The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-05
SPORTING NEWS.
In Pictures of Championship
Fight Jeffries Wins.
Principals and Officials Shown
With Great Distinctness.
NO FLICKERING THERE
There Are 100000 Pictures in
All and the Films
On Which They Are Taken Are
z IA Miles in Length.

Chicago, Dec. 5.-Jim Jeffries and Tom
Sharkey fought it out over again on the
Lyric theater stage yesterday afternoon
They were not there in person, but their
exact movements the night of November
g. in the ring at the Coney Island arena,
when they fought for the heavyweight
championship of the world, are faithfully
depicted in set of moving pictures, the
best series of views of a similar event
ever seen in this city. There is only one
thing that mars the success of the entire
exhibition.
The last two minutes of the twenty-ffth
round, the most stirring and dramatic
moments in the big mill are missing.
But directly the pictures show the clos
ing scenes of the great championship fight
the waving of the flags in the victor
corner the congratulations of the winner,
the frantic excitement of the crowd and
the disconsolate appearance of Sharkey
as he sits in the corner and has the gloves
cut off his swollen hands -. 1900.
None the less absorbing are the scenes
70 for The first round. The first picture is
Just after Jeffries has crawled through
the ropes. He has not seated h1mselI
in the corner, but remains standing IN
his bath robe. Sharkey is at that time
seated in his corner and is being c2reSs-
fenances bv CHIEF of the Corner O7Rourke.
One can imagine the noise there IS IN
the building, for while the announcer IS
talking Referee Siler leans over the ropes
to speak to a friend and has to make a
trumpet of his hand Meantime the men
are sitting glaring at each other, a really
stirring picture.
The calling of the men to the center
of the ring for the instructions as to how
the fight is to be conducted forms another
picture of realism. The magnificent de-
velOpment of the sailor as compared with
the rather heavy and unfashionable build
of the boilermal6er is then plain.
The pictures of the fight itself could
hardly be better. 1t takes no stretch Of
Imagination, if one has ever been present
at such a mighty function, to feel that
one is really sitting about ten rows away
from the ring. All that IS lacking IS the
noise attending such affairs.
There is little difference in the rounds
Some are better than others 50 far as pic
lures go. Sometimes the pictures grow
a trifie faint but the management says
that is because time has not been had
to set up the machine properly. All Of
the Wea kest eyes and Ehe best part of
the entire affair is that the hickertng so
annoying in the pictures of the Carson
City fight between FitzsimmOns and Cor
bett is entirely absent.
Some of those who saw the pictures
| Yesterday are satisfied that O7ROur6e
and Sharkey are right in insisting that
Referee Siler made a grave mistake when
he gave the fight to Jeffries. Unfortunate
moving picture show the distress the sail
or was in in the last three rounds of the
fight and especially in the missing two
minutes Others can see clearly that Siier
was right and are more steadfast than
ever in their opinions of the honesty of
the Chicago ring official.
total candle power of $4,000
quired. This is sufficient to furnish light
to a city of $4,000 population. There were
/ four cameras in all, operated by twelve
men and eleven skilled electricians were
required to attend the apparatus. The to-
! tai cost of taking the pictures was $500,
of which 5000 was for the lights alone.
There are 216,0O0 pictures in all and the
films on which they taken are seven
and One-fourth miles in length. The pic
lures were taken at the rate of $50 a min
ute.