Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-11-14

guarded his blows and told him not to make a fool OF himself.
The story that Fiz was afraid that Corbett would whip him
in the streets sounds specially ridiculous when it is recalled that
as quick as Corbett could get out of the ring he got onto a sI-
cal train and lit out for San Francisco.
The inside of the fight may as well be told now since Cor.
pett wants to rake up the past.
There was an agreement between the principals and a
ing picture concern in England that they would pay 100000
for the sole rights of the fight provided it went twenty rouasds.
Corbett. Fitzsimmons and Dan Stuart met the representatives
of the English firm and the agreement was duly ratified.
The principals agreed to box for the camera for The first
twenty rounds and get down to business after that and haze a
genuine fight. Fitz, honest man that lie was, kept the agreement
to the letter as far as he was able. He was caught mapping IN
the sixth round, however, and Corbett got in a blow that stag
gered him.
Here w Corbetts chance to double cross and he made the
most of that advantage to put Fitzsimmons out for good, casting
to the winds the agreement he had made with Stuart and til"
English firm.
Fitz was taken by surprise and went to the mat for the count.
There was no uesqtion that he was very nearly out. He took as
much Of the count as he could and was up when the referee
called nine
When he got up he came back into the fight like a tiger.
From that on he was fighting for his life and his wonderful
recuperative powers pulled him along until he got his chance to
land the blow that gave him the fight.
Round after round he invariably made a sort of half-hearted
right swing Just before the gong sounded at the close of a rally.
Corbett merely threw his head back a few inches and let it pass.
In doing so he left his stomach exposed and a little out. After
Fitz had worked this feint a few times Corbett got used to it
and expected it, In the fourteenth round, however, Fitz started
the healf-hearted right swing and suddenly changing his mind
he sent his left into Corbetts anatomy where it would do the
most good. 1t landed on the mark and that was the end of the
greatest battle in the history of the ring.
Corbett overreached himself in the sixth and tried to play his
old game of breach of faith. Fitz, with his old ring generalship,
and foxness, outplayed his opponent and won.
The fact that the fight did not go beyond the twenty rounds
caused the English firm to refuse the films and they were thrown
back on stuart's hands. He cleared a million dollars with them.
Had Corbett played fair he would have had an interest in
the pictures and made a lot Of money.
1t is too late for ''Gentlman JIM a he is still sometimes
called, to try to humbug the public into the idea that he was
cheated out of the fight He was fairly beaten by a better man.
Some time before the fight a gang of roughs from st. Louis
came up behind Fitz and held his arms while Gentleman jim >
spat three times in his face
AS Ftz came out of the ring after the big battIeh remarked
to the writer in response to an approving pat on the shoulder:
Say, | whipped that spit off my face today !"