The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-08-18
HE IS STILL CHAMPION.
Jeffries Knocked Out COrbett In
the Tenth Round.
The Few Blows Corbett Landed on the
Giant Were Apparently Without
Sting and He Was outpoint-
ed From the First.

| San Francisco, Aug. 15.-Ten thou
| sand men were seated in the arena in
| Mechanics pavilion at 8 o'clock Fri
day night, representing an expenditure
| for seating accommodations .aggregat-
| ing $4,000 This is the largest crowd
| that ever assembled at a ringside in
| this country, and the third largest sum
in dollars and cents ever contested
| for. The two that exceeded it in re-
| ceipts were the Corbett-Jeffries fight
at Coney Island, $4,000, and the Cor
| bett-McCoy fight at Madison Square
| garden, New York, $4,000.
| James J. Jeffries, champion heavy
weight of the world, played with Jim
| Corbett for nine rounds and a half
| Friday night and then COrbett's Sec
onds motiOned to Referee Graney to
stop the fight in order to save their
man from needless punishment. The
| end came shortly after the beginning
| of the tenth round when Jeffries plant
| ed one of his terrific left swings on
| Corbett's stomach. The man who con-
| quered John L. Sullivan dropped to
| the floor in agony and the memorable
scene at Carson City, when Bob Fitz-
simmons landed his solar plexus blow
was almost duplicated. This time,
| however, Corbett struggled to his feet
and again faced his gigantic adver-
sary With hardly moments hest
tation Jeffries swung his right and
| again landed on Corbett's stomach.
| Jim dropped to the floor and then it
was that Tommy Ryan, seeing that it
was all over, motioned to Referee
Graney to stop the punishment.
The fight Friday night demonstrated
beyond all doubt. that Jeffries stands
alone in his class. He showed remark
able improvement in both speed and
skill Corbett, during the first part of
| the fight, was almost OutpOinted, and
| the few blows that he landed on JEFF
fries were apparently without sting.
Jeffries was never in better condition.
He looked lighter than usual and the
way he moved about on his feet and
| the frequency with which he cOuntered
| Corbett's leads astonished everybody.
| Corbett, in comparison with the big
man opposed to him, looked very light,
but was really heavier than ever be-
fore He appeared to have lost some
of his old time speed and skill during
the early part of the fight, but this
may have been due to Jeffries' mar
velous improvement. Corbett's phys
zeal condition appeared to be all that
he had claimed for it. He stood many
of Jeffries' terrific blows without wine
ing and came back swinging left and
| right and landing frequently, but his
blows hardly stung Jeffries. Jeffries
was not only stronger, faster and clev-
erer than ever before, but he used his
head to better purpose and although
Corbett would hit him hard enough to
hurt an ordinary man, Jeffries would
bore right in without noticing the
blows and would deliver telling hits
chat materially helped in deciding the
result of the fight.
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"
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 Cor
bett arose to his feet after taking the
count of nine 1T was the best fight
Jeffries ever made and astonished
even those who had placed implicit
faith in his ability to win" said Har-
ting.
During the fight, Corbett talked con-
tinuously to Jeffries and to the ref
cree. He was game to the end and
whenever Jeffries landed a blow
would make testing remark. In the
fsixth round during clinch just after
Jeffries had punished him severely he
remarked to the referee: Watch
him, Eddie, he's trying to knock me
out"
He also said: He can't knock me
OUT go ahead, and try it." Jeffries
only grinned and waded into his man
all the harder.
Corbett's system of training was IN
doubtedly beneficial to him from a
physical point of view, but it appar-
emily detracted from his speed. He
did not keep away from Jeffries in the
manner that was anticipated but kept
up close clinching at every opportu-
nifty. He also did some clever duck
ing. thereby avoiding deadly blows,
but all his cleverness was of no avail.
He fought his fight, and when the time
came Jeffries delivered the necessary
blows and installed more firmly than
ever on his pedestal as champion
heavyweight pugilist of the world.
Unanimously Reelected.
Washington, Aug. 15.-Mrs. Edward
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