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Win le1I and right TO the neaQ. he
fought f1ercely in mix-up and Fitzsim-
mons was Kissed for holding on. Gardner
missed hard swing for the jaw. Fitz-
simmons swung left hard to the jaw and
and left to the body. Gardner missed right
uppercut for the jaw and chased Fitz-
simmons to a. corner without landing a
blow. Fitzsimmons then missed a left
tired at this stage They got to close
quarters and both tried lefts and rights
for the body, but the efforts were futile.
The gong sounded with both men fight
Ing tamely, with the crowd jeering and
urging them on Fitzsimmons appeared
to be losing his speed. and seemed con-
tent with acting more on the defensive.
Round 8.
Both men were short with lefts for the
face. FitZsimmons tented with right and
put good left to the face. The Austria
to do the leading. Gardner finally planted
left and right to the stomach and left
hook lightly to the face. Gardner blocked
a vicious left for the jaw and sent
straight left lightly to the face. Fitzsim-
mons missed left and right swings for
the body and they came to clinch IN
Gardeners corner. FitZsimmons sent Gard
ner against the ropes with left and r1ghs
to the body. Gardner then clinched and
blocked a right and left uppercut for
the law Fitzsimmons improved in this
round again and had the advantage.
Round g..
The Cornishman backed away allowing
Gardner to do the leading. Gardner was
short with left for the head and missed
a right swing for the body. F1tzsimmons
then met him with a left hook to the Jaw
and danced away as the Lowell pugiilsl
chased him around the ring: Fitzsim-
mons missed hard left swing for the
body Gardner continued to chase Fitz-
simmons around the ring, but did not sue
coed in landing; Fitzslmmonss s., n nniat
but more from wrestling than from blows.
Gardner swung good right to the Kid
neys and swung right to the jaw as the
and Fitzsimmons only smiled. Fitzsim-
mons slowed up considerably, but was
evidently laying for his famous knock
out punch.
Round 10.
Fitzsimmons missed a fierce right hook
for the head and Gardner was wild with a
right swing. Fitzsimmons backed away
and contented himself with blocking
Gardeners leads. Fftzsimmons jolted
Gardner with a left to the jaw, but
Gardner retaliated with hard right, to
the jaw. Fitzsimmons hooked his left
to the face and they came together.
Fitzsimmons broke it up with left hook
hard to the stomach and Gardner jabbed
Fitzsmmons mouth three times with
left. drawing blood. Fitzsimmons crossed
with left to face. Gardner kept Jabblng
with left to the mouth and tantalized the
Australian. FitZsimmons, however, took
the blows with view to getting in a
good punch. They came together with
considerable force at the close OF the
round and Gardner slipped to his
launches. He was up quickly and went
at once to his corner.
Round II.
Fitzsimmons caught Gardner with right
to the stomach and hooked him viciously
with left on the wind. Fitzsimmons
fought hard, but Gardner blocked him.
Gardeners punches seemed to lack force:
Gardner swung his left to the body and
backed away from two left swings for the
face Fitzsimmons joIted Gardner with a
straight left to the stomach and F'itZSim-
Fitzsimmons took most Of the light blows
but blocked the hard ones. Gardner sent
a straight right to the face but FitZsim-
mons sailed in with. left swing to the
Jew staggering Gardner. The gong rang
at this Stage Fitzsimmons had the adj
vantage of the round.
Round IL.
Fitzsimmons, as usual, backed away.
They came together in mix-up, but no
damage was done. Gardner jabbed left
to Fitzsimmons' face and closed in as the
latter tried a straight left for the jaw.
The pace again slowed up and the crowd
yelled at the contestants Fitzsimmons
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the jaw. He tried to follow with right
but missed his mark. FitzsimmonS then
swung for the head but missed. Gardner
landed few light blows On FftZSimmons,
but Fitzsimmons took them, at the same
time trying to bring his right to play.
Gardeners blows were very light. AS yet
he had failed to land a telling blow on
the lanky Australian.
Round 10.
.
Jaw and received a straight left on the
mouth Gardner then poked FitZsimmons
in the stomach with straight left and
chased FitZsimmonS into corner. They
danced around the ring for fully a minute
without a blow being landed. Gardner
kept pegging away at Fitzsimmons, but
the latter easily got out of the way.
Finally FitZsimmonS brought his right to
the body and left to the nose. Gardner
sent in two straight lefts to the face and
a light left to the body, but there was lit
tie force in them. Just as the round clos
ed FitZSimmonS swung a hard right to
the jaw, sending Gardner to the floor. He
was up within two seconds and showed no
effects of the blow as he took his chair.
Round IA.
Gardner was short with a straight left
for the body. FitZsimmons tented with
right and sent two lefts to the jaw. He
followed it with hard left hook to the
jaw and hard right to the body. Swing
ing fercely, he sent the Lowell man to
the floor for five seconds. Fitzsimmons
then missed fearful right swing for the
jaw and chased Gardner straight to the
ropes trying to put in the vital blow, but
his efforts were wild. Gardner looked
groggy and stalled repeatedly. The blood
was streaming from his nose and as they
went to a ciinch the crowd Kissed Gard
ner for hitting in a clinch. Fitzsimmons
swung his right to the jaw and sent Gard
ner against the ropes. He followed him
around the ring and missed a right swing
that would have ended the fight had It
landed as the bell rang. Gardner went to
his corner groggy. Fitzsimmons appeared
cool and smiled at his friends.
Round is.
Fitzsimmons swung with left and miss
ed Then they both went to clinch.
Emerging, F'itzsimmons missed a hard
swing for the jaw and Gardner succeeded
in getting glancing left to the jaw. Fitz-
simmons drove his right to the body and
then shifted it to the head and cleverly
evaded counters. FitZsimmons fought
carefully and made his blows count when
he reached the Lowell mans anatomy.