Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-11-21
JfffRItS STILL HOLDS THE TITLE
NO ONE MORE SURPRISED AT THE
OUTCOME THAN THE CHAM
PlON.
RUhLlN MAKES LAME EXCUSES
INrINA TES THAT he WAS uN-
FAIRLY HANDLED AND IN
-JCRED.

San Francisco, Nov. lin one OF
the most unsatisfactory prize lights
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 a twenty-rounu struggle Rubin
Wilted and then surrendered to his peer
to the utter amaZemcnt 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 q chance blow
which utterly disabled him and that
Jeffries persisted in fighting him low.
While Rubin will make no absolute
charge. that Jeffries committed foul,
he intinates that he was
Unfairly Handled
and injured as a result. In this con-
tention Ruhlin received the support Of
his seconds, who say that it was a
hopeless case after the second round.
. When seen in his dressingroonl after
the fight Champion Jeffries said:
. ct was certainly surprised at my
easy victory and Ruhlin's amazing de-
feat. While it was true that he did
not punch me hard enough during the
five rounds to cause any alarm, be-
lieved him strong and cautious up to
the moment of his collapse, and was
surprised when he quit. I certainly
had no trouble in whipping him, and
had the fight gone on the result must
have been the same. Ruhli,; was in
accurate and in poor wind, and I can
not say that he even had the courage
and force expected to encounter in
him. Rubin took stiff punch in the
stomach in the fourth round which
presume gave him trouble. Neverthe
less I expected him
To Lose Harder
than he did. Rubin can doubtless best
explain his own position, and as for
myself I am. willing to meet sharkey
next month and thereafter to defend
as best can the title I hold"
When Rubin went to his dressing
room he was followed by very de-
pressed retinue. The defeated man
complained Of no pain and moved
about without assistance. He stated:
II believed from the tap of the gong
that I would win, but as the fight pro-
crossed was beaten down until I re-
ceived a blow on the stomach which I
must say was very low. It may not
have been a foul, and no man could
have survived it. Jeffries departed
from the written rules and from the
common regulations of boxing when he
threw himself upon me and wrestled
rather than spared. I do believe
that mad I not received the stomach
punch which ended me in the fifth
round would have worn down Jeffries
a few rounds later land beaten him as
a matter of endurance. I am ready to
fight him again and believe that in
time I will have the opportunity of
showing7that 7 can defeat him. That
is all I can say"
Suspicion of. Fistic Syvindle.
Lou Houseman and George Siler,
both of whom were at the ringside to-
gether with George Harting, the Of
fetal timekeeper for the club, declared
after the fight that Rubin had been
greatly overestimated, that his blows
We're weak and easily blocked and
that he was positively without endur-
ance- While some expressions were
heard in the throng after the fight
placing the stigma of a fake affair on
the management, it was the concensus
OF opinion that Ru!.lin fought a losing
battle in order to obtain the short end
OF an enormous prize. Boxing in San
francisco has not been helped by this
event.. City supervisors at the ring
side expressed great disssticfaction,
and even went so far as to name a
suspicion in their minds of a flstic
sw1ndle. 1t is estimated that there was
something over $4,000 realized at the
box office, and of this 621-2 per cent,
DIVIDED in purses of IS and Is per cent
goes to the participants of the event.