Show TiLL fIGURE UN Fill Prize Fight Experts Puzzled by the Old Man NOBODY fiiABE RIGHT GUESS Battle With Gardner Sonds All the Wiso Onos to Sea Outcome Is Taken as Additional Proof That Fitzslmmous Is the Greatest lUng General Lou Ilouncmnn in his discussion of the FilzslnunonsGarclncr fight brings out some novel points and gives a unique an ilyaia of tim outcome litzslmmoims victory In Itself Is not surprising but the manner ot hla victory has startled the entire en-tire pugilistic world 1 Look over lie t predictions pre-dictions made by Champion JcITrlca and all the rest I of the wise ones who have followed closely pugilism In all Its various forms and phases Who union all of them predicted that tile light would go the limit and Gardner would be out iloiuited and outclassed In every Mago oC the game by the aged RobcrtV Not one The followers of mite used Fltz had a large sized photo of Red Robert repeating the Carson City affair and could easily Imagine Imag-ine the youthtul Gardner outstretched on the mat from one of those awful crusnos Hint had previously sent so many iimbi lou youths to tnc realms ot Ircmniami The nilriiirois of Care item could picture itie i youthful n and vigorous giant 1 slowly but surely u ring ou this ngcu rival and finally I In1 moment of distress delivering the I needed punuli Kinaily a low lUlU dreams 01 thu old man through ring gen onitship ami the oxpenciue or jcai la tIng t-ing out the twenty rOUndS but none 01 chefc ever dreamed of ins getting tee uc clsion on points It seems us though the foxy old gent had kept this last surpriSe In stone for the wise ones just to show them that they had a few things to learn yet H la I tile llrst light 1 In his hl ton he ever permitted to go the limit and his three defeats were all sustained by the knockout exit and long bfiUire the twentieth round As lor I his l victories well he always made short work of them For these long twenty yours ho hns boon the undisputed l prince of knockout fighters and the only merchant mer-chant who always carried u good supply of neverfalling dreamland jokers And now In the eleventh hour of his career ho brushes aside all precedent and goes the limit without knocking out his opponent I or permitting himself to tire or to weary as a result of his many hardspent years Now the critic will bout thai Hob has lost his punch anti had better quit the I ring Old age has at last made visible Its effects and Robe can no longer hope for brilliant knockout victories but rather rath-er hardfought distant victories Re not deceived such Is not the case If I old age lad staled the veteran he would never tavc weathered those twenty licrc ounds ugalnst the clever and active Gard icr but by so doing he proved that he was still the possessor of sufficient strength vigor and power to defeat any man save Jeiirlea But why asks the critic did he not put Gardner to rest How was It that he arose again and again after going to the loor from Robots hard punches Terrible Terri-ble as FItzs punches have ever been a man as clever and as Iron built us Gardner Gard-ner might succeed in dodging or warding oft tho force of a great many of them without being entirely put out Rcmem bel that In days gone by men Inferior to Gardner both In strength and endurance have stood uxciinst the force of his awful punch even when he was younger stronger and presumably possessed of a harder punch So that at this stage of his life it should be a matter of congratula ion to the old man that he did so well rather than a matter of disappointment ind chnzrln Gardner Is doubtless thoroughly disappointed disap-pointed and crestfallen For years he has vcrkid aiul tolled diligently with never ceasing determination until he should each the I coveted goal only to have allis h all-is dreams consummated in being cuffed around the ring by l a supposedly old man u hasbeen Nov for the llrsl lime ho can plainly sec that the longcoveted goal can lever be his u |