Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-04
HTz SAYS HE WAS ROBBED And So Say Others Who Saw
 the Blow. WHICH LAID THE SHARK OUT Ii Was One of the AustraIian's Terrific Upper
 Cuts. ''LANKYn BOB TALKS VERY PLAIN Says He Now Believes corbett Was Robbed in His Fight with Jackson-Julien
 Will Enjoin Payment of
 the Money.
"lANKY" BOB TALKS VERY PLAIl

San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 3.-Whether
 or not Bob Fitzsimmons did or did not foul Tom Sharkey in last nights fight. will furnish more talk in this city than
 is necessary to elect a president.
 Sharkey has the money, but Fitzsin-
 mons certainly has all the honor From the time the two men shook hands at 1O:55 last night until Sharkey dropped like ten-pin before a terrific upper
 cut in the eighth round Fitzsimmons out generated, out-punched and out-winded his antagonist. Experts in pugilism
 swarmed around the ring side, but the boxer who saw Fitzslmmons strike a foul blow is not to be found. Jack McAuliff. Jimmy Carroll, Johnny Herget (young
 MitchelD, Lon Agnew, Eddie Greaney
 and scores of others declare that the de- cision of Referee Earp was a plain case of robbery.
 Maj. Frank Mclaughlin, chairman of the republican state central committee. who was probably in a better position
 to see. the alleged foul than anybody, says that the knockout was as clean an upper-cut as he ever saw.
 Earpss selection as referee came about in a peculiar way. For many days Mar tin Julian has urged Danny Lynch,
 
 tory man, but Lynch has invariably re- fused to do so, claiming that there was plenty of time. Yesterday morning the
 managers wraHgled over the question for hours. Julian nained man after man, but Lynch was obdurate, and when the noon hour arrived, President Green, of the. National club, was called upon to
 make selection. He fixed upon Wyatt Earp, and Julian agreed to accept him rather than to leave Fitzsimmons open to the charge of cowardice.
 That Sherkey has improved as a boxer no one who saw him perform last night will deny That he is greatly over-rated and entirely out-classed in a contest with Fitzsimmons is also not disputed. The | men were about evenly matched in | weighs, there being less than two pounds i diffe, ence between them.
 T vas simply robbed of s10,000 by that | decision," said F'itzsimmons after last | nights battle. q felt sure I was going | against the worst of it when Earp was named, but my reputation was at stake, | and I took chances. I never struck a foul blow in my life, and no one knows better than Sharkey that I won last | nights fight fair and square. Look at me. Do you see a single mark or scratch? Did get a good, solid punch during the | fight? Why, that dub is simply a strong young wrestler, and one of the foulest boxers I ever saw. Nobody can get a square deal from the thieves who handle | fights in this town. T now believe Corbett was robbed of | the decision here in his Jackson fight" Sharkey asserts that he had the bet ter of every round, and would certainly have won had he not been fouled Sport ing writers are unanimous in saying that the sailor is the luclsiest man that ever stepped into a ring. Sharkey an- nounces his willingness to meet all com CTS for the worlds championship. Julian will ask for an injunction re- straining the bank from paying Sharkey the check for the purse of $10,0O0 and the matter will be taken into the courts.