Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-18
PUGILISTIC POINTERS.

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Macon, commenting on the Fitzsim-
MONS uhlfn fight, says: -
Bob Fitzsimmons is truely a pugilistic
marvel.
Only a short time ago the big Cornish
man was Thought to be on the verge of
going into the has-been class. To-day
he is again in line for championship hon
ors, and there is no denying the fact that
NE Is certainly going to make a lively
bid for the position of honor now held by
Jim JeffTies, the giant boiler maker OF
California. II.
Rubin furnished a great surprise to
the sporting world when he whipped Tom
Shalkey i'm such decisive fashion, but
when Fftz turned the Tables ON the Ohio
bov the surprise was even greater. The
victory of Fftz over Rubin was a SUR
prise, not only because he beat the Akron
, giant, but did it in such short order. Fitz
showed adj Of his old-tdme speed, and
from h press accounts of the fight one
is led to believe that he was Ruhlin's
master at all stages OF the game.
Rubin hit Fitz hard and often and at
times 1t looked like a sure thing for Gus
to VIM But Fitz, with his famous re-
Operative powers, came again, and, like
he often did before, won out in a manner
that left no doubt as to who was the real
master of the situation.
Some people, before the fight took
place, went as far as to say that FItz had
uO CaNdIHNc A8GIllSL FULFILL. lIIGIe ueVOE
was a time that amy heavy weight In
the business ever had a cinch OF whip
pins Fitz. F>itz is a good fighter and APP
parently a very lucky me-. He has been
almost done for in several of his battles,
but always came home with c~oonskdns,
excepting when he fought Jeffries. 1t
was in this fight that Fits luck left him.
He got a good %drubbing and could never
get in his lucky punch. 1t wuld seem,
however, that his luck was the only
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Jeff, for there was surely nothing lack
ing Friday might as far as science and
hitting ability We're concverned. Indeed,
Fltz had all of his fighting tools with him
and his old-ti1ne luck in addition.
Those who We're figuring on old age,
handicaps to beat him F1tz were sadly
| mistaken.
Nothing I'M the world appeared to both
er Lanky Bob and he worked ON Rubin
as carefully as a new student ON a type
writer at a shorthand school.
Poor Ruhldn went right in to give and
take, and perhaps got too much at once.
Had he waited a while to see how the
land lay he might have had a better
chance But Gus was ambitious, and
wanted to win, and win in a hurry.
It was an awful setback for RuhffrEto
he defeated by Fitz, and the Ohio bpy's
friends were sorry to see his CHAMPION
ship hopes so abruptly shattered. Fttz
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is to it. There is no telling what he may
do in the future. HIS great win over
Rubin will rave the sanne effect on Tom
Sharkey, whom he meets next, as the
story of 1.-THE Forty Thieves" would have
on a th~ree-year-old child.
If all that is said about Ru11din's condf
tion is half true, how vas it that the
public, the press and ever shrewd sports
who do not let sentiment In any manner
interfere with their Judgment were all SO
,,o ,oI I koInr imp Pyrh1ir iS IN r~anCNr6
in signed statements published only a
few hours before the fight that he was
in splendid shape. He was further
quoted as saying that he had traintd I'M
der the dictatorship of Corbett: He did
nothing of the kind. so Corbett's friends
now say. Jim had little to do with his
training and only seconded him because
at the last moment he was urgently re-
quested to do SO by Rubin and Madden,
and was further asked to try and save
the money of his friends who had bet on
Il, Rubin to a certain extent, because they
thonght Corbett would play the same
prominent part in the fight that he did
in the Sharkey contest, which, as Mr..
Kipling says, was another story. lhese
queries threaten to bring down a storm
on somebody's head. Ruhlin himself
now says he was tired after the first
round. and had gone stale. His manager.
Billy Madden, still has faith in him, and
saws he is willing to back him for S., 900.
IIkC SpollS, "NoPAAS IN
stances mentioned, were pleased with the
fight. 1t was lively and fierce and moth
ing suits a big crowd at the ringside
better. I'm the light of such milling they
overlook everything. Nine-tenths OF them
swear it was the, greateset fight they
ever saw. and yet the real expert opin-
ion stiM holds that lit was a smuggling
match. largely devoid of science and sur
pIisingly SO for men of Fitz or Ruhlin's
standing.
Kid" Mccoy is easily the smoothest
fighter in the ring at the present time,
and some of his work would do credit to
some of the schemers outside of the ring
who live off their wits and manage to live
well at that. The Kids latest in this
line is his explanation of why he can
train for the fight with Corbett during
hot weather while he was in danger of
going into consumption if he were forced
to continue training for Jeffrles. This
trait early in his career, while he was
still fighting around Davenport, Iowa.
While he was training there he was al
ways willing to give any of the light
weight fighters a bit of coaching, but he
was very careful not to give any of the
fighters that Nigh develop into his class
pointers. Jack OBrien was one of the
men he refused to assist in this way.
In connection with his fight with Tom
my Ryan he again showed how shrewd
he was. Although he very we'll knew of
the agreement to nave the fight called a
draw if both fighters We're on their feet
at the end of the six rounds, he forgot
to tell Hogan altut the matter. His
Ishrewdness is again to the front in his
fight with Corbett. The match ought to
draw the largest house that has ever at
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