St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-16
FITz and HIS FIGHT.
Eighteen Thousand Dollars
the Price for Doing
Dempsey.
He Claims to Have Worked
No Harder Than When
Punching the Bag.
Ais Late Opponent He Re-
CARDS as One Of the Gam
est Men Alive.
The Toledo Clubs Injunction
The Toledo Clubs Injunction
Waived Pending Settle
ment.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 15.-To-day the
talk was still all fight. There
was not much room for discus
sion, as the fight had all been
one way The general verdict, briefly
summed up, is that Fitzsimmons is a
wonder and class all by himself, and
that Jack Dempsey is the cleverest and
gameSt man of his niche who has ever
entered a ring. "What do you think of
the fight?" was asked Of FitZsimmons.
swell, you saw it. 1t was not
a hard one. / did not even get thor
oughly warmed up, and there was no
trouble about my legs was the return.
81 did not work any harder than when
punching the bag. SAID before the
fight that l would reach him when
ever | wished, and whenever
/ caught him with my right he would
go down. 1t turned out that way.
There was also some talk about my
skill as boxer, but | don't think
Dempsey reached me often. | warded
off several blows which the papers said
reached my face, and DemDSey's wrist
will tell you that"
''With all that, you were very hui
mane," suggested some one.
THAT'S the best way, isn't it?" re
piled the great New Zealander. Il
don't want TO intlict more harm than
can help. / asked him to quit when |
saw that he had no more chance. l told
him that was strong enough to last all
nj u a,,d that ia had hotter rive IN
you fight answered Dempsey, Pm
not gone yet and | had to keep it up,
much to my regret. His gameness cost
me $1,000, which had been promised me
in case | won in ten rounds"
''What do you think of Dempsey"
81 think he is the gameSt and best
man | ever met. He can whip any 9TH
er man of his weight in the country.
Jim Hall. whom | met in Australia, was
as clever man as Dempsey. He was
one or those step in and step out hitterS,
onicll as flash, but Dempsey dis
counts anybody | have ever seen on
earth. He certainly won my admira-
tiOn.'
"What are your future plans?"
Carroll is the man to say about that.
He is manager, and | leave everything
to him, ;"
Fitzsimmons received congratulatory
kilograms from all over the country,
and was glad to find that he had friends.
He received tokens more substantial
than congratulations, people who had
placed money OH him giving him share
for his percentage of the winnings. The
Olympic club paid over ST., 900 of the
purse money by noon, and up to that
time FitZSimmOns had received $1,000
in voluntary rewards. FitZSimmOnS is
goOd-natured, but hardly sentimental,
so the display of enthusiasm was left to
Jimmy Carroll. The latter brought
Fitzsimmons here. matched him against
Dempsey and trained and coached him
for the fight.
Glow about the proposed fight with
Corbett?'
0 Carroll replied: "There is nothing in
that. FitZsimmonS is a middleweight,
and there is no use for him to go after
heavyWeightS. | believe he could whip
some of the heavyweights, but he might
make the same mistake as Dempsey and
be sorry. 1t is not good policy for a
man to 90 outside Of his class"
NO middleweight will fight him."
suggested the interviewer,
"Oh. yes; either Teddy PritchaId or
Jack Burke, the rivals for the English
championship, will meet him." was the
reply.
Fitzsimmons came up and was told
about the CorDett matter.
"Corbett is too clever" said Fitzsim-
mons, land too big. Middlewelghts are
good enough for me-"
Parson Davies, of Chicago, who
starred Peter Jackson, got up early in
the morning and had a talk with Fitz-
simmons and Carroll, and the inter
view ended in contract for a tour to
cover America and England, and to
last six months, provided the consent of
the California Athletic club, which has
engagements with both men, is OBJ
tanned. The men are we'll liked by the
directors, and those who were in the
city promised to call a meeting as soon
as they reached home. in the mean
time Davies has gone to Chicago to pre-
pare the tour, which will begin in a
few weeks. After the large cities in
America are visited, it is proposed to go
to England and arrange match with
Pritchard or Burke before the Pelican
club, as an entering wedge to the Brit
ish sporting public. Davies thinks he
has great star in FitZsimmonS.