The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-17
JEFFR|ES PUTS THE
AKRON GIANT TO
SLUMDER
Rubin Goes Down in the
Fifth Round Badly
Beaten.
BLOW IN SECOND DOES 1T
This Terrific Left Hook on the Jaw
Takes All Fight Out Of
TEN THOUSAND WITNESS [HE COMBAT
The Exhibition Closes in Whirl Of Excit, meni,
Police Tumbling Into The Rirg to Stop
Fights Between Officials #
the Club.
(By the Associated Press.)


San Francisco Nov 15.In one of the
most unsatisfactory prize fights ever
witnessed in this country, James ]. JEFF
fries proved the victor tonight over Gus
Rubin, the Akron Giant In the fifth
round of what was to be twenty round
struggle, Rubin wilted and then sur
rendered to his peer to the utter amaze
ment and disgust of the assembled
thousands.
No one was more surprised at the out
come than Jeffries himself, who assert
ed that while he had delivered one tell
ing blow in the second round, he did
not expect to win the victory SO easily.
Ruhlins sole explanation of the outcome
of the fight is that he received chance
blow which utterly 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 result. Rubin
received the support of his seconds in
this stand, who say that his was
I hopeless case after the second round.
Almost from the beginning of the fight
Rubin appeared frightened. The fight
was practically finished in the second
round when Jeffries landed a left hook on
jaw that took all the fight out of Rub
lin. His seconds complained bitterly
but Rubin insisted that he was the vic
tim of an accident Jeffries walked to
Ruhlin's corner, asked what was the
matter, then turned in disgust and pro-
ceedcd to his dressing-room while the
spectators rose as one man and cheered
the champion while they denounced
Rubin as gutter and fakir. The police
tumbed into the ring, stopped two
fights in which Corbett the referee, and
officers of the club were involved. The
utmost excitement prevailed, during
which Rubin made his way out of the
ring.
In the opinion of James Kennedy
and Jack Gleason, of the Twentieth
Century Club which brought off the
event, Rubin was drawn too fine and
went to pieces because of his great zeal
in training.
While some expressions We're heard i'd
the throng after the fight placing the
stigma of fake on the management, it
was the concensus of opinion that Rub
lin fought losing battle in order to OBJ
tain the short end of an enormous prize.
1t is estimated that there was some
thing over $40, 900 realized at the box Of
five and of this 62k per cent. dividend
in purses of IS and rs per cent. goes to
the participants in tonight's event.
Before and assemblaoe of ten thous-
and people at the Mechanics Pavilion,
which has been the scene of many bit
ter and important struggles in the past,
that James j. Jeffries, of Los
Angeles. California, met Gus Rubin,
the Akron Giant tonight and
fought for the title Jeffries has held
since his memorable battle with FitZ-
simmons.
Early in the, afternoon a long line of
anxious men assembled in front OF the
pavilion and held a weary vigil in
drizzling rain until nightfall, when the
sale of gallery seats was open. Never
in the history of San Francisco has there
been such crush of humanity at pug
ilistic event.
The great pavilion began to fill at
shutdown with the enthusiastic crowds
gathered to witness the contest. Thous-
ands poured into the gallery when the
doors were opened and long before the
first preliminary was called the upper
portion of the pavilion was black with
spectators.
People coming from all points between
Vancouver and Mexico, and embracing