The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-09
A THROW DOWN
IF JEFFRIES
BEATS FITz
Houseman Says the Cornish
man Cannot Lose the
Fight on Form.
Special Dispatch 10 The Call.

Nl'~--NA-
CHICAGO. June S.-Louis NJ House
man, sporting editor of the Inter Ocean,
who VIII hold the watch for Fitzsim-
mons in tomorrow nights battle, be-
fore leaving for New York to-day made
the following signed analysis of the
situation as il appears to him:
James J. Jeffries will tomorrow night
assay the proposition Of his lifetime. and
il in his glove argument with the cham
pion. Bob Fitzsimmons. he is returned
winner all known reversals OF form will
be discounted
The writer may be wrong; he has erred
before in his pTOgnOStiCat tons. vet he does
not accord the Los Angeles boiler maker
so much as a look in al Coney Island.
J. his deduction has no basic prejudices.
The conclusion that FitZsimmOns cannot
| lose and that Jeffries cannot win is born
Of as strong a form line as ever in
duced handicapper in the assignment of
weights. This, too, after due allowance
is made for weight height age and other
natural advantages.
tItzS ,j1lrl5I may have gone back; JET
Is no possible ratio, however. by which
one could have overcome the other In
other words. Fitzsimmons cannot posi-
ptN nave gone back far enough 10 meet
the oncomlng strides of Jeffries. The
writer Will be frank enough to admit he
has seen the boiler maker in action but
with mis- sparring partner, but it sufficed
10 demonstrate that the Los Angeles man
Is both shoulder and muscle bound. Fair
~ Heet OF loot for one OF his weight. he
was, nevertheless, painfully slow with his
arms and practically bereft of a straight
hitting left. A man who Swishes his right
and left about in windmill fashion has
! little or no chance against a fighter of the
fltzSlmmons school. FltZsimmons never
gets Tar enough away from his man to
permit OF the effective landing of a swing
ing blow. Ii would take an adept at the
ShoTt-range game TO encompass the down
IAN OF the red-headed man from Cornwall
a few OF Jeffries' fights which Indicate
now futile his cLfsfn to championship is
are here appeTM
Knocked out Henry Baker, nine rounds
Draw with Gus Rubin. twenty rounds
Draw with Joe Choynski twenty rounds
Non from Tom Sharkey twenty rounds
won from Bob Armstrong. ten rounds.
81 these five contests four of them
make F1tzsimmons what should be a sure
winner A tighter who in the prime of his
RusllsQc career allows poor asthmatic
Henry Baker to remain on his pins TWEEN
IE-SeNen minutes cannot lick Tommy
Ryan, for the welterweight champion dis
P9}seio OF the same JOB in two rounds,
Two rounds TO Jack Root, won from Baker
on knockout in seven rounds.
axe the twenty-round draw with Gus
crepit Yank Kenney beat Rubin in six
teen rounds Yet nobody will argue that
Ihenney has a ghost of a chance with
whipped Kenney. Armstrong was twice
whipped by Chllds, a cheap third-rater,
and Byers, a mediocre middleweight beat
Ghllds 70 pulp. Once again it was all Rub
lin could do TO win over Steve O'Donnell
IN twenty rounds lmind you, Rubin
Dody knows that on two occasions Peter
Maher disposed of Steve O'Donneu prac-
ucally IN as many punches. Fitzsimmons
HCKed Maher once in twelve rounds and
again IN a minute and twenty-five sec
onds
twenty rounds about eighteen months ago.
This after Joe had begun his descent of
the pugilistic ladder, without referring to
the engagement between Fitzsimmons and
Choynski which was interfered with bv
the police in the fifth round for the good
and sufficient reason that the Californian
was IN danger OF being killed at the hands
OF t1tzsimmons, and which performance
is therefore a bit clouded. For form pur-
poses take Choynskfs fight with Peter
Maher. The Irishman knocked the He
brew out in six rounds.
Is il necessary TO revert again TO
Makers two disastrous engagements with
Fitzsimmons?
In a hairbreadth finish Jim Jenries
gained decision over Tom Sharkey in
twenty rounds of milling. No matter
what, the records say nor. yet what in
duced Wyatt carp to render a contrary
decision; Tom Sharkey was completely,
simmons in eight rounds
Jeffries last performance in the ring
lhis fight with Bob Armstrong is another
Dldch. spot III ms record: Inere IS nothing
in this 10 entitle Jeffries to any serious
consideration. He engaged to knock Arm
strong out in ten rounds and failed. EX-
perts who saw this contest contend if
| there was such a thing as a shade"
either way it was in favor of the big
black.
There is nothing to indicate that the
battle of tomorrow night Will not be an
honest one. If a coup was in view the
returns would come most heavily on the
defeat Of FitzsimmOns With George Siler
in the ring FitZSimmOnS would have 70 be
a party to the "throw-down." This is i'm
probable. 1t is not impossible, however.
Fitzsimmons' self-confessed fake with Jim
Hall will ever stand out as a menace to
Spectators who fancy his chances but are
fearful of his honesty.
| for one shall ever esteem the integrity
Of tomorrow nights battle as assailable
should Jeffries win.
NJ. L. HOUSEMAN