The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1903, Page 6

THE WORLD: © THURSDAY EVENING, 1 NOVEMBER 26, 1903. Gardner is a good game fighter. He fought well and took some punishment. I gitess he doesn't think I’m an old man now. I Wasn't as strong in this fight as I * have been in others, but I was good enough to win. SAN FRANCISCO, SAL., NOV. 26, 1903. ROBERT FITZSIMMONS. Eg 0690099000 09964904-09604 0409864000044. 44.06-4-0809OO SOC00OO6 900009904 FITZ’S LEFT TO THE PIT OF THE STOMACH. Gardner Felt This Punch on Three Different Occasions Last Night, but at No Time Did It Put Him Down, Only Serving to Check ® 0020990090000 To the victor belongs the credit, and I must congratulate Fitzsimmons. He is a 4 grand, old fighter better than I expected to find. The Weight Ihad to make weakened me a bit, and that is the only excuse I can make for defeat. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., NOV. 26, 1903. > GEORGE GARDNER. Ps a ‘ co $ { e ‘ wy 0909999809090 & $OOOO400 00999504 000OOO000995H00OH9O6 09409999909 00S GARDNER'S LEFT TO FITZ’S JAW. , , Gardner Tried to Settle the Fight with the Punch, but Never Could Get It Exactly on “the Point” —It Always Glanced Off, and Fitz e His Aggressiveness, JEFFRIES 59 FITZ SURPRISED ME BY GOING TWENTY ROUNDS. 3 BY JAMES j. JEFFRIES. aR (World's Heavy-Weight Champion.) ITZSIMMONS won, but hardly in as handy fashion as I expected. He brought his great generalship into play by leading in the first rounds, thereby geting tho decision well in hand. There is no doubt that he would have taken advantage of a knockout low had the opportunity Presented itself in the early stages. Fitz proved himself a wonder by going the twenty rounds at the fast q paces set by himself and Gardner. I honestly did not think he could go that ’ far, and I was only one of many thousands who thought the same way. But j Fitz seemed to grow stronger all the time. ‘That fourth round was the only 4 ome that Mkely took the steam out of Gardner to a great extent. Gardner displayed a great deal of cleverness in being able to offsot ‘ Wits's terrible onslaughte. Gardner certainly proved himself a game fellow, ‘and from the description of the contest he must have received a great deal : of punishment. M If such a thing as a contest between Fitz and Corbett could be arranged, @ certainly would like co see it. It would be one of the greatest fights of the eentury. Had Gardner won, and if he thought he had a chance for the champlon- @hip and the opinion of the press and public warranted it, I should have given him the first opportunity. CORBETT says: FITZSIMMONS HAS LOST HIS PUNCHING POWERS. BY JAMES J, CORBETT. Ex-Champion Heayy-welght of the World, His finish of the fight fulfils my predictions that Fitz has lost his punch, The Cornishman has certainly been a game old stager, and has fought with all’the still smouldering energy that he possessed. He held off hs years better than any man this quarter of a century past has seen in the ring, but he had to sag. My early forecast of the fight was that Gardiner would win. I thought he was a better man than he showed himself to be. With almost twenty years to the good and plenty of muscle and beef, I thought he would pound Fitz down, and I put up mone¥ on the younger man. |. Later, judgng from the reports from the West, I thought Bob had re- Govered some of his wonderful go, and was going in in his old-time killing style. I figured it out that he still had some of the old steam in his punch, I think that Fitzsimmons and I are about the only two men outside of Jeffries, the champion, who would make a great match in the heayy-welght class. Fitz was weakened by reducing himself to such a Nght weight, and that may have heen the chief disadvantage he Inbored under in to-night's ght. I think that Fitzsimmons and I will be matched to fight some time a next summer, after my theatrical season is over. jit WAS A TAME CONTEST, SAYS HARRY CORBETT, (BY HAR CORBETT. ‘BAN FRANCISCO, Cal, N “The battle furnished by Fitzsimmons t tests between big men that I really be- ever witnessed I looked for u much harder fight from the men. Fits ‘ certalply weakened himself by fighting at so low a weight. I think he should ever again attempt to make wv ‘or any fight. Gardner's showing was Pwiry weak Indeed. Me had no ehind his punches, His blows would not fe feazed a lightweight, 1 canni ealize what happened to him."* (TER AND HART AT HUB, ext battle of importance In Bos- the fifteen-round bout be+ Carter, the South Brook- nd’ Marvin Hart, of Louis- ‘recently gave Joe Choynskl Aardest fixhts of his career a bout in Philaceiphia, will Come together at ton, on next the Hub, the bout will in all probability be signed to tackle Joe Walcott Ina ffteen-round bout before the same club In the near future, INDOOR BASEBALL, Phe Brighton A, C., champions of Brook yh, will el the Champion Com- riy-soventh Hegient Be the ‘Amory, Marcy avenue ynoh street. Game called 3.30 P, M. fa; ana Baie ehlalice ule: Smiled at Its Effect. FITZ, “GRAND OLD MAN OF PRIZE RING,” BEATS _ ~ GARDNER IN FIGHT THAT GOES TWENTY ROUNDS (Continued from Firet Page.) generalship at zero, his blocking ’way below the work put up by the great old gladiator who faced him. CROWD OFTEN HISSED. The crowd stamped the battle a bad one several times by hissing the men for the freight-car pace. But at that you cannot go much by crowds. If they didn’t see a murder they think they have been skinned at the box- office. It seemed to me, watching the battle round by round at the ringside, that Fitz had everything in his make-up as a fighter that he used to have with the exception of his death-dealing punch. One could not picture a more heady fighter than Fitzsimmons. fought as if in a boxing school. He had Gardner going in the fourth round, and again and again had him on Unasy Sireet, and yet never for a moment did he lose his cunning or the wonderful coolness that has marked his great ring career. He |) when the gong rang for the. big battle. tut the battle then and there. SAME “FOXEY FITZ.” Then later on, when he found he had his slim-legged opponent beaten to a standstill, he was still the same old “foxey Fitz.” He had the decision in hand and he meant to keep it; and keep it he did. The crowd was not what it was expected to be when the time came for the battle. It was a ’Frisco crowd, and:a ’Friscq crowd only. The out-of-town patrons of the game were not on hand. Spots of bare dashed the towering side of the Yosemite Club's arena I was surprised at the slimness of the crowd. I should say there were about six thousand present. It was a Fitzsimmons crowd, axchough there were wads of money always in sight on Gardner. It was 40 to 7 on the speckled beauty as the war started. As a betti.g proposition the fight was a,good one, And that let it out. Fitz and Gardner entered the club-house at about the same time. Fitz was the first to get into the ring. He .eceived a tremendous ovation. It seemed as if the walls of humanity banking the sides of the building rose as one man to do homage to the great old warrior. Trailing Ruby Robert were his seconds, Billy Delaney, Joe Kennedy and Sam Berger. THEN THE LOWELL MAN. Then came Gardner, forcing his way to the ringside through the crowd that lined the aisles. Alec Greggains, Harry Foley and Dave Barry were in his corner, ‘ Eddie Graney called them to the centre of the ring after the introduc- tion and gave them their instructions. Then he waved them to their corners, As they turned a hush fell on the mob of modern Romans, Then Clang! . OFF TO THE WARS. The gong had started them on their journey .or a title. Fitz, to the surprise of all, started off to fight very carefully. He was feeling out the youngster before him. The round ended with very | little execution and Fitzsimmons on the defensive. | The second session saw Gardner after the “Grand Old Man.” forced the fighting from gong to gong. He It was his ong and only round. i The third session slipped into the past, and then came a little high | and lofty tumbling that caught Mr. Gardner in the air and almost settled Fitz had him on the floor twice in the fourth round. Once the count of seven was tolled off before he struggled to his feet, and the second time he flopped all over the floor, The crowd was crazy. Cheer after cheer shook the building as Fitz coolly walked to his corner at the end of the round. It looked to be all over but.the shouting. Bang! They: dashed out’ of their comers ‘for thenextsession;.and ‘thesirst® , For‘ stony: ant: fight. Jp nonnils- sab Fags % 9 ARs RENN FACTS OF THE BIG FIGHT, Winner—Robert Fitzsimmons, Loser—George Gardner. Decision—On points, Length of Fight—Twenty rounds. Referee—Eddie Graney. Scene of Fight—Yosemite A, Gq San FP) rancisco, Attendance—8,000. 8 Estimated Gate Receipts—$30,000. Purse—-60 per cent. of gate receipts. Divided—75 per cent. to winner and,25 per cent. to loser. Fitzsimmons's Share—$10,250. Gardner's Share—$3,750. Favorite at Ringside—Fitzsimmons at 10 to 7. pop out of the gun over went Gardner, like a shot out of a box, to the far side of the ring. He reeled as far as he could go and then found the can- vas with a dull thud. “Seven, eight, nine,’ was tolled off before he blindly got his feet, under him. Fitz carried the fight to him, but Gardner lunged into 2 clinch, FITZ GOES AFTER PREY, ° The “Sage of Bath Beach” shook him off as a terrier would a rat. As he fell away that awful -ight of Kitz’s crossed over. It was the nickels had it landed. But it was short, and, falling short, Gardner was saved from the land of dreams. As it was, Gardner mcnaged to shake himself together, collect his wits and do an Arthur Duffy for the rest of the round that saved his scalp. Then something funny happened. Fitz suddenly slowed up. W. ; he tired? If so, he went so very sud-| denly. Gardner was “all in’—there was no fight to him—and had Fitz carried his old-time desperate charge to him the Lowell man must have} gone out. OLD MAN KEPT AWAY. , But Fitz kept away, and, with Gardner sprinting} was content to} tamely trail in his footsteps. . The crowd hissed. Fitz smiled, quickened his pace and, catching Gardner, hooked a left to his head that surely must have given him a headache. Then came the bell. And the dying echoes of that gong marked the death of any real hard fighting. It was often a good fight after that, but never a brilliant one. Fitz seemed tired and leg-weary up to the eleventh session and Gard- ner’s fight had‘all gone a-gloaming in those fatal fourth and fifth rounds. ANOTHER KNOCKDOWN. In the tenth round Fitz again scored:a knockdown, but his blows all seemed to be too high. It looked as if he had lost his judgment of distance. He found Gardner’s head when he was after the jaw. The thirteenth and fourteenth rounds found George again resting in| the rosin. Five seconds he stayed there in the fourteenth and was glad to take the rest. 7 From then on Fitz appeared glad to let the battle drag on and) gather in the title and shekels with a decision which he knéw only an | accident could take away from him, ' And thus the “{Srand Old Man” won again, It was not great fight to look at. Fitz claimed he hurt his arm early, and if so it makes his showing the more wonderful; Gardner’s best punch was a straight left to the nose, and it did not carry enough weight to stop the old man in his mad rush to end the contest with a knockout. From the way Fitz fought to-night, it would make one think of him twenty years from now fighting with a long beard, with his sons as seconds and training “Pa.” \ la alae COLD STOPPED MAKING WEIGHT FITZ'S SPEED. HURT GARDNER, ee See BY BILLY DELANEY. BY ALEC GREGGAINS./ (FITZSIMMONS'S TRAINER.) (GARDNER'S TRAINER.) Fitz was in splendid condition except} we have no kick coming on the de tor a bad cold he contracted a few days | cigion, It was eminently fair. At the! before the fight. This cold we thougit| weight the best man won. Gardner was We bad tought, off. but it is my opinion | a pit weak owing to hard work in keepe that it settled into his system, f ing down to 163 pounds. He fougnt wel that was the reason he did not show his | ing down to 165 pounds. He cat deal oy old-time speed and force. sore feet, credit for putting up such a great fght Le caanyerr pant sition’ aaa Against such a grand old warhorse ag h Fer te a dcged hatore tie went £4 | Muzsimmons, Fits was fine, but dd now seem ¢o display his old hitting powers had to be bandaged before he went into the ring. 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