The age-herald., 1901-11-16
Never Before Has Such a Crush of Humanity Witnessed a
 PugiIistic Event WAIT IN RAIN 10 GET SEATS Ruhlin Says He Was Victim of an Ac. cident, But the Crowd Calls
 Him Gutter and
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San Francisco, November 15-In one of the most unsatisfactory prize fights ever witnessed in this country J. J. Jeffries proved the victor tonight over Gus Ruh- lin, the Akron giant.
 In the fifth round of what was to have been a 2O-round struggle, Ruhlin wilted and then surrendered to the utter amaze ment and disgust of the assembled thousands No one was more surprised at the outcome than Jeffries himself, who as- serted that while he had delivered one telling blow in the second round he did not expect to win the victory so easily. Ruhlins sole explanation of the outcome ofsthe fight is that he received a chance blow which utterly disabled him and that Jeffries persisted in fighting him low ii''''
 While Ruhlin will make no absolu+a charse of Jeffries having committed A foul he intimates that he was unfairly handled and injured as result Ruhltn recelVed the support of his seconds in this stand who say that his was a hope- less case after the second round. When seen In his dressing room after the fight Champion Jeffries said:
 Jeffries Was Amazed.
 was certainly surprised at my easy victory ana Ruhlin's amazing defeat. nile It Is true that he did not punch me hard enough during the five rounds .o cause me any alarm, l believed him strong and cautious up to the moment or ms collapse and was surprised when ne quit l certainly had no trouble in whipping him and had the fight gone on the result might have been the same Huhiln was inaccurate and in poor wind ana l cannot say that he even had tbe courage and force that I expected to en- counter in him. e''
 Ruhlfn took stiff punch in the stom- ach in the fourth round which I presume gave the trouble, nevertheless I expected nm 70 lose harder than he did Ruhlin can doubtless hAst explain his own nosi- tion ana as for myself l am willing to meet Sharkey next month and thereafter hold" ' a'ie ho"
 When Ruhlin went to his dressing room ne was followed by a very depressed reunue. The defeated man complained of no pam end moved about without assist ance. He stated:
 huhlin Makes Statement.
 believed from the tap of the gong that l would win but as the fight nro. gressed l was beaten down until I re- ceiVeo blow on the stomach which must say was very low. It may not have been foul and no living man couId have survived 1t. Jeffries dropped from tbe written rules and common regulations of boxing when he threw himself upon me ana wrestled rather than spared I do pelieve that had I not received tfle ston,- acn blow which ended me in the fifth round, l would have worn Jeffries down rev rounds later and beaten him in a contest Of endurance. I am ready to nght hlm again and believe that In time will have the opportunity of showing that l can defeat him. That is all can say '''i'
 In the opinion of James Kennedy and JACK Gleason of the Twentieth Century Cluo, which brought off the fight. Ruhlin was oraWn too fine, and went to pieces because Of his great zeal in training.
 George Siler and George Harding, the onicial time-keeper for the club, declared after~ the fight that Ruhlin had been greatly over-estimated, that his blows were weak. and easily blocked, and that ne was positively without endurance. while some expressions were heard in the throng after the first placing the stigma of fake fight on the manage ment 1t was the concensus of opinion tha Huhlfn fought losing battle in order to obtain the short end of an enormous prize. Boxing in San Frapcisco has not been helped by this event. City supervis- ors at the ringside tonight expressed great dissatisfaction and even went so far as to express suspicion of a fistic swindle.
 It Is estimated that something over s4O,- OOO was realized at the box office, and or this 621a per cent, divided in purses of 70 and 25 per cent, goes to Jeffrles and Ruhlin.
 Wait in Rain for Seats.
 Before an assemblage of 10000 people at the Mechanics Pavilion. the fight took place.
 Early In the afternoon a long line of anxious men assembled on the Larkln side of the pavilion and held their weary vigil in drizzling rain until nightfall when the sale of gallery seats was opened. Never in the history of San Francisco has there been such A<grush of humanity at pugilistic event, people coming from points between Vancouver and Mexico and embracing well known state officials, members of the judiciary and prominent sporting people, who took possession of the high-priced seats At S:15 o'clock a stir at the eastern part of the pavilion indicated that the principals had arrived and were proceeding to their dressing rooms. The word was passed that Ruhlin had arrived and an uproar ensued Ruhlin went at once to his dressing room accompanied by Billy Madden. Denver Ed Martin, Charles Goff and Young Gibbs, who later appeared in his corner when the fight was called. M. H. DeYoung, the millionaire editor; Mayor J. D. Phelan. Mayor-elect Schmitz and almost the en- tire bench of the county of San Francis co was early at the ringside.
 JeffrIes Reaches San Francisco.
 Jeffries, accompanied by Billy Delaney, Bob Armstrong Kid" Egan his brother Jack and Dewitt Vancourt, left the Oak land side of the bay on the 7:3O train, reaching San Francisco shortly after 8 o'clock and the champion entered the building while the first preliminary was in progress, and the throng made a dem onstration. In great impatience the crowd waited for the appearance of the two gladiators. taking but a passive interest in the eight-round bout between Billy Condon and Mike Curtin, and in the en- between Joe Fields and Spider Joe Welch. The first preliminary was de- clared q draw.
 The police put some of the anecf A fora