Arizona republican., 1900-08-11
Fitz Finishes Akron Giant
 In Sixth Round
A HURRICANE FIGHT
The Veteran Has All the Best of the Fiercest Kind of a Battle-Jolts Life Out of 0hioan With Body Battering, and With Right on the Jaw He Gives the Big Fellow Twelve Minutes in Dreamland.

New York. Aug. 1O.-Bo5 Fitzs!n- mons the ex-champion pugilist of the world me- Gus Ruhlin. the Akron siant. tonight before the Twentieth Century club at Madison Square Gar den, and won by knocking the Ohioan down and out in the sixth round. E fore the fight and for some weeks past th5re have been many reports Jo the effect that FitzsimmcEs was too old to cope successfully with his younger op- ponent. It was argued that Fitzsim mons well known knowledge of the game and his capability of hard hit ting would not be able to counteIbdl ance youth and strength, as well as the recently acquired rin5 tactics of the Ohio man. Tonight, however. all this has been changed. FitzsimmOns did the trick cleanly and clevtrly It was a fierce and bloody battle while it lasted and at times it looked as if Ruhlin would get the better of the other man. but Fitzsimmons at the proper time cut loose with his fearful body blows which finally snuffei out the Ohio boxers light
 ne DelllnS all dlOnB ndQ 1dNOIGu Fitzsimmons. many wagers at the rate of 100 to so on Lanky Bob being made. Tonight, how5ve at the ring side there was a flush of Ruhlin mon=y wk:ch forced the odds to take turn in Ruh- lins' favor at the rate of 100 to 90. This state of affairs did not last long, how ever. and by the time the men put up their hands for the opening round they were equal favorit5s at wen money. Fitzsimmons himself conceded abQu. thirty-two pounds to Ruhlin, and this in itself was 6 serious handicap But as the result showed. Fitzsimmons was equal to the task he had set himself. and won out wfth that terrible solar plexus blow, which wh5nsver it landed shook Ruhlin from head to foot. From the word go" the men started in with hurricane-like force. Both were wild at times. but Fitzsmmons was always quicker to steady himself. Ruhlin clinched a good deal and for three or four rounds was the aggressor. He landed some hard straight lefts to Fitzsimmons' face and swung his right to the body and head with fearful force. Several of these blows stag gered FitzsimmOns, but none of them landed on the mark. as Fitzsmmons WdS tCO SnlIlN. AL llnltS DOIIl HISS q swings with either hand, but many of Ruhlin's were lodged in the cleverest manner. Fitzsimmons forced Ruhlin to break ground, and in hot mix-ups the Ohio man was always the first to ease up and take refuge in a clinch. Time and time again Fitzsimmons forced Ruhlin to th= ropes. from which position Ruhlin got away rather clum- silly. while FitzsimmOns was always very quick in his foot movements When Ruhlin's nose began to bleed from a left punch the sight Of blood seemed to have q deterrent 5ffect on him, and Fitzsimmons was quick to see this.
 HOW THE TRICK WAS DONE.
 On the first sign of weakness on Ruhlins part. F'itzsimmons began his attacks on the body and eArh blow which he landed there made Gus wince with pain. Fitzsimmons' handlers kept urging him to play for the solar plexus but the veteran only tried it occa- sionally. Evidently he was awaiting an opportunity for a right swing to the mark. In the fourth and fifth rounds both men showed plainly the affects of the stiff and rapid work they
 
 were tired and leg weary, but Ruhlin showed up much the worse of the two. Fitzsimmons was always quicker on his feet Ut the call of time. but now and then during rounds he $ enc q tJ stand still and glare at his opponent. Ruhlin ar these times also stood still being evidently glad for the chance of breath ing which Fitzsimmons afforded him. Just once Fitzsimmons touched the floor when he slipped down from a clnCh at the end of a round. In the sixth round Ruhlin was slow in coming to time. while Fitz jumped al his man Fitzsimmons got around Ruhlin and while the latter sent straight lefts for FitzsimmOns' head, Bob Side-stepped safely and landed lefts on the body and q right to the head. With a vol ley of lefts and rights to ths head and neck and with a fearful left on the solar plcXus, Fi;zsimmons sent Ruhlin in a he,p to the floor.
 This was the beginning of he end that soon followed. Ruhlin. after talk ing nine seconds of the count, arose to his feet, groggy from the effects f the blow. Fitzsimmons knew he had his man and was ready for him. As soon as Ruhlin got up, Fitzsimmons rushed. sending two lefts to the face and then shot his right with fearful force to the point of Ruhlin's jaw. Gus pitched forward as if struck with an aX and fell on his face 10 the floor. where he was counted out and had to be carried to his corner. Wild scenes were then enacted in and about the ring. It seem q as if every one in the building wanted to greet the win ner or sympathize with the loser, and the police had a busy quarter of an