The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-07
fITZ' REMARKABLE BACK
Great Muscular Development Makes
the Man Seem DefOrmed.
HITS A TREMENDOUS BLOW
Big Shoulders. Back and shoulder Blades
Give Him Ills Awful Punching
Power Secret Vt His sue.
cess In the Ring.

One blow from FitZsimmons' list
knocked Maher out and made fitZSim-
mons the champion pugilist OF the
world. one blow from this same iist
knocked out Jim Hall at New Orleans.
One blow from Fitzsimmons' same INST
knocked his sparring partner. Riordah'
dead at Syracuse year ago. Inc
man never recovered consciousness.
one blow from this awful fist VIII
knock senseless any man or animal
that ever lived. One blow from this
Fitzsimmons' fist will crush the skull
of any ordinary man or beast. What
Is the secret of this extraordinary INST
of Fitzsimmons? What is the mystery
of this human battering ram? The eN-
PLANTATION is physiological one-the
secret of FitZsimmons' hnOcKout blow
is the enormous shoulder power. For
FitzsinlInOns has the largest and long
est shoulder blades, probably, OF any
man on earth.
LIKE A MULE KICK.
When Fit2simmons' fist strikes 1t
lands with the force of a mules nina
leg The muscles which grow over
and under and about those huge shoul-
der blades are worked with Il giant
lever of bone. 1t IL in these large
shoulder blades that the great power
.nanates which so suddenly has won
him the fame and title he now pos
seSses.
1t doesn't matter how clever a pugil-
list Corbett may be or how much more
superior he is as q boxer, he would
never stand up for more than one blow
from the fist of the new champion.
And still there are a multitude OF peo-
pie who say that every fight that the
Australian blacksmith has won in this
country was won by chance bloW.
NhAn
a picture of FitZsimmons' abnormally
Developed back and shoulder blades
and notice how far down the latter
extend, they will no doubt see thSt
there is u wonderfully well developed
territory to supply the force when he
swings his long and rather slender
arm with a big. hard, bony fist at its
end
When that arm and fist are swung
with the tremendous and perfectly de-
veloped muscular strength behind 1t,
the object on which ii lands Is almost
as sure to go down and become sense
less rs the sun Is daily to disappear.
CORRETr- SULLIVAN.
Far bigger men tl.an FitZsimmons
have hit sullivan i'm fights during his
ralmy days. but he was seldom knocked
down. and never actually knocked
senseesS. Corbett hammered at him
for over twenty rounds when he was In
Il physical condition totally unit to
light. but ne didn't beat him down with
any such neatness and dispatch as
Fi,zsimmons did Maher. a younger,
stronger and better trained fighter than
Sullivan was during his battle.
When Jim Hall fought FitZsimmons
at New Orleans, 81 few years ago. he
was considered, and. in fact was pro-
nouncrd by Corbett to be the best
fighter living, barring the champion
himself The betting, just previous to
the battle, showed Hall tn be the su-
perior man, according to the views Of
the public. Yet after fiddling away
three or four rounds without fighting
much. Fitzsmmons swung that big
right fist and landed it on Halls jaw
This blow, as recently described by an
eye witness of 1t. was of sufficient force
to have felled an OK.
Nearly ten minutes elapsed after Hall
'eCeived this terrible swinging blow be-
fore he recovered his senses. and for q
short time many of the onlookers feared
that he might have been fatally in
jured.
FlTZ is SENSITIVE.
Fitz is somewhat, sensitive on the
subject of his big shoulders, as they
give him the appearance of being
round shouldcrod or slightly deformed.
\S weakness generally accompanies de-
formity, Fitz need have no fear of ever
being accused by any Of his adversaries
of the latter ufIlictiOn.
Another instance Of the tremendous
power which cmanates from Fitzs
back and shoulder through his fist was
the fatal termination of n blow he land
cd on his sDarring partner in Il Syra-
cuse theater over Il year ago.
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