The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-11-19
Ruhlln Criticised BY the
Sporting Public.
GOT A BIG PURSE
Which Seems to Be ell He Went
Into the Fight For-.0uit
In the Fifth
Round.

News-Democrat Leased Wire Service.
San Francisco, Nov. 16.--Sports hers
went to bed supremely disg,,sted with
iJeffries-R Rubin fight. There Is execra-
tion for the Akron Giant" WHO. they
say, "faked" the whole thing and went
in just long enough to secure the big
losers purse s@
Jeffries, on the other hand, gets UNI
stinted praise for the business-iike at
tempt to give crowd run for It's mon
ey. Ss
: Ruhlin's talk of fouls Is regarded as
pure bosh by close students of the
game, who carefully followed every
movement of the fighters. Such emf
nent critics as George Siler, w. W..
Naughton and others make no men
tiol of anything resembling foul in
their accounts of the battle.
Jeffries simply toyed with Rubin.
He smiled every time his rival essayed
a blow. The champion came out of
the battle without mark. He left the
ring disgusted that Rubin had quit
and the cheers of the crowd went with
him. When Rubin attempted to .es-
cape from the ring during the excite
ment he was met with cyclone of
Kisses. Every epithet that follower
of fighting could think of was hurled
at the Akron pugilist. George Siler
says 1t was the poorest fight in the his
tory Of Queensbury rules In America.
81 San Francisco. Nov. 16.-In an un-
satisfactory prize fight James j. JEFF
fries proved the victor last night over
Gus Rubin, the Akron giant. In the
fifth round of what was to have been
q 20-round struggle Rubin .wilted anl
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
Ruhlin's sole explanation of the out
come 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 abso.
lutte charge Of Jeffries having commit
ted a foul, he intlmates that he was
unfairly handled and injured as re-
suit. Rubin receives the support of
his seconds In his stand, who say that
his was hopeless case after the Sec
ond round. At different times during
tie fight Rubin made protests for
Jeffries hitting low.
When seen in his dressing room af-
ter the fight Champion Jeffries said:
81 was certainly surprised at my
easy victory and Ruhlin's amazing de.
feat. While 1t Is true that he did not
punch me hard enough during the five
rounds to cause me any alarm, l be-
Heved him strong and cautious up to
the moment Of his collapse, and was
surprised when he quit. II certainly
had no trouble in whipping him and
had the fight gone on the result must
have been the same. Rubin was in
accurate and In poor wind and can.
not say that he even had tho, courage
and force that I expected to encoun.
ter In him. Rubin took a stiff punch
in the stomach In the fourth round,
which l presume gave him trouble,
nevertheless I expected him to lose
harder than he did. Rubin c. n doubt
less best explain his own position, and
ss for myself I am willing to meet
Sharkey next month and thereafter
to defend as best l can the title
hold"
Before the fight commenced the
winner was challenged for Sharkey.