The morning call., 1894-09-20
What Creedon Has to Say About
the Contest.
THOSE TERRIFIC HEART BLOWS.
The New Aspirant to Championship
HOnOrs Tells How He Will
Give FitZ a Pain.

lnEo az NOW OiIOduos
The contestants are the famous elon-
gated middle-weight champion of the
world, Bob FitzsimmOns, and Dan Cree
don, sturdy bit of puncher, as Austria
lians would remark, who is very confident
of putting long Bob to sleep.
1t is certain that if Creedon has not i'm
proved wonderfully since he fought Co.'S
tello, "The Buffalo," he will receive face
smashing from FitZSimmGns which will
put him on record as being the worst pun
ished man that mas ever stepped out of a
ring. Creedon states in the following in
ierview how he intends to whip the cham
pion middle weight. He will bore in on
Big Bob and smother the latter with "kid-
ney" blows and Observation-Disclosures" which
only IN iron man can possibly stand I'M
der. This sounds very nice on paper, but
CreedOn forgot TO mention what FitZsm-
mons might possibly be doing while Cree
don will De driving bis big right duke"
into the champions ribs. The interview
Is, however, interesting, and will give
readers of iSticuffs an idea, according to
CreedOn, of how Long Bob must come
leans:
$50 Fitz says he'll knock me out in four
rou nds, does he ?" said Creedon yesterday
afternoon. "Well, all I've got 10 say about
that is that betting on the number of
rounds FitZ will knock me out in would be
mighty good betting. To my way of think
ing FiiZ won't knock me out in IA rounds.
Do you know" he continued after min
ute's thought. 81 would sooner meet Fig
than any man in the world. Just think
what victory means for me. l eau keep on
fighting the best men of my weight and
coin lots OF money"
81 suppose if you whip Fitz you will 20
on the stage?"
Not much" was the quick response. 81
think Pm good fighter, but l know I'd
be a blooming bad actor. | can make
enough money fighting to keep me, and
that suits me better. Say, but do you know
that COrbetps an awfuliy good actor. |
think he's as good as whole lot of those
fellows who claim to be fine actors But
poor old John l.. isn't much on the act.
though. He was great fighter in his day."
and here CTeedon got up and searched
among lot of photographs until he Sc
cured one of boyish looking young fell
low, beneath which was the inscription,
John L. Sullivan, the week before lie met
Paddy Ryan"
That don't look much like the Sullivan
that you and l know" continued Creedon.
''lf he had kept on looking like that he
might have given COrGeit n harder fight
| when they met. Then l have seen Jack
son act. He isn't much except in that
| like lie did when Farnham knocked him
out in Australia. You didn't know that
| jackson had ever been knocked out?
! Yes. over in our country he went up
| against Feraham and thought he had an
easy thing, but Farnham lodged left
! hand swing IN the stomach and it was all
| day with Jackson then, and Farnham
polished MIN off nicely. Still. guess it
was just a chance, for Leeds afterward
! best Farnham, and Jackson put Leeds out
| in SIX ROUNDS.
What will COrbett 10 to Jackson If they
meet? Why he'll cut him to pieces. Let
| me show you the strongest line in the
world on how that fight will result" and
| here Dan dove once more down into his
| collection of pic ures, and after some time
picked out tNO pictures, one Of small size
and evidently the work of an amateur and
the other a large cabinet picture. This
| picture shows C0rbetI before he met Jack
| son." continued Dan, as be held the
smaller picture up to visw, "and this shows
| him before he met NJ t hell. You would
not take hem to be pictures of the same
| fellow, would you? Look at the Corbett
of years ago. Get on to his position and
| how stiff-legged be stands. Why, he don't
look as If he could get out of mis- own way
| That guard Is enough TO make an old-Iimer
| laugh. Then see how bOyIsh he looks
Why, he has not got any flesh on him at
! all Now let's look al this picture. Here
you have the man. How bold and conf
dent Corbett's position is. He's filled out
and is now a man. Then look at the
changes in The position of his legs and
look at his guard. Now, do you think
that il this boy met jackson and made a
draw with him, this man could not best
Jackson?
tom, my trainer and were figuring out
last night how many battles / have fought.
We counted up to Ill, bur l think there
n,,k
those Ill I've won all but TWO, ana those
were both limited 10-rOund contests aud re-
suited in draws. They were with Costello
and Moore. Later | met Costello and
knocked him out in % rounds. and l have
since knocked Moore out in eight rounds.
It's seven years since L started fighting,
and. as I'm only % now, L guess that IL
can do Fi;zsimmons Pm good for a good
number OF fights yet. I've met all kinds
of men, some In my class and some out of
it. some as short as myself and some as
tall as FItz, and L never had much trouble
in coming out the victor. / think I've got
a pretty good line ON Fitz from my meeting
in Australia with Hall. He is as big as
FitZ and l think as clever. Well, L Pot
him ont in eight rounds. Ofcourse, 1t only
took Fig four to do the same thing.
''When 1 fight Fitz 1 viii lay iu close to
him as | can, and depend upon my body
blows TO knock him out You ought to
see NbSu Il Ill m ouOIt
enough as it is, but when get in close to
a man L kind of squat down this way"
ana here Creedon showed what he meant
by spreading out his legs and drawing his
body downward. You see, that makes
me at least two inches shorter than l
usually am in fighting position. A big u an
striking at me in that position has Ii aim
his blows downward, and consequently
they lack force.
81 have two favorite blows, or rather,
to be exact, one favorite blow. Every
fight have won / attribute TO the use OF
the right-haud blow Tor the heart. No
man can stand over two Of them. 1t is
easy to deliver and hard to get away FROM.
| invented that blow. as you can see by
these Australian papers referring to fights
which have taken place since left home,
in which they speak of delivering Dan
Creedon's Iight-hand blow for the heart
As a knockout blow | consider it better
than that fer the point Of the jaw. There
are more opportunities TO deliver il, and
YOU leave no point unguarded. Besides,
lork at the great space you have in which
10 deliver it. l usually make the blow this
way: When MY opponent leads with bis
left I guard my face with my left, and,
stepping in. throw my right straight from
tue shoulder for point just below tAe
heart, which my opponent has been obliged
to leave uuguarded ia order TO protect his
face with his right. a blow can be deliy-
cred in this manner with terrific force, for
1t has the full weight of the body with il.
| dropped Martin Costello with one of
those blows, knocking him out completely
From what l hear Sullivan used similar