The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-20
WHEN FIGHTERS LOSE COURAGE.

Bob Fitzsimmons took his measure
with a knockout in a couple of rounds
Since then. he has suffered defeat after
defeat Yet before the last Jeffries
fight Sharkey successfully stood of
Fitzsimmons at San Francisco, knock
ed out Ruhlin with a punch, and pol
ished off both Jim Corbett and Kid Nc
Coy without muca trouble
Frank Erne's downfall came after
he fought Terry McGovern at Madison
Square Garden. Prior to that Erne had
never known what it meant TO be
! knocked out, but Terry did the trick.
Erne was never himself afterward. As
| the contest was at catchweights,
Franks lightweight championship hon.
ors did not suffer. But 1t was the be-
ginning of the end, for when he met
Joe Cans the second time at FIT. Erie
he was put to sleep in jig time. Then
came his combat with Jimmy Britt at
San Francisco, who also clipped Erne
on the jaw for the full count.
Jim Corbett is another example of
the fighter whose successful career was
niloped in the bud by knockout. Prior
to Corbett's contest with Bob Fftzsim-
mons at Carson City the ex-champion
was looked upon as invincible. But Fftz
put him hors de combat with a peach
in the solar pIexus, and after that Cor
bett went to the bad. Jeffries easily
took his measure when they met at
Coney Island, and repeated the dose
when they fought again at San Fran
cosco last year. Corbett lost to Shar-
key, and you know how he Jared with
several others. OF course he whipped
Kid Mccoy, but that scrap was de-
nounced as being a cut and dried fake
and 7 guess from facts at hand it was
a phony victory a best. John L. Sulli-
van never fought again after Corbett
put him away at New Orleans. 1 guess
If he had he wouldn't have amounted
to anything, for the drubbing Jim gave
him took all the starch out of him.
''Jack Dempsey never got over the
beating he received at the hands of Bob
Fftzsimmons and died from a broken
heart and yet there was no gamer
fighter in the ring than the ryonparen.
Peter Jackson soon fell by the wayside
after Jim Jefries knocked him out, and
died about six months later.
1.-THE two defeats which Jeffries gave
Fitzsimmons have evidently not in
Jured the Cornishman to any extent.
Although knocked out twice, Fitz is
still up and doing, and no one since
has been able to repeat the dose. The
reason that Fitz has not lost heart Is
that he was WHIPPED by man his su-
perior in weight, build and strength.
Had Fftz been conquered by a man in
his class, it's a cinch that he would
have been pie for some Of the boys who
can fight at anywhere near his weight.
George Dixon has really never
tasted the sensation of knockout In q
championship contest. He was once
laid low by the Kentucky Rosebud at
many years ago, but on
that occasion he received what is
known in fistfc parlance as the double
cross But he could beat all the Rose /
buds in creation, and demonstrated this I
fact satisfactorily q number of times /
True, Terry McGovern de- /
1isively took his measure. but did not /
knock him out. as Dixon's seconds /
threw up the sponge in time. But that /
fight made Dixon fear his opponents,
ard from the rushing. brave fighter
le became tirnid boxer. The reason
hat he has been able TO win since then +.
5 that his cIeverness has not deserted
aim But he has lost the power 10
Knock out others New York Sun.