The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-05

clcs to fight February a. St Valentines
| Day, near III Paso both parties are very
| confident oil success, and II their CONT
dCgces are expressed honestly, they are
| very hopeful sign OF the men meeting In
| the ring. From now until the men come
| together their records Will be the theme
of very much debate in every part of the
| United States. and, as far as their records
20, Fitzsimmons has much the better OF
| the Irish champion. Today wen devote n
few lines to their respective records.
! Fitzsimmons Is only credited with one
defeat viz by Jim HAN. which viii be
| dealt with later on. The former made his
first anp' atun"c as boxer IN New Hta-
land in 1850 l., a tourney promoted w JON
Mace and hc defeated -four men, becoming
aluate''r champion Of New Zealand. In
1881 he won tho same tourney. defeating
five men. Including Slade. the MAORI Sub
sequently he defeated Jem Crawford, BIZ
Slavin. Starlight. Arthur Cooper Jack
Brummcad, Jack Greentree, Dick Sandal.
Conway Professor Vert. Pablo Drank,
Jack Riddle Eager. The longest of these
fights was with Starlight. which laatec
nine rounds and the shortest was that
with Vert, the latter being beaten In ore
round.
IN 1853 Fitzslmmons defeated Dick Ellis
In three rounds, and IN 1890 he was beaten
by Hall IN four rounds. Fitzsimmons. of
Holl for $40. The account of the bnttle
shows that Hall was very, very ''groggy''
In the third round, and that l'itzsimmons
Was as fresh as daisy when the
fourth round commenced.
titzslInmons arrived In America May TO-
1890 pnd on May % defeated buy ficCsr-
thy In nine rounds, He knocked ont Ar
thur l-plam in nve. and in 1871 Uanuary
10 knocked out Jack Dempsey IN thirteen
rounds; he knocked out Abe s1niie IN
Chicago, April 2S, In two rolnis, ana
March 2. 1892, defeated Peter Ma1er III
twelve rounds. He beat James Fd''Hii in
two rounds; Joe Godfrey in one ROAD;
Jerry Slattory In two rounds and inorkei
out Willard Gender In one. on March 8,
1898 he knocked Jim Hall out IN four
rounds, and subsequently beat Mayor,
Warner. Hickey: fought n draw with
Choynski, the police interfering; knocked
out Keller In two rounds, and on Sep
TENDER 25 1884, he knocked out Dan cree
don In two rounds. lritz was born q, Els
ton, Cornwall, England June a. 1852, and
is r feet ia, inches tall
This is. indeed, great record ana one
to be proud of. ,
Peter Maher has not had such a bril-
liant career as the above by any reans,
but II is fair to say that Maher In his
early boxing DAYS had not the experience
or the tuition that Fitzsmmons had. II Is
only lately that Maher has rearncd his
good form, at least that Is what his
friends and hackers claim.
Peter Maher was born In Galway, Ire |
land March 10, 1859 and Il feet In |
inches tall His first public encounter was
with Martin O'Hara, whom he defeated
In two rounds In 1883, He beat Tim |
O'Doherty IN three rounds and boxed
four-round draw with RobeN Hair ANA
teur champion OF england. He knocked |
out John Seenan In five rounds for * $40
and the middleweight champion OF Ire
land. He won John T.. Sulliyan's COM
petition in Dublin, defeating Jack Wal
lis, Tom Walters aud Larry Drew, Thy
boxed three rounds each. He met Peter
Jackson In Dublin In 1859. They were ~
have boxed four rounds, but Maher only
boxed two. Maher knocked out ALI Bow
man In six rounds and Gus Lambert IN |
one round. He arrived in New YORK
October 7. 1891. and defeated Davis IN four
Tim DAILY In one, Jack Fallon IN
two and Jack Smith and Sailor Brown IN
one round each on the same evening
AID beat Joe Godfrey in one round IN
1892,
on March Q. 1899, Maher was beaten by
Fitzsimmons In ~ rounds AZ New OF
leans and q little later he knocked out