Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-20
THE SPORTING NEWS.
THE PUGlLISTS
TO SCULPTURE FRECKLED BOB
New York Artist Believes Fitzsim. mons is the Best Formed Fighter in the World.

r Robert Fitzsimmons is to be done in marble.
 | Bob. will look awfully cute, but lrather~ chilly and unapproachable, carved in pure white Carrara. New ertheless this fate is in store for him. | MT Fitzsimmons likes the idea of being marbelized, however. He has expressed himself as de-e-e-elighted. Gutzon Borglum, who has taken the top position among the sculptors of this country, has selected Fitzsim- mons as the ideal build of the modern Egladiators of the glove. MT Borglum lis enthusiastic over the project of Imodeling the smooth, long lines of the finest fighting machine of his weight that has fought within the limits of the squared ring since the substitution of the Marquis of Queensbury rules for those of the old London prize ring made scientific | lighting possible.
 | "Fitzsimmons has the most re- Imarkable figure for fighting, above the belt, that have ever seen," said the artist yesterday. He is one of l the best specimens of manhood in the I world, and is by far the most perfect representative of the fighting man that this age has produced. | Above the waist he has the ideal build of a fighter. That is what has enabled him to conquer so many men stronger and bigger than himself. In this respect he is the best representa- | tive of the ring now alive" Why did you pick him rather | than Jeffries or some of the men who have whipped him?" the sculptor was asked.
 Because Jeffries and these others are merely fighters. They are big men and many. of them are undoubt- edly stronger than Fitzsimmons, but they lack that extraordinary build that, in my opinion, makes the grand old man of the ring the most perfect exponent of prize fighting.
 'I understand Fitzsimmons is 52 years old and that he has fought 400 battles. Could anything qualify a man better as the dean of the prize ring? Then, too, he has lines built | for a sculptor to work upon. His muscles are clean cut and long. His | neck is so short that he can almost drawn his head down even with his the ancient gladiators show physi- ques equal to that of Fitzsimmons.
 'The strange thing is that Fitz has always been caricatured. There has | never been a serious drawing of him. Artists and cartoonists seem to have missed the great possibilities offered by his remarkable build"
 How does Fitz take to the idea Of having a statue made of him?" MT Borglum was asked.
 "Oh, he's tickled to death-thinks it the greatest thing ever"
 Fitzsimmons will come to New York every day while the work of modelling him in clay is going on. As soon as the clay is completed the marble, huge block of which is now ready in the sculptor's studio, will be chiseled into form, and the lines of the greatest fighter of his class in tllS d6S W III uO"H lo DOS- terity along with the huge. hairy, beared Cestus wielder who has come down to us from the days of the Roman arena through the efforts of the sculptor of those strenuous days.
 There is little resemblance between the long, thin lines of FitzsimmOns and the burly, heavy muscled Cestus fighter. but if the two were thrown into the same ring there is no doubt as to who would be the favorite in the betting, even if there isn't any dope to be had on the past perofrm- ances of the Roman person with the rawhide and bronze rings on his hand.
 Of course all the other fighters will begin to give evidences of deep, cank- ering jealousy and envy.
 Joe Cans will be heard growing over in Baltimore. Cans will prob ably hunt up a Baltimore sculptor and insists upon being sculped in black marble. lawn O'Brien will probably have a statue of himself made in Indiana limestone with iron pyrites in 1t so to give the character istic crooked little yellow streaks necessary. Britt. of the brittle arm, will probably want himself done in glass, so that he'll break easily.
 Terry McGOvern. Young Corbett. Nelson and all the others will begin to look up the prices of sculptors.and the department stores can build quick profits for themselves by setting in a sculpture studio where marble or bronze efigies of the pugs can he made at cut rates. Jim Corbett has already designed the model on which he wants his sculptor to work. Mir COrbett will be represented in his great handshaking act.
 George DixOn.it is understood. will come out of his retirement and pose as The Human Meal Ticekt."