Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-17
THE PUGIL.ISTS.
Bob Fitzsimmons Wife Died To-
 Day From Pneumonia.

Jack Johnson, the Colored Heavy
 weight, Trounces Sandy Ferguson
 Larry Temple, Another Colored
 Boxer, Whips Charley Haghey Joe
 lWalcott Outpoints Mike Donovan.
 New York, April 17.-Mrs Robert FitZSimmons, wife of the former champion heavyweight pugilist, died to-day at her home i'll Brooklyn. She began sinking last night and Fitzsim- mons summoned a number of physicians, but they were unable to 2, save her. She was taken ill two days ago with typhoid pneu- 1 monia, but her condition was not con- sidered serious until last night, when she began to sink rapidly. Three Ben ! sonhurst physicians were summoned in consultation with Dr J. B. Lung, who has been attending Mrs Fitzsimmons regularly, and they decided that the l only hope of preserving her life was artificial respiration. No oxygen could be got in Bensonhurt, and Bob hurried ! to New York for it. Mrs Fitzsimmons has been playing in "The Honest
 
 pany.
 | Boston, April Hilary Temple of New York, Tom O'Rourke's welter- weight, gave Charley Haighey of Low ell terrific beating at the Tammany E A.n G "Wednesday night, forcing the Lowell boxer to quit in the seventh round, after he had been floored twice Eby the, colored fighter. Temple boxed here once before, but his whirlwind showing then only gave the followers of the game here small idea of what he could really do if he wanted to go in hard Temple was at his man with the gong and hammered him all over the ring Insthe second, Haighey was knocked down twice with hard left swings and was all but put out, taking the count. Haighey was game and stood up well in the third. but his work was of the defensive order. In the fourth and fifth rounds the Lowell man tried to save himself by clinching, but he took a lot of punishment and was vfsibly weak when he came up for the seventh. Tn that round Temple knocked him flat with hard right, and repeated this performance few sec onds later. Haighey refused to get up after this second knockdown, saying that his arm had been hurt The de- cision was then given to Temple.
 Boston, April 17.-Joe Walcott, the colored Welterweight champion, got the decision over Mike Donovan of Roches- ter after ten rounds of rather tame boxing at the Physical Culture club Wednesday evening. The bout was originally scheduled to go fifteen rounds for a decision, but for some reason it was cut to ten after the men reached the ringside. Wa1cott was the aggressor throughout and he tried hard to make Donovan fight, once calling him an ugly name; but 1t had no effect on the Rochester man. for he continued the tactics he adopted in the first round and refused to give the spectators an idea whether he could really fight. He clinched at every opportunity and once l went down on one knee to avoid pun l ishment. Donovan broke ground con- l tinually and Wa1cott had to go after l him around the ring. Tn the eighth Walcott landed left wallop on the 1 jaw that nearly put Donovan down. Al 1 the end of the round his seconds gave 1 him smelling salts. Wa1cott tried to end the bout in the ninth but Donovan backed all around the ring. The Koch ester man did a little in the tenth, but l Walcott was eager and banged him hard when at close quarters.