Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-08-11

and answered it negatively. With
bruises over each eye, the Akron giant
went down for the last time, rolled
over on his face, and Referee Charley
White told off the ten seconds. The
defeated man was carried to his corner
and revived almost Immediately.
To find flaw in the fighting tactics
of Rubin may occur to him and his
party after think ng the matter over,
but with the battle not yet grown old
1t appears a true fought contest. In
the initial round Rubin found he could
reach Fltzsimmons; indeed, he did so
with readiness that caused not n
few of Fitzsimmons' old friends to
say, ''Poor old Fitz," but that was be-
fore the ex-champion came back so
gallantly in the second round. Through
out those six rounds Rubin time and
again showed his left against his op.
ponents, but the force was not in the
latter stages of the short battle and
the Cornishman grew to treat the
blows with impunity. His left protect
ed Rubin against the rights of Fitz-
simmons, except when delivered to
the body and many a smash did Ruh-
lin take to the body several looking
dangerously like the solar plexus punch
which had once laid low Jim Corbett,
but the Akron man survived them and
only as helping to adduce the general
result cid they appear to affect him.
helping to take away tllnt steam which
made Fitzsimmons appear careless of
his strong opponents blows.
If Rubin had set tactics other than
perseverance in his straight left
counters as Eitz was coming, he had
little time to use them. The latter was
the aggressor and was almost always
on top of his man. With head lowered
he strove time and again to fell 1tuh-
lin with his full arm hooks, which
made his disadvantage in reach APP
pear at least an advantage. His head
was thus close to his RIVALS body and
the latter could only shoot in short
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On the score of hard hitting Fitz-
simmons was easily the master. His
blows were powerful, were delivered
from good range and generally were
effective. With bad cut over his
/ left eye, sustained in the initial per-
iod of three minutes, the kangaroo
fighter soon everen up matters by fore
ing the blood from Ruhlin's nose. Big
bumps Oh the latter's face bore abund-
ant witness to the hitting power pit
ted against him.
But while Fitz had the shade Of the
second round on, he did not fight as n
man confident of victory-coOl and
crafty-he took chances and desperate
chances. His ring intuition told him
that his purpose was better subserved
in fighting at close range and to this
idea, he adhered, There We're times,
notably in the third round, when both
men were so tired and weak that one
powerful blow from fresh man might
have ended the encounter. Ruhlin was
weak and totterng, but Fitzsimmons
was almost as tired and In a rather
wild and scrambling way, followed up
his advantage, Both pugilists felt the
effects of the fast first round. 1t was
at such times that Ruhljn's hackers
took hope and looked for a turn In
the fortunes of war, But the old glad
iator came back apparently more rc-
freshed than Rubin at the close OF
each minutes rest He was always
the first. to leave his corner and al
most always the first to lead
The estimated receipts were 100000
The winner receives three-fourths of
one-half Of this amount; the loser
one-fourth. This will give Rubin
about $1,000.
THE FIGHT by ROUNDS.
Round 1-They met in the center OF
the ring both seinting Fitz landed a
light right on ear and Rubin countered
with light right on the chest. Rub
lin bored in, putting his left.across the
chest, sending Bob back to the ropes
Fitz broke ground and came to the
center quickly. He fell short with a
left and right to body. Fitz then hook
ed left to the chin and Gus came back
with left and right swings TO the head
Fitz bored in but In mix up, Gus
beat him off to the ropes with left and
right tC face. Ruhlin went at Bot
with both hands to the head, cutting
Bob's left eye and Bob slipped to the
fioor, As he got mp Ruhlin, who did
not hear the bell, swung on Fitz's face