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t.i. • Gardner's Conqueror Declares He Willl' Not Fight Another Batt/e.□[i _ —g Bob Fitzsimmons has retired from . the rix»K again. He says his bout with 1( Gardner was his last and that he will l; never indulge in another bout. He ; says:!, “Well, 1 guess that I have done r : pretty good for an oJd man. I won at : the end of a twenty-round go from a .. young man, strong and fresh, and if i' any credit goes with that decision I i feel that I have worked for it.i“My only excuse for not scoring a knockout is that 1 broke two hones in . my right hand in the early part of the • fight, and. in the thirteenth round 1 l ' completely disabled the other hand, f i had a hard time of it from that on. but[ I never once felt myself in danger.tf“Gardner's mode of fighting is not ■■ lt;the oue I am accustomed to, and. al- • ' though I did my best to win from him . lt;in tho early rounds, I was virtually lt;compelled to abandon all hopes of a : } . knockout after 1 hurt my hands. ^“There is a great deal of praise due ; to Gardner, for he (ought a game, hard fight. He was always ready to come ; back mto the fray after he had been i hit hard, and he mixed it when the opportunity was afforded. He made no stand at an in the first two rounds, but he fought hard to win from that on. “This battle ends my career in the ; prize ring. 1 will never light again. 1 . am getting old, and I believe there are j yet good young men to develop. Why, a week ago I wrote George Dawson : that 1 would be lucky if 1 won, and 1 tell you now that I am a lucky fellow.“Why, I was a sick man. 1 tel! you, and I can easily feel the effects of ■ Gardner's punches, even though they . were not very hard ones. i it was a terrific left-hand swing— ; 4ione of the sort that has been Boh 1 Fitzsimmons’ specialty for twenty g ; years—that checked the championship d j aspirations of George Gardner. \ h, The blow was delivered at the out- n : set of the fifth round, and but for the 1 n , remarkable euditrance of the Lowell ; a : lad would have sent him into dream- j tl land for the rest of the night. There ■ f' were no frills about this savage punch i that took all the ginger out of the i £ youthful Irishman and robbed him of r, the strength that was needed in the ! f finish of the long contest. ' LGeorge's guard was down and up . went that terrific left full and plump [ tl on the point of the jaw. Gardner went j to down a heap, appeared confused, but , to finally gathered himself together by $ the count of nine in order to avoid the | last second of the referee's toiling. * The battle was won then and there, ,though Fitz’s punches could not se- j ^U/euro the knockout for which he labored earnestly during the rest of the gt contest.Gardner put up a game battle, re- j hj reiving a terrible beating. The blow in ^ the fifth round unquestionably took all the ginger out him and left him unable to deliver a decisive wallophimself.Kitz is far from satisfied with his showing, insisting that, the poor eon-dition of his hands alone deprived him of the credit of a knockout.—Illus- l( (rated Sporting News. PCl
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Logansport Times
Logansport, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 01, 1904
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