Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-11-21
A PUGILISTIC FlzzLE
The Ieffries-R uhlin Fight a Most
Unsatisfactory One.
RUHLIy QUIT IN The FIFTH ROUND.


San Francisco, Nov. 16.-ln one OF
the most unsatisfactory prize fights
ever witnessed in this country James
]. Jeffries proved the victor last night
over Gus Rubin, the Akron giant.
In the fifth round OF what was to
have been q 2O-round struggle Rubin
wilted and then surrendered to his
peer. to the utter amazement and
disgust Of the assembled thousands.
No one was more surprised at the
outcome than Jeffries himself, who
asserted that while he had delivered
one telling blow in the second round,
he did not expect to win the victory
so easily. Ruhlin's sole explanation
of the outcome of the fight is that
he received chance blow which ut
terly disabled him and that Jeffries
persisted in fighting him low. While
Rubin will make no absolute charge
of Jeffries having committed foul, he
intimates that he was unfairly
handled and injured as a result.
Rubin received the support OF his
seconds in this stand, who say that
his was hopeless case after the sec
ond round.
Almost from the beginning of the
fight Rubin appeared frightened.
The fight was practically finished in
the third round, when Jeifries landed
left hook on jaw that took all the
fight out of him. When the gong
struck in the fifth round Rubin was
assisted to his corner and soon after
wards his second hailed Referee Cor
hett and said eve give up" and the
fight was over.
When Rubin went to his dressing
room he was followed by very de-
pressed retinue. The defeated man
complained of no Ia'n and moved
about without assistance. He stated:
81 believed from the tap Of the gong
| that | would win the fight, but as it
progressed was beaten down until
| received a blow en- The stomach
| which | must say was very Row ana
which no living man could have sur
viyed .Jeffries departed from the
written rules and the common regula-
lions of boxing when he threw him
self upun me and wrestied rather
than srprred. | do believe that had
II not received the stomach punch
which ended me IN the fifth ! would
have worn down Mr. .Ieffries a few
rounds later and beaten him as a
matter of endurance. ! am ready to
fight him again and believe that in
time | will have the opportunity OF
showing that I can defeat him. This
is all ! can say"
In the opinion of James Kennedy
and Jack Gleason, Of the Twentieth
Century club, which brought off thu
event. Rubin was drawn too fine ant
went to pieces because of his grea
zeal in training. Lou Houseman AMI
George siler, both Of whom were a
the ringside, together with Georg
Harting, the official timekeeper TO
the club, declared after the fight tina
Rubin had been greatly everest
} mated, that his blows were weak IN
), easily blocked and that he was pos
: lively without endurance. Will
q some expressions were heard in tn
Y throng after the fight placing tn
2 stigma of the fake affair on the maj
y agement, it was the eoncensus
S opinion that Rubin fought a losin
x battle in order to obtain the shol
: end of an enormous prize. In Il
d second round Rubin had decided
o the best. Boxing in San Francist
l. has not been helped by this even
n City supervisors at the ringside la
night expressed great dissatisfacti'
and even went so far as to name
suspicion in their minds of a fist
9 swindle.
le II Is estimated that there was SON
q thing over 10000 realized at the b
~ Office and Of this 62Hs per cent,
h. vided in purses Of rs and rs per cen
he goes to the participants in last nigh