The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-16
PugiEiSn1.
SAYS FITz THREW THE FIGHT
SPORTING MAN TELLS HOW HE
WORKED THE GAME.
Made Big Money By Betting In
Round In Which He Was Knocked
Out.

Two well known sporting men, one a
pusilist of some fame and the other a
pugilistic manager who has been ia
miliar with the inside workings of every
big glove contest in twenty-five years.
said last night that Fitzsimmons de-
liberately threw his fight with Jeffries
ana Doth of them, who are now in Salt
Lake, were so sure that it would be
done that they put up money and
won it,
L saw FitZsimmons almost every
day before the fight and L was sure on
the day 1t came off that something was
going TO happen" said the manager last
night. When / spoke to Fitz he told
me TO keep my mouth shut. OF course,
ne didn't admit that there was a fake.
but he spoke in rather peculiar way,
peculiar enough for me to get my
money up against him. After the fight
heard the matter talked about among
the few who We're on the inside, Fitz-
simmons hackers and seconds. They
almost admitted that Fitz threw the
fight.
Il have seen a good many contests
and l say that Fitz was a winner up TO
the eighth round. Had l known moth
ing of the affair l should have been
wiling TO put my money against jeff
ries up to that round. It looked as if
he was an easy winner. He was lead
ing at all times. He set the pace and
handled Jeffries as if he had been a
lightweight
In the eighth he commenced to
slow up and Jeffries got in, but he
didn't go to pieces and it wasn't jeff
rieS' fight at all. When the eleventh
came Fitz was watching the mutual
box up on the wall. Many persons saw
him glance toward it several times. He
the rounds was, because his money was
to be won on picking the round in
which the end was 10 come. Just before
the knockout he seemed strong. He
rushed Jeffries. punching him with
right and left in the fall.
The big man was overcome for a
moment. Then Fitz threw down his
hands and deliberately waited a sec
ond or two so that Jeffries could re-
cover and cross him, which he did,
landing on the jaw. Fitz went out, but
he had $4,000 of the purse and / be-
lieve he had won three times that much
in the pooIrooms.
HE won on the second line on the
pool board. which in some poolrooms
less than 10 to l. 1t may be seen then
with $1,000 or $4,000 up fortune could
be won.
Il believe that FitZsimmons' wife put
him up to the job. He was practically
broke and she knew that money was
needed. She has a great deal of influ
ence over him.
The pusilist referred to said that he
was confident the fight had been fixed
and that Fitz lost deliberately.
Il suspected something before the
time" said he, and l won, though had
1 thought it was a square fight l would
have put my money on FitZ. 1t seemed
very strange to me that Harry Cor
belts poolroom in San Francisco, just
Il few hours before the fight showed
5000 more on the second line, covering
the eleventh round. than on any other"
Great odds in betting may be secured
w catching the right man and the
right round. In this fight, which was
To go twenty rounds. there were eight
different bets as the poolroomS all over
the country had arranged their black
boards. -Four of them We're that jeff
ries would win in A certain number of
rounds and four that FitZ would. In
this fight very few persons picked jeff
rieS to win in the eleventh round; con-
sequently the odds were greater.
Thirty-eight DoolrOoms in New York
made books on the fight and each one
was dumped for a large amount.