The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-20
SPORTING NEWS.
dig Fighters Shake Hands and
Make Up.
Jeffries and Rubin Meet and
Discuss Their Mill.
MADDEN is CENSURED.
Hurt the Sport by Throwing
Up the Sponge.
The Blows of Grs, However, Had
No Eject ON Jim.
MADDEN is CENSURED.

San Francisco, Nov. 20.-James J.
deffries, champion heavyweight pugll-
list, and Gus Rubin, who until last Fri
day night was considered a likely can
Gidate for kingship in the world of
fighters, have smoked the pipe of peace,
The meeting of the two men, conqueror
and conquered, was somewhat dramatic
and to an extent pathetic. Rubin, sor-
rowful, depressed, broken in spirit, and
Jeffries, elated and inclined to be a.
bit patronizing. supplied an incident
that interested the sporting men who
thronged Harry Corbett's resort at an
early hour this morning. Shortly after
midnight Rubin drifted into Corbett's
place and took a seat in the rear with
a small coterie of riends- He has been
there about fifteen minutes when JEFF
fries, accompanied by a large party of
admirers. entered. Rubin, whose pres
ence had attracted scarcely any atten-
ton, started to leave when he saw the
champion enter. He was near the door
when Harry Corbett seized his arm.
Look here, GUS" said Corbett. when
two men fight, one has got to lose. You
ought not to be sore over coming out
second best. You put up a fight and
were not disgraced in being beaten.
Now, want you to shake hands with
jim
JEFFRIES AND RHULIN SHAKE.
Corbett led Rubin, whose attitude
was one of hopeless Indifference, up to
the champion.
Jim" said Corbett, shake hands
with Gus"
Jeffries stretched out his hand and
gave the Akron boy a hearty shake.
mo hard feelings, / hope, Gus, he
said. jovially. You let me know I was
in a tight 1 don't see why we should
not be friends
a.
plants" answered Rubin.
The two big fellows entered into a
conversation, in which the others
joined The talk of the party at once
drifted into a discussion of the fight.
There was much laudatio of Jeffries,
and the champion. flushed with his vic
tory, was unconsciously boaStful to a
mild extent as he told how he had
scored in this or that round.
Rubin, after remaining one of the
party Tor few minutes, and being al
most ignored by the sports in their
eagerneSs to pat the worlds champion
on the back. took an abrupt departure.
His appearance, which might have
formed the subject for a painter IL
nstrafing Despair as he passed out
into the night alone, excited the pity
OF those in the place. The fight is still
being discussed Nearly every one was
OF the opinion that Billy Madden was
too hasty in throwing up the sponge
Few regarded the fight other than
square, or questioned Madden's mo-
ives IN yielding at the time he did, nor
Were there any who believed that Rubin
had a shadow of chance to win had
the bout proceeded. but the prevailing
opinion was that a championship con-
test should not end until one man was
out.
CORBETT SCORES MADDEN
Referee Corbett himself says that
Madden made a grave mistake in being
in the ring, where he could see the aw-
full effect of Jeffries' blows upon his an
fRgonist, and admitting that the knock
out blow was only a matter of seconds,
yet he says that Madden, having the
interest of the sport at heart should
have been mindful of the sentiment of
a prize fight crowd and not yielded I'M
til his man was defeated beyond the
-peradventure of a chance of recovery
of his lost ground.
Gus became discourage d early in the
fight when he found that the blows he
delivered had no effect upon Jin,'' said
.Corbett this morning
For the first two rounds Gus landed
oftener than Jeffries. and they were
smashing blows at that. But they
did not appear to have the slightest
effect upon the champion In fact. if
Jeffries had been fighting with some
bantam weight, who was able to land
on him occasionally he could not have
seemed less distressed from the blows
he received"