The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-18
A CLEAN FIGHT.
Referee Siler'S Opinion
of Carson Battle.
Trainer MuldOOn Also Talks
About the Contest.
COrbett Beautiful Boxer, But Fitz
the Greater Fighter.

Carson City, March tS.-Charley White,
in discussing the outcome of the big
fight said: II advised Corbett TO fight
generalship fight, keeping away from
Fitz, but he was so confident he could
whip Fitz, that hc would mix up. Even
up to the round he went down, lac was
confident He is the much better man.
Tho chance blow did il. /"
My construction OF rule L., said
Referee Siler, permitting hits in the
clinches and breakaways made fairer
fight chan the general public or the
spectators anticipated. The general sup
position was that under the rule as i'm
terpreted, II would be "A rough and tumble
fight-that they would hug and wrestle--
but | figured that If hitting i'm the clinch
and breakaways We're permitted the men
would be more careful i'm their clinches
and there would be no punching at such
times. | was correct.
''It looked for the first five rounds as If
IL was Corbett's fight He had FitZ wob-
being In the fourth and fifth rounds and i'm
the fifth was forced for the first time, TO
go III between Co make Fitz break away.
After that it appeared To me that Cor
betts blows We're not rs effective as be-
fore and FitZ seemed TO be getting stronger
all the time and, barring a Knockout by
Fitzsilnmons, i considered the only show
Corbett had was To bunch and worry him
by degrees, follow him up until be was
dead. But the Knockout blow came. 1t
was one of the cleanest fights that ever
took place in ring, for the champion
ship. )"
William Muldoon, the veteran wrestler
and trainer, who was standing close To
tho men when the fight ended, said to an
Associated Press reporter. he ffft-ff
had clinched in the northwest corner of
the ring Corbett instead of stepping back
as he should have done, simply leaned the
upper part of his body back. The move
ment caused the bone at the lower part of
the chest to protrudc. Fitz saw his oppor-
tunity and quick as q flash delivered a
right uppercut The blow caught Corhett
right under this protruding bone aud over
the spleen. No living man could have
stood up under the pain that such blow
must have caused.
In criticising the contest Muldoon said:
1T was the prettiest and best fight that
ever occurred between big men. Corbett
had plenty of steam in his blows but
could not reach vulnerable part of Fitz-
simmons anatomy. He had Bob nearly
out IN the fifth round and should have
finished his man then, but he was not
quick enough. My former criticism of
CorDetts training methods still holds
good. He practiccd boxing with slow,
poor BOXERS while Fitz had the cleverest
men III tllc lanu. SOrDett Is u beautiful
boxer. but Fitzsimmons is greater fight
or. He Is the better man Of the two. "
All the special trains left last night
taking home the san Francisco crowd,
and most of the eastern psople to Reno,
where they made connection with this
mornings trains for Denver and Omaha.
The regular trains north and south this
morning took away the remaining visitors
--thosc from Nevada towns, hnd Carson
has resumed its normal condition. The
majority of the people are glad that che
fights We're held here as the visitors left n
large amount of money. The ministers
and the congregations are the,3 only ones
who feel any chagrin, and they speak of
the disgrace brought upon Carson by
entertaining n lot of pugiIists and their
friends and admirers. The fakirs have
disappeared, having gone away with the
shell men and the wheel of fortune
operators, but tho gambling houses are
open as usual, having dropped back to
their customary games. The sports from
abroad pntronized them night and day,
but il is said they did not take home
with them much of the capital. Charley
White left for san Francisco early this
morning, taking with him Corbetts $
other trainers. Despite the defeat Of his
man, White was congratulated on all sides
for his work i'm putting the ex-champion
into the superb condition in which he
entered the ring.