Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16
FITZ AGAIN LOSER.

Mr.. Denahy not only won the fight but
he decided it by locking the other prin-
cipals in separate rooms in the hotel until
they acknowledged his decision was cor
rect.
AS a result of the affair Chicago was
shy an actor last night whose name was
on the playbil!s at the Alhalmbra. This
was FitZsimm0ns. who evidenced his
feelings over the affair by leaving town
during the morning. He had one more
night to play at the, Alhambra to finish
his engagement. Mr.. Julian was alb G to
attend to his duties as of the
Lyric theater last night and displayed
only a few sears where knuckles of Fitz-
simmons and Denahy had LANDED on his
features. Denahy came out of it without
a scratch.
Miss Valerie Bergerc, of the Dearborn
stock company, was the one who drew
Night Clerk Denahy into the fight. She
occupied a room near that of Fitzsi1n-
mons On the sixth floor. She was awak-
ened shortly after l O'Clock by a noise
that resembled a cyclone passing over a
tin roof.
The actress telephoned to the clerks
Office for help, and Chief Bell Boy Percy
Smith hastoned to learn what was the
matter. The room from which the up
roar came was one of a suite of rooms
occupied by Robert Fitzsilnmons, Martin
Julian and Nine. Theo, who is a s:Stsr of
Martin Julian and likewise of Mrs. Fitz-
simmons.
Miss Bcrgere put her head out OF the
door and screamed to the bell boy that
somebody was being murdered in Fitz-
simmons room. Bell Boy Smith went to
the door and hearing a terrifying nose
opened it and rushed in. The sight that
confronted him made him turn away.
There stood the heavyweight challenger
of champions holding a revolver pointed
at his manager. Mr.. Julian. Another re-
volver in the hand of Mr.. Julian was lev
eled at the brow of the challenger. Ihey
We're both using heavyweight language.
Smith looked again and as he did the
hammers of the revolvers snapped. He
did not wait to hear the ~deafening reports
but ran to a vacant room n telephOned
for Night Clerk Denahy.
These who are occupants of the Sher-
man house know that Night Clerk Den
ahy is a two-handed fighter with a list of
impromptu victories as long as two pages
of the hotel register. He had boxed often
with Fitzsimmons and other men just to
show what he could do. He FASTENED
upstairs and entered the room without
ceremony. There he found Fitzsimmons
and Julian in a clinch.
Break ava there he yelled.
They obeyed mechanically, but swung
short hooks in the breakaway.
III W you AZ t"> >o"A
Mr.. Denahy.
Out of long experience they obeyed that
order also.
my decision is tina this fight is a
draw" said Denahy. Both fighters made
a rush for the referee. The decision was
unpopular. Julian was the first to get in
range and Mr.. Denahy swung on his eye.
Then the challenger closed on the Welter-
weight hotel clerk and received a punch
on the chin. Nine. Theo was standing by
w%ringing her hands, but that was doing
nothing to stop the fight.
Both men once more grabbed the re-
volvers they had thrown aside earlier in
the fight, and once more aimed at vital
spots and pulled the triggers.
'.Get to your corners" again yelled
Denahy.
There are no rules in this fight said
Fitzsimmons, and then all three men
went into a clinch. Denahy, being less
fatigued than the other combatants, man
aged to let them receive the benefit OF all
the good infighting that was going on.
He yelled to Bel! Boy Smith to open the
door, and Smith tremblingly obeyed.
Then penahy, by a daxterous effort, land
ed in the hallway With Julian. Smith
Immediately locked the door, and left
FitZsimmons beating vainly on the i'll
side.
Julian and Denahy then went to the
formers room, which was on the same
floor, and by some diplomacy Mr.. Julian
was also locked IN III the interest OF peaee
and quiet.
Clerk Denahy went back to his work
behind the desk. He looked in the mirror
and rearranged his hair, and set his dla-
monds straight again, and was so PLACID
that the guests who We're not on the sixth
floor never detected anything unusual
! After a wait of an hour he sent Bell Boy
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and a sponge to remove the battle stains
from the faces and hands of Fitzsimmons
and Julian. Neither was badly hurt
Fitzsiimmons' wounds We're mostly in his
pride.
The revolvers We're not loaded.
At 1O:45 a. m. Fitzsimmons boarded
train for New York. Before he went he
said the trouble arose over the refusal OF
Julian to give him a DON at the Lyric
theater.
.How was it?" asked the challenger
Like this: I swung my left into his
features. He pulled a gun and I chased
him out"
Il heard he was saying things abou
the Lyric that I didn't like, and ! went
to see him about it," said Martin Julian
.'He was sore because l didn't have a boz
saved for him one night when there was
a packed house. I licked him once in
England, and he knows it. 1t was at my
style of work of course-rough and tum
BILE. He didn't chase me out. He pulled
a gun, but he didn't make me run
Night Clerk Denahy was wearing hi.
honors easy last night. He wouldn't tall
about the fight at all.
AS Julian is the manager of the pugilis
! tic business of Fitzsimmons their affair!
are concerned in the row. Julian sal
last night he didn't care if Fitzsimmon:
never came back to him. He added tina
it was no snap to manage a challenger