Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-28
FIGHTS IND FIGHTERS.
No Fake Say the Best Authori-
 ties On the Big Fight.

No Fake Say the Best Authori-
 ties On the Big Fight. Absurd to Call the Battle a Fixed One
 -Fitzsimmons Offers All He Is
 Worth In the World for Proof
 Jeffries Also Indignant The Best
 Sports and Papers Condemn the Ac-
 cusation-Looks AS If the Accuser
 Was Sore Over Some Slight-This
 Story Tells the Facts.
 San Francisco, July 2S.-Never has there been a fight in San Francisco which gave greater satisfaction to the big crowd than Friday nights battle between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons. Sporting experts here united in saying Saturday that never in their ring ex- perience has a finer exhibition of boxing and ring generalship been made than was shown by old Fitz and never was such fancy work proved so utterly fu- tile as against the iron frame and bull strength of Jeffries. There was only one discordant note. The Examiner came out Saturday morning with an absurd story of fake, declaring that it's sporting editor on Thursday received intimation that Fitz would lose by prearrangement in the eighth round. The sporting editor wrote letter to Mayor Schmitz conveying this tip of fake, with notice that the letter lcJoo 11o +b< fight He reserved option to destroy the letter, however. and then when the fight actually came to an end in the eighth round boldly asked the mayor to open the letter. The mayor fell into the trap and declared that in fu- ture he would prevent such flakes, 2" which means that he will stop all prize fights in San Francisco. The Exam 1 iner also says Fitz told Jeffries to hit him in the eighth round and that he recovered too speedily for a genuine knockout.
 l The absurd statement also Is made that Fitz had things all his own way and would probably have cut Jeffries up so much about the face as to daze l him and secure a Knockout To any expert who witnessed the fight this story and the alleged facts on which Lit is founded are unworthy of serious l attention.
 Though Fitz showed that as a boxer Jefries was not in the same, class with
 him and hit Jeff repeatedly in the face drawing copious blood, there never Twas a time in the fight that Jeff showed and serious distress. Even
 Fitz's friends were quick to see that his strongest blows, delivered square ly on the nose and mouth, did not stop the champion, and they did not even check him. He came on as savagely
 as ever. Ix.was a hopeless case of a
 weaker man delivering blows that ought to have defeated his opponent, l but which merely served to anger him.
 Several times Fitz threw all the force
 of his body into the blow, but it did
 not hurt Jeffries.
 Tn the seventh round Jeffries ap- l peared to get new momentum, as he cut out great pace, and he certainly had Fitz almost out with several body punches that were terrific He crowd Ted Fsitz against the ropes and landed EtWice. The blows hurt as Fitz showed by his face, but the Cornish man escaped by cleverness and had time to regain his wind.
 The knockout seemed to come through Fitz's lack of attention for a
 moment. He made some remark to
 Jeffries as Jeffries missed with his i right. Then came left hook to the
 head. Fitz's hands dropped for mo-
 ment and he looked as though he
 would slip under Jeffrias' arm agair
 as he had done so ofter before, but lief fries brought out his left again ant
 landed fearful blow just above the
 solar plexus and Bob fell as though he
 had been hit by an ax.
 Such experts as Lou Houseman ant
 George Siler were near enough to Fit. when he got this blow and when h, fell close enough to have touched hin , with a cane and they had no evidence
 that the blow was not real and tn,
 knockout not genuine. Fitz could no : get up, but was taken to his chair 7 The moment he was sponged he seem : ed to recover his faculties instantly. Fitz cried Saturday morning whe1 :. shown the story that he had faked tn, | fight, and he called the story damned, malicious 1ie.'' Fitzsim mons, with intense earnestness, re
 sented the charge of faking in the fol , lowing statement: Twenty-Five year a fighter and to be called a fakir. got caught as I have caught many man before. I fought as hard as could I tried my best to get up il ; that round. I had heard that wo , man had said that I was going to Ia, , down in the eighth round, and I di 2 my best to pro1ong the fight after tha g round It does look funny, but ? tried my best.
 l My hands were gone i'll the secon 5 round and I could not hurt Jeffrie :. any more. I hit him on the ear wit :. my right and that went. He got m l like got Corbett. It was coming t l me. It only takes punch to knocl ! a man in a fight, and the punch came ssWhy should I go out in this fight g I was offered $75,O00 to throw the Cor ] bett fight The offer was made b. bankers, one here and one in Ne, York I was offered $10OOO0 to throy ,, the Sharkey fight, but my honor al :, ways stood before me. My last figh !. was the best I ever fought and t f think that I am made to go down i ' diShnnpri