The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 3, 1896, Page 2

o- = THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1896. FITSIMMONS - 1§45 ROBBED Coftined from First Page. misses. and lightly and clinch, 2 swings left and right lightly and 1ries again and misses. vicked straight hand and v ducks and catches Fitz Crowd hisses. They break. ds and misses. Both lead with Sharkey lands a straight Fitz, very lightly. Both _try right without effect, Fitz lands a good right on the jaw. Sharkey lits Fitz in a clinch and is hissed. Sharkey leads with left and Fitz catches him with a left hook. Fiuz Jands left and right, very effective. 'Thev ctinch. Fitz gets in with his right and Sharkey is very groggy. Fit catches Sharkey. Fitz sends 1n miss S Sha left on leit and Fitz hits suim twice with his left in corner and Sharkey goes the ropes to the floor. Clambers clumsily to his feet and Fitz reaches down and helps him up. Fitz Jands with straight left and has Sharkey going. Fitz uppercuts with his left twice. The gong sounds, just saving Sh to his corner v and laughing. Wal skly to hiscorner and leans on hisknees. Paysao attention to efforts of his seconds to fan or rab him. Jumps to his feet and moves around, look- ing at the gong: evidently very anxious to get at his man again. Sharkev looks very tired. Seconds work very hard over him, key, who staggers Fitz very cool Sixth Round. 1ks very slowly toward Fitz is ana lands light left on h, Sharkey shoves Fitz's head b z laughs. Crowd h:sses. Sharkey makes a wild lead and falls short, Sharkey tries left swing, Fiiz swings both, and'both land short. Fitz hits Sharkey on jaw with left swing. Fitz lands good right on Shark neck and jumps away lightly. Sharkey leads short.” Fitz lands on Sharkey’s body hard. Fitz up- percuts and misses. Sharkey ducks ayd Fitz upperents him lightly. Sharkey lands lightly on_body. Sharkey swings left and misses. Fitz forcing him around the ring. Fitz makes wild right swing and misses. Sharkey ducks. Fitz gives hi hard left hook. Fitz lands a light straight left. Another straight left. Ancther light left. Fitz tries his right and lands lightly. Sharkey landsa light Telt. swings at the body and Fitz_ tries both hands at the body. forcing Sharkey round the ring sgain. Sbarkey lands straizht left on face. Both clinch. Sharkey tries to hif- in the breakaway and is hissed. Fitz lands right and left four or five times misses. arkey’s face. Fitz lands left hook harkey tries to trip him Fitz lands another tries right and just misses. nd & ey was evidently very tired at the end of this round. His cheek wascut baaly and his nose bleeding. Fitz sat in his chair a few seconds and took a drink. Then he jumped to his feet and watched the clock. : feventh Round. Sharkey came «up very slowly. Fitz 8 a vicious swing on Sharkey’s head; v. ‘clinch. Sharkey lands a light left. ands a left hook and they clinch; t and misses, Sharkey ducking continually out of the way. FKiizlands tight on body and Sharkey lands right on neck. ‘Sharkey lands right and left very lightly tr cain and Fitz stops them ¥ lanas light left oun Sharkey lands heavy right on and Fitz laughs. Fitz lands ght left on Sharkey’s jaw, they 1d Sharkey hits in the break- d hisses. Sharkey misses They clinch and Shar- hits in the breakaway and is Fitz lands light left hook. 1, and Sharkey hiis in thes break- ; crowd hoots. Fitz lands straight Fitz swings left on ; both counter w is short. Fitz misses with a wild right SHIVER My * TIMBERS, | CANT LosE” = G Sharkey as He Saw Himself Before the Fight, Sharkey tries left, but | R /I = i — o s The Arena in the Pavilion and the Throng That Surrounded It When the Contest Commenced. the ropes and carry him to his dressing- room. Fitz tries again to speak but can- not be heard. hghtly through the ropes, accompanied by his seconds. WALTER WATSON, FITZ SAYS FAIRLY HE WON THE FIGHT. It was not until after Sharkev had been carried out of the ring that the decision of the referee was made known to the great number of people, for Wyatt Earp re- mained only long enough to annoucne his decision to those in and i1mmediately about the ring. He then with the utmost speed made his way off the raised plat- forn which constituted the ring, outof | the building and beyond the reach of the | crowd. For a few seconds Fitzsimmons walked hither and thither like a caged wild beast. Then he raised his. hands above his head thus indicating that he wished to be heard. “The referee has given the fight to Sharkey on afoul. It's nothing but a rob- bery,” he shouted. The 2mazement of that part of the audi- dience close enough to hear him was so great that for a few seconds there was silence, then came shouts of investi- gation, President J. J. Groom sprang upon the platiorm and Julian, the manager of Fiiz- simmons, at once protested to him against tne check being handed over to Sharkey. Groom explained that the matter was out of his hands and that the check had un- doubtedly been already paid over to Sharkey. Meanwhile the greater part of the vast audience were yet unaware that Fitzsim- mons had been declared a vanquished man. Captain Wittman at this juncture took it upon himseif to call for o der, and tuen for the first time the thousands of impatient spectators were made aware of what was the decision of the referee. Again a howl of indignation, now gen- eral, and much louder went up. While this was al its height the lank Cornishman siepped over the ropes and started to force a passage through the crowd to his dressing-room in one of the rooms jacing Larkin street in the upper floor of the pavilion. He was followed by his manager, trainer and seconds. His progress through the dense mass of peo- ple, jostling one another in their eager- ness to get a view of him, was marked by shouts of praise and encouragement. At the door of his room the angry pugi- list was met by his wife. Without a word she pursed up her mouth, and after giving her husband a hearty kiss she gave vent to her feelings. *“Why, Bob, they are simply trying to_roo you. I saw you knock him out.. Both Mrs. Groom and myself saw the blow that did it, and it was no foul,” she burst forth. ‘*“I'hey made up their minds to rob you, and they are trying to do so.” “If I don’t gev that purse,” he an-. swing. Fitz lands straight left on neck. They clinch as Sharkey ducks, and he grabs Fitz by the legs. Filz laughs. Fitz fiddaling for an opening. They clinch and gong sounds. Sharkey was looking ¥adly at the end of this round, very serious and bleeding badly from a cut over the eye. Fitz looked a little tired, but smiling and con- fident; looked up at the gong and arose before it sounded for the eighth. Eighth Round. ey very slow to come up. Filz very chipper and dancing around. Both lead b left and both duck. Sharkey lands light left and right. Fitz lands straight left on nose very hard. Fitz lands uppercut with his right. Fitz leads his left and falls short. Fiiz tries with his right and both clinch very tightly, Sharkey hugging and Fiz laughing. Breakaway and Sharkey tries left ving and misses; very wild. © Sharkey lands light Straight left. They ciinch. Fitz hooked Sharkey with his left. Fitz lands right on body, both clinch, Sharkey pushing Fitz's head back in the breakaway; crowd hisses. S:.arkey lands alightle’t. Fitzlanghsand jumps away. Sharkey landsalightlefion the bo Both clinch and break away. Fitz lands left on face, anotner left, and right on jaw. Fitz forcing the fighting and uppercuts Sbarkey. Lands straight right , on cbhin and leit swing on jaw. * Uppercuts Sharkev, who is against the ropes, with his leit and lands right on jaw and left on body. BSharkey falls to the floor, half rises, and then falls back again andis motioniess. The noise of the crowd is dealening. Sharkey iies perfectly «till on the floor and Danny Shark . Needham jumps on the platform and yelis “Foul,” and the referee holds up his hand and points to Sharkey. Fitz walks 40 his corner. Crowds begin to surge about the ring, and police and seconds eclimb through the ropes Crowd yelling as if mad. Referee gives the fight to Snarkey on a foui. Fitz raises his hand and tries to speak, but canno:t be heard for the noise. Sharkey’s ceconds drag Lim to his corner and prop him up on his chair and fan him and bathe his face. Then they lift him bodily from bis chair and through - GWE (53 Torn™ rSAID CHIEF CRownLEY swered, I will never fight again. It was a clean knockout.’”” Then turning to Julian and several other friends who had followed him to his room, he continued as follows: “Why, they talk about'a foul. He fouled me every time in the breakaway and several times tried to throw me by wrestling. Ounce he tried to throw me over bis head. [ never fought fairer in my hie. If I don't get the purse there will never be a fight in Ban Franecisco again. I know what Iam taiking about. This will kiil zlove contes I never struck a cleaner knockout blow in all my life.”” Then taking a posture as if in the ring beiilustrated the manner in. which he had punched his opponent out, explain- ing as he weni along. ‘“You see,” ke said, I feinted with my right for his jaw, then swung my body toward the leit'and with a left-hand shift landed cquare on his stomach and he went down. I noticed that when he feil he instinctively placed his hands over his stomach, then quickly shifted them to the groin. e Leaves the ring, jumping | “Why, I could have knocked him out long before, but I was afraid to try it un- til I could do it clean. I was not afraid of him, but of a crookea decision. I pur- posely waited my chance so as to put him out good and hard and with a clean blow, and I know I did it. Why, I was only fooling with him. There wasn't the slizhtest need of my fotling him. Iw.l fight him again right now if they waut. Why, they're simpiy trying to rob us. The whole plan was fixed up in advance, | and Sharkey was coached just how :0 act, in case he got knocked out, so as to give the referee an excase to give him the fight on a foul. “How could the referee tell in the few seconds that elapsed between the time | Sharkey was knocked out #nd the time he | gave his decision that Sharkey was in- | jured in the groin? He simply carried out a prearranged plan to rob usof the | fight. He had it fixed to make that state- ment beforehand.” ‘While Fitzsimmons was perspiring free- |1y and was flushed he showed no other | traces of the hot eight rounds he had been { through. When he reached his dressing- :{ room he was not even breathing hard and | was as fresh, apparently, as when he j stepped over the ropes before the fight began. (hin repeatedly tuere was not a tell-tale | mark of any kind to be seen on any part | of his body. SHARKEY STICKS TO THE FOULING STORY. Tom Sharkey was conveyed from his room in the Pavilion to the Windsor Ho- tel on Fifth and Market streets, wiere he friends with congratulations, ete. lowed Sharkey, bhis manager, Danny Needham, and, Billy Smith into a room ronting on Fifth street, and when the press répresentatives asked for admission they were refused by Lynch, who said that no one, no matter who it was, could | see Sharkey until the doctor haa exam- ined him. | 'The newspaver men had to wait until { Mr. Lynch was ready to actord them an | inyitation. | When the doctor made his escape with others who left the room the reporters were allowed to enter the apartment. | Mr. Lynch said that the doctor would | return in a few minutes. but in the mean- { time they could see Sharkey, ‘who was resting on a bed, apparently suffering. Sharkey did not have much to say con- cerning the contest. He said that he was strack by Fitzsimmons with a left-hand hook in the groin, and that he never suf- fered so much in his life. 3 “AW I um sorry for,” said Sharkey, ‘s that the foul blow was delivered in that round, because I bad Fitzsimmons going and would surely have whippea him in the next round. He fouled me frequently and I thought that the referee would give the fight against Fitz before the eighth round.” Sharkey’s left eye is cut open half an inch, and he said that that was caused by a foui blow. A lump the size of a hen’s egg was raised .on his cheek bone. His lips are swollen and cut. In fact his face resembles that of an old-time fighter who had just come out of a Londop prize-ring battle. His body does not show any signs that would indicate severe punishment. While chatting with Sbarkey and Lynch Dr. Lee arrived and the reporters and others bad to vacate the room until the physician had madean examination of the figater's injuries. During the ex- amination Sharkev shouted as if in severe pain. However that may have been, when the doctor had finished the examination the reporters were admitted to see for themselves. The fighier was bandeged up in the region of the piace he was .supposed {;; have been injured by the alleged fonl ow. |/ The doctor said that he could not state Fusitively what the extent of the pugi- ist’s injuries are until to-morrow: e said: ‘‘He is unquestionably suffering from epididemitis, and possibly he may | bein a bad state by morning. He hasa bad eye and I must sew that up immedi- ately.” e REFEREE EARP EXPLAINS HIS RULING. Referee Earp put in an appearance os- tensibly to see how Bharkey was. When asked how the alleged foul blow was de- livered, he said: “When Sharkey ducked to avoid a right-hand cross Fitzsimmons stooped down at jow as he could and hooked him with the left in the groin. Tom reeled over, and I immed ately gave tue fight agaifist Fitzsimmons, as I considered it a most palpable foul. “Now, I don’t know this man Sharkey. I have mot seen hum_until this everling. I was introduced to Fitzsimmons a few years azo by a most particular friend of mine—Bat Masterson of Denver—and I am sure Masterson lost considerable money on the result, butIcannot belp that, Though Sharkey had landed on | was soon surrounded by a number of | | Doctor B. B. Lee of 400 Geary street fol- of my ability, and to tell you the truth, I came very near disqualifyiniz Fitzsim- mons when he cut open Sharkey’s eye by having first missed him with the left and then drawing back his arm quickly. By | this means he drove the point of his elbow across Sharkey’s eye, cutting a deep gash on his eyebrow.” When Mr. Earp was asked what he thought of the tactics of Sharkey when he frequently grabbed Fitzsimmons by the legs and attempted to throw himon his back, he said that those fouls were not | ntentional and that Sharkey did not mean anything wrong by them. ! “Idonotnotice any unintentional fouls,”” | said Earp, “but of the two men Fitzsim- mons certainly committed the most pal able fouls and that is why I decided in fayor of Sharkey. Any person with halt aneye can see that Sharkey is a'8ick man and that he was struck foul.” |JULIAN SPEAKS HIS MIND FREELY. Julian was in a fierce heat of rage and exhibited even more feeling over the de- cis‘on of the referee thun his principsl. “If we don’t get that purse,” he exclaimed after he had entered Fitzsimmons’ room, -“Iwill lick every —— man in tne club. I won't be robbed like this.”” Then address- Martin Julian,Fitzsimmons’ Second ,'I had to decide the contest to the best | I will tell him to his face what 1 think of him and punch the stomach out of him: I ought to have knocked the siuffing out of him right there 1n the ring. I don’t know why Ididn’t.”. HOW THINGS WERE ARRANGED. The National Club came in for a good share of praise last evening because of the very excellent preparations it had made for the comfort of the thousands of people wiro assembled in the Mechanics’ Pavilion to witness the great heavy-weight battle. The ring was the rezulation size—twen- ty-four feet—and was situated exactly in the center of the'big hall. It wasraised to an elevation of three feet from the floor, and as a precaution against sny possible injury to ihe contestants the floor was padded and the. ring posts were also padded. Box seats to the number of 150, each containing eight ‘cHairs, surrounded the ring. On the cutside of the boxes the $5 chairs, to the number of several hundred, were situated in such a manner on raised platforms that the occupants could easily see every point in the contest. Then the regular bench seats on each side of the pavilion were occupied; in fact, men were sandwiched in together like sardinesin a box.. Besides the thousands of people who gathered in the gallery, which was not re- served for anybody, the rule being first come first served, there were special seats which were sold-at $3 each to people, who pladly availed of an opportanity of seeing the mili from an elevated point immedi- ately over the ring. A huge streamer bearing the National colors was streechea V-shape over the tattle ground. ° The pugilistic time elock, which has done much service in ticking off the sec- onds in the old California Athletic Club’s apartment on New Montgomery street when finish contests” were tolerated, looked down upon the roped square from a point on the northwest side of the hall immediately fronting the reporters’ de- partment. S Around the clock was a box, in which sat the time-keepers for the cluband the contestants. The old chronometer re- minded many members of the old California Clab of the good old fighting days of the past. It was the in- strument that ticked oft the seconds and minutes of that memorable battle between James J. Corvett and Peter Jackson: On the south end of the Pavilion was a compartment specially set apart for ‘a band of thirty pieces. The music pleased the boys because it was made up of the very latest catchy airs, such as “Sweet Rosie O’Grady,” “I Want Yer, “Ma Honey,” “Tom Sharkey’s March From the Philadelphia,’”’ etc. With the exception of the $10 reserved seats, all other parts of the house were crowded as crowded could be. When the toany great extent until shortly before the biz event came off. Quite a number of daring spectators, who were unprovided with reserved seats, clambered upon the rafters of the roof, but were counseled to descend from their perch by the commands of the police. THERE WERE BIG CROWDS OUTSIDE. The handling of the crowd on the outi- side of the Pavilion under the immediate supervision of Chief Crowley and Captain ‘Wittman was as perfect as it was possible to have if. Those holding tickets were formed into line on the north -side of the main en- trance while those wno came to purchase their pasteboards were formed on the south side, thus dividing those who wisheéd to enter into two separate lines. In this way there was no confusion and the tremeadous crowd entered with dis- patch. One hundred police officers in citizen’s clothes with their stars pinned on the lapeis of their coats were under the com- mand of Sergeants Blank and Cook, who with four mounted officers keep the side- walk and street in front of the entrance clear. 3 .When the greater portion of those hold- ing tickets had entered Chjef Crowley re- tired to his office und donned citizen's clothes and escorted Police Commissioner Tobin.into the building. At no time during the evening from 7:30 o’clock until the result of the light was announced were there less than 5000 per- sons on Larkin strect in front of the en- trance. . THE PURSE MAY BE WITHHELD. In an interview with President Groom he stated the club would do all in its power to do justice to every one. He said that the check was certified and it would be difficult to stop the payment of it “We will take medical advice as to Sharkey’s injuries, and also legal advice as to what can be done to withbold the payment of t e check by the bank. If we can keep the bank from paying it we will investigate the wholé matter and try to do what is right and just.” R There is to be a meeting between Presi- aem Groom and Manager Julian in refer- ence to the matter this morning. President Groom stated that so far as he could see and judge Sharkey was fairly knocked out. ¢ THOSE WHO SAW . THE BIG FIGHT. Among thoseé present were the follow- ing: L. M.'Stanor, manager of the Postal ‘Telegraph Company; Charlés F. Crocker, vice-president .of the Southern Pacific Company; Justice McFarland of the Su- preme Court, Will H. Crocker, president of the Crocker-Woolworth bank; Prince Poniatowski, General W. H. L. Barnes, J. O'Brien, one of Chris Buckley’s political lieutenants; C. K. Rosenberg of the Hicks-Judd Company, George A. Knight, C. M, Shortridge, John E. Richards, John D. Spreckels, Dr. E. N. Short, ex-leader of tbe Olympic Club; J. Downey Harvey, Jack Bonnet, champion amateur baseball player of the State; Dr. James I Stanton, Railroad -Commissioner; Dr. J. Galway, Adolph Lorsbach, Harry Veuve, Reaben H. Lloyd, Gus Drucker, District Attorney W. S. ‘Barnes and his assistant, W. 8; Blair, Hugo Keil, mana- 2y il JUST WATCH ME KNOCK HiM COLD.* M. Fitzsimmons Before It Hap- : pened. ing himself to the representative of THE CALL he said: “I will just tell you the whole thing. We were not to win this fight. That is all there is to it. We came here determined to sign the articles of agréement without making any unnecasnriv objections and to avoid anything like a disturbance, so we agreed to every point. “The question came up in making out the articies of agreement in reference toa referee and it was agreed that if we could not decide upon one between ourselves the club would select one. We were unahle to agree and so the matter was left to the club. Eight names were submitted, any of which would have suited us, but the other side objected to all of them, not- withstanding the fact that among them was the name of Hiram Cook, the man Sharkey insisied on having as referee in his fight with Corbett. “Such men as Mose Gunst, Tom James an? Eddie Greaney and a hali dozen others came to us before the fizht and to.d us positively that the match was fixed, that thereferee was bought and that Fitz- simmo#s could not win under any circum- stances, At this point J. J. -Groom, president of the National Athletic Club, entered the room and Julian at once turned to him and thus adressed him: “Mr. Groom, as president of the Na- tional Athletic .Club, I warn you not to pay Mr. Sbarkey that purse. because 1t is 8 — —— robbery and a bilk and I won’t stand 1t T tell” you to-night that this reieree was bought.” To this Mr. Groom nodded in the affirmative. . Julian then continued: “Mr. Groom himself bad to yell to Earp balf & dozen times to call his attention to fouls, Ain’t that ‘0, Mr. Groom 2"’ 3 And again the fatter answercd by an affirmative nod. 3 Julian then applied an epithet not fit for publication 1o Earp and continued: *'1 knew it belore I went into the fight, but I was forced into accepting him as the referee. Iam told by responsible people that he was fixed by racetrack yeople, They call him Bioody Earp and say he is a dangerous mian, but B SWAT HiM SAD MOSE GUNST, big fight came on the high-toned boxes were all occupied. 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[ am-con. versant with the rules of boxing, and.E am positive he commitred no foul. % : If he did it was an accident. Sharkey fouled all the time, and the referee per.’ mitted it without a word. Bob is not only " a boxer, but he isone of the besp husbands. on 2arth. 5 Mrs. J. J..Groom—It is a shame that Sharkey was permijtted to foul as be did, Fitzsimmons shouid bhave had the deci- sion. - ‘ " OF THE DECISION. Jack McAuliffe—Well, I think it was- a shame that Sharkey was so badly de-. feated. He is a good, willing fighter, but" * has no science . whatever. When Fitzsimmons fought Jaek .Dempsey I said he- was the greatest fighter. " on earth, and I adhere to that opinion. still. He can conquer any man in.the *, ring to-day. 1 lost a great deal of money, . on this fight, but I do not care to question - the decision of the referee. This I am willing to admit, from where Isat I saw no fouiing on the part of Bob. Bnt, as say, 1 never question the decision of referee. % . ok Dr. C. 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