The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-16
FITZ is A WONDER.
Dempsey's Gameness Praised
by the Champion.
LAST THREE ROUNDS COSTLY.
Parson Davies Will Take Fftxsimmons
and Jackson on . Tour OF
America and Europe.

Sxw ORLEANS, Jan la-Today the talk was
still all fight The general verdict, all summer
up, is that Fiszsimmoas Is wonder and q eiass
ali by himself, and Jack Dempsey is the clever
est and gansst nan Of his inches who has essi
entered ring. Ftfzzimmons tonight SAID
"The fight was not bard one
did not even ges thoroughly warmed up
did not work any harder than when puEcl.1s
the tag / told him ! IVES strong enough 20 Isse
all night and he had better give UP. BIZ ne
would not and had 20 keep il Up, MUCH 20 Las
regret His gaTneaess cost me s, 900, whica asd
been promised me in ease Won in ten rounos-
FitZsimmons received eoRSratulatory tese
grams from oil over the country ara vas giaa
10 find he had friends. The Olympic CiEo todas
paid 10 him 81 ,tO0 his share OF the purse
money, and many people who won money or
him also made him presents which aggregate
$500
@How about the proposed fight with corbetts
Jimmy Carroll, his manager. replied, "lneIe
is nothing in that. Fttzsimmons IS middle
weight and there Is no use for hin TO so aiteI
heavy-weights. He might make the same % -,
take as Dempsey, and be sorry- II Is noI s0oa
policy For man 20 go outside OF his class
"Corbett is too clever" said Fitzsimmons'
''and too big. Ni6dle-weights are good enough
for me
.Parson' Davies, OF Chicago. who starred
Peter Jackson, had a talk with Fi.zsinnaoas anu
Carroll about contract for a tour 10 cover
America and England, and 20 last six months.
provided the consent of the California Ainletlc
Club which has engsgeTn nts with both men, IS
obtained. The men are well liked by the direct
ors, and those who are IN the city promised 10
call meeting as soon as they
reached home. In the meantime Davies
has gone to Chicago 10 prepare the
tour. which will begin in few weeks After
the large cities in America visited, II Is pro-
posed TO 60 to England and arrange match
with Pritchard or Burk before the Pelican club,
as an entering wedge to the British sporting
public.
Ii is estimated that the New Orleans men and
others who backed Fitzsirauons took IN soma
so coo, and would have got more If they. had
more Dempsey money in hand 70 be
placed, tut il could find no takers here ex-
cert a. excessive ODDS that would not 5e
given. Dempsey was beaten squerely and fairy
from the start, and the general impression Is
that FttZsimrnons could have knocked him out
earlier Quite number OF bets were made OF
I 20 5 and / to 10 that Dempsey would be
knocked out in ten or twelve rounds, and there
is some little disposition TO complain because
the fight was not declared over in the eleventh
round. Dempsey was knocked completely out
then ard bis seconds gave in. Denpsev, how
ever. staggered into the ring and insisted on
couple OF rounds more. and these that bet be
would be knocked out in twelve rounds lost III
consequence.
There are fewer complaints ard criticisms
than were ever before heard after fight, and
everybody comedies that Fi.zsim,aons Is much
the better man. Even Dempsey recognizes this,
and said 10 a friend: 81 was not IN il from
the start" But he hopes 10 pick up and
yet be able TO retrieve his defeat Fitzsmmons
did not suffer in the least from the fight, and
was as fresh when il was over as when Il began.
Dempsey took his defeat very hard, anu was
quite broken up over il. Jack MeAuliffs, Tut
hill and Dempsey's wife cared for him. and
q number OF friends called 10 see him. He in
sisted upon knowing how much each of
them lost on the fight, and seemed much dis
tresssd when informed of the amount 100
bad. too bad he said TO Nose Gunst, of San
Francisco, ''and to think that was not in it,
Dempseys nose Is badly broken, one OF his
eyes discolored, and he is badly punished about
the body Il was thought a. first that he had
two ribs broken. but this proved a mistake
He managed TO rest quietly until this afternoon.
and was refreshed this morning by his sleep.
but not able 10 get oCt He VIII probably be
confined to the house for day or so, and when
he feels well enough 10 travel he viii go East
The Galveston Athletic club wishes to give
Dempsey a benefit next week. but he viii
scarcely accept IL He attributes his defeat 10
Fitzsinmon's size and reach, ana said that he
hao no idea how big FitzsiEn,ons was until he
saw him in the ring. Dempsey has received
quite number of kilograms OF sym PATTY.