Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-08-20
jEFFR|ES WINS
Corbett Unable to Fight the
Champion Ten Full
Rounds.
NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO WIN
JcTrics Seemed Unaffected by Ills How,
The Fight Witnessed by 10000
Men who Paid $54.OOO for Seats
Seconds Gave Up to Save Cor
bctt Further Punishment.


San Francisco, Aug. 1i.-Jamcs j. Jcf-
fries. champion heavy weight of The
world. played with Jim Corhctt for nine
rounds and a half tonight and then Cor
BETS seconds motioncd to Referee
Graney to stop the night in order to save
their man from needless punishment
The end came shortly after tho beginning
OF the tenth round when Jcffries planted
one of his terrific left swings on Cor
! hotts stomach. The man who conquered
| John l.. sullivan dropped tn the floor in
agony ana the memorable scene ut car
son city when Bob FitzSimmons landed
h'S SOAR pI"NuS blow was almost dupl-
Gated. This time, however, Corhett
STRUGGLED to his feet and again faced his
HI.Antic adversary. with hardly mo-
meat 5 hositation J"nrlos swung his right
ana again landed on Corhctts stomach
jim dropped to the floor and then it was
mat tommy Ryan. seeing that 1t was
All over motlonod to Referee Grancy 20
| stop the punishment.
Ihe iight to-night demonstrated beyond
an d"ubt that Johrics stands alone in his
class.
lie showed remarkable Improvement
in both speed and skill Corbctt dur
ing the f1rst part of the fight WAS al
most "utpointed and the few blows
that he landed on Jcnrics apparently
were without sting. Jeffries was never
i'm better condition. He looked lighter
than usual and the way he moved
about on his feet and the frequency
with which he countercd Corbett's leads
astonishcd everybody. Corbett in COM
parison with the big man opposed to
him looked very light. but was really
heavier than ever before. He appear-
ed to have lost some of his old time
speed and skill during the early mart
of the fght hut this may have been
due to Jcffries's marvellous implove-
mrnt
Corbctt's phvsicnl condition arpcar,d
TO he all thai he had claimed for if He
stood many of J.nries's terrific blou =
without winciur ana came back swin.-
in1 lort and rich, ard lnudinc rrcuu.ntl.,
bui his blows hardly strung .Ic(fri.s
Jefrries was not only stronger. faster and
clcveror than over before hut he usc1
his bo,d to bettnr n,irnose and a1thout n
Corbott hit hard erourh to hurt an or.
binary man. J.nries borod right in with
out noticing this and delivered blows
that c,untc,l ovcrv time thov Iar1od
AT nrst Corhott was very coutious and
abparcntlv was outpointed hv IoffrieH
hut later in the fight he warmed up and
showed some of his cid time clcvcrnees
From the first however il was gen
orally regarded as "A hopeless case for
Corbctt He made a gallant fight but he
never stood n chance to win.
Alter the nEnt was over tOrhctt quick
~ recovered, walked over to JcffricS and
shook him warmly hv the hand. He said
Jim you beat me fairly. You stand
alone. No one can touch you"
Referee Eddie Granev said after the
fight that it was good heavy weight
contest.
"Corbett WAS worry clever but Jofrrios
was almost equally so and showed mar
vclous improvcmcnt He nracticallv ont
boxed Corhrtt during the fight with the
execution of the eighth. and ninth rounds
Every blow he landed told and his su-
pcrior weight and strength WAS bound to
win in the end
Time Eccner Goorre IIartinn stated
that the blows that won the fight were
a left to the stomach followed nv a
ripht to the same Mace as soon as Gov
hctt arose to his feet after taking the
count of nine.
"It was Tie host nrht Jorfrtrs cvor
made and astonisbod even those who
mad placed implicit faith in his nbiIitv
to win
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