The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

the men and TO one of the correspondents
said:
Pm cut out for carpenter as we'll as
fighter. There's no chance for me to lose
this battle. but if should, by hook or
noon 1 have demonstrated the fact that
can build structure at least"
After Fitzsimmons had finished his
work as architect within his own training
quarters he took q shotgun and, with
Steiner, went into the mountains to hunt
some game. The two meE started in a
binding snowstorm-a storm which has
ragged for twenty-four hours-and after a
half-hour's tramp through Rattlesnake
Canyon, they shot nine quail. These Ne
vada birds are strange TO Eastern sports
men, for he reason that they have a yellow
tail.
When Fitz returned to headquarters and
again stretched himself upon couch in
the gymnasium he said:
Il am not like a whole lot of fighters.
Most OF them say when they go into a
battle of this kind that it will be their
last. This is nonsense to me. Win or
lose, L m going to keep on fighting, and
L
I am that St. Patrick's day comes on the
18th of March. I'm in sort of peculiar
position. Many people, including those
who started to win my title to the cham
pionship, have said that l was drinking
liquor. Permit NE to say to the people of
this country that l have taken only seven
drinks OF whisky since L have been in
Carson. These were taken because of a
throat trouble and cold, which most peo-
pie suffer from in this climate.
II want to say to my friends in every
part of the country that / am the Fitzsim-
mons who entered the ring in San Fran
cisco, at New Orleans and at Langtry. l
am making no boast that l will win this
fight. l know I'm up against a clever
man and strong man, bat think with
the training get and my own experience
as general inside of the ropes that l will
outpoint him ana outpoint him hard.
Understand, this is no boast"
Fitzsimmons then arose from his couch
and, stretching his massive form, freckled
from head to toe. and hairy from the neck
to the elbow, entered the gymnasium and
wrestled with Roeber.
Then he returned to his work of con-
struction of his handbail court inside the
building. He sawed most of the tim bers
and "bossed'' the job from start to finish,
and when he was through with this work
he began to pluck the feathers from the
quail he had shot early IN the afternoon
in the mountains.
The Cornishman considered that he
had only done fair days work, although
every body else about the ranch was worn
out and longing for bedtime. This man is
q phenomenon and no mistake.
Parson Davies, the celebrated Chicago
sport and manager of pugilistic stars, will
not be greeted with a hearty welcome by
the management of the coming carnival
in Carson in the event that he should
journey hither.
1t appears that the "Parson" has given
it as his opinion that the big scrap be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons is to be
fake, and this has greatly incensed Dan
Stuart. Through his secretary, w. X.
Wheelock, Stuart extended a formal IN
vitation tonight to Davies to stay away
from the fl ht. The Chicagoan is sar-
castically informed that, inasmuch as he
knows so much about the outcome of the
mill, there would be no need of his going
to the expense and trouble of travelling
away out 10 Nevada to see it. The "Par-
sons" reply to this joyous epistle ought
to be interesting. j. G. MANSFIELD.