Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-01
PUGIL!sTIC POINTERS.

George S'iler the famous referee, has
this to say regarding Titz and Sharkey:
Sharkey is, as I've always commended,
q sWinger pure and simple. He is de-
odd of science. If he lived to be a
thousand years old and retained his
present strength, speed, ETC., even then
he could never learn the scientific end of
the game. He has now been in the
fighting game for years and under the
management of O'Rourke has had num-
erous opportunities to learn to become
c'ever. He has posed for local publica-
lions in various, and, I must admit. ar
tistic, positions, illustrating straight left
hand jabs, fancy hooks upper cuts, etc,
which would lead one to believe he is
the most scientific man in the world.
His cleverness is only on PAPER how
ever. and counts for naught, the same
as did his signed statement about what
he did to Fit2Simmons in a Francisco
when a novice and what he would do
to him when they met again.
Flo weeks before the fight a we'll
known local boxing teacher took Shar
key in hand to instruct him how to hit
straight from the shoulder and how to
bit straight when in close quarters. /
don't know whether he learned the art
of hitting, but if he did he left it at his
training quarters, as he certainly did
nothing but rush and swing last night.
Sharkey says he regrets that the bell
sounded in the first round just as Bob
was arising from the floor as he really
believes he had "Fitz' beat right then
and there. That. however, is an error,
as Bob went down as muh from the d.
rect weight of Sharkey's body as from
the blow.
If, as he and his admirers say, Sharkey
had Fitz in the first, why did he not
come back and get'him again in the sec
ond?
Sharkey rushed and swung as wildly in
the second as he did in the first, but not
more than a half dozen of his blows
a resting place on Fitzsimmons'
anatomy. One of these caught the lat
ter between the shoulder blades, another
on the mouth. one IN the right cheek
bone, one on the left shoulder blade and
the other two on the body. The half
hundred or more other swings were neat
ly blocked or sped harmlessly around
Bob's neck.
There is little to be said about Shar-
keys doings in the fight, as it was
wholly made up of PUSHES and wild left
and right hand swings. h only i'm
portant part he took in the fray was
to receive punishment and rub his nose
in the resin While the referee counted
him out.
Regarding Fitzsimmons' part In the
play, he held the center Of the stage al
all times. His topping over near the
end of the first round, I'll admit, made
him appear like a super but when the
scenes shifted for round two he occu'
pied the same position on the stage as
he did before he went to the floor. He
was always master of the situation, anG
he handled the widely heralded scien.
tifc ca sailor like a novice. He timed
the latter's swings nicely and got inside
of them or away from them just as hi
pleased.
In close quarters, another n O
Sharkey's supposed long suits, "Fitz'
again made his opponent appear like
$40 "prelim' fighter. His blows, which
invariably landed where he directed
them, were crushers. There were NJ
wild and woolly hit-or-miss swings, bu
straight-arm jolts and hooks delivered
from such short distances as to maxi
misses impossible. His left and RICH
uppercuts for the head were general.
sent on their destructive journey just a
Sharkey would start a swing, with tn
result that Bob blow would be deliv
cred before S~harkey's swing had trav
eled half it's distance. This would ais
bring "Fitz' inside of the business en-
of Toms arm.
The fight in a nutshell: Fftzsimmon
was the master mechanic and Sharke,
the sturdy apprentice boy. What othe
result could have come?
Says Macon:
By the way, If there is one thing whic
Fitzsimmons is thoroughly informe
about it is fighting. He is a past mas
ter in the fistic art. He and I agree o
one thing and that is that the talk abou
new blows" "corkscrew punches E
cetera, ct cetera, so on, ad nauseum,