The record-union., 1897-03-09
Thinks He is in Condition to Do Up
Jim Corbett.
The Latter Continues His Hard Work
at the HandbalI Court, Doing a
Turn With All His Trainers-PiayS
Handball With Rather Hard Luck
With His Brother Joe.

CARSON, March S-F'rom now on
until he steps into the ring Bob FitZ-
simmons Will do no more wrestling,
and very little if any boxing. He de-
clared to this effect at the conclusion of
his mornings work. F'itZ trains on
methods as unconventional as those
upon which he fights, and he has never
made any pretense of boxing While in
preparation for his battles. He has,
since he has been at Cooks ranch, done
more boxing than any other time when
in training, but now he has cut this to
minimum Wrestling, he declares, if
done violently, is apt to strain the fore
arms, and as Fitz himself put it, L
would not be able to lick a teaspoon,
let alone a big fellow like Corbett, if
my forearms should happen to be in
bad shape"
Early this morning Fitzsimmons de-
clared that he would do a little road
work, as the mud was frozen and the
going was not so bad, but as soon as
the sun got fairly over the mountain
tops it created mud in the roads at the
rate Of an inch a minute, and Fitz gave
up his idea of trotting through the
slush and concluded to do his morn
ing'S work within doors. He first tried
his handball court for the better por-
| ton of two hours, playing alternately
with Steiner and Hickey, and making
the games fast and furious.
Fitz is long distance in the rear of
Corbett as player of handball, but
he managed to get as much exercise
out of it as the latter derives from
his more pretentious game. When Cor
bett plays handball he goes at it in the
same deadly earnest manner in which
he enters into everything else, and it
goes against his grain to lose a game.
He wants to be at the top all the time,
and he will make the most desperate
efforts to heat if he at any time is
falling bef. 4d in his score. Fitz, on
the other 1aEd. regards handball as
mild sort of diversion, and he does
more fooling around the court than
actual playing. II is a common freak
of his to make q rush for the ball, and,
stopping midway, indulge in a wild
wrestle with anybody who happens at
the moment to be within reach of his
long arms.
After the conclusion of his work in
the handball court, Fitz donned the
gloves and went at it with Hickey as
an antagonist Then he took on Roe
ber for three rounds, and Steiner for
as many more. The work was very
fast and at its conclusion Fitz an
nounced that he was prepared to do a
little wrestling with Ernest Roeber.
They tugged back and forth across the
gymnasium for the larger part of an
hour, and then Fitzsimmons took his
! Il. i r
ner. The appetite of the big Australian
is something to wonder at, and al
though he is very careful in what he
eats, he gets away with an enormous
amount of provender in a day, when it
is considered that he has presumably
| but one stomach.
After dinner FitZ went into the yard,
where he proceeded to play with the
big dog which he admires so much. and
which everybody else, without eXcep-
ton, would delight in seeing turned in
to sausage meat. Steiner was in
big swing back Of the house moving
gently back and forth when Fitz and
the dog came into the yard and Fitz
with a yell of delight called the dogs
attention to the fact that Steiner was
using the swing. The dog seems to
consider it his mission on earth to keep
people out of that swing, and he made
a rush for Steiner, and before the
latter could get his legs into the air
the big dog had him. His teeth came
together with a vicious snap. catching
StelZner by the ankle. There was a
miXup of dog. wildly flying feet and
profane language, and when Stelzner
managed to free himself from the big
brute he was sadly in need of a new
pair of trousers. F'itz seemed to re-
gard the episode as a huge joke and he
capered the yard shouting with laugh
ter. He then took his turn at aggra-
waiting the dog until the latter was
fairly savage. Then he would grab the
dog by the throat and hurl him to the
ground with force sufficient to break
every bone in the CANNES carcass
After allowing his DINNER time to
settle. Fitz declared that in the after
neon he would do some road work. and
in a short time. he, Roeber and Stelz-
ner set forth for a run over the roads
in the direction of Carson. Fitz was
looking for his wife and Martin Julian,
fer the latter had gone to Reno last
night to meet Mrs Fitzsimmons The
tram from Keno Is uue dl o.4J, ana
ten minutes before that time Fitzsim-
mons was on the platform. He was
very anxious and nervous, and when
the station agent announced that the
train was twenty minutes late Fitzsim-
mons set off for a run through the
streets. He came back five minutes
efore the time for the arrival of the
train, and began pacing nervously up
and down the platform. Mrs Fitz-
simmons has been somewhat longer in
coming than was expected. and her
husband was fearful that she would
not arrive to-day At times he would
say: she will not come" and at 9TH
ers he offered to bet Steiner five dol
lars that she would be on the train.
As the train rolled up at the station
Fitz spied Martin Julian standing on
the platform, and called out: There
IS Martin. She came this time" and
he was right, for in another minute
Mrs Fitzsmmons was in front of him.
Fltz kissed her and then made a grab
for his baby boy, whom a nurse was
carrying. After bestowing a few father
ly attentions on the infant. he put
Mrs. Fitzsimmons, the nurse and baby