris match fully confident that he VIII win.
 Kehoa is an unknown almost m thls city. but there is something mysteri- ous about this chap which has drawn
 good judges of wrestling 10 his side. He could not be pulled into any spec ulative match by any New Haven crowd. because he knows tho game inst as well as any of the mat artists, and he came here to try and get on a
 match with Kelly. He did moi propose to give anyone. only those directly ih- terested in him. chance to get q me nm him. He believes he is Kelly's master and when he defeats nm ne will 90 after some of tfze others who hold the titles of champions. He says himself that he is no champion. but he fc,rs no man at his weight and can ,Icfeat many of She top notchcrs aDoNc i,is weight. He will he backed to the limit to tcat Kelly and the latter friends are willing 10 wager all kiiius Inf money that he cannot defeat the i"- cal hoy. This morning telephone wesssee came to the sporting writer saving that if kehoe and ms ireius and backers want to wager any part of S5sO the friends of Kelly will rosl inc money immediately.
 Tbera was considerable haggllns over inc articles of agreement last riobt Eehve wanted Kelly fo weigh i'm at IFS pounds ringside. but the To- cal boz positively refiisesi to do an! .pcb thing. He insisted on thc weight heinz H. pounds at the ringside ana after a long wrangle Kehoe agreed tn that weight. Then came auarIri oyer the division of the purse. heil!. when he got the weight question SCI. ,Ic,l t.lieved he had all the best of h and he wanted the winner to take ev- crythfng. This the packers of hehoe fatly objected 10. It was finally asreed that the purse be divided e per cent so inc winner and 25 per cent 10 ille l,ser. Manager Lswlor will give tue ,vrcstlerS s0 pcr cent of the gross re ,-eintS and today it was assured [" ,hc writer that at Yeast Siuo a side r-oul.I I,c placed before the day of the matrh. The management of tho si-
 monsviIIr Athletic club will oder slvv ,o anYone who can prove this match ls rc, on ilpe level. and will also deposit vith 4hc referee the sum of s5o to susrantee the public that both men win wrestIc for all they are worth and that everything in connection wrl tho match will be done Princi- raIlv for inc protection of tho pubic