Show f r SPORTS sois 1 I ITz fITZ VE JEfF A LE BEATING c E J Van Loan Olle or Of the clever cleer ost sport writers In the country who broke into tilt the business clown ill Los Angeles but ul Ia now no located ocate in Now New York liaS Iia been writing wilting sonie very orr entertaining stuff the tho fighting careers of Jim and Johnson The following account of oC tIre the loc lovely licking Jeff Joff took at the hands of Bob Fitzsimmons the second time they ther met before lie he finally mocked out the freckled h hIs Is ono of the best est of the boL This 1 ono time Jeff got his good and PlentY and had Bob not broken 1 both oth hands on the or of the hair hairy giant Jeff would ProbablY hare luno not retired the undefeated champion Van Loan writes as follows The liThe old fo Fitzsimmons ha had not idle at after r losing his championship to Jeffries People 1 have said that he lost heart hearl an and the tho lw he was at COI Coney I Island To such we commend a study I of liEs his record Cou fought ht five times between his I Joffries s fights his ts lasted twelve rounds and 2nd Fitz itz scored five I clean Jeff Theme Thorne Jim Daly allt Ed Dunkhorst were i no marvels hut but iio man on earth j could have hao finished those worthies in quicker time lime the trio lasted foUr rounds I En t Fib Fitz tool took on his Gus nUIl bin All August m l lIi it lId 1111 to Lo I I in iii six rounds Two laler itter Flu z fought and the tar U out III two brisk I Tho Public sat sal up 1111 howled that I RIchmond was himself again Fitz be gnu to a return match and after a bong stage tage walt wait the men signed articles I Tue men fought In n a tent in San Francisco The ring was ma made e of li light ht boards which had all the sc gie of a springboard and Jeffries dill bid not kno liow this until lie he returned to his comel at the end of the first fint round Then lie hc turned to hIs handlers anil said What are fl rou Oti trying to do Get me ill III here and me mc t Jeff was so hea heavy that thal oer every time lie he rushed the thc ring gave gac under tinder I his felt feet and fast footwork al I mOlt impossible being lightest was not annoyed by the con dilion of the flooring and lie he certainly Set fiet out to give gie Mr lr the finest lacing or of his lIfe With rights and lefts lie he the big hie fellows fact face occasionally varying the mono monotony tony toil with a ripping cut which tore face to I n Dy the curl of the fifth round the champion was ns a rightful spectacle ills hall chist us as matted malted with blood which flowed from his nose mouth and half a dozen gashes on the and brows mons was lii orally cutting him him to lo pieces b by but never once Jeffries retreat Ho He forced the ad advance advance vance steadily methodically tr trying ing ingall all the while hiie to get home with one powerful blow to the body hody Fitzsimmons set himself for fOl the knockout antI and lot fly fir with his thirteen Inch gun his right hand leff Jer stumbled slightly and hIs head crune caine clown The stumble nm may have hae saved him the championshIp for the he bow bov caught him high up on the forehead and Fits right hand smashed like a aIH IH tze From that time on the old fox was fighting with one hand Ills His right was J JA A 4 round or two later Fitz tried again this time with his left for he hea hewa I wa a u a finisher with either hand lie He J hUt all he had into that last punch for or lie he knew that his only hope was to stop tIm tho giant with ono one for he knew that lila his only hope was to to stop the giant with one punch for Cor Corall nil all the I ripping and lie was 10 effect on and ho he hurl hUll not time inie to blind him I J JOer Over Oer went vent the famous let left and It Il missed the angle angole of tire the Jaw landing high and smashing just os tire the right h hand had hicen There waE vis poor lOor jot in the rin ring with a human nothing which to fight hIm but bill two broken hands It Il ended elided in the eighth round eJ came camo lii in clae nn and rammed n l er left heft Into the Pit of the tho stomach anti and down went foxy Bob A minute later hater he was as on oil his feet tearing learing oIT Iris his gloves blocs which he tossed high p l his head bead into the crowd shouting tl i t lie he was dOlle with the ring he smashed his bands he hega ga gave ye J a beating which he hc big fellow will all his life There mono money In th thic world said Jef les ono one day to lo hue hire hueme me to go Into the ring arid and take an another another other lIcking lIke hike that one People get sel an idea that a fighter mind nt because he keeps on oh fIghting and howl out with ith pain when he sets acts hit on the broken nose me Jo Bo It Il hurts anti mul like the mischief That brit exactly what he saId hut but It will cia tb Fitz gave me more of heating a lii In those eight rounds than all the tho theother other othel men I 1 ever fought ou bt In iii m my me life arid and cut mv face so bad that r I wasl t nt fit to be e seen seen for weeks ThC They sa say Ive Ie never been really hurt in the ring I was hurt lh that t nl worse than hr 13 all m my other lights fights Jut I together and 0 gota got a lot hot more or of wear that I got that right |