Corbett, Fitz felled by Big Jeff . Coming title bout recalls ; famous fights of the past With the big news that Archie Moore fiaally has : : yweight title signed, sealed and to be delivered at Yankee Stadium on the night of heay By LESTER RODNEY NEW YORK his crack at Rocky Marciano’ s | ‘Ptember 20, there will be a steady rise of ta'k,about the fight. There is something about 4 Dig heay Wi peghts, this seems like a good me to run back briefly over See Of the more exciting heavy- Weil ' ‘ Vag : i Sht title fights of history. ll &0 back around the fabled Urn of the century and work our Way up to date, stopping at the § ones, ‘ Gentleman Jim, the original ey Dan” of the ring, was the St champ to try to regain his Ost laurels. Jim; a former San ‘Reiseo bank clerk, had bat- red the great John L, Sullivan be oblivion in 1892 tio become the yt world’s champ under the esis of Queensbury rules. He “it in turn to little Ruby Bob simmons in 1897 and Fitz was “Posed by Jim Jeffries in 1899. Co. at the age of 35. Jeffries, who More than a few supporters ae as fir: in € greatest of them all, was ie hitter and was installed Gent] rl favorite over the faded heayy wan Jim. Betting was Ko > that he would win by a side of 10 rounds. in a fought on May 11, 1900 of cd Seaside. Athletic Club of g 2eY Island, before a crowd 000. iN the Still speedy Corbett put ay Wd in an uproar and danced labpj “ound the heavier Jeffries, huge 1° his head and piling up a Young fad on points. At the 22nd looked it Was a 25-rounder) it 4s though Corbett was in. ed © 23rd, as Corbett seem- Maybe st iUst a bit careless, or f| 8 bit tired, Jeffries let thay 1 © successive left hooks houjge much the way Joe ing Speedy, short but crush- and Bees landed on Billy Conn, Hay bett went down and out. snatched from Way rankled in Cor- ge oe hree years, and at the Jefg;- 28 he tried again, meeting San at Mechanic’s Pavilion in Ag. tdeisco. Vioug fand Competitor, it was ob- ‘at he was just a hollow € man who had once Wa the great John L., and Dj ay, 0ored in the second. ep e Some of his old speed, He till the sixth, when 7 down for the count of he end came in the 10th. _, text comeback attempt lor 4,2 Sffries defending the title Bop Fi, td time. It was Ruby 49, tryin : at the age of the much to regain the title, and Vith yy" Needed dough that went a Bj ; Ase Was known. as a fistic He Ww Cause he was so small. ss Never really more than fee" middleweight, - tot Was held in 1902 in a nt at Valencia Street in “iteys hy hd and Tipped the tent can- dust ad it flapping in places, Clouds swept across the As floor of the ring was at every time the heavier a step it gave a few ang ting Ust eu id mal Seconds after the first fgMong “td the ‘tight-lipped Fitz. e one ad cracked Jeffries’ fs Kor eight. rounds. he th the focus on the heavy-: Tbett made his first comeback] Was a dramatic setting.|’ yweight title fight, and this one has its fascinating angles, so... . cut, slashed and chopped the champ as the crowd roared in amazement. ’ Fitz, incidentally, spoke at a meeting at the old Madison Square Garden with Big Bill Haywood for the Paterson strik- ers who were being framed. He was a blacksmith before turning fighter. In the eighth he landed a hard blow over Jeffries left eye and the blood poured over both of them. Some say the wind blowing in through the torn canvas sprayed it over the ringsiders. round ended Jeffries’ glove was soaked from wiping his face. Later he said: “I took a terrific slaught- | Rocky Marciano looks at photo of challenger Archie Moore. Before that ering — it was a classic, no fool- ing.’ Jeffries was a boilermaker by trade, was awful tough. In the next round the champion came out slowly and bulled into Fitzsimmons without trying to box. He backed the lighter challenger into a corner. Fitz landed six times on the big, blood-soaked Jeffries with a left. Jeff feinted his guard down. Fitzsimmons moved in and started a right. It never got there. That terrific short left that saved the day against Corbett thudded solidly into Fitz" ‘body around the liver. The gallant little 40-year-old gladiator went down, rolled over on the canvas, tried to get up and couldn't. Chataway sets new three - mile record Cigar-smoking, beer-drinking, amiable Chris Chataway set a new world’s three-mile record last Saturday in a track and field meet at White City Stadium in London between England and West Germany. His time of 18 minutes 23.2 seconds was 3.2 seconds better than the previous mark made by ‘the Soviet ace, Vladimir Kuc, and 85 seconds better than the Bri- tish Empire Games record he es- tablished in winning the three- CHRIS CHATAWAY mile event here a year ago. Britain’s male and female thin- clads beat their German counter- parts in the two-way meet. In the men’s division the score was Bri- tain 111 points, Germany 95. In the women’s contests, Britain to- talled 53, Germany 50. Chataway had been training for a record attempt. but unlike the garrulous American miler, Wes Santee, he made no pre-race pre- dictions. Announcements of world record attempts are “out of fash- ion these days,” he explained later. Teammate Derek Ibbotson aided Chris all the way. At the start Chataway took the lead, with’ Ib- botson at his heels. They began alternating the lead at the start of each lap, until finally, with only two laps to go, Chataway shot ahead on his own. He did the key second last lap in 63.6 seconds and the final lap in 61 for a bril- liant 02:04.6 final half-mile. Ibbotson finished second, ahead ‘of Germany’s Walter Konrad. Gert Whgte's ANADA’S Sweetheart, Marilyn Bell, was almost completely |ignored by the press in England as she trained for her Channel attempt. But when she suc- cessfully completed the tough swim, thus becoming the young- est swimmer ever to conquer the English Channel, her feat was splashed all over the front pages of the British dailies. Marilyn is the 25th woman and the 87th person to make the crossing since Captain Matthew Webb first- accomplished the feat in 1875. Until her swim Philip Mickman of .England, who beat the Channel in 1949 at the age :} of 18, was the youngest swimmer to complete the difficult grind. Marilyn’s comment, as she crawled ashore on the rough beach near Abbotscliff and Pressed her cheek to the peb- bles, was typical of a 17-year- oid: “Gee, | never thought this moment would happen!” Congratulations, Marilyn from vll Canadians. We love you. * * * The word “swimming” jis de- rived from the old English word “swimmin,” as in, “I like to go swimmin with wimmin.” Competitive swimming began several years all contestants used the breast stroke. It was some North American Indians who visited England in 1844 who first introduced the crawl, An Indian named Flying Gull was the sensation of the meet. slow to take to the crawl, how- ever, and when Captain Webb swam the Channel he used the breast stroke. A chap named Trudgen became a noted swimming instructor, and began to stress the double over- hand stroke, which he learned while visiting South America. He had failed to learn how the South Americans kicked their legs and so his pupils continued the scissor-like movement in the old English’ stroke. The “Australian crawl” which finally revolutionized British swimming, was introduced by the astounding Cavill family. Freder- ick Cavill-and his six sons took a trip to th South Seas, studied le way the natives swam, and copied it when they went to Aus- tralia. Records began to fall, and when one of the sons, Rich- ard, visited England in 1902 and scored impressive triumphs with his “splash” stroke, it quickly caught on. Later another Ca- vill, named Sydney, emigrated to the United States and- began