The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-09
4JEFFR|ES WINS FROM FITz
AND ONE CRITIC SAYS FAKE


Jeffries is the champion of the heavy
weight. boxers. but with the retention
Of the title herTnusts bear the disfigure-
n1ents which come from eight rounds
his fists as FitzsImmons. and as we'll
the charge that the fight was a fake.
This Is being contested however, as
Fitzsimmons has entered suit against
the man and paper making the charge,
which may in the end make the verdict
of the referee that of the courts. but
nevertheless there will always attach
to the exhibition at San Francisco on
the night of July 18th, the bare result
of which only has been told here be-
fore, the odor of wrong.
w. w. Naughton. the newspaper
writer OF all others who should know
the fighting game. the well known
authority of Australia before he went
to the United States with Peter Jack
son nearly two decades ago, the day
before the fight placed a sealed letter
in the hands of the mayor OF San Fran
cisco. charging that the fight would
end in the eighth round with victory
of Jeffries. During the seven rounds
preceding the Knockout blow Fitz had
all the best of it. cutting the big man
at will, bleeding him and in every way
showing his superiority in everything
but steam, for the blows were never
such as to weaken the big fellow.
The opinion of Naughton is not back
ed by other authorities, for all unite in
saying 1t was a great fight, the referee.
Eddie Graney, characterizing 1T as the
greatest he ever saw. and George Siler.
almost coinciding with him. Siler
saws. In his account In the Chronicle:
Defeated, but not dIsgraced. Defeated
with all the honors in his favor, with
the exception, of course, of the title
and the big end OF the money. That,
i'm a few words, tells the story of the
heavyweight championship battle be-
tween Champion Jim Jeffries and Bob
Fitzsimmons. Jeffries won in the
eighth round, but at the expense of
terrible rnauling- With face beaten al
most to pulp, the giant of the prize
ring left the arena a badly battered
spectator of the fight seen both men
two minutes after tue contest, they
would have picked FiGzsimmons as the
winner With not a mark to speak of
on his ruddy face, the old man walked
out of the ring cheered more loudly
than was the victor.
Jeffries, on the other hand, walked
away with his trainer and chief adj
wiser, Billy Delaney, with his nose
lie .ferl,4
cut and swollen, his left eye almost
closed and the left side of his cheek
badly puffed up. He was rather an
unsfghtIy looking champion, as COM
pared with Fitz- 1t was only his
weight, strength, stamina and capacity
of taking punishment that won for him.
True, the blow, left hook which land
ed directly under the solar pleXus, had
everything to do with his victory but,
had he not been of cast iron he could
never have withstood the blows that
Fitz landed on him throughout the
fight.
Bob Fitzsir1nlons.- although beaten,
proved conclusfvely that he is or rather
was she greatest fighter that ever step
ped into an American prize ring. Forty
years old, IL not more, fully sixty
pounds less in weight. 1t was fore
gone conclusion that Jeffries would
beat him. That was expected by all
but those not directly interested IN
welfare.
That was expected and it came to
pass, still not as jeff and his friends
anticipated. They, without doubt,
thought and really looked for JEFF to
NOW the old man down IN a hurry
They expected to see him slam into
Fitz as he did with his sparring part
ner, bull-rush him all over the shop,
slam him anywhere he liked and when
he got ready put him down for the
count This was the talk for days De-
fore the fight. The old man was not
supposed to have a look in True they
credited him with having a punch that
would upset the ordinary fighter. But
JEFF, they argued. was too clever. too
~@eedy. too good a blocker. In fact,
everything that goes to make up real
out and out champion. While they ad-
mitted that Fitz carries a punch that
wins they did not overlook the fact 10
announce both publicly and prlVatey
that Jeffries also had punch which