The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-31
WILL TAKE HIS TINE.
Fitz's Plan of Battle to Be Governed
by Jehries' Work.

New York, May 31.-"I am going to
take my time with this fellow. espe-
ciaIly if he proves as tough a customer
as I hear he is. / will know at the
end of the first round just what / may
expect. Then I can tell what he knows
and by that time will have the plan of
battle mapped out
This is the way Champion FitZSim-
mons put his plans to a friend of his
today in training quarters. The Cor
nishman speaks quietly and confidently
lieve a man of the size of the Los An
geles boilermaker can be fast enough
to defeat a good middleweight who has
a swift. hard punch with either hand
Despite the reports of the speed shown
by Jeffries in his training bouts with
Tommy Ryan, Fitzsimmons smiles
knowingly when it is mentioned and
tells his friends to wait until the ring
is entered and work begins before they
form an opinion.
Fitzsimmons is sailing under some
thing of a handicap, for he has never
seen Jeffries in action. All he knows
of the style and other points of the
westerner is what has been told him.
Still, he does not mind this much. What
is best of all and most reassuring to
his friends is the manner in which he
has gone to work at his training du-
ties
Fitzsimmons' system does not differ
much from what he has used in advance
of other fights, and in his own words
is told this way:
ST get up every morning between $50
and O'Clock, and. after eating my
breakfast, which usually consists of eggs
and lamb chops, 1 sit out on my porch
until o'clock, when L put on heavy
underclothes and two sweaters and
start out on the road with Kenney.
I'VE walk and run as far as Prospect
park, five and a half miles away, and
when we reach there we start back
again on fast run. which l keep up
until we arrive at the barn.
5,rr 10 1I14L
and sweaters I am rubbed down by
Kenney, after which I rest until my
wife calls me for dinner, at about noon.
After the meal rest for an hour or so,
after which 1 go into the barn to be-
gin my afternoons indoor work by ex-
ercising with the wrist machines dumb
bells and Indian clubs for about 45 min
utes.
from six to eight fast rounds with both
Kenney and Hickey. These bouts are
not friendly by any means. and it is
one continual round of slugging.
After another rundown L go out in
to the lot with my trainers, where I
have them throw the medicine ball at
me, and after playing foot ball I wrestle
and haul around my little pony.
THAT finishes my days work. and at
$50 o'clock every night I go to bed
What did you weigh when you first
began training for this fight?'' he was
asked.
About 40 pounds he replied.
What will you weigh when you en-
ter the ring with Jeffries?''
I weigh at the present time $50
pounds, but don't think I will weigh
any more than 15S pounds at the most
when I go into the ring
isn't that weight very low for you
to fight at?''
mo. I don't think so. I have fought
men weighing as heavy as 800 pounds.
The heavier they are the heavier they
fall" replied F'itz with a knowing smile.
Fitzsimmons further stated that he is
in as good shape as when he fought
Corbett and thinks he will win surely,
but would not attempt to predict the
number of rounds it would take him to
give the bOilermaker his QuietuS.