Eddie Santry pugile

Edward M. "Eddie" Santry (December 11, 1876 – January 28 1919), was an American featherweight boxer who took the World Featherweight Championship on October 10, 1899 against English Featherweight Champion Ben Jordan in a tenth-round knockout at the Lenox Athletic Club in New York, New York.He lost his title on February 1, 1900 to one of America's greatest boxers, the Brooklyn featherweight Terry McGovern in a fifth-round technical knockout at Tattersall's in Chicago before an impressive crowd of 15,000. He was managed by Ted Murphy for most of his career.Santry was born on December 11, 1876 in Aurora, Illinois. According to boxing lore, and his own accounts, he took up boxing when he was badly underweight and suffering from consumption on the advice of physicians who recommended exercise. He was a boxing pupil of Harry Gilmore of Chicago, who also taught Chicago boxers Tommy White and 1901 World Bantamweight Champion Harry Forbes.He began his professional boxing career around 1895 in the Chicago area where he won six of his first seven fights by knockout. In his early career from 1895 to 1896, he knocked out Young Casey in 3 rounds, Jimmy "Spider" Kelly in 1, Kid Reynolds in 2, the well known Eddie Curry in 4, Jim Gilchrist in 6, and Jack Smith in 1. In his first sixteen fights between March 22, 1895 and June 1, 1897, he lost only once to the well known fellow Chicago featherweight Tommy White by knockout at the Midway Theater in Lamont, Illinois in August 1896. White would become one of his better known opponents.He fought three boxers who would hold world championships and an impressive contender in 1898; Solly Smith to a six-round draw in Chicago, George Dixon in a twenty-round loss in New York's Lenox Club, Jewish New York featherweight contender Joe Bernstein in a twenty-round loss on points in New York's Lenox Club and Australian featherweight champion Torpedo Billy Murphy in an impressive fourth-round knockout win in St. Louis, Missouri. Not surprisingly, Dixon was the favorite in the early betting for his June 6 bout.