New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-10-30

just think what he could do if he had
hair like Samson's.''
Fitz was originally a Cornishman, ac-
cording to birth, but he is now alto
gether an American. He blacksmithed
in New Zealand and shipped every
body in Australia before he came to
the United States. which he adopted
as his permanent country. He began
his fighting career in Cornwall, where
he dropped every man he went up
against. He still drops his "h's''. in
British manner, but he has picked up
more than enough American slang to
make up for that. He has conquered
three continents, held three champion
ships. and now he takes high art into
his camp.
Authority on Geography.
Though Fitz, like all pugilists and all
pugilistic writer's, employs the ring
slang when he talks pugilism, he can
write good English. His book, "Phys-
ical Culture and Self Defense" is said
to have been printed just as he wrote
it, and it will pass muster in ladies'
seminary At his home he has a large
library room on the first floor stocked
with standard authors He has full
sets Of Victor Hugo, Balzac. Kipling
and other worlds champions in liter
AZURE, and he reads them too. But his
favorite reading relates to geography
and travel. One Of his friends, fell
low of the Royal Geographical society.
declares that Fitz Is an authority on
geographical matters
Most persons perhaps would not look
for moral to adorn tale Of pu-
gilist, but there is one in the case of
Fftzsimmons. How did he keep him
self in such fine physical condition as
to win the heavyweight championship
though himself a mere middleweight,
when he was several years beyond the
age at which most pugilists lose their
fighting power? Let Fitz himself an
swer:
Most pugi1ists are down and out at
thirty. It's the old story Of wine, wo-
man and song. A fighter can't &C
round tanking up in saloons and dis
sipating and be fit for fight. I'm all
right because I've always lived a good
family life. There's nothing like a
good family life for keeping man
in condition, and | advise all young
men to get married as soon as they
can. When you have home and
some kids it'll keep you out Of an aw-
full lot Of trouble = ss 80
Not a Fake Fighter.
Another thing. .Fitz always fought
fair. There was no fake about Fitz.
He says himself that it was a good
thing that prize fighting was knocked
out in New York state. because many
managers were crooked and fighters
put up fake exhibitions. When Fitz
was training at Carson City for his
championship fight with Corbett a
man from the Corbett quarters went
over to Fits place shortly before the
date for the battle.
Here, Fitz; this man has been with
Corbett a good deal Suppose you
have him tell you how Corbett fights"
Before the Corhett friend could pro.
test Fitz spoke up:
II don't want to hear him. II
wouldn't be fair
Like Sullivan, Corbett and others of
the "profesh,' Fitz has essayed the
role Of actor. His present wife, No. 2,
who was Miss Julia May Clifford, was
a musical comedy singer before her
marriage. Both the Fitzsimmonses ap-
peared in "a Fight For Love-" where
in Bob made horseshoe, shod a horse,
walloped the villain and brought down
the house. But 1T is in his home life
that Fitz shines most resplendently.
A year or SO ago he bought farm
near Dunellen, N. j., with a house
somewhat like an ancient castle and a
cozy lodge at the gate. There he in
stalled his books and his boxing para
phernalia and settled down to grow
old gracefully. There are several small
Fitzes to make home interesting. His
children call him papa" to his face
and "Fitz'' to his friends.
The familiar picture Of Fitzsimmons
on the sporting pages shows him with
huge freckles all over his body. He
used to be noted as the only man on
earth with freckles on top Of the head,
another championship distinction. But
of late years Fitz in some mysterious
manner has got rid Of his freckles, so
that the Borglum marble which 5000
years hence will preserve him to adj
miring posterity will be of pure and
spotless white. like his ring record.
Earthquake Proof House Of Drainpipe.
Colonel Henry 3. G. Kitchener, Lord
Ntchener's eldest brother, who resign
ed from the British army several years
ago to become a banana planter in ia
maica, is now in England purchasing
material for the construction of an
earthquake proof house on the "Kitch-
ener" model, says the Cement Age.
Colonel kitchener's residence in the
suburbs of Kingston was badly dam
aged by the earthquake. He has de
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