Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-15

mad, as he started in with renewed
vim. In rally Corhett landed on
Jefries's jaw twice, but did no dam
age Corbett returned three swift
blows on Jeffries's mouth, but they
had little force. Jeffries then swung
his right and landed very heavy
half-arm jolt just over the belt, that
made Corbett vince.
Eighth round--J effries again rushed,
but Corbett hung on i'll a series of
cGinches and the referee was called on
toaseparate the men. Corbett got in
some fancy blows on Jefries's face,
which made the crowd yell, and in re-
turn he received heavy right on the
neck. When he was against the ropes
in a clinch, Corbett landed once on
Jeffries's face. but he was pushed
against the ropes and received a saw
age blow in the wind. Corbett by
ducking. escaped punishment. Corbett
landed repeatedly with right and left
on Jeffries's face after each clinch and
the crowd roared itself hoarse in ap
proval of his clever tactics. He
showed some Of his old-time cunning
in this round. -
though he expected to finish things in
this round. but he found Corbett more
cunning than before. as with his left
shoulder Corbett avoided several vic
ious blows. In the hreakaways Cor
bett had the advantage repeatedly, but
his blows lacked steam. lie hit JET
fries three tunes in the mouth, but IL
return he received a savage blow in
+be wind. Corbett was evidently tired
and received several hard lefts ard
right hand jolt in the mouth in the
clinch.
Tenth Round-Co rbett went down
from a hard left on the stomach. JET
fries won in this round by hitting a
fearful blow in the stomach with his
left Corbett tried desperately to stall
off Jeffries. but the champion rushed
in aud delivered a terrible left hand
blow over the wind. the exact dupli-
cate of the blow that settled Fitzsin-
mons. Corbett dropped to the car
pet with an expression of fearful ag-
ony on his face, and as he rested on his
hands Tommy Ryan threw up the.
sponge This was just before the
timekeeper had finished the count.
The round lasted only % seconds.
After the fight was over Corbett
quickly recovered. walked over to JEFF
fries and shook him warmly by the
hand. He said:
Jim, you beat me fairly. You
stand alone. No one can touch you"
Referee Eddie Graney said. after the
fight, that it was good heavyweight
contest ''Corbett was veery clever
but Jeffries was almost equally 50 and
showed marvellous Improvement. He
practically outboxed Corbett during
the fight, with the exception of the
eighth and ninth rounds. Every blow
that he landedJtold his superior weight
and strength was bound to win in the
end
Timekeeper George Harting stated
that the blows that won the fight
were left to the stomach followed
by. a right to the same place as soon
as Corbett arose to. his feet, after tak-a
ing the count of nine 1T was the
best fight Jeffries ever made and cas-
tonished even those who had placed
implicit faith in his ability to VIM
Jefries says: Though he knew I
was his master and lost his d-time
confidence, he occasionally showed his
old agility. I fought harder with my
trainers during the conditioning sea
son than did with Corbett and I fin
ished the contest as fresh as when I
entered the ring. / have no plans for
the future. Those matters are left to
my manager and my trainers"
'fI have no excuses to offer for my de-
feat" said Corbett. MY campaign had
been carefully planned and as kept
my head all during the contest I can
not say made any serious mistakes. I
went into the ring in great deal bet
ter condition than when I met Jeffries
at Coney Island.
HAD he been the same Jeffries this
time am sure I would have won an
easy victory
Gle owes this second victory over nae
to his remarkable all around improve
ment. In his fights with Rubin and
Fitzsimmons he showed conclusively
that he had picked up a great deal
about the game in +wo yea rs'
Corbett received many kilograms
from eastern friends, principally
theatrical, offering him lucrative en-
gagements, win or lose.
The fighters received SO % per cent,
rs per cent of which went to the win
ner and the remaining Is per cent to
the loser.
At least. this is the division as Civ
en- out, but it is more probable the men
split the money evenly