The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-16
Is willing to Take Sharkey
Anybody Else Who Seeks 20 Con-
test for the Championship.
VERY UNSATISFACTORY FIGHT
GREAT CROWD HAD a VAST AMOUNT
OF ENTHUSIASM.
This Was Cooled by the Unexpected
Outcome of the Contest-DetaiIs
Of the Five Rounds.


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.-In one OF the
most unsatisfactory prize fights ever wit
messed in this country, James J. JefIries
proved the victor tonight over Gus Rubin.
the Akron giant. In the fifth round OF
what was to have been a twenty-round
struggle, Rubin wilted and then surren-
dered 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 ex-
planation OF the outcome of the fight is
that he received a chance blow which utter
ly disabled him and that Jeffries persisted
In fighting him low.
While Rubin will make no absolute
charge of Jeffries having committed a foul,
he intimates that he was unfairly handled
and injured as a result. Rubin received
the support of his seconds who say that his
was a hopeless case after the second round.
When seen in his dressing room after the
fight Champion Jeffries said
II 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, L believed him strong and
cautious UP to the moment OF his collapse
and surprised when he quit. ! GER
tainly had no trouble in Whipping him.
and had the fight gone on the result must
have been the same. Rubin was mac
curate and in poor wind. and 1 cannot say
that he even had the courage and force that
1 expected to encounter in him.
Rubin took a stiff punch in the stomach
in the fourth round, which. presume gave
him trouble, nevertheless 1 expected him TO
lose harder than he did. Rubin can doubt
less best explain his own position, and as
for myself. 1 am willing to meet Sharkey
next month and thereafter TO defend as
best 1 can the title 1 hold"
WHAT RUHLIN SAYS.
When Rubin went to his dressing room
he was followed by a very depressed ret
inue. The defeated man complained of no
pain, and moved about without assistance.
He said:
II believed from the tap OF the gong that
l would win, but as the fight progressed
was beaten down until received blow on
the stomach, which l must say was very
low. 1t may not have been a foul, and no
other living man could have survived IL.
Jeffries departed from the written rules
and from the common regulations Of box
ing when he threw himself upon me and
wrestled rather than spared / do be-
lieve that had / not received the stomach
punch which ended me i'm the fifth round
1 would have worn down Jeffries few
rounds later and beaten him as a matter
of endurance ] am ready TO fight him
again, and believe that in time 1 will have
the opportunity of showing that / can de-
feat him. That is all say
In the opinion Of James Kennedy and
Jack Gibson. OF the Twentieth Century
Club, which brought of the fight. Rubin
was drawn too fire and went TO pieces be-
cause of his great zeal in training.
George Siler and George Harting. the Of
fetal timekeeper for the club. declared
after the fight that Rubin had been great
ly overestima ted. that his blows were weak
and easily blocked, and that he was posi-
lively without endurance. While some ex-
pressions were heard i'm the throng after
the fight placing the stigma Of fake affair
on the management. II was the consensus
of opinion that Rubin fought losing bat
tie in order 10 obtain the short end OF an
enormous prize. Boxing I'm San Francisco
has not been helped by this event. City
supervisors of the ringside tonight ex-
pressed great dissatisfaction. and even
went so far as 10 express suspicion OF a
fistic swindle.
1t is estimated that something over $4,000
was realized at the boxoffice. and OF this
e2Is per cent. divided in purses OF 3 and 3
per cent. goes to Jeffries and Rubin.
Almost from the beginning Of the fight
Rubin appeared frightened The fight was
practically finished in the second round.
when Jeffries landed left hook on the
jaw that took all the fight out OF Rubin.
Rubin claimed that a chance blow in the
pit of the stomach rendered him uufit for
fighting. His seconds complained bitterly.
but Rubin insisted that he was the victim
of an accident Jenries walked 10 Ruhlin's
corner. asked what was the matter. then
turned In disgust and proceeded TO his
dressing room. while the spectators rose
as one man and cheered the champion.
and they denounced Rubin as gutter
and "faker" The police tumbled into the
ring and stopped two fights in which Cor
bett the referee. and officers OF the club
were involved. The utmost excitement
prevailed during which Rubin made his
way out OF the ring.
BEFORE THE FIGHT
Early in the afternoon a long line OF
anxious men assembled on the I-arkin side
OF the pavilion and held their weary vigil
I'm a drizzling rain until nightfall. when the
sale OF gallery seats was opened. Never IN
the history OF san Francisco has there
been such a crush OF humanity at a pugI-
listic contest.
Hardly had the sun hidden itself behind
the hills toward the ocean before the great
pavilion began to al with the enthusiasts