Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-07
F|Tz EXPLAINS
LOW PUNCHES
CLAIMS TEN FOULS STRUCK
ON EACH SIDE
LOW BLOWS UNINTENTI0NAL
Manager Reid VIII Post $1,000 Forfeit
in San Francisco for Fitzgerald
to Meet HanIon Again-"No
Fake" He Says
LOW BLOWS UNINTENTIoNAl

Willie f1tzgerald 1eelS tnaC ne Wds
rather shabbily used in Tuesday nights
fight. He admits that he fouled Hanlon
but claims that 1t was not intentional
and that Hanlon did not suffer any
evil consequences from the low blows.
He makes the rather startling state
ment that if there was one foul struck
there were at least ten low punches
delivered by each side.
"Say, when two guys are trying to
murder each other and lighting rough
and tumble like me and Hanlon was
a-doin' last night. why the punches are
liable to land most any place, and I
guess they did. hit Eddie below the
belt all right. The referee said so and
I haven't got any kick coming on him.
But didn't know I was a-doin 1t and
didn't do it on purpose. I guess we
both expected that we would get some
low ones, for we were both protected
and ready for 'em. 1 felt some low
ones comm my way during the last
few rounds but 1 didn't holler none.
They didn't hurt any.
Eddie Fouled in Fifth
''But, say, did you'se see Eddie foul
me in the fifth? He landed on my jaw
after the gong rang and if that isn't
as much Of foul as any handed him
/ don't know Queensbury rules. But I
wouldn't holler none. I could have
claimed a foul right then but I didn'.
want the fight on foul. 1 was after
a knockout, and 1 sure would have put
him to sleep in about the tenth. I
didn't even get UP sweat in these
seven rounds. I was taking it nice and
easy and holding it off for about the
tenth. Then, say, I would have waded
in just about right. Eddie was getting
tired and couldn't have stood up more
than three rounds more. I knew that
this was his weak point. Look at his
record and you will see that in all his
fights where he has gone a long route
he has simply fallen from exhaustion,
and 1 was a-holdin' off for this, see?
"Say. I see some of the papers today
says that 1 told Eddie Hanlon that I
was all in anyway when he came tc
my corner after the decision. That's a
- lie. I never said nottin' like that
to him. All I says to Hanlon is Did
foul you'se, Eddie?' and Eddie says
Yes, 1 guess that's right. Eddie was
more surprised than I was when he got
the decision. He told me in the dress
inG room that the foul hadn't hurt him
none. But I can put him out in
twenty-round bout, and sometime We'll
get together again and I'll sure do it."
Fitz and Johnnie Reid, his manager,
left for San Francisco yesterday after
noon and just before taking the train
Reid said:
Reid Wants Another Match
GAS soon as I get to Frisco I'm going
to post $1,000 that Willie can knock out
Eddie Hanlon in a twenty-round go
and any club in America can have the
bout. I don't care where it is pulled
off. I want to get Willie and Hanlon
together again. I'm willing to take the
fight on a winner take all proposition
or any old kind of a deal that Hanlon
wants to fix up.
1--WE heard some cries Of fake since
last nights fight and heard them in
the pavilion just after the fight. I
want to say right here that there was
no fake about the matter. AS it stand1
now we are out about $780, including
training expenses and everything else
I lost 1890 in bets and I've got the
tickets right here to show the money I
put up. This is the only fight we have
lost since Willie and I have been to-
gether. L have been Willie's manager
for two years, and in that time we have
had seventeen fights. This is only the
second time that Fitz has lost on a foul.
The first was to Jack McClelland in
1901 when Willie pushed McClelland
outside the ropes.
Cofforth Wires for Willie
Reid stated that he and Fitzgerald
had been called to San Francisco by d
telegram from James w. Cofforth who
is promoting the Britt-Nelson bout.
The message simply asked Reid and
Fitzgerald to coIne to San Francisco a
once
Il don't know what is up" said Reid,
"but 1 know there is some trouble be-
tween Britt's and Nelson's managers,
and it may mean that Willie will have
a chance to meet Britt before every
thing clears away. OF course I'm only,
guessing when 1 say that, but 1 can't
figure anything else. If Nelson and
Britt come together 1 can't see any
thing but Britt in the fight. But there
is liable to be trouble until the very
day of the bout. Billy Nolan hates
Willie Britt and Willie Britt hates Billy
Nolan. They can't even talk to each
other. When Nolan wants to say any
thing to Britt he sends a third person
with the message and that's the way
it goes all along the line. There is 50
much money in sight that both sides
are dining considerable bacx-il1unnine o,