The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-24
!. SPORTING NEWS.
Fits Stage Mitts Busy Shooting
Horses.
Punching the Villain Is Another
Feature.
HEROINE BLOCKS HIM.
Makes Him Groggy Over Pretty
Drinking Song.
The Oldest Prize Fighter Does
Well on the Stage.
BLOCKS HIM.

st. Louis, Feb. 24.-The Post Dispatch
says:
Say he remarked-HE being a pro-
fessor of pugilism-'I went down to see
Bob Fitzsinmons in his show last night,
"A Fight for Love. Same old Bob
Found him making a horseshoe at
bum forge behind the curtain when I
went in. No stalling about that though.
He made horseshoe out of a, little bar
of iron while I was watching him.
I thought you said you went to see
the show somebody suggested.
''Oh, yes. Say, it's far from worse. I
couldn't get up a lot of steam on the
first part of it, but it wound up with a
prize fight that was top-side tOp-side.
Old Fitz stacks up pretty well in stage
toys. When he got into a dress suit he
looked about as wide as an OffiCe build
ing stuck up on a pair of stills.
Yes, it was pretty good show. Bob
had two or three fights, but the only
one that gave him a battle was the girl
he was kicked in on You see, the vii
lain tries to get away with 4 play about
not being able to have his horse shod
so he and this girl can get back to her
home They were out IN the country
and he tries to force her land that way
and get her to d-ar-V him.
He has the blacksmith on his staff
and the girl is broken UP when Fitz
comes in dressed to the minute in a lid
ing suit and offers t. shoa the hol sc.
Say, he surely did it, but he nearly had
to punch the villain. That villain
would have no more chance that Tom
my Ryan. And then when BOB ge-s the
girl away and the horse shod he makes
a crack to the villain thar a woman in
trouble can get anything she wants
from Ruby Robert, or something like
that. 1 guess the gallery thought that
was poor.
Everybody did lot of stating in the
ct v.d IA min 4
this same blacksmith makes a play to
throw some vitriol in this girls face,
while Fitz has got his back turned talk
ing to her. I came pretty near yelling
Foul until / saw Fitz was next, and
then you ought to have seen the hand
that punched Jim COrbett land on this
guys Jaw. Full count.
'Fitz nearly took the fuu count him
self in the third act. t was the girl
that handed him the trimming. You
see, it was this way: Fitz was in her
house, and she sang soma mushy song
for him that put him all IL the bad
could see it. though the old man wa
stalling good. Instead Of covering up
and waiting for his chance, he came
back for more This Wasaa pretty. little
drinking song, and FitZ'-was' groggy
when it was over But he was game.
The girl retreated into her corner at the
piano and F'itz followed.
There's where the old fox nearly
made the mistake of his life. He feint-
ed a moment, then came out with
light head
I wish had somebody to sing for
me like that all my life he opens up,
figuring probably she'd stall. Not for
Vivian. She took him square on the
chin with:
Wen. why don't you get her?'
Bob came back like the grand old
fighter he is and tried to land with
both hands on the body. but she side
stepped him easy and laughed.
lucky was Bob's next try for a win
ming punch, and then he tried to get
both hands to the body. The girl was
firing a little, but Bob was in distress
when she blocked his lead and sidesfep-
ped again. Finally, in the middle of the
stage, he had fine chance for knot X
out. She wasn't trying to Dodge, and
Bob said:
:. BE Tny-my-husbandl
you can see how dopey he was, and
the gong saved both of hem.
But to get onto that fight You see,
the girls old man had his last peso up
on a fighter with fancy name and the
villain was backing fighter named
Tobin. The villains bunch drugged this
other fighter and there is where Fitz
makes his fight for love.
Say. I let out a yell when the cur
tain went up Right in the middle of
the stage was a big ring with Tobin in
one corner, stripped for the mill. The
announcer was in the middle with his
old song and dance.
This Tobin balled Fitz out from the
ring and finally, this girl being there in
disguise, she egged the old boy on and
tossed his castor over the ropes. He
went out and stripped and I guess they
didn't yell when the old man climbed
through the ring.
Say. Tobin didn't have a look-in but
he was game clear through. In the
first round Fitz was at him with that
long left and Tobin got in some good
body punches. But the old man made
a fool of him in the clinches. In the
second round he was on top of Tobin
with right and left hooks and jabs ev-