Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-11
DEFEAT OF RUBIN
Fitzsimmons Scores . Complete
Knock Out with His Clever
Methods.
Crafty Cornishman Fought the
Gamest and Greatest Battle
Of His Life
Rubin Started in Well, but was
Not Effective After Second
Round.

Madison Square Garden, New York,
Aug. 10.-Fitzsimmons is back on his
pedestal. He stepped up last night over
the unconscious body Of Gus Rubin, the
man who hammered all the sense cut of
Sharkey. Old age came to the fore and
triumphed over youth. Fitzsimmons,
cold and calculating and nerciless az a
tiger, deliberately battered all but the
life out OF the Akron giant, and put him
on the floor, dead TO everything, in elk
short rounds.
For nearly six rounds the bald pate of
Fitzsmmons shone like a lively ball of
mercury in the ring. All the time the
shining pate was tinYed With crimson,
but az no time was the light of courage
missing from the visage ii crowned.
And when they picked Gus Rubin up
from the rosined floor and carried him
off like a Slaughtered member of the
poreupine family, the yell of joy that
Went up put u grin on the homely,
freckled face of Fitzsnimons that made
|it almost radiant.
etaSai w 4ltIIel sOiie
side the lean old warrior, hero OF a hun
fun of resolve and confidence, despite
the handicae OF years
On the other the bulky. albeit clean
limbed youth from Ohio. whose rise has
| been rapid. who had the advantage OF
youth ard bulk
The disproportion of the size Of the
and gazed charity Mt his bald hoaded
| in the first round. Amid n stiffness that
staote the old man az he pleased. 1t
see.ned. Over the eye of the Old man a
place formed from which blood spurted.
The old eyes seemed wrong, the old
head seemed TO have lost it's cunning.
ON every hand 4, was said: He's too
heavy for Fitz.''
| Bat in the second round the tide
turned; the old eyes got right, and the
cunning was again enthroned in the old
brain. Every art known to the ring,
every trick Of hands and feet he exhib-
lifted. Slowly but surely the man with
the handicap Of years beat down the
advantage of his opponents youth, and,
when the end came, il was victory in
which every force that a fighter should
| posse 80 Was brought into play,
| Jim Gorbett. dressed asif for tcnnis
party, advised Ruhiin. His advice went
| for nausht. ,t'itz" heard it as We'll ano
took advantage OF it. In the beginning
of the fight he landed his famous solar
lp!exus and the theatrical visage OF Corr
lett ran the gamut of emotion from
illope 10 despair In the last foln, rounds
! Rubin BLEED like fountain He blew
3clots from MS, nostrils and spouted gore
I from Il large green lump over his eye.
/ when ht- wefit down the last time his
face hit the tiaor first. h groyeled in
4 the rosin as tho he liked ii. as Indeed
perhaps he did after what had put him
4 there
Rubin could not have sworn whether
4 he Was In New York or Akron o. after
i The fight. I'itzsImmons walked across
Ito shake hanas with him and put gu,
his freckted fist to dropping, liner,
lniountain bloody fish. 1t may b.
II tina, kuhliil can distinguish broadway
4 car from ferryboat about sunday
might,
10 fighter eyer lived who received
isuch an ovation az the bald-headed Ole
sSglaaiatur Was accorded when his mar
went down. 1t was u just tribute I,
Him