The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1901, Page 1

T all, VOLUME XC—NO. 169. SAN FRANCISCO, JEFFR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1901. MAKES RUHLIN QUIT AT END OF FIFTH ROUND AND IS DECLARED PRICE FIVE CENTS. NNER JEFFRIES OUTCLASSES | RUHLIN, PROVING EASILY J‘ HIS COMPLETE MASTER' No Man Before the Public, Abparently,' Chance to Defeat the Present Champion. S a I 114aS han gentle exercise. He leaned remark to a friend ors when Billy Madden into the ring acknowl- ows Up the Spongs. STIRRING INCIDENTS AND SCENES ATTENDING CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST Déscription of the CroWd and How It Behaved During the Progress of the Battle. EN thousand disappointed sport- | ing men left the Mechanics’' Pa- | brushed elbows witk villon. last evening. They had gone there to watch two of the leading expunents of the game of fisticuffs battle for a champion- It was here that the business man bis clerk, the pro- | fessional man chatted with the laborer and the youth expounded his knowledge | of the art with men citer and wiser than himself. The cmoke of the perfecto rose said | onds JEFFRIES DELIVERS A CODY PUNCH THAT SETTLES RUHLIN’S CHANCES. ship, and_ they came away feeling that they had been handed another pugili: goldbrick. No one was willing to say that in the air and mingl-d with the fumes of the “coffin-nail.”” Strangers discussed the rity of the contestants or addressed big Pavili his at- | of the ring an Ruhlin and re the first c 1 jeered on their way REFEREE HARRY CORBETT | CHARACTERIZES BATTLE | AS A DISAPPOINTMENT the ending of the Jeffries-Ruhlin contest was a fake, because they w some flerce | blows struck during the progress of the battle. The majority condemn the de- feated man for not taking his medicine and few applaud him and his manager for givirg up the fight without a knockout blcw having been dealt. Never in the history of boxing in this city has such a vast crowd attendéd a : & one another with the ‘amiliarity of long acquaintance. The excitable man amused his neignbors by leading with his arms or ducking his head cvery time a blow was struck. The seascned ring-goer sat back in his hard chair and speculated how long the battle would last. The roar of the elements was a whisper when compared with the tremendous cheering that voices made when numan gong r i e contest. P\e“fl— inh Ilt; history “has =.\[ - | o ot e dinentants scaied Raailc. B & 1 everytl | 3 T:’::‘r‘; Sl ooty :‘(“: 2" | hooting of the mob, the groans of the dis- = 2 s Y e » oy appointed eers o n s wecon o e abic o Judse | BY HARRY E. CORBETT. robsans’ ipastere was. Sk o svey | TR S ook 1 dntbl exp ‘rl;.xrh'l‘?\:.(j( ,‘.‘TJAM | b e inch-of standing room-on l:e foor-or- 1 | 3 hetise’thei liowr it i haitia S | US RUHLIN did not have a was the crowd. it was.a bad ending for Ru Again Rublin_ seemed .to go to ;Z‘ief“:o 'zec“'!'v‘m"‘:““l‘;’l‘:dm 3}]:5:‘3"';’: ing of the doors of Mechanics' Pavilion " | chance to win. Jeffries out- a world’s championship battle, not. be- | pleces for a moment, but they. clincheu [ S8H%7 (5 565 ity Men ond” naiq | the streets. leading. to the amphitheater classed him from.the iap of the cause the average follower glories in | and Gus came out of it with a clear head. - places of vantags in the rafters | TS Dlack with peaple. They filled the P s fa the first round. The brutality and likes to sce the defeated man j He fought like a man whose head was al- | F0s0 DCes 0 TaRAEE T (0e HHCTS | sidewalks and streets. making it dificult selonticss champion pegsed merrily along | pummeled into a-pulp but because -the ; térnately befuddled and clear. erowded. closer to the ring. Fortunately | [°F Pedestrians and velicles to make their y al the road to victory with a pal- boxing-loving public is better satisfied Ruhlin’s Blows Are Weak. o AR ;n;n_ed ;he ‘p;‘ The pn‘.\h“; 1“':1}. The Paviifon wa: the Mecca of all rned. as cross after a clinch. He tried this | pable confidence that he was Ruhlin's | when the victor's supremacy is clearly €= | About the middle of the fifth round Jef- | meder Cagtatn. Wittman Sukeded’ evely | Mot - They: Joummiyed- fugr: REWE s he m I without suc; Jeffries | master at the game of fisticuffs and the | tablished by the counting of the fatal ten | fries fiddled Ruhlin around the ring and m‘n o1 th‘e b‘ulldln: P(‘%ple were direct. | CATS carriages and even automobiles. Po- A < 1 it by keeping to Ruhlin, | only time he looked worricd and disap- | seconds over the prostrate form of his de- | jnts the ‘Akron man's corner, where they -(_(’1 o haft et an}x warned where dan- | liemen. mounted and afoot, kept the s . ak | pointed was when Billy Madden tosséa | feated onponent: exchanged bléws. Ruhlincrouched and sent = crowds moving and ptevented blockades. ing the blow ineffective. |into the ring the time-honored symbol of | defeat. I, too, was disappointed and so | | world's ch | This is the first case I believe in many vears where a likely aspirant for the pionship struck his colors to JErF,xii.:S DOES NOT BLAME RUHLIN FG.‘? Gi V[AC UF HIS LOSING FIGHT for me. . They can’t hit hard lin put up-as good a fight as I tected to win and was therefore took my time in beating him. - I his manager threw up - the low I, am sure he would not blows 1 gave him in the belly punch on me. It was a heavy when I saw it coming I simply laughed at iim. This disheart- scarcd from_the wery first fear him. His punches neyer sore lif and made it bleed. He im for refusing to go on. He knew he had no chance. I dow't ree awful punches‘in the body. Some people said I could not stand plex I think 1 proved to-night that I could because 1 let him land heavily on is ol r felt afraid of the result. . Before the fight I tricd to go in and fight hard, but the feeling of confidence over- ’l hen they lick me they will have to prove it. ave improved in my style of fighting.: The blozws I received 1 r hit me flush because my head was always low down. I nmons, but if the blacksmith does not wwant ‘to accept my game Sharkey Id much rather fight Bob because he claimed he was not right when he last met me. JAMES J. JEFFRIES, Champion of the World. - el Ra BN g ¢ I am like. the champlon by tossing up the sponge. | Of course Ruhlin was out for all fight- | ing purposes when Billy Madden formally | | acknowledged his defeat, but at that it were better for all parties concerned, in-| cluding the spectators, who support the boxing game, had Gus Rahlin been al- lowed to toe the scratch.for the,sixth round and face the imevitable knockout. Manager Madden, of course, has the | interests of his protege at heart, but the | battle would have gone to a more popular | | fintsh had he not thrawn ‘up the ‘sjonge; ’The exhibition was. not brutal. | was wobbling on his pins to be sure,, but | he was not badly punished nor was he [ likely to be, for Jeffrics kept His head | and a few well-directed blows or perhaps | ane would have sent Gus to the mat for | the limit. Then the people could have | | filed out of the big pavilion feeling that | | they had seen a spectacular finish to a | | rather disappointing fight. | It tvas all over to my mind when Jeffries landed a hard right'and left on Ruhlin's battlements in the third round. When he went down and T began to count oft the seconds I felt that Ruhlin's chances | for lasting out the round were.very slim. The blows were terrific. Ruhlin got up and fell into a eclinch. Jeffries coolly untangled himself from the knot and then the gong sounded. Rublin | went to his corner very weak, but the minute’s rest revived him greatly and he came back apparently strong.. He met Jeffries with a hard right in the ribs, but the force of the blow threw Ruhlin a trifie back and partially around and Jeff quickly countered him on the jaw. The blow was a glancing one, but it dazed Ruhlin |- one or two weak lefts to Jeff's head, which fell short, and the champion, after letting - ger lay. Every precaution was taken prevent accidents and fhere were nona. The incidents and scenes at the ringside will long live in the minds of those who to | | As early as 9 o’cléck in the morning the | small boy and his elder brother, and even Continued on Page Two. Continued on Page Two. were present. three. times-during the fight, but I did not'have the strength to follow up the advantage. — GUS RUHLIN SAYS A FOUL BLOW 4 PUT HIM ON THE ROAD TO DEFEAT EFFRIES fouled me in % the third round and the punch, | though accidental, I think had a great deal to do with my going to pieces. He hit me in the groin and fol- | lotved- it with two hard jolts, one in the pit of the stomach and.‘the other over the heart, and after that I became so weak that I could scarcely keep my feet. I staggered around the | ring and at times I could hardly sce him. Everything looked | black in front.of rire and I knew it would only be a question of time when I would be knacked more. rounds perhaps after the cxeept to land a lucky punch the strength leftito do the trick. Once or twice in the Jeffries elbowed me and in my weakened condition the jolts 1 got didn’t do me any good. ‘He kept boring in on.me with all his strength in the clinches and I had to shy away from him in the lrrcakarm_\'. I think if I had not recerved that sctback in the third round I would have won out. was fighting a good, careful fight up to that time and did | not feel that I was in any dangcr Hls pun[hes were good and stiff, bul they did not hurt me until | I got the jolts in the body and the punch in the groin. I wanted to go on and fight after the fifth round, but I suppose Madden acted for the best. I was a beaten man and perhaps he did the right thing after all. I would much rather have been knocked ot though. When I came to my corner after the fifth round I was weak and my head was diszy.. 1 got to Jeff’s ribs very hard two or out. I could have fought a few fifth, but I had ne chance to win and at that I don’t think I had clinches + GUS RUHLIN. - % —