El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-18
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prize fighting" said Bob FitZ,immOn
the other day, land so man canno
get back at them when they go in
Some of them are dead serious, AM
that's all ght. for you've got to re
spect man that isn't taking. Blu
down at New Orleans OF of the priest
from the college there came to see me
and some of them put on the glove
| with me.
s'I've noticed that priests. however
! are d fferent from preachers, though
| Il Protestant myself. One of the
old fathers, after SEEING me go rou' G
or two in practice, got on his pulpit
style and ask d me why followed prize
| fighting, VIII CHI he thought was low
down sort of business.
"Then | said to him [ was in my
trade for the same reason he was in
his. No man likes the business he's
in says l, but you get big salary for
what you co, says [, and I'm prize
fighter instead of a backSm tn. says |,
because there's more money in it for
me-"
This was cynical, and Bob felt it was
unworthy of him. So be said, beiu G
encoura ged by an approving nod from
tie smiling Mrs. BIB.
BE ng the best man that ever was
10 the ring | -"
Bob" expostulated the lady, who,
having been an acrobat of distinction
and is therefore familiar with the con-
ventionalities, saw the improperly of
this honesty.
well, but amt 70" argued til g
Anyway, what l want 10 get in is that
the persons are all right in objecting
to blood. I'm with them there
Then Fi;z held forth as man of
sense, an honest man and man who
had laid out more opponents in the
ring than any other specialist alive or
dead.
There's kick coming to the par
son." he said. ''You go into the ring
and set-to, and the chaps in the seats
hiss if you don't hit hard, You sit
away and jabbing for points, are you
satisfied? Not much. If I clip fell
low on the cheek bone and the blood
comes, you rise and yell. IfI've got a
cub before me that I'm sorry for, and
don't want to hurt any more than l can
help, what do you do? You get on
your legs and throw up your hat and
screech and howl. Put him OUT you
yell. kill him, murder him, Bob
That's YOU
Mr.. Fits mmons showed his disgust
lOT IuS ny uIO era ~, lOt Wis
was at his table Thus he kept his
temper under control and his hand off
me.
"a fight is one thing for the men
who are doing it and another to the
fellows who are looking at it. I've
been in the ring. and I've sat by the
ring, ard when I'm doing the sitting
I'm a good deal of the parson. hate
to see a game dub done up by clever
man, and l hate to see a clever man
with. a cruel heart. When 1 sit by to
watch fight AID see the best man
switching in and pun ching the other
I'd Ike to jump in and punch the chap
that knows he's got soft thing. That's
the way l feel"
HAD TO LICK CORBETT.
On the score of brutalization, as con-
Germs partlc pants and spectators OF
prize fights. FItZ said:
1--WE heard lot about it, but don't
know, I've done lot of fighting, and
now I'm on the pinnacle. When |
started out | was the foreman of the
shop with three pounds a week, and
now l am at the top of the heap.
whenever I've tried I've got to the
top Pm the best bOrseshOer in the
world. I'm the best bappuncher in
the world, and I'm the best fighter in
the world. They shout at me and fol-
low me and write about me, and I'm a
great man, but all the same I'm just
the Bob FiIzsimmons 1 was when l
started out. I've licked everybody
that's come up against me in any game.
l says to my mother, 'I'll be the best
black smith, and l says to my wife, I'll
do Corbett,' and | came out all right
If 1 hadn't licked Corbett I'd have
broken my world know I wouldn't
do that"
Bob laughed quietly and made this
clear Rose, | sd to her. if lick
him leave the ring No, Bob, says
she, you leave it anyhow. Fighting's
good enough, but it makes US to excit-
ed. You've got to leave it to me- All
right Rose, I sa d 10 her, and BY
mean Irwin or los J, Il m done with fight
ing But if Corbett had done me, l
know I'd broken loose and defied them
all.
Put up good big club, put it under
good management and when the doc
tors have said the boys are fit, let
them go in and scrap. There won't
anybody go there who hadn't ought to
be there If you let them alone If the
parsons come fooling around, keep
them out"
According to a story which comes
from Philadelphia the reason for the
rather poor showing which kid" Me-
Coy made with Jack Bonner in their
glove contest re- entity was due to the
fact that Mccoy went into the ring
partially crippled.
Dick O'Brien stepped on one of his
big toes in their contest few days
b. fore and bruised it 20 badly that a
part of lis nail had to be cut away to
get rid of the cOagalated blood and to
prevent the injury fostering. He was
very much afraid that Bonner mi hit
sep on it, and had he done so it would
have panied him frightfully. The
care of his toe kept him from mixing
things up with Bonner several times.
Some of the t-legraphic reports of the
go had 1T that Boomer knocked Mccoy
down la the last round ju-t as the gong
sounded for it's close This was mis-
take. Mccoy had Bonner a bit grog-
gy, and was trying his best to ''cop
him OUT
He was forcing Bonner, who stopped
under a rght handler, and Mccoy,
verbalancing himself, slipped down.
don't think that Bob F'itzsimmons