The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-28

points which are embodied in the rules
and that never are abided by?
RULE Il. THE contest in all other re-
spects to be governed by the revised rules
OF the London prize ring
This is the only rule in the twelve that,
II correctly and intelligently interpreted,
permits OF hitting any old time and under
any conditions In London prize ring
rules holding and hitting with the free
arm is permissible, and as those points
are not inserted in the rules, and there
lore not prohtbittve, the natural infer
eI1ce is that Rule L was meant to cover
those points. If not, then Of what use is
Rule u?
Regarding what is now termed Straight
Marquis of QueenSberry rules, | will say
there are no such rules in print, and
that instead of there being, what there is
of them, Marquis Of Queensberry, they
are the rules interpreted by me at Car
son City, New, for the heavyweight
Championship battle between Jim Corbett
and Bob F1tZSimnOns.
Several days before the date set for the
fight l was requested to give to the fight
ers my version Of the Queensberry rules,
but with the understanding that F'itzSim-
mons would not, under any consideration,
fight other than clean breaks and with
no holding and hitting with the free arm.
COrbett, en- the other hand, wanted TO
hit ANY old time and under any and an
conditions" So L undertook the job of
interpreting the rules. l ruled against
the marquis on Article f. and interpreted
i as above mentioned / prohibited pivot
blows, elbOwing, hitting with the wrist
and forearm, and made hitting with the
free arm. when holding, and hitting on
breakaway, permissible, taking Rule u
for my guide for so doing.
My Interpretation Of Rule L did not
meet with FiUZsimm0ns' approval. and
two days before the fight Billy Brady
and Martin Julian, representing the fight
ers, Promoter Dan Stuart, all of the
newspaper correspondents, and the writ
eT, as referee, met to diScusS~my inter
probation of the rules. Julian argued for
clean brea ks and Brady held out for hit
ting with the free arm and on the break
Always; and. failing to come to an agree
ment after a three-hOur session. they de-
cided that Stuart and 1 should decide the
Dams first break was: George, Fitz
appears determined not to fight other
than under clean break rules. and
He'll fight according to my interpre-
tatiOns or under some other referee, L
replied.
Think it over. George said Dan
There is nothing to think over
answered. And, continuing, said: Dan,
you have been nearly two years trying to
bring Jim and Bob together, and at the
expense of thousands of dollars The
gate receipts will net enough to even you
up, and your only hope of making any
money must come from the moving pic
lures. Do you remember that F'itzsim-
mons and Maher agreed to break clean
in their fight st Mexico and that Mahcr
broke his agreement three times during
the one minute and thirty seconds that
the fight lasted? Supposing Bob or Jim
should hit, unintentionally, with the free
arm when holding and that, as Fitzsirn-
mons demands, the man who hits to be
cautioned the first time he lets go and
disqualified the second time he delivers,
and this, as in the first round. what
would your moving pictures be WORTH
Not a dollar" said Dan.
And what would my life be WORTH"
asked.
''Not cents, and they will fight as you
say" replied the big promoter.
Jim and Bob were at it nearly fourteen
rounds, during which neither made an
attempt to hit with the free arm when
holding. and only once was an attempt
made to deliver a blow on the breakaway,
and that a right-haad uppercut by Cor
bett 1t was one of the cleanest, If not
the clearest, fights that ever was fought
in TINS country, and neither man took
advantage Of my Interpretation of the
OUeenSberry rules.
I can state truthfully there are no
straight Marquis of Queensberry rules"
and the fights that take place under
those rules are mongrel rules, and fer
which I am sponsor