Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-17
crowd couldn't understand it. They had
never seen a similar fight and F'itz was

crowd couldn't understand it. They had
GARDNER BADLY PUNISHED.
Inc New Engiander showed up with
o osaaiN Sill. eye and busted auricular In the
eighth, and F'itz went at him roughly,
with the obvious intent of further mixing
his handsome features. He roughed him
up against the ropes, banged him left and
him down. Fitz looked at this junct,ire
as II he was trying TO end matters. Gard
ner was too good a clincher and when the
round ended Fitz looked anything but
pleased.
And so it went until the fourteenth.
when Gardner was again sent to = the ,9or
however, punched away with his left few
times, then cinched and hung on TO save
himself. A left to the jaw dazed the
younger man in the fifteenth, and, getlng
his arms around Fits neck, he held on
to the end
Gardner ran in close and belted fltz 1 wi.n
amounted to anything. as Bob comppl:a.lIn, tssi
to Referee Graney that he Vas M hiau ~
low Graney grinned sarcastically and bade
him go on. And he did. He flung his long s
freckled pinions around the marble for.a
of his opponent and wrestled hin, him 70 the the
floor spra wiling all over him like huge
octopus, but when the crowd began 10
boot and yell dertsively, Fitz turned 4 ana am!
assisted the referee IN righ.ing .'a ra ~,
Ftz, head down, buli.,ike, and nc Ilppeo ta M
an assortment of rights and lefts thal l Ioi
the moment caused fltz to cease s nInsaa
which II did with the men locked, SV9 Bop
looked tritie worried. In the last ro I'M.
Gardner essaycd to resume these tac.ies'
but straight left TO the mouth stag
gered him. He recoiled four or five steps;
then gathering himself ran in again ana ~
repeated that rat-tat-too on Fitz mldriH,
-, rf,@ sole hnn Un
head back, and he was content to clhch
and hold on until the gong changed. 10
Without hesitation, Graney sI.e,ppea t pea
winner, and the crowd instead of scramb-
ling as usual in struggling mass for the
exits, stood up and cheered the grand
old man until the rafters qutked
ANALYSIS OF TIE MEN
So much for what actually happened IN
the way of an exchange OF tisuc courle-
sizes, which Went to Fitz by about The rar
ito of 10 to ]. Now for the department OF
the two S warriors VILE in ae,lon. So l na
slower than he has always been. He was
coping with young man. fun of the l!re
of youth, of hitherto ,mquestioned game,
ness, clever in an awkward way, and
with reputed knockout in either glove.
The old man had to be careful, and he
was. and that was what made him look
same old superb order He was guarded
in every move, never wasting either step
or blow. The consensus of opinion was
that If Gardner could manage to stan
through eight or ten innings. Fits SEN
lily would make him an easy victim. But
there he was at the end of twenty rough
ing rounds. putting bit, but as clipper,
of biting savants guessing with his
savior faire, and in the end they We're
but precious little better posted as to his
actual condition than they had been in the
outset. He convinced Them however, that
he was the wellest sick man that ever
came down the pike. He asked but little
attention at the hands of his seconds, and
was smiling and smirking through the
entire engagement, waiting all the time
to send that right across on the mark,
and never once evidenced that he dreamed
of not being. able to land it. But he
missed the shot, time and time again.
and Gardner is evidently still thankful
that he did
On the other hand the Lowell man was
frightened from gong to gong, and with
the exception of those two puerile little
bluffs In the nineteenth and twentieth
rounds. did all his fighting, If / may call
it such, at the sefest kind of a range.
He was never satisfied with himself and
left the ring with dub written all over
him.
If either of the two men is to retire to
the seclusion of private life. an unpreju-
be the man. There is many Il good fight
In the old freckled antipodean yet, and
the fact is, ] would be sorely puzzled TO
pick man, barring the peerless Jeffries
alone, who has Il cflance TO HEX him.
In conclusion let me add. II was tn.
greatest of all the great fights ever saw
Bob TitZsimmonS make.