The Topeka state journal., 1897-03-09
FITT BIG DOG.
Sets 1t Upon Steiner and It
Bites Him
Which FitZSimmOnS Considers a
Great Joke.
How the Two Pugilists Spent
the Day.
VIOLENT EXERCISE
For Both of Fitzsimmons and
COrbett.
Mrs FitZSimmOns Arrives Ac.
cOmpanied by Julian.

Carson City, New, March e.-F'rom
now until he steps into the ring Bob
Fftzsimrpons will do no more wrestling
and very little boxing. F1tzsimmons
trains upon 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 he has now
cut this to the minimum. Wrestling,
he declares, if done violently, is apt to
strain the forearms. and as Fitz him
self put it, Il would not be able to
lick a teaspoon, let alone a big fellow
like Corbett, if my forearm should hap
pen to be in bad shape
Yesterday Fitz declared that hewould
do a little road work, as the mud was
frozen and the going was not SO bad
put as soon as the sun got fairly over
the mountain tops it created mud in
the roads at the rate of an inch a min
ute and Fitz gave up his idea of trot-
ting through the slush and concluded
to do his work within doors. He first
tried his hands in the ball court for
the better portion of two hours, playing
alternately with Steiner and Hickey
and making the game fast and furious.
Fitz is a long distance in the rear of
Corbett as a player of hand ball, but
he managed to get as much exercise
out of it the latter derives from his
bett plays hand ball he goes at it in
the same deadly earnest manner as 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 eff
forts to beat if he at any time is fall
ing behind in his score. Fitz, on the
other hand, regards hand ball as a mild
sort of diversion, and he does more
fooling around the court than actual
playing.
After the conclusion of this work
Fitz dOnned his gloves and went at it
with Hickey as an antagonist. and then
he took on Roeber for three rounds and
Stelzner for as many more. The work
was very fast, and at its conclusion
Fitz announced 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 Fitz took his
rub down and sat down to wait for his
dinner. The appetite of the big Aus
| tralian is something to wonder at, and
| although he is very careful in what he
| eats, he gets away with an enormous
amount of provender in a day, when
| 1t is considered that he has presum-
| ably but one stomach.
After dinner Fitz went into the yard
| and played with the big dog which he
! admires so much and which everybody
| else without exception would delight in
| seeing turned into sausage meat. Stelz-
ner was in a big swing, swinging 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 StelZner was using the swing.
| The dog seems to consider his mission
| on earth to keep people out of that
| swing, and he made a rush for StelZner,
| 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 miX-up of dog, wildly fly
ing feet and profane language, and
! when Steiner managed to free himself
| from the big brute he was sadly In
| need of a new pair of trousers. Fitz
seemed to regard the episode as a huge
| joke and he capered around the yard
| shouting with laughter He then took
! his turn at aggravating the dog until
| the latter was fairly savage. Then he
would grab the dog by the throat and
throw him to the ground with force
| canine's carcass After allowing his
| dinner to settle, Fitz declared that he
| thought he would do some road work,
| and in a short time ROeber and Stelz-
| ner set forth for run over the roads
| in the direction of Carson City.
Fitz was looking for his wife and Mar
last night to meet Mrs. Fitzsimmons: The
| train from Reno is due at 3:4o and ten
| minutes before the time of its arrival
Fitz and Steiner were on the platform.
| He was very anxious and when the sta
| ton agent announced that the train was
20 minutes late, Fitz set on Ior run
| through the streets, returning five min
| ntPS before the arrival OIL the tram ana
| pacing nervously up and down the pat
| form Mrs Fitzsimmons has been some
| what longer coming than was expected
! and her husband was Fearful tnat she
/ was not to arrive today. At times he
| would say "she will not come and at
| others he offered to bet Stelzner So that
| she would be on the train AS the train
rolled up to the station, Fitz spied Martin
| Julian standing on the platform and yell
| ed out There is Julian She has come
this time and he was right, for in an
| other minute, Mrs. Fitzsimmons was in
| front of him. Fitzsimmons kissed her
and made grab for his baby boy: After
| hestoWine a few fathery attentions on
| the infant he put Mrs. Fitzsimmons and
| the nurses in the carriage and started
| them for Cooks ranch. Then he started
on foot going across the country IN
stead of taking the road on account OF the
He complained of his arms hurting him
| today and said they were sore as result
| muscles pliable and keep my wind good
| and if possible make it better. If can
| do these things ! rather think that Will
| stand up when the fight is over"
The visitor who approached Corbetts $
| training quarters this morning would
| have to be justified in thinking from the
| noise that came to his ears as he entered
| the yard at Shaws Springs, that herd
| of elephants were doing a combination
| that had been erected for a hand-bal
| court. It was only the Corbett brothers.
Jim and Joe however @ a1;g engaged I9G IN ,.a
| having hard luck at the game and he
| was taking the most desperate chances at
| the ball to pile up his score 1t was py
no means warm in the place and the Visi-
| tor who stood watching the game for
| more than ten minutes was only too glad
| 70 hunt a stove Corbett was wet with
| perspiration, however, and played with
| the utmost violence. He seemed to be at
| the hand-baI court for over an hour, and
| then White called him to time. saying
| box. AS usual Jeffries was first and
| Tim at him like a whirl wind, driving