The San Francisco call., 1899-06-11

severely and caused him to lose more
blood 1t was then that FitZsimmons and
the men in his corner We're sure that ne
must finish his man soon or lose Ana sun
the old bald-head came out of his corner
blithely and went right after his man. NO
phrase expresses 1t better than the old
one-'He died game. The to legs IS feF[l %nicn en-
often were wobbling. but few would have
guessed it from the look in the Cornish
mans eye or the set OF ms neaq IT, as ne ns
been told that his opponents S only cnance
Law in a single blow, and he guarded well
against that. With his HANDY le1t ad'l a1e
1ush. and punished him and hugged him
into weakness.
The remaining two rounds were simply a
slaughter The men will long remember
how Fitzsimmons, twice knocked Gown, al
arose dazed and tOttering, but with the
gamecock's courage, and MADE YET an
other bid against the fate when was COM
ing to him. Fighting such as this Is not
an uplifting spectacle morally, but since
fighting to a finish was in order ne GER
thousands about him. FitZsmmons was
galvanized into life by his seconds IN the
minute preceding the last round put II
was only TO the end that, he might go
gracefully to his finish, and gracefully to
his finish he went, and most men, now
ever they bet, were sorry. say SO Ihuch
And now men ask, Who is the next man
in sight to go against Goliath? Sharkey,
of course. And he will have 70 meet
bigger and stronger man, who holds MN MN
safe in the matter of strength, speed anG a{l
roughing it. and who has far better reacn
and great advantage in helght.
Mccoy, some say, Mccoy among them.
Wei, sporting men who saw Fitzsimmons
go into oblivion wonder if Mccoy could
dance away from the new champion long
enough to weary MN; 5herelni ne, ~ wouaa
Once the giant could corner him or weight
him down. as he did Fitzsimmons, then
Mccoy had better get him to nunnery'
The general opinion IS that FitZsimmons
has not gone back much and there was
only one Fitzsimmons. So it seems that
ii Ieffries is as quick as he appeared dur
ing much of Friday nights fight he Will
rule the roost' until some one finds 200
nnrnds of rubber eager for money and
glory. At the outset the new champion
appears like modest, honGst no t5 3oyi d1e
Immediately, there seems to be much hope
that he will come back to the ring un-
spoiled. z 49,
ringside between Billy Brady and Chief
of Police Devery at the end of the tenth
round. The Chief sent for Brady and the
conversation is quoted as follows:
Here" said the Chief, ''if he doesn' t
finish his man in this round I'll have to
stop this thing on the score OF brutanty
/ thought it would be over in the tenth.
"All right, Chief was the answer; Il
guess he will finish Fitzsimmons in the
next one"
And he Qld.
The Chief was asked several times to-
day what he thought of the fight and why
he who sat at the ringside and saw five
krock-downs and consideraoie gore, dld
not stop the fight as he had said he would
There was no occasion to stop II, ne
said 1T was a clean, scientific contest
and was within the general constructor ol
want it and now everybody is satisfied:
There was little damage done beyond
that Fitzsimmons had bleeding nose and
1se-l,. hn a %
was no fouling, no hitting in the clinches;
the men obeyed the referee and there was
no symptom Of disorder among the spec
tators at any time
"But you said you would stop the nght
at the first knock-down.
well the Chief said, benevolently,
cts all over now and everybody is con-
tent. There's no use saying more about
it. IT was a scientific contest. They COM
piled with the law and there never was
any occasion for police interference. 1t
wasn't a brutal exhibition. Fitzsimmons
left the ring cheerful and won't be any
the worse for 1t physically,
'Will you interfere in hghtlng contests
in New York in the future?"
was done at Goney Island"
hsn New NgYT York x Is ba likely ged to the
Il don't know as 10 that IL 1t is so /
can't help 1t as long as the law is not vio-
lated. ] myself do not believe in ring con-
tests where gate money is. charged. I'd
like to see boxing bouts held only in clubs
and gynnasiums and conducted so that
young fellows who want to learn to box
would have the best chance. At Coney
Island there were no foul tactics. The
men broke cleanly at the referees order
and the men were scientific throughout.
There is absolutely no truth in the report
that my attitude toward the fight was
changed by the interference of Brooklyn
politicians. AS for the knockout. Fitzsim-
mons might have become unconscious
after as much exertion from slipping and
falling. There was no violation Of the
law The people wanted the bout and now
it's over there's nothing more to be said