Show ILER DISCUSSES PASSING Of Interesting Facts About Noted Man of Prize i iRing Ring BLAMES EASTERN WRITERS SiS With Johnson Should N lleen Consummated or Great Career Exit Dob from tho Mpr Id d aiona Tho hl grand old uld man ot or orthe the mitt game mado hl bow tt t Wednesday In n not befitting his time reputation not In a n manner to the Hays George Slier Ho lIo entered the squared circle in tills Ihl country coun r about 17 years ago 1 fa 1 a Il blazo ot glory and left lert It Wed cd In n haze which ll I obliterated tho that encircled hii bald pato since ho defeated Jack D y Jt 11 iu w jAa not his defeat at ot tho hanOa of his opponent Jack Johnson tho luter of ot his long and ring career care r ns os that was anticipated but tho thi manner ma Uler In which it IL cuini about Ho thought thou ht that If It In tin limit of ot condition con ha he had one Olle Rood fight left In him but ho intern Into tho a n subject for Cor forit CorI it I hospital and did not have havo ono chum o In a It million to win or to battlo two to rounds Three days before etor tho Iho date ute f s et t for Cor tho contest ho Injured his right boxing with Joe ono of It his part This necessitated ne an and ana naturally put tho old fellow out o ot the tho running SHOULD mOULD CALLED OFF MATCH I says he was advised to rail rall cB the match but he feared ho would be lie dubbed a mutter 30 10 ho determined to so 10 through with It 11 And that Is liero he erred Followers of ot tho and tho nubile In gen Ben genIal I cial Ial know Imo that FitzsImmons Is lImo would not to tin care c re und and therefore accused ac used him at or being a 0 quitter had he announced his hili ac accident accident cancelled tha engagement Instead In ted ot BO so doing doln ho kept mum entered the ring until to do himself ju or to KI o tho public a n run for Cor Its money The spectators paid their money noMY to see sea n 1 contest Instead they thoy colored slant un undoubtedly undoubted saw a big young oung doubted the cleverest In 11 the tho business exchange a few Cew blows with an nn old cripple who collapsed early In the fight They The ware IO gulled gulle lout out of their In one and nud I lt In the tho shank of 01 hh hI honorable ring career was a petty to II It True Tru he explained hIs hla condition to the tho crowd when he entered the ring but that was after it 11 hud had handed Its Ita money mone Into the box office ESTI nN WRITERS TO BLAME It 1 I possible that eastern astern sport Ins scribes and those directly Inter Interested ested lu tho welfare of or the tho sport In tho play The Thes scribes wrote columns about Boba excellent condition almost up to the moment that ho he entered tho ring They flu ha 1111 doing ten and 15 mile Jaunts on tho Iho road rond without draw drawIng drawIng Ing a deep breath doing fast fust and hard boxing I h young and husky husk holding back fearing he would knock them out In tact fact they the had him as 1111 strong and ns nB fast as ns in his prime Fitzsimmons according to his own statement stepped Into his 4 year last June JUlIe During his hlll ring career he hehns hns held hehl the middleweight tho light unit and the heavyweight championships Ho He won his title on January 1 1891 nt New N w Orleans bj b beating Jack Demsey In III 13 rounds He lie captured tho heavyweight Il title by boating Jim Corbett at nt Carson Nov Nev Nevon on March arch 17 1697 He lie captured the light heavyweight championship title by defeating Georgo Gardner at San Francisco on November 25 1003 1903 Ho Bo never was defeated for tor the middle middleweight weight championship but when ho he drifted d Into the heavyweight division he naturally defaulted his hla mIddle honors He lie engaged In aged In only one ona battlo BH as the heavyweight champion that against Jim Jeffries nt at Coney Co no Uland on Juno 8 ISM and went down to do dolent teat lent In 11 rounds IIo also took part partIn In only one battle na ns light heavy jv champion that with Jack O 0 ut ilL San Francisco on December 20 0 and lost In the round lound He lie again n trickled Jeffries J In San on January 25 1002 1902 was IUS knocked out In tho eighth h round IIo gie gae Jeffries nr awful drubbing m In th it battle It was any an kind of or odds UP h would win In any an round after the third Tho bIt big fellow tollow could not lay n II on him that Ja Is with effect Hob In the th vernacular of ot the tho l not keen his gloved hands at Jeffs face The fh lattera lutters was wall harder than bands and the tho end of ot the tho fifth louna they thc practically knocked out of or commission |