Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1909, Page 44

't 4 FITZSINNONS FICHTS AGAIN Ancient Cornishman to Meet Lang at Sydney Next Week. OLD ONES ARE TO COME BACK His Return to the Ring Recalls the Battles with Jeffries e & While speculation Is rife in this country as to the possibility of a rejuvenated Jef- fries, Australia: e also wondering whether Robert Fitzsimmons can coms back when he meets Bill Lang at Sydney fn & twenty-round fight for the heavy- welght champlonship of the Antipodes Fitssimmons and Lang will hook up & woek from tomorrow and Sydney is already on \iiptoe. ) No greater fighter than the anclent Cor- nishman ever lived. No harder puncher ever delivered a knockout blow. Champion of the world, though a natural middle- welght, Fitzsimmons gradually went back because of advancing years, and in 1907, when Jack Johnson stopped him In two rounds it was generally belleved that the end had come. Fitzsimmons will be 48 years old next June, vet he still considers himself a young man and actually belleves he can fight as well as ever. Ho has been out of the ring more than two years, but dcolares that the rest has done him a world of good; also that his broken hands are now as well as aver and that he can wallop with the same tremendous power that made him the conquerar of Corbett, Sharkey, Ruhlin, Maher and other noted heayywelghts in days gone by. Fitz has been a good liver and has en- Joved lite as much as any man. but his wonderful constitution has enabled him to withstand the ravages of time. When he boxed in London last summer he displayed the same broad shoulders, the long sinewy arms, the great muscles in his bgek and the pipestem legs. He was remarkably active on his feet and by dint of much strenuous outdoor exerclse he seemed to have regained some of his former stamina. Confldence was always one of Fitz's best qualities and it seems that he has not los® It. When he met Hugh Mcintosh, the Austrailan fight promoter, in England last fall he said: » “Hi ean fight as well as 'hever. Mr. Melntesh, hand hif you'll give me a chance to show the people of Haustralla ‘ow Hi can go Hi'll make good. Molntosh quickly saw an opportunity to provide a spécial attraction for the fight fans of Sydney and lost no time in signing the ancient Cornishman to meet Bill Lang. He guaranteed Fitz a round trip ticket for himself and his wife and a $5,000 bonus, or draw. Fitzsimmons arrived in ago and has been floing some vigorous training ever since. Jetfries, who is matched to fight Johnson for the world's championship next July wfter an absence of nearly five years, from the prize ring, owes his worldwide promi- nence In pugilism to his victories over this same Fitzsimmons. Ring followers who remember how Jeff wrested the champion- ship from Fitssimmons never tire ot telling Ihe story, which is of Interest to the younger geenration, no doubt. Moving plctures cut no figure in the ar- vangement of the memosable Jeffries- Fitzsimmons fight at Coney Island in 150 Fits was the champlon and he dictated terms that gave him 65 per cent of the gross receipts, win or lose. He regarded Jaoffries as a punk pugilist and dld not consider him seriously until he actually got In the ring with him. Then he realized that he had made a fatal mistake when it was too late. Comparison of Big Onen. Sporting writers had a ohance to com- pare Jeffries and Fitzsimmons at their training quarters a week before the fight. Jeff was in the hands of Billy Delaney and Tommy Ryan. He had taken off forty pounds of superfluous flesh and was as fit as a racehorse. Road runs of ten and fitteen miles were pie for him, and when he was trained to the minute he jumped on the scales one day snd welghed exactly 200 pounds. As fast as a welterweight, Jeffries was able to make it hot for the clever Ryan in elght and ten round bouts. No matter how hard he worked, the big bollermaker never tired. = His powerful lungs and phenomenal strength showed that he was ready for a long fight, while his terrifio hitting indicated that Fita- simmons would g0 up sgainst a tough game, The Cornishman on the other hand took things easy at his camp. He ate as much as he wanted, drank various stimulants and exercised In @ half hearted manner. “'E's & blg mutt,” sald Fitz whenever Jetfries was discussed. “HI'll stop ‘im with & punch.” “Jeffries is a dangerous young fellow, Fits,” remarked the writer a few days before the mill. “He's fast and strong. He is clever and can hit. You are going to have trouble with him." “That the way with all you newspaper fellers,” repiled Fits, hotly. ‘Halwi knockin'. Halways predictin’ that HI' get licked. But Hi'm goin' to fool you. Walt ang see.” When the men faced each other before P 7” Humphreys’ Seventy-Seven Famous Remedy.for Grip & -COLDS A lady’ on the West Side writes, “Kindly send me Dr. Humphreys' Manual of all dis I have used ‘Seventy-seven’ for a cold and It . worked like magic, my cold disap- peared in no time. 1 want to know about the other Specifics.” ‘Handy to carry, fits the vest pocket. All Drugsgists, 26c. Dr. Humphreys' Manual malled free, send for it. Hi s’ Homeo, Medicine Co., /Willlam and Ann Streets, New York. - PROOF in the b We tell about how ' At ta S aes. millions of B —you - 7 lhlnul Cor . ":‘ll ’-.:nr 3 THE OMAHBA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 19, 1909. Island magnificent stripped at 208 an immense crowd in the old Coney Athletie club Jeffries, & specimen of manhood, pounds. Fitasimmons welghed about 100 pounds and looked well, though bis intimate friends knew that he was In far from his best form. With his usual aggressiveness Fits waded In as soon us the first gong sounded. He swung his right and then his left in wild fashion, but strange to say he did not alm many blows at Jeff's head. The bollormaker, crouching like @ panther, with stomach drawn In ani his long left hand extended stralght out In front of him, stood coolly on the defensive. He was simply walting for an opening. Early in the second round that opening came. Fits rushed in pell mell and Jef- fries smashed him squarely in the face with the left. The Cornishman reeled, only to come back again with & blind rush. Again Jeff's left hand crashed squarely into. Bob's face with so much force that the blood spurted from his nose, and tottering momentaritly, he fell over, strik- ing the back of his head on the floor. That was the punch that probably whipped Fitzslmmons and won for Jeffries the title now held by the negro Johnson. When Fits got up the round was prao- tically over and he staggered to his corner. He came up refreshed by liquor for the third round and found Jeffries filled with caution. It was the ssime kind of a fight as In the preceding rounds, Fits rushing and Jeff blocking; also jabbing the great left into the Cornishman's face or rippthg the terrible right into the ribs and stomach, Fits Lands Hard, In the ninth round Fitz landed a desper- ate left swing on the bollermaker's head. It reached a point high up on the jawbone near the right ear. It was a fearful shash and for a moment Jeff tottered. He was near the ropes and he backed into them. Fitz, weary from his incessant onslaught, paused in his attack and before he could renew hostilities the gong rang. Jeftries made his way to the corner with apparent difficulty, but Ryan, Delaney and Brady soon revived him. He admitted after the fight that this blow was the hardest he had ever recelved and sald that if it had landed on the point of the jaw he would possibly have been knocked out. Fltz was all in after that and in the eloventh round he fairly threw himself at Jetf's tremendous blows. The boller-maker almost knocked Bob's head off with a straight left in the mouth and doubled him up Wwith an awful body blow. A jkilling punch on the jaw scored a clean knockout. Fitz could not reconclle himself to the non- viction that Jeffries was his master, how- ever. He circulated the groundless report that he had been doped. He demanded another fight, but he didn't get one for three years. It was in San Francisco they met In July, 12, Fitz trained in real earnest for this affair and entered the ring abso- lutely confident. He adopted the same old tactics, but centred the greater part of his attack upon Jeff's head. The boller- maker was in his prime then, yet he soon discpvered that he had his hands full. Fitz| hammered him without, letup in the early rounds, cutting the mouth and one eye open and actually breaking Jim's nose. As a result of this viclous onslaught Jeftries was a sight, but he never weakened and stood up to the gaff with character- istlc gameness, ' Fitzsimmons finally broke a bone in his right hand and wae unable to keep up his hot fire, 5o that Jeff, wise to his condi- tion, cut loose in the eighth round and stowed the Cornishman .away. There is no doubt that Fitzsimmons put up a far better fight on that occasion than at Coney Island, and fn speaking of it later Jetfries gave Bob due credit. itz declared that if his Land had not been disabled he might have reached a vital spot, but, of courss, “If” didn‘t square his defeat. What would have happened if Fits- simmons had refrained from boring In with a never ending. attack in these bat- tles? Veteran sporting men who, remember them still insist that If Fitzsimmone had | stayed away, boxing or fighting at long range, Jeffries could not have knocked him out. These fights with Fitzsimmons are often alluded to nowadays to illustrate the fact that Jeffries never was an ag- gressive pugllist. In fact, it appears to be a matter of record that Jeffries has knocked out or severely beaten every pugi- list who has adopted rushing tactics, Johnson Flatfooted. Fitssimmons and Sharkey differ from the negro Jackson in this respect. Johnson is not a rusher. On the contrary, he is a flatfooted, careful, defensive fighter who is an artist at “picking blows out of the air’ and using a great right hand upper- cut when the proper opening is afforded. He knocked Fitzsimmons cold In the sec- ond round when Bob was boring in with his famous tactics, but, of course, the Cornishman was a back number then. It is belleved to be a sure thing, there- fore, that when Jeffrles and Johnson meet the bollermaker will find "that he must make the pace or take part in & long, tedious mill. Johnson will make him lead or there will be no real fighting and no mixups. It {s predicted by ring sharps that Jeffries will be forced to carry the tight to the negro at the outset of the mill rather than run the risk of being slowly worn out by Johnson's unwillingness to take a chance. 5 Fitssimmons, in Australla, says he will beat Lang and will then take on Tommy Burns. He predicts that he will win both tights. But there are many who do not agree with him. Fits also states that Jef- fries will have his hands full with Johnson =|and that it Jim does not win in fifteen rounds he will be defeated. In this out{ne of what may happen next July the Cor- nishman has many supporters. Incidentally it may be added that Johnson declares that it is a shame to allow Fitzsimmons to fight again and that he predicts a vie- tory for Lang In less than four rounds. Johnson also feels sure that he can beat Joffries in at least twenty rounds, while Jeff says he thinks he can behead the negro with a few.wel! directed punches. So | you can take your pick. FOOT BALL LEADERS CHOSEN Many College Teams Eleot Captains for Next Year. / NEW YORK, Dec. I8.—The captains of 1910 foot ball elevens have been elected at many of the colleges, From a st of twenty-seven selections eleven captalns-elect are halfbacks, five are full backs, two quarterbacks and the remaining nine linemen. The list reads: TEAM NAME. POSITION, Yale Halfback Fullback Tackle Fullback Fullback - Halfback uarterback .. Tackle . Haifback . Halfback . Halfback Quarterback Guard - Halfback «sso Tackle ‘ullback Persistent Advertising is the road to Big / GOLE 1§ GURIGUS ASPECTS Variations from Straight Matoh or Medal Play is Often Seen. NEBRASKA SWATFEST A Ffl to Enliven Week-E: and Tournament Games—Swat- feats, Long Driving Ha caps, Obstacle Puttin, Conditions determine what s curlous in golf, just as one man's meat is another man’s polson. What would be deemed freakish in one set of circumstances may be eminently proper under another, as a New York golfer learned In a match with a self-taught player on a small course in the west. The opponent lost a ball and sald: “Come back to the tee and start agat “Why?" asked the New Yorker. ball s & lost hole.” “Not as we play tho game,” was the re- jolnder. “We go back and drive off once it helps to eliminate luck in the winning or losing of a hole." “And takes a penalty off bad play,” the New Yorker might have said, but dld not, as he was too amased to speak. An in- stance of the curious Is that recently a golfer of 8 years at Mid-Surrey made a hole in one stroke. Really shouldn't in octogenarian be content to enjoy his round without Indulging in such golfing pyro- technies! Curlous, too, was the business amumen revealed last month by a pickaninny cad- die at Pinehurst. A sojourner for a week of incessant golf took on the caddle at i3 & day, provided he was vigilant and daid not lose any balls. For every ball lost there would be a deduction from the pay. At the end the caddle received $18. It came out later that when the player lost a ball he never knew it, for the caddle would drop a fresh one from’ his own private stock. At match play this would have been & rough deal to the golfer's opponent, although only the caddie could be blamed. The “swatfests” of the Nebraska clubs are out of the ordinary rut. They are sweepstakes, and the entries, no matter how many, all play together. On the first’ green, for instance, all who do not hole in 4 drop out of the contest, which by this process of elimination becomes a match between two, and they may play it out or divide the pool as they wish. Should a player get a lucky 3 at the start he would 8scoop the pot and forthwith end the “swat- fest,” but this does not often happen. To an American it Is always curfous, awe-inspiring {s perhaps better, to play over the grand and wild /seaside courses in Beotland, say at Macribanish, and a gentle wonder fills the British visitor who plays on some of our park-line courses, where a slice or pull may send the ball into & parterre of flowers. ‘Yot these va~| ried conditions have each a fascination and are to be expected in a game ‘played at Palm Beach, San Diego, the Straits Set- tiements, where monkeys chattter as the ball hits a tree; in China, with cooll for caddies; Indla, Australla, South Amer- fca and the Riviers. What should be more curious would be to find a county where the game Is played that a clever Scot does not hold the best professional job. A handicaap long driving competition was a novelty of the last season’ near New York, the odds being given in yards and deducted from the aggregate of each player's three drives. It is sald to have turnished an amusing entertainment, and on this account mlone may be suggested to the club committees that seek variety in the schedules. Handicap approaching and putting competitions are frequent and serve the same end. Onoe each season, too, many clubs hold an obstacle putting com- petition in which many pussling but not impossible puts have-to’'be made to pass the 0dd hazards that guard each hole, Once a year, too, many clubs arrange a cross-country competition by mixing up the order of holes for the day. The play will require & journey from the first tee to the sixth green, the sixth tee to the ninth green; from the ninth tee back to the first green, and 50 on. - Must Name Club, The “optional club” contest had Its birth last season at the Dunwoodie Country club, Before the tee shot the player must name the club he will use for his”second shot, and before each succeeding shot the club with which the next is to be made. The best laid plans in golf ‘“aft gang a-gley” and the fun lies in the frequent blunders between & player's intentions and his performances. To play without know- ing what one's handicap is, termed a blind handicap, is & common and none the less curious form of the game and was first instituted, it is #&id, at a club where a cer- tain player who always set out late and knew what he had to beat hardly ever falled to win. A variation is the kicker's bandicap. In this the committes selects & certain net score and seals it up. Each player handicaps himseif, and the net scove nearest. to that in the envelope wins. Equally entertaining from its uncertaintles 1s the select competition handicap. The conditions are that only the scores on say twelve of the eighteen holes will count for the prise, and only the committee knows the reserved holes. It s stroke play natu- r and the contestants are as much & ses as though blindfolded, each hoping thut the good holes he makes are to count and the poor ones are among those cancelled. A varlant tried for the Mamlok prize at the Fox Hills Golf -<club last month was at match pla inst bogey, With the “A lost bogey ralsed, but kept secret untll the ocards were posted on certain hole: There 18 fo end to the eurious changes that may be tried in occasional handicaps ahy more than may be sounded on a chime of bells, A frivolity concelved by ¥. J Phillips and tried out at the Dyker Meadow Golf club was a four ball medal play competition in which partners were changed on each green according to the high or low strokes recorded. Earnestneas and not frivolity is back of another variant in handicapping. It Is to guard the club's handicappers frofa the player who has been given too many strokes, or who plays ¥better that he knows how" and returns & 66 net, or some such preposterous card The plan originated at the Baltusrol Golf club and it is & fine one. The Idea is to select as the standard what the scratch man of a club is able to do, perhaps 76, 0-76, and to rule that net scores below that are counted as 76. If there is returned a 71, 78 and 76 net, for instance, they become a triple tie at 76 net. The word select brings up much that is curlous in the game—good, bad and indif- ferent. To play thirty-six and only re- turn a card for elghteen holes, on the eclectic system, the score being & composite of the best holes on either round, is a popular form of competition. It s Intercst- Ang, and the late Mr. Everard had a theory that the open champlonships should be #0 played as the fairest test of golf. Among various ramifications of the system last season was a four ball select score competition. Our method of playing off ties by all keeping en at one time, the high scorers dropping out, is pronounced curious and hasty In Great Britaln. What would they say of the plan often adopted now to save time of drawing the names from a hat? New Tournament Plan. To keep all who enter for a tournament In the game for the entire three or four days Jeads to a curious increase in the prize list. Those defeatd in the first rounds of each sixteen start again for ‘‘Deaten elght” cups, which leads in turn to cups for the “beaten fours.” The sys- tem of qualitying in sets of sixteens for tournament cups has but one fault—a player of class who by ill fortune has a poor medal score will get into a set where he is an easy winner, a leviathan among minnows. There are instances of this dropping down, having been by intention. The methods to nullify this state of thimgs have their odd side. At many places the first sixteen is for players rated from scratch to elght strokes, the second for those from nine to seventeen, and so on. A player, no matter how poorly he brings up in the qualifying round, cannot join in @ sixteen below his handicap class. On the other hand a player with a high handicap who scores unexpectedly well must play out his hand, even though It brings him into the first sixteen. In this country the golfing is mainly a week end recreation and every variation that Is not foreign to the spirit of the game is permissible to stimulate the Interest. e British golfers are more conserva- tive and stick to either stroke or hole play without side issues. The American four- ball match, however, is galning friends there as a change from the foursome. Bogey s an English invention and until recently unknown in Scotland. Regarding this prejudice against any change the rules committee of St. Andrews is now doing what it can do dispel the gloom and to accept what the old Scots have condemned as merely curfous in the game. There is no end to the curlosities of shots, clubs or balls, but they are not now in consideration. However, our players vary from the routine of conpetitions they are loyal to the best traditions of golf. BIG PURSES FOR TAKE RACES Enormous Sum Has Been Pledged by Saratoga Association. NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-Offlclals of the Saratoga Racing assoclation are busy on a stake program for 1910 which will entall the expenditure of $200000. Last August a score of gentlemen. interested in the future of Baratoga as & racing point agreed to contribute not less than 350,00 to.be de- voted to stakes. The club itself.will in a tew weeks offer a series of stakes to whioh it will pledge itself to add enough to make up afother $50,00. Last summer four stakes of the gross value of $42,000 closed to be run in 1910, With the strong probability that the sea- son in 1910 will be not less than twenty days, at least 100 over-night events of the #ross value of $50,000 will be run in addi- tion to the stakes. Adding to this the sweepstake money In the over-night races, and In all the sum, of $200,00 for twenty days 18 easily reached. This would mean an average of $10,000 a day. CAMP ADVISES RULE CHANGES Says Some of the Danger Should Be Eliminated. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dee. I18.—That there should be a revision of the foot ball rules with the view of distinctly minimiz- ing the chances of serious accident in the game is the statement made here in an interview with Walter Champ, Yale's graduate advisory coach. Sald Mr. Camp: “I am positive that there should be alter- atlons in the rules looking toward a dis- tinet minimiging of the chance of serious accldent. 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