The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-08
WAS A GREAT FIGHT
HOW JEFFRIES WON FROM FITz-
SIMMONS.
Fit2simmons Had Much The Best OF
1t Till The Knockout-Story of a
Fake"

1t Till The Knockout-story of a
Fake"
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2G.-BIeeding
furiously from a cash over his left eye,
a smaller cut under his right optic and
with blotches of bright red coming from
mouth and nose James j. Jefries
champion heavyweight of the world,
stood over the PROSTATE form of Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons last night while Ref
cree Eddie Greaney tolled o ffthe sec
onds which meant that he could retain
the championship. There was no tri-
umph in his look. His chances at the
fallen fighter were rather of pity than
citation, but when the fateful "ten'
was counted by the referee Jeffs face
lit up for a moment and he turned to
his corner with evidences of great sat
isfaCtion that Bob did not have the
stamina to get up and continue the
struggle that had gone so much
against the champion for eight rounds.
And well he might be content for he
had received the hardest punishment
Of his career in the greatest battle ever
waged for the title which was at stake.
1t was a wonderful fight, before a
wonderful crowd, which marvelad at
the battle put up by the grand old
man of the ring" The end was a fore
gone conclusion before the pair enter
ed the ring, but so cleverly did Fitz
find Jeff's head, and 50 much damage
did he do with hard hooks from either
hand, that the sea of humanity was in
an uprOar of excitement as the tide
turned in Fitzsimmons' favor, and nine
cut of tn thrOats were uttering shouts
1T.
Never before was the saying that
nothing succeeds like success" so am
ply demonstrated. And when the end
came suddenly in the eighth round, and
the champion was still champion, the
hush which fell over the vast throng
showed palmer than words can tell
that Robert Fitzsimmons had the SYM
paihy of every person within the big
Enclosure.
If battles with the padded mitts could
he made to order the fight last night
would have been the kind selected. 1t
VS. perfectly clean, in the sensee that
fistic parlance calls clean. 1t was Iurl-
Gus from the first tap of the gong II
showed the remarkable cleNerneSS OIL
l,irzsimmons and the still more re-
markable stamina of Jeffries. There
was never dull spot in it. 1t resulted
in a clean knockout which is the only
way that a battle with the fists can De
settled to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned There was no faint or SuSpl-
cion coming from any quarter that II
was not entirely fair and square, and
the hest man won. Surely no other en-
counter of the kind ever waged comDln-
cd an the good qualities of that fought
last evening.
From the first round to the sudden
finish Fitzsimmons had clear lead on
Jeffries, The first blow which landed
was a lab to Jeff's nose which started
the claret, and before the gong sound
ed for the first rest Fitz had sent nome
a connie more good clean punches TO
the head without a return. so easily
did Bob seem to reach his mark when
ever he led that Jim lost his connuehI
smile in the second round ana COM
menced to rush. In doing this he only
made matters worse, so he left his
guard wide open, and another straight
lead met him on the nose and changed
the simple signs of blood from his nose
into a regular stream. In the third BOD
continued his good work, and after a
hard mix Jeff emerged with cash I'M
der his right eye. All this time the
champion had scarcely Countered ana
the COrnishman was without a mark
In the fourth Jeff landed his first
damaging punch, a hard right TO the
6odv lint he got in return q half-doz-
en- labs to his mouth and eye, when
enlarged the streams of blood and ADD
ed to his determined face a terrible eA-
preston. The champion did trlle
better i'm the fifth, reaching Fitz' face
with straight left and opening smalI
cut under the eye. In return Bob start
60, bE.
Iv blocked, glanced off and almost put
Jeff's good eye out of commission. The
battle was even more in the CORNISH
mans favor in the sixth and seventh
and for a moment of the latter round 1t
appeared as though jeff was weaken
| ing under the Tapid-tire punches, out
| he closed the round strong with a rally
which showed that he had lost none OF
his steam, while Fitz walked to his COR
ner with a rather tired air.
The eighth and last round OF the great
| battle was a counterpart OF its prede-
cessors right up to the sensational mn
! ish, when the champion backed BOD IN
| IN his own corner and, catching him
momentarily off his guard from the
force of a swing that missed it's mark
| whipped in one of the terrific jolts to
| the body that have made him cham
pion. following with a right to the jaw
as the Cornishman dropped and the
! fight was over
When Fitz sought the mat he appar-
entity was not knocked out. He gazed
| in a rather dazed sort of way at George
| Dawson, as if waiting for the signal to
arise. His body lay almost under the
ropes, and as Graney said eight ne
made a slight effort to rise, but it was
no use. His strength was gone, and ne
was to all intents and purposes, a beat
en- man. That Dawson did not urge
! him to get up was seen to be the right
course, when the seconds climbed
through the ropes and helped him to
his feet. Dawson and Griffin released
! their hold for a moment, and Fitz tot