Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — SMOTE HIM ON THE JAW. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SMOTE HIM ON THE JAW.

Bob F.tslmmom Knocks Out Jim Hall In Four R >unds at New Orleans. Bob Fitzsimmons smote Jim Hall on the jaw with his right in the fourth round at the Crescent City club’s arena,

and that settled it It may have been a chance blow, but chance blows are in the game. The Australian is for the time being the greatest 'man south of the Ohio and, [ according to a New Orleans dispatch, the crowd that journeyed from tho North to bet their money on

Hall and see him pull it off will go back the best way they can. Up to the time the knock-out blow was delivered Hall had slightly the better of the sparring. His purpose was to cross-counter his rangy countryman and put him out and Fitz caught him at his own game. In the flush of victory Bob does no know what to do with himself. He is $37,500 richer for his fifteen minutes’ exercise to-night, and Hall gets the loser’s end, $2,500, and acknowledges that Fitzsimmons can hit a harder punch than any other fighter alive. The referee awarded tho contest to Fitzsimmons, who, waving the United

States flag over his head, walked over to his opponent’s corner and shook his hand, and as he, was leaving thel ring received a .tremendous ovation. The fight was the easiest Fitzsimmons has had in America, and the blow which knocked Hall out

was universally said to be the hardest that any one of the old ring habitues ever had witnessed. When the knock-out blow was delivered the crowd rose to its feet and a tremendous shout went up. Hall, however, lay unconscious on the carpet, a look of agony on his face, and the crowd feared he had suffered serious injury. Hall’s second, with a club official and Dr. Betts, ran quickly to the piostrate pugilist, and applying restoratives gradually brought him back to consciousness. Fitzsimmons also ran to the center of the ring, and, pulling off his gloves, helped to resuscitate his conquered foe. When Hall had been brought to he was carried limp to his chair, where he remained until able to to go to his dressing-room. Fitzsimmons was frenzied with delight over his comparatively easy victory. After Hall had been brought back to consciousness, Fitzsimmons, skipped nimbly to his room, and, without putting on his clothes, drew on a heavy overcoat and jumped into a carriage with' his wife and drove to his quarters. Mr* Fitzsimmons, unobserved by the throng, had witnessed the fight through the crevices of a room up-stairs. A great crowd congregated in front of tho winner on Canal street, giving him a rousing welcome as he drove up. After he had gone up-stairs the cheering continued, and Fitzsimmons came out on the balcony and made a modest speech on the victory.

BOB FITZSIMMONS.

JIM HALL.