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Pa ENING W RL) | Ves 0 +066 IN TWO ROUNDS. THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 97; 1994. JEFF WINS T BOILERMAKER; SOME OF HIS PECULIA 94-04-904-5-044-4444 WHEN JEPP UNGOTTLED HIS SPEED. ; . Teeeeeoororricosegoroes 9 2O94-5-6944-90-06-000-464-006000008 ¢ GOd-od "SPORTS EDITED BY PIARDDIDADD OMI VADBRALALAGAA GL | FEEAD9 944-94 0444-1006 9-99-00060004 AE § AW NEES JEFF “Tt Makes Me Ashamed to Think I Hit : ’ ED oJ + SMUNROE PLAGE MED IE OADM S OUTFOUGHT IN CULL OF TIME is (Special to The Evening World.) " BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.—James J. Jeffries knocked out Jack Munroe, Butte miner, here last night, In the shoriest and most one-sided cham- ip fight on record. Munroe was counted out in the second round, grovelling helplessly on the foor of the ring. Jeffries knocked the miner down three times in the first round, went filing to, his corner, and came out again briskly to finish his antagonist a couple of punches in the second. Munroe never showed a trace of champlonsh{p form, He fought like gOrriest amateur (hat ever entered the prize ring. While sitting in his o before the beginning of the ehirmish he looked pale and worried, teconds, “Kid” McCoy and Ti talked to Lim and tried to take is attention, but he sat staring o his gigantic opponent as d sparrow might siare at a rattlesnake. As his seconds drew on be fighting gloves Munroe became cved more {ll at ease, HOUGHT IT 4 PICNIC. Jeffries, leaning over the ropes, talked and laughed with Billy Delaney, }Manager and chief second. He looked clean-cut and ft to fight any man] the world for any kind of a title. I was evident to the spectators that} he fegarded the whole affair as a private picnic ‘1 i ha bo Monrue wore a serious expres- ro dane her about, Jeffries looked at him for a moment, moved in. Munroe ted in an aimless manner and led with his left Jeffries laughed he blow fell a foot shori, ‘The giant footed 1oroe, who pivoted slowly to meet Attack that was looked as fast as a lightweight, ¥ wi Him,” Is the Champion's Comment After Fight Which Didn't Leave a Single Mark on Him, In less than two rounds James J. Jeffrics hammered all the fight out of Jack Munroe, the Butte miner, in the contest for the world’s heavy- weight championship at San Francisco early to-day. The champion knocked the miner down three times in the first round, and in the second round he floored him again. As he was about to deliver the knockout blow, Referee Graney stopped him and awarded him the victory. Munroe landed one tap on the boilermaker's stomach, but he might as well have hit a Japanese batile-ship with a feather. “ (Special to The Evening World.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.—For the tirst tinse in ‘is career as a prize-fighter James J. Jeffries got up to-day without a sore muscle and without an outward or inward physical indication of having been in a fight, Jeffries's state of mind as he came downstairs can only be described in one way—he felt foolish, There was a crowd of his friends waiting to congratulate him, but Jeffries announced that he was rather to be sym- pathized with than congratulated, "It makes me ashamed to think I hit him,” he sald, “and® when T think of all the hard work I did for this fight I feel ridiculous, roe may be a good fellow; as a fighter he is a ‘mut.’ word to cribe him. He doesn't know anything about the game, and Asa man Mun- There 1s no other st August with Jim Corbett rd. ‘The champion totssed! , Munroe blocking with crossed e miner to his heels, Drawing his right arm back mpion’s stomach, but Jeff ped himself and clinc! tried to plunge his fir d the blow by eatching Jack th hia left hand, 5 fries was chewing gum, and the € selon on his face ‘was that Bf the bored lookout at a faro bank. He broke the clinch, stepped back a ‘and surged in again with a sudden left hook for the jaw lunroe dropped to his hams with a eresh that jarred the platform. j rose quickly with a dazed expression on his face. Jeffries was on top Phim jn an instant. Before Munroe could Mud nis balance Jim pun Straight on the month with le rieot h gle step and swung his left fist {nto the miner's rihs, 9 UNROE WAS TOO SLOW. W Munroe gasped and doubied up. Jeffries followed his advantage tn Baty, He drove the miner reeling to the ropes, punching him again and dn the body. Munroe was two slow to get away, although he hal and tried to sidestep. Jeffries emashed him to the floor with o left on the chin. } oe stayed down for eight seconds, and then rose slowly, His Diank, the eyes of a fish. Jeff knocked him down again with Jeft hook. Munroe staggered to bis feet. Jeff started a vicious right hand smash for tne body. Munroe blocking with crossed ughing to bis corner did new d a single corner “Kid” McC and shoved him | corner Munroe of rest wa yw in tals first round. As he wabbled ped into the ring, selzed him by the alr. tance of a thoroughly beaten man him to recover, cond round Munroe broke away and for Jeit’s h inver on the mouth that made Ho put hi n and bored in, hooking furionsly ech. but the sie him relentlessly about the hands, figh aw A hard right in the pit of the the miner. He rose with Uicod flowing from his mouth ing oa the face rendered the fous, Me eruuipled up and he ring the thuekeeper, watch all floor. At the side of off the fatal ten seconds. » to rise but could not, Jeff stood waiting, feet, where he stood unsteadily. Jet- was over, started another his corner, a) mid 1] utation followed for &| Govern against him, and. as for Joe Walcott, he'd punch holes in the poor| form that they have figured Jeffries as unbeatatle by any man at present he Is out courage. Why. he was afraid of me from the start. I could see it his eye, In the way he shifted about, in the way he tried to hand ® me punches from long range, which couldn't have hurt me if | got them friends, Jeffries, the favorite gon of Califor full force EASIEST MONEY HE EVER EARNED. “It was the easlest money I ever copped off. I never got a blow as hard na the kind I have takea fifty of a day from my sparring partners, and 'T couldn't even get action enough out of him to raise a sweat. I'm sorry for Munroe, because he {s clean out of the game now. He had a little rep- ‘fore last Night, but our fight blew him up. I'd back Terry Me- old miner, “Why In the world a big straping fellow like Munroe, trained by some of the best men in the business and able to punch and to take a punch, should have made such an exhit-tTon of himself, I don't know, but I guess it was just because he was afraid. I'm afrald Jack has a yellow streak in him. Anyway I feel to-day like a fellow who had been caught doing something mean, like 2 man that gets mad and kicks a little boy and then cools off and thinks it over, “I hope the next fellow I take on will have nerve enough to fight. I'd jrather fight 4 game tan a ‘mut ike Munroe any day, Win or lose, I cou'd have some respect for him afterward, For Munroe I have none, He's been travelling on a shine reputation for months now, and he knew he Was a shine all the time, Why In the world he ever gave himself away by getting Ip the ring with me I don't know.” INTEREST IN +o——___—. FIGHT GREATER THAN CROWD) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.—The hopeful managers of Jeffries ‘and Munroe who had dreams of a house exceeding $50,000 in box-office |" | representation will have to hunt up new dream-books. It was: apparent early in the evening that there would be no necessity for the services of | the house shorers’ union to prop up the walls of Mechanics’ Pavilion for fear they would bulge outward because of the pressure on the inside, vo here is no denying that the interest in the fight was great, but x ‘ : “aT nk | was not a producing interest. Five blocks away from the great building ir. which the gladiators battled for the heavy-weight championship of the world a crowd of 20,000 blocked the Market street cars in front of the newspaper bulletin boards. It was the crowd that wanted to know how the fight would come out but was not game to spend money to be eye- witnesses of the outcome. Throughout San Francisco the impression appeared to be that the only way to lick Jeffries would be to tie his hands, make him fast to a stake and let a dozen husky men caress him with clubs, And the outcome showed that the judgment of the crowd was con. siderably to the good, PAY FOR SEATS CAME FROM COUNTRY. Fortunately for the bank rolls of the rival knights of the mitt this antipathy did not extend to the country districts convenient to San Fran- cisco, It is probable that half the great crowd that banked itself high above the arena was made up of persons whose addresses could not be found in the San Francisco city directory. This outside crowd was a Munroe gathering. It came to San Fran- cisco prepared to shout for the miner and argue how he should put Jef. fries down and out, but from the amount of money wagered most of the outsiders bought round-trip tickets at home and had concealed about their apparel only enough for food and drink, Nevertheless they were on the ground early, and what they lacked in speculative initiative they made up in lung power. The great mob of city sports who release two dollars for seats and help to make a noise wis content to remain out in the street and take what excitement the bulletin boards offered. There were no lines blocks in length stretching away from the ticket windows as was the case in the battle between Jeffries and Corbett a year ago. Golden Gate hunches were with the champion, 4 Pee lea: | New Yorkers who imagine that Madison Square Garden {s a big place to hold a fight in ougnt to attend a session of musular repartee in Me. chanics’ Pavilion, It {s a gigantic auditorium, A man versed in agricul- ture might estimete its seating area in acres, It looks bigger when it Is full of men than when it is empty, The fight was scheduled to start at 9 o'clock, and the doors were opened two hours in advance, A big squad of mounted policemen and policemen taoving naturally had kept the crowd clamoring outside the doors In ex- collent order, When entrance was obtained the great expanse of chairs and benches became black with lovers of the sport. Stretching away from the riug on the floor of the pavilion are four great segments of seats clevated gradually until those in the rear are twenty-five feet above the ground level. Down the sides are the cheaper seats, mounting ws high as the roof. These were the first to fill. The | moneyed sporting men who had paid higher prices of admission were slower ip arriving. In a way, those who passed through the numerous entrances to the pavillon witnessed a contest that was unique tn the personality of the principals. Both are Western men, and both are well known in San Fran- cisco, Munroe was onze 9 member of the football team of the Olympic Athletic Club, and participated in many bOt encounters In the ring here | when he was an amateur, Hecause of his unassuming ways and his undoubted gameness he made of course, has legions of adherents who swear by him, But there js always @ big contingent that hopes to see the champion knocked out, and San Francisco ts not off the ist of communities of knockers, The fight last night was tho seventh triumphal appearance of Jeffries in the Mechanics’ Payiiion arena. He has put on the gloves there to an un- | broken succession of victories, On the spot where he vanquished Munroe Inst night he has stood victor over Peter Jackson, Pete Everett, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, Robert Fitzsimmons and James Corbett. ble to the ability of the San Frencisco fight followers to pick a winner on holding asp! os in his class, His victory over Munroe was as » all things as any he has won. It ranks with the beatings he gave Peter Jackson and Mexican Pete Everett. More money changes hands in an able-bodied poker game at the Bohe- mian Club then was shifted to different owners in the betting on the fight at the sporting resorts this afternoon. The odds held strong at 100 to 85, and there js no record of any $100 bets. Rumors of rash wagers of $1 to 35 cents we in down and found to be unfounded, | By the time the doors opened speculators were wandering around offer- Ing 109 to 39 on Jeffries, Quite a fow bets were made at even money on the proporition that Munroe would iast ten rounds. Major Doyle, of New York, sent a commission to the ringside of $100,000 even that the fight would go the limit, but the bet went begging because the Major insisted the money should be posted in pennies. ries violated set rules of training by keoping husy on the day of the fight. He did no boxing or gymnasium work, but, accompanied by his brother Jack, he did a long sprint through the streets of Oakland, weari:g several layers of heavy sweaters, It was announced before he started on his run that he weighed 219 pounds. house keeper on a calm night and said thet the exercise had done him goo, Jeffries was the rst to arrive at the Pavilion, He rode up from the ferry from Oakland ta a carringe, and when he got out, chewing gum, he glanced over the croed in walting and smiled his youthful smile, It he ‘felt any apprehensio> about going into the ring with tho heaviest man he ever fought there was no (race of the apprehension in his impassive ce. “ As the ponderous form of Jeffries disappeared into the Pavilion there was h in the crowd the honk of an automobile, and a loag, low, rakisn Piper wagon drew up at the entrance, Out hopped Munroe, white of face but calm. ‘The fighters repaired to their the left. and got ready for the fray, the hirsute growth He came back breathing like a light- " R RING MOVEMENTS ©: i JACK WAS INA HURRY To START THINGS. “THOSE STRAIGHT MARQUIS OF ecnsouny RULES. h men wore the national colors entwined in their belts. Whilo the fighters were making ready for their appearance the cholce seats around the ring wero ta by prominent professional and sporting men of the Pacific coast. A big prize fight in San Francisco is somewhat | of a soctal affair, it is an ocvasion when Judges rub shoulders with bar tenders, when gamblera hobnob with officers of the peace, when prize- | fighters of great and small degree at home with quiet business men, | whose wives perhaps imagine they are downtown working over the books, Mayor Schmidt was tnere and so was former Mayor Phelan. To indi- cate @ judicial recognition of the affair, Police Judges Kerrigan, Frits and Humphreys occupled seats close to the ring. Patrick Barrett, the prose. cuting attorney, had a coupon for a seat in his pocket and possession of the seat also, Judge Lawlor, of the Supreme Court, one of the greatest ad- mirers of Jim Corbetc, was in a prominent position. The Judge spent six weeks with Corbett previous to the Fitzsimmons fight in Carson and travelled to New Orleans to see Jim trim John L. Sullivan. He had no opinion to express previous to the fight to-night, but it was natural to sup. pose he would be pleased to soe the man who had vanquished Corbett vane quished {n turn, ° ‘There were big delegations from the Olympic Club, the Family ang the Bohemian Clud. Hundreds came up from Los Angeles on a special train to support Jeffries with their voices. There was a big company. from Butte, where Munroe used to smite the adamantine surface of the earth with a pick and a drill before he stood four rounds with Jeffries in » theatrical exhtbition, Harbin Springs was represented to a man, and all , the towns within fifty miles of San Francisco had representatives on the ground, Munroe was the first to enter the ring. He was extremely pale. The alr was chily and he wore a long overcoat. When he stripped it was-seen that physically he was a perfect specimen so far as outside appearances went. But there was a nervousness about him that made those who had\ {bet on his remaining in front of Jeffries for ten rounds swallow convule* }» alvely, . Jeffries was not long behind his opponent in getting into the shmeitgnes z* Both men were tumultuously greeted, but it appeared that Munroe got the! best of it in the volume of sound. His friends from the mountain country,» exerted their lungs to thé utmost pe : Just before entering the ring Jeffries was informed that a famous soothsayer known as “Tho Frenchman,” at Harbin Springs, had dreamed «esses he would lose in thirteen rounds. He smiled and caressed a rabbit's foot that bad been handed him by an admirer. The man was as clammy as @ wet mackintosh. When he threw off the robe that had covered his body as he made his way to the ring there was a long-drawn exclamation of astonishment. He was certainly big—enormously big, a veritable hairy giant—but there was no sign of flabbiness on the flesh on his bones. He was # mountain of muscle on a foundation of bone. Two preliminaries had occupied the listless attention of the crowd, A person known as the “Saginaw Kid” got a decision on points in four rounds over “Jockey” Sullivan. The same sort ot a victory was handed out in the second preliminary to Billy Means of San Francisco over’“Twin” Sullivan, of Portland, Me, A Jeffries was seconded by Billy Delaney, Joe Kenedy and Jack Jeffries, “Kid" MoOoy, Tim McGrath, Tim Sullivan and Frank McDonald were ia Munroe’s corner, Kid McCoy was introduced to the audience and expressed a modest de~ sire to box any heavyweight alive with the exception of Jeffries. Jack Johnson, a large negro, allowed that he would fight the winner. Hi pearance did not arouse the crowd to any enthusiasm. McCoy got a great reception. There was the usual talk in the ring between the referee and the Principals, Munroe wan extremely nervous by this time. When the gong sounded he started convulsively as he slowly advance! toward the centre of the ring, but Jofiries was as impasive as a cigar-store India: HI TOLD YOU 90,” j= HS FTSMMONS “Hi told you so,” said Bob Fitssim- | Bot SPORTING CONEY ISLAND]. JOCKEY CLUB. RACING AT SHERUSHEAD BAY, Auturon Meeting, 1904, mons to-day to an Evening World re- 2%, 30 Sept, 10. | porter who sought his impressions of fisah AY— oF shine), the Jeffries-Munroe fight. “Hi told you hit was a bloomin’ cinch, Munroe ‘as “ been travellin’ on @ bloomin’ fake repu- FI J [ URI I Y att tlon for years, and Hi knew {t was a and a expiosion when Jeff got . heath Pp gol Fail fisndican ptneugural ge Steeple ; “Jeff says to me before the fight, says Jeff, ‘HI'l] jolly the beggar for eight rounds, then cop ‘Im one In the stomach or on the jaw and collect the money,’ Hi says to Jeff: ‘Don't do it, Jeft; cop Remember Butte,’ r direct to t 3 ceommodations funy Toute 30 minutes via trolley Rapid Transit from Brookly! ener ¥. ite). Bridge train that Butte affair in ‘ts bb ‘oo &@ long tiny ni rhow { puttin’ ¢ pins, says ter Jeff: ‘Ow the devil am I to get ond moaey if you go on bowlin’ m hover like this? Let ‘em aay, let e 2 Piel rt he Tander wn Tie < eager travelled for fi th Ja ts “He's the busine 00 to stay with me to way four round fa Rp like 111 never ex: night 'e showed hyp like Hi never ex- tected to s0¢ "i Tah vellow, bawful yellow, If] thought “@ ‘ad nerve, any-| 4: way, Well, ' young fallow, hand . 7) Al monthly),