Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-02
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
Jimmy Handler Goes Down In
 Disgraceful Defeat.

The Much Talked or Ne"aAA
 Was in No Condition to Fight
 Young Peter Jackson Wallops linn
 All Over the Ring and Charley
 White Saves Him in the Third-The
 Preliminaries on the Level.
 A more disgusted crowd of sports could not be found within a radlus ol GOO miles than the 2,O0O or over Wno onit the Auditorium after the much advertised New Years battles Were over yesterday afternoon. Waterpufy is conceded one of the best sportinS cities in the state of Connectlcut' or in Now Enoland for that matter, ana lhe people have been willing to pay Tor tne very best. On several occasions lnes have been "gold bricked, and yester- day they were handed out ahotnei very suspicious looking affair, refer ring particularly to the main event pc tween Jimmy Handler and Aouns Peter Jackson. Where the blame IS to rest cannot be told probably, put some one was to blame to allow Hill dler 10 remain in this city TOT Weehs before the match and not conduct hliii- self as q fighter should who Is to meet a fast man and one with whom he has had fierce battles before
 Moe Harris and the NatloHal A.il1 letic club have worked hard and falth- fully to make good on each oecasloh that they have given tournalheht' They filled the bill as advertised yes terday, but it does seem as though they could have made Handler tend strictly to business. It has been Iold and retold that Handler never drinks and perhaps that is true. There are some people in the city, however, Who are positive that Handler used lntoXl- cants since coming to Waterbury, and that he was in a certain cafe the af- ternon or evening before the match inn bibing something that was not soda. However. it matters not now whether he drank or not, it is sufficient to know that he stepped into the ring yesterday clearnly out of condition, and like a lamb led to the slaughter he held his guard open and let Jackson hammer him into a pulp. If Handler was not drunk when he entered the ring he was very like it. One punch to his wind in the first round and it was all over I with him. for then the dope began to : work and he was a dead one until the finish came in the third round. He did { not train for this match, and he knows it better than anyone else. He was < hog fat and all this talk about what he had been doing to get himself in J form was the veriest rot. That he was { in condition and was in form came ! from the club running the match through the clubs press agent. and yet ! 1t is said to-day that Handler insisted : on getting his money before he went :. into the ring. There is no one honest 2 1y accusing the National Athletic club or it's manager of deliberately trying to fake, for the members of that club could not foresee what was going to < take place. Handler and Jackson had given some of the fierceSt battles in other places. It was known that they ! were bitter against each other and ii was natural to suppose that the one of yesterday would be another good one Handler fooled the club and fooled the people and he should be driven out oi the prize ring. As one prominent sport from Hartford said yesterday s. Handler could not tumble into the ring and tumble out again any too quick tc get his money.
 | The first preliminary, as told in yes terday's Democrat, was between xit Lee of this city and young WestmaI of Bridgeport. They had met before in Waterbury and Westman had beer returned the winner. Yesterday they | put up a stiff battle with honors almos even. when suddenly in the nintl round, after Lee had received a coupl, of hard tlIumps, he deliberately helt up his glove and walked to his corner "a quitter of the rankest kind. Had h,
 pod the next round out and made an,
 ind of q showing he would have 90
 draw certain.
 The second preliminary brough ~Frank Hallett of New Haven ant Jimmy Haywood. better known as tn, Brass City Kid" together Hallet has improved 1000 per cent since h
 appeared here last and put up d gam
 light against the colored Waterbur, chap. In fact, Hallett kept the cool dancing around the ring with that Ion, left arm of his shooting for the win, or head. The colored lad was not idle Tor many times he got inside that lon, reach and the left hand would Ian, twice before he would get away or 2 into a clinch. Haywood did not q
 much with the right hand and in fac1 neither seemed to have any use fo that hand all through the fight. Tn tn
 nrst round there was nothing doina In the second each landed few time npnd they began to warm up The thir 'saW the colored fellow doing the bes
 work, as he landed his left repeatedly
 In the fourth he did the bel
 ter work and kept Haliett busy gettin
 away from his left jabs. In the lift Hallett woke up and went after tn
 colored man red hot and the result wa
 that there was some good fighting O
 both sides. In the sixth the colore
 chap again did the best work of tn
 two. In the seventh both went afte
 each other and another red-hot scrin
 mage was the result, and each wa
 tired at the end. Tn the eighth tn
 negro went after Hallett and tried fo
 knockout and soon had the New Hs
 vener very tired With a word c
 cheer from his seconds Hallett pulle
 himself together and he kept MT He,
 wood very busy until the gong sound
 ed In fact the colored lad was gla
 the round was over. In the ninth ma
 Ters were evened up and each scene