El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-25
JBFFRIES ALL READY
TO Fight Fitz At Any Time
After Six Months For
the National Cham
pionship.
PRICE 5 CENTS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Robers
Fi.zimmons again has proved that ne
10 one on the grestess lighters tnes
ever catered a ring. Lsst night he
met Tom Shsrkey, the terrible sailor
in whas WAS TO have been twenty
i've round bout. bat after . little less
that two rounds Fitz.lmmons ~as de-
clared the winner as he had been 90
Ea1y tims, before.
1t was terrible battle from
the stsrt but Fiiz as the best general
aad although Snarkey rushed the fight
and knocked Fltz oo~n in the hrst
round With q terrible blow on .he shou,-
der gae cJuld not withstand the awful
jabs that Fisz was cootinuslly iaodinG
with bo:h right aud left on the face
and body.
The knockout blo~ was a rik ht on
the body quickly followed oy a left up
percut on she Jaw ths. rfised Tom of
his feet and be fell 20 his face uncon-
scIou.. It was several minutes before
he was able to sit up and then he hai
no excuse to offer. But he claims that
had he bad ten seconds more in the
first round IL would have been mis-
d ght righs then. The bslt saved Fftz
"a that round bat both we're so mad
that they evidently did not hear the
bell aud rushed as each other again
but the referee was there sud rushed
In between them.
Although 1t was . prize fight the
men had some difficulties 70 settle and
those who were on The inside looked
for q tsrribls battle tha. might end In
death, for neither man had snJ use for
the other whatever. But FitZ 10 she
best man and will now try to force JET
fries to fight him, although Jeffries
says tina. he will not fight at ali for .
year.
There was soma delay at the ring
side Is they were fussing about the
referee, and Fitz demanded that the
prize money be placed IN tie bands Of
some responsible party before he would
enter the ring. This was finally done.
Among those a. the ring side were
Kid Mccoy, Jim Cor bett, Gus Rubin.
and James j. Jeffries. And they are
all OF she same opinion, that it WAS for
the time OF the fight the hardest fight
Of late years.
Referee Charley White, in speaking
Of last nights contest today said: The
b.ss man won. Fitzsimmons had the
best Judgment and effective punish
ment won for him. 1t WAS hard fight,
but strange to cay, 1 did not have to
caution them once"
Fitzsimmons was happy a. q child
this morning over his victory.
He said: 81 tell you the sailor gave
me two or shree pretty hard clips in
the Grss round, but was not faxed. III
knew had the fight won when / landed |
that stomach punch in the secord d !
round, and then hit up the pace FOR . |
quick finish"
Tom Sharkey went home to Sleeps |
head Bay. he takes his defeat phi /
lssophically. he remarked dryly:
well, did not get bes, up like
Ruhlin did anyway. Fitzsimmons is Q |
great fighter and beas me fairly and
The battle LASS night was for a purse /
Of go, 900, equally divided between the
fighters. The oontsss lasted six min
utss and the Contestants received two
shousaud dollars . minute for their
work. The long delay 10 the fight
was because Fi,zsimmons refused so go
on until he got his "~bsc<" as he
csiled bis end of the purse.
About 900 persons saw the fight.
A series of fierce thunder storms kept
the attendance down. Toe manage
ment stated that It lost nine thousand !
dollars on the mill.
Jim JeffrIes said today he was will
ing to meet Fitzsim mous in elk months :
before the club Offering the largest
purse.
The next fight between heavy
weights will be next Thursday night
hon thu f~o xpnae man .ho