The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 20
Fitsimmons cried today when shown
the story that he had faxed the fight,
and called it a damned malicious lie."
He said he had heard yesterday that
some woman at Harbor Springs, his
first training quarters, had written a
letter to a reporter, saying that Fitz
would go out in the eighth round. Bob
was in bed this morning resting and
recuperating. There was a slight mark
under his right eye and his left wrist
and knuckles and fingers were badly
swollen. Otherwise he looked well,
but he complained of body pains, due
to a punch under the heart, the one
that reached the solar plexus and lost
him the fight.
Shame to Call 1t Fake.
1T is a shame to call it a fake" he
said. I fought the greatest fight of my
life, and here I have been branded a
cur. There 1 was winning all the time,
but I could not have won, anyway.
Both hands are gone. I've fought three
have been defeated twice, both times
by Jeffries. That shows that he is a
better man, doesn't it? I've had TWEEN
ty years of hard lighting and my hands
have gone back on me. If they had
been all right Jeffries would not have
lasted six rounds, but I've got no ex-
cuses. AS God is my judge, did my
best.
Fitzsimmons cried as he said this,
and looked regretfully at his crippled
hands
Must Judge by the Fight.
q knew some woman had written to
a reporter that I was to lay down in
the eighth. l was told of it yesterday
afternoon. This man was to judge by
the fight whether there was any truth
in the story, and now he comes out and
says it was fake When I got in dis
tress in the eighth round last night
/ thought of the letter and tried to
stave off the end, but l couldn't do it,
remember that as l went down I said,
or tried to say, I'm gone but I guess
1t wasn't any more than a gasp. He
took all the wind out of my body. 1
did not say that was a peach
If 1 smiled, as they say did, it must
have been a smile of pain. 1 tried to
last, but couldn't. got what gave
many a man. 1t was the same blow
that [ gave Corbett; only it was lit
tie to one side, but it did the business.
Jeff Is a Terrible Sight.
Some time during the fight Jeff got
In one that caught me under the heart.
n 1n1 f1n IL
morning about o'clock it caught me
good, and I thought was going to
die. can't raise my left hand now"
Jeffries was a terrible spectacle to-
day No champion in recent years was
ever so badly done up. His face was
swelled to twice it's usual size. Three
stitches had to be taken over his left
eye. He had a bad cut on the left
cheek, his lips were larger than a ne
gro's. He was sore also in spirit. for
he recognized he had been outclassed in
the fighting and only his great strength
had pulled him through.
Cries of Fake Are Raised.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S. - Now
that the Jeffries- FItzsimmons contest
for the worlds championship is over,
the cry af fake has been raised,
though without justification in the
opinion of Referee Graney, George ST.
Ter and the great majority of other
sporting men who witnessed the con-
test. A communication sent to Mayor
Schmitz before the fight, to be opened
after it was ended, stated that the
writer had been informed that Jeffries
was to win in the eighth round, which
he did. The mayor has stated that if
the charge that the contest was a pre-
arranged affair cannot be disproved,
he will be compelled to prohibit such
exhibitions hereafter.
Referee Graney's Opinion.
Referee Graney says:
Il think the contest was legitimate.
From referees standpoint the fight
was as near perfect as a fight could
be. There were no fouls-not even a
Bemblance of q foul. I had to caution
them once, but this was not for any
thing that either did to the other, but
for their humping into me. It was the
greatest fight ever saw, and doubt
If there will ever be another like it,"
at is absolutely ridiculous to talk
of the fight being a fake" said Will
ham Delaney. There never was a
fight in which there was less reason
to doubt that 1t was being fought on
the square,
Jeffries said: "Of course the fight
was on the square. 1t Is ridiculous
to talk anything else. Fitz fought a