Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-08
SAYS BEST MAN WON

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= San Francisco, July 26.-Fitz. =
= simmons dressing room bore any =
thing but the aspect Of that Of =
losing fighter. From the citation =
of the seconds over the remark =
able showing that he made, 1t =
was plain that they had enter. =
= tanned no great hopes Of vic. =
= tory.
HE beat me all right" said =
Fitzsimmons. re is a wonder. =
He had me going in the seventh. =
\ me In the wind. hurt my hand =
two days ago on Griffin's head. =
But that doesn't make any differ. =
ence. He did me. And let me =
tell you he Is the best of them =
all. II wasn't that last bin in the =
eye that did 1t; II was the smash =
in the wind. thought my short =
= ribs were broken. When | went =
= down | said with all the wind that =
= was In me, Jeff, I'm gone On =
'h' oNiaiEhNp V
= have pulled out and gone on, but =
= | would have only been chopped =
= to pieces. and I've fought long =
\ enough to know when | or any \
= other man mas had the finishing =
\ punch. =
= 'He did me, but IL II Is the last =
y word that ever say | will tell =
you that | wasn't right the first =
y time he put me out. | didn't =
= know whether was in or out Of =
= This time was as fit as | ever =
\ was In my life. Then he was a \
= novice. Now he is a finished I
= fighter. I fought him the best \
way knew. People may say that =
\ ought to have Kept away from 4
= him. but let me tell you that II 4
\ had he would have been after me 4
= and finished me in two rounds. 4
= But amt all right for an old 4
\ man? | don't think that ever I
\ punched anyone harder than did
= him in the first four rounds. but
\ he kept coming back. There is
\ no one fighting in the world that
y has chance against him. !
couldn't do II. and II cant there
\ Is no one that can"
II What are your future plans?"
he was asked.
y I'm going back to Brokenhurst :
to teach the young idea of Amer. :
lea to be Dig and strong-like :
me-" he said, and settled back, =
laughing.
!
San Francisco, July 26.-Bleedin
furiously from a cash over his left ey'
a smaller cut under his right optic an
with blotches of bright red comm
from mouth and nose James J. Jeffrle
champion heavyweight OF the worlt
stood over the PROSTATE form of Rot
ert Fitzsimmons last night while Rel
cree Eddie Graney tolled off the SCI
onds which meant that he could retail
the championship. There was no tr
umph in his look. His glances at III
fallen fighter were rather of pity tina
citation, but when the fateful ten
was counted by the referee Jeff's faC
lit up for a moment and he turned
his corner with evidences of great sa
isfaction that Bob did not have Ii
struggle that had gone SO niue
against the champion for eight round
And well he might be content for !
had received the hardest punishmel
of his career In the greatest battle ey'
waged for the title which was at stak
1t was a wonderful fight, before
wonderful crowd, which marveled
the battle put up by the grand o
man OF the ring" The end was a for
gone conclusion before the pair enterC
the ring. but so cleverly did Fitz fl
Jeff's head, and so much damage did
do with hard hooks from either han
that the sea OF humanity was in an u
roar of excitement as the tide turn,
in FitZsimmons' favor, and nine out
ten throats were uttering shouts OF e
couragement to the Cornishman. New
before was the saying that "nothiI
succeeds like success so amply demo-
strated. And when the end came su
denly in the eighth round, and Il
champion was still champion, the hui
which fell over the vast throng show
palmer than words can tell that Robe
Fitzslmmons had the sympathy
every person within the big mcclure
II battles with the padded mitts cou
be made to order the fight last mig
would have been the kind selected.
was perfectly clean, in the sense tn
iistic parlance calls clean. II was ful
Gus from the first tap of the gong.
showed the remarkable cleverness
Fitzsimmons and the still more I
markable stamina of Jefries. The
was never a dull spot in it, II result
in a clean knockout, which is the on
way that a battle with the fists can
settled to the satisfaction of all co
'cerned. There was no faint or susI
+ icion coming from any quarter that
= was not entirely fair and square, al
the best man won. Surely no other e
,counter of the kind ever waged comb
cd all the good qualities Of that foug
last evening,
From the first round to the sudd'
finish Fitzsimmons had a clear lead
Jeffries. The first blow which land
was a jab to Jeif's nose which start
1.-The rlaret and before the gong sound