The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-03-11
r1rzsINIMONS WILL DO MORE
WRESTLING FROM NOW TILL
THE FIGHT DATE.
MRS. F|TZS|M MONS IS At Carson
Sbe Arrived Yesterday-Fitz. Took His
Tsual Run to Town-Corbett Goes
Through Big Routine of Work.
Other Pugilistic Notes.

Carson New, March S.-From now UNI
I'll he steps into the ring, Fitzsimmons
will do more wrestling and very little
boxing. He expressed himself to this ex-
toni MS he finished his mornings work.
Fitzsimmons has never made any pre-
,ense of boxing while in preparation for
Ms battles. Since he has been at Cook s
ranch he has done more boxing than at
ony other time while in training, but he
has now cut this to the minimum. Wrest-
ling. he declares, if done violently. is apt
10 strain the forearms, and, as Fitzsim-
mons nut it, he would not he able to lick
teaspoon, let alone big fellow like
Corbett. if my forearms should be in bad
shape
Early this morning Fitzsimmons de-
clored he would do a little road work, as
the mud was frozen and the road was not
so bad but as soon as the sun got fairly
over the mountain tops it created mud III
the roads at a rate of an inch a minute.
and FitZsimmons gave up the idea of
+ trotting through the slush and concluded
10 do his morning work indoors. He first
tried his hand at handball court the bet
fer portion of two hours. After the con-
"
FitZsimmons donned his gloves and went
at it with Hickey as an antagonist, and
he then took on ROeber for three rounds
and Stezner for as many more. The
work was very fast. and at the conclusion
FitZsimmons announced that he was pre-
pared to do little wrestling with Roeber.
After dinner Fitzsimmons declared he
would do some road work, and in a short
time Roeber. Stelzner and FitZsimmons
fA, no, Il Ia hn
direction of Carson. FitZsimmOns was
looking for his wife and Martin Julian.
the latter having gone yesterday. TO meet
Mrs. Fitzsimmons. The train being
twenty minutes late, Fitzsimmons started
for short run, returning five minutes
before the train arrived. As the train
rolled up Fitzsimmons spied Martin
Julian. In a minute more Mrs.
Fitzsimmons was in front of him. He
kissed her, and made a grab for his baby
hoy. He then placed his wife, nurse and
baby in a carriage and started them for
Cooks ranch. He then started on foot,
going across the country instead of the
road on account of the mud. On reach
ing the ranch he put in an hour punch
ing the bag, whereupon mis- days work
was done.
The visitor who approached Corbett's
quarters this morning would have been
justified in thinking. from the noise that
came to his ears as he entered the yards
of the grounds, that a hoodlum troupe
were doing double shuttle in the barn
like structure that has been erected for
handball. 1t was only the Corbett broth
ers; Jim and Joe, engaged in a friendly
game of handball. Jim was having hard
luck at the game and was taking the most
desperate chances in order TO pile up his
score. 1t was by no means warm in the
place. and the visitors who stood watch
ing the game for more than ten minutes
were only too glad to hunt a stove. Cor
bet was wet with perspiration, however,
and played with the utmost violence. He
seemed to be at all times breathing easy.
He kept at the handball court for over
an hour. and then White called him, say
ing it was on the program for him to box.
As usual. ,Jefferies was the first, and jim
went at him like whrlwind, hitting him
all over the body and driving him all over
the place. McVey. with his wrestling and
pulling and Juggling, came next, and
George Green and Woods brought up
the rear. Then everything began all over
again. and was gone through in much
the same manner as before, save that
COrbett, instead of going after .Jefferies,
kept that gentleman coming after him.
Again and again Jefferies rushed and
made desperate efforts to land, but not
once could he reach the champion. Cor
bett would move back so slightly that it
seemed as though Jefferies must certain
" land with each hand but COrbett was
always just out of range. In the after
noon Corbett wound up with sixteen
rounds of bagging and wrestling, all done
without rest or relaxation of any Kind.