The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-10
EXIT FITz.
Champion Knocked Out In the
Eleventh Round.
Loses the Great Fight to JEFF
fries, the Californian.
GAME TO THE LAST.
Weight of the Big BoiIermaker
Told In the End.
Sixth and Seventh Rounds
Favored the Australian.
After That Jeffries Had 1t His
Own Way.
GAME TO THE LAST.

New York, June 10-At the arena of
the Coney Island Athletic club last
night James j. Jeffries defeated Robert
Fitzsimmons, world champion in two
cIasses-middle weight and heavy
weight-in eleven rounds of whirlwind
fighting.
He came to the ring as a rank out
slider and left it the acknowledged mas
ter of the man he defeated. He was
never at any time in serious danger,
and after the size-up in the early
rounds of the contest, took the lead
He had the Australian whipped from
the ninth round.
It was acknowledged that Jeffries
would have an immense advantage in
weight, height and age, but the thous-
ands who tipped and backed his oppo-
nent to win were sure that he was slow
and that he would in that respect be
absolutely at the mercy of the past
master at the science of fighting that
he was to meet. He proved, however
that he was just as fast as the man he
met, and beat him down to unconscious
defeat in fair fight.
He is a veritable giant in stature and
marvelously speedy for his immense
size. Less than a year ago he APP
peared in New York, a great, awkward,
ungainly boy. Today he is a 1.-the, act
i've, alert trained athlete. The men who
ders with him. They taught him
nearly perfect defense, improved his
foot movement and instructed him in
the methods of infiicting punishment
The transition since he appeared last
has been little short of miraculous. At
"a he has defeated Robert FitzsimmonS,
Tom Sharkey and Peter Jackson, and,
If he cares for himself, he will be able
to successfully defend the title for
many years.
FITZ THE AGGRESSOR.
The defeated pugilist was as good as
when, on the crispy morning, on the
the coIors of the then peerless Corbett.
He was just as active, just as clever,
just as tricky and just as fearless Of
punishment He went unfalter1ngly to
his defeat. He was the aggressOr even
at moments when he was bleeding and
unsteady. and when stunned by the
blows he received he reeled instructive
~ toward his opponent. He was fighting
all the time. He punished his oppO-
nent but found him a different oppo-
nent than any man he had met and a,
difficult man to fight
JEFFRIES WAS GAME.
Jeffries fought from a crouching att-
tude that was hard to get at. He held
his head low, his back was bent down
and his left arm was extended. He
kept jabbing away with the left hand
and found no trouble in landing it. 1t
was there that his superior reach told.
The giant arm served as a sort of hui
man fender to ward off danger. He
showed an excellent defense and the
ability to use both hands with skill. He
is game, too, for he never shrank from
his punishment. 1t was a great fight
to watch, and commenced and ended
amid scenes of intense excitement. 1t
was all very dramatic.
The men fought before a crowd of g.
900 persons and stood up in a great
beam of binding white light. 1t was
like a thousand calciums, and 1t show
ed their great white bodies in strange
relief. When the blood came it was Of
more intense red than usual
The great house filled very slowly,
and it was after o'clock before the po-
lice had to bestir themselves and clear
the aisles. Time seemed to drag, and
the absence of any preliminary contest
gave the crowd a fighting appetite.