Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-16
IS CHAMPION Still
Jeffries Defeats Rubin in the
Fifth Round ola Fast
Fight.
Rubin Says He Was Fouled by
a Blow in the
Stomach.
A Vast Audience Witnessed the
Mill and We're Sadly
Disappointed.


twenty-round struggle, Rubin wiltes
and then surrendered to his peer. TO TIL,
utter amazement and disgust of the as
sembled thousands. No one was NOR,
surprised at the outcome than Jeffrie!
himself, who asserted that while he hat
delivered one telling blow in the SECOND
round, he did not expect to win the vic
tory so easily. Ruhlin's sole eSplana
ton of the outcome of the fight is tina
he received "a chance blow which utterl!
disabled him, and that Jeffries persisted
in fighting him low.
While Rubin viii make no absolut,
charge of Jeffries having committed {
foul, he intimates that he was unfairly
handled'an injured as result. Ruhlir
received the support of his seconds il
this stand. who say that his was {
hopeless case after the second round.
When seen in his dressing room aftei
the fight Champion Jeffries said:
Il was certainly surprised at my easy
victory and Ruhlin's amazing defeat
While it is true that he did not punch
me hard enough during the five rounds
to cause me any alarm, / believed hiIr
strong and cautious up othe momen
OF his collapse, and was surprised wher
he,quit. i certainly had no trouble il
whipping him and had the fight gone or
the result must have been the same
Rubin was inaccurate and in pool
wind, and cannot say that he ever
had the courage and force that l ex.
pected to encounter in him. Rubin took
stiff punch in the stomach in the
fourth round, which / presume gave
him trouble, nevertheless expected
him to lose harder than he did. Ruhlir
can doubtless best explain his own posi-.
ton, and as for myself am willing t.
meet Sharkey next month and thereaf-
ter to defend. as best can, the title
hold"
When Rubin went to his dressing
room, he was followed by very de-
pressed retinue. The defeated man
complained Of no pain and moved about
without assistance. He stated:
II believed from the tap of the gong
that I would win, but as the fight pro-
gressed / was beaten down until ! re-
ceived blow in the stomach which
must say was very low. 1t may not
have ben foul, and no living man
could have survived it. Jeffries de-
parted from the written rules and from
the common regulations or boxing when
he threw himself upon me and wrestled
rather than SPARED j do believe that
had / not receivd the stomach punch
which ended me in the fifth round ]
would have worn down Jeffries in a few
rounds later and beaten him as mat
4. . - ffrl, .
him again, and believe that in time ]
will have the opportunity of showing
that I can whip him. That Is all can
say
The fight took place before an assem-
blage of 10000 people at the Mechanic
pavilion, which has been the scene OF
many a better and important struggle
in the past
Never in the history Of San francisco
has there been such crush of human
ity at pugilistic event Thousands
poured into the gallery when the doors
were opened, and long before the first
preliminary was called the upper por-
ton of the pavilion was black with
spectators People coming from points
between Vancouver and Mexico and en-
bers of the judiciary and prominent
sporting people early took possession o:
the high-priced seats. AT BIS o'clock
Gus Rubin. the Akron giant reached
the scene of the conflict from Bankers
six mile house. Rubin went at once tc
his dressing ROOM accompanied by
Billy Madden, Denver Ed Martin
Charles Golf and Young Gibbs. who lat
err appeared in his corner when the
fight was called. A rumor emanatine
from Oakland reached the crowd early
in the evening to the effect that Jeffrles
had suffered an injury to one of his
hands before starting for San Francisco
but popular sentiment condemned the
story as canard, and the betting al
the ringslde was not affected ny the in
cident. NJ. II. Deyoung, the millionaire
editor; Mayor j. d. Phelan, Mayor
elect Schmitz, and and almost the entire
bench of the county of San Francisco
were early at the ringside. Billy Jordan
the veteran announcer, was early on
the scene. When the preliminaries We're
announced, and the first fight brought
on the assembled thousands betrayed in
some part, the extent of their excite
ment and cheerd vociferously. altho the
curtain raisers We're unimportant
Jeffries, accompanied by Billy Delan-
ey, Bob Armstrong, kid" Eagan. his
brother Jack and Dewitt Vancourt, lief;
the Oakland side of the bay on the 49,
train, reaching San Francisco shortly
after 5 O'clock The champion entered
the building while the first preliminary
was in progress. and as Captain Whit
man, in charge of the police detail
cleared the way, proceeded to his dress
ing room In great Impotence the
crowd waited for the appearance of the
two gladiators. taking but passive in
terest in the eight round bout between
Joe Fields and Spider" Joe WEIGH. The
second preliminary between Fields an6
WEIGH, an eight-round affair was an
nounced. The first preliminary was de-
.cided draw.
The police put out some of the spec.
tators of the gallery, 1t being much
overcrowded. At 8 o'clock people were
turned away from the doors and prob.
ably the greatest assemblage of people
packed within.
The betting at the ringside steadieG
down just before the big struggle tc
odds of to !, altho there We're bursts OF
enthusiasm from either side in which
longer odds were placed Ed Kelly. the
Chicago bookmaker had $4,000 which he
sought to place at 10 to Az. OF this sun
$1,000 was covered by the Ruhlinites. A
miner named Bell, just arrived from the