The Washington times., 1905-08-28
:: ROWING SHOOTING TROTTING GOLF
Fitz, Natural Actor,
In "A Fight for Love"
and Chief Villain OnCe-Saves Heroine
Thrice, and Her Fathers Fortune.

folks will talk and go gadding about
telling lies about a poor girl who had
lard luck.
Well did Horace Sheppard know what
he was about when he conceived his
horrid plot He offers Tobin $50 to do
| the job. and after that wretch has blk
! ed him out of a couple of extra GEN.
turtles on a threat to double cross him
and blow the game, the deal is conclud
! ed and the horse is led in. OF comes
| the shoe then the statement that ii
will be impossible to get it on again.
| Sheppard explains the situation to
! Vivian and demands she marry him
right off the bat. She puts up howl
and exclaims:
Il am alone and in distress. is there
no one TO help meh?''
| Ere you are lady-Bob Fitzsimmons-
whose mother taught him TO always
| help n woman in distress"
| "Oh, sir, l cannot tell you how CRATE
ful l am You are saving all that is
! sacred and holy to a woman
| Thus dramatically does our hero ap-
pear and beauty is saved. Bob tells the
lady in distress that he was once n
| blacksmith and he will fix the shoe,
whereupon he dons the apron and amid
breathless suspense puts a shoe on the
horse. The horse looked bored.
Fitz Foils Him.
While the iron cobp!ing is in progress
Chief Villain Sheppard and Assistant
! Villain Tobin frame it. to start quarrel
with Bob and tap him on the conk with
| a club. There's money in ii for Tobin
ana ne says he's game. Bob finishes the
work, then explains that although he
made new shoe, warranted not to
| ytnCh a hod IN dafrlu pd
the old one, thereby confounding the
schemers nightly.
Sheppard starts the quarrel and tries
to make Bob fight. but all he does is to
bristle up and remark: Remember.
4 both of you, there are ladies present" 4"
robin had numerous opportunities to
bang Bob's block while the horse was
getting the hot foot, but he desisted
until our hero was at leisure to drop
him. He made a pass at the freckled
fighter with a hunk OF junk, but Bob
side-stepped and Knocked him out with
: a right to the jaw. Curtain !,
Act . is Iii Bob's gymnasium. which
he has accidentally rented to Tobin,
!; who is backed by Sheppard. TO fight a
college wonder who is backed by
NIvian's father. who had staked his en-
tire pile on the rah, rah scrapper.
: Madge Grey Is loved by Tobin. She
; tells him TO throw vitriol in Vivian's s
face, whereupon he draws himself UP
: to full length and says. just like this
"I know I'm tough. Madge. but | don't
do no tricks like dat" The applause
! which greeted this sentiment was mis-
s | placed, for Madge tells him to run along
2 and be q good boy and he yields to the
: temptress. Vivian and Jane Ellington
her maiden aunt comedy parD. enter
with Bob. who seems to have mixed I'm
with the pretty bundle first crack out
, of the box, and had made himself all
5 to the good.
? Tobin hasn't bit of use for Bob. He
: just naturally despises him and taunts
' him TO fight right there. Then Bob, he
: says: There are ladies present." and
Z Tobin backs up. Madge sneaks in and
gives Tobin the vitriol, which she
e facetiously calls 'face wash" TO throw
l. into Vivian's face She also advises
. him 10 rough-house the joint and put
: Bob on the blitz. but Tobin says Bot
~ t,Iii fight. basins his opinion upon the
: statement that. When a lady is con
cerned Bob Fitzsimmons Is a gentleman
Bob Fitzsimmons respects all woman
kind" The tribute paid these stirring
: words plainly proved that Bob had the
Il gang with him.
: "There Are Ladies Present."
n Taunted by his enemy Bob remarks
i II have fought 365 battles and been de
a feated twice. and while 1 VIII not have
e row with you before these ladies,
It will punch the bag 70 show You that
h am always in conditiop.'' With thi
d prelude he does some bag ptinching
J., which made hit.
n After Bob has broken the bag from IL!
II fastenings in the orthodox manner Wv
. ian's father enters, is properly enraged
N calls her aside and also in the orthodo,
4 (melodrama) manner says sternly: -
- have something OF Importance TO say Z
!, you" There hasn't been. melodram;
- daddy in twenty years who hasn't start
!, ed his beef about his daughters love
In the same words. and Hal Reid WASH
=, going TO take chances by leaving IL ou
of his piece.
Fitz gets hep that he isn't popular wit
= the old man and ducks his nut with tn
unfortunate heiress and the chaperone
Villain Sheppard is called down by Ell
lington, but with the real Villains snee
- he cons the old man into betting 5000
- more on the college wonder" EIling
:" ton falls for this bet. though he know
he can't afford to plunge that deep an
gives his word for II. Sheppard with
q, leering. knowing laugh says ne wants
of in writing. We know then that tn
A. college wonder" is a dead one that h
e. is booked 10 lose. that Ellington will nc
g. be able 10 pay the money. that Sher
at pard will have hold on the misguide
& sport and that in consideration of car
as ceiling the bet he Will demand the han
a OF the only chee-i-id. It's a cfnch {
L any casual observer what's doing, br
5, Ellington seems TO have been the kin
ke Of man who acts come-on for wire
A. less wire tapppers. so he puts the bet
I'm writing.
Is Reid Onto Job.
10 Before leaving this act ft should I
" remembered that Ellington remarked I
n Mr.. Fitzsimmons when that ex-cham
II made some furtive hints about Ioyin
e his only offspring: II have other plan
for Vivian's future" A melodran m
re without these magic words would /
n. beyond comprehension and again Nj
De Reid proved that he Is onto his Job as
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