Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-14
Authority on Geography.

authority OF typography.
Though Fitz, like all pugilists and all
pugllistic writer's, employs the ring
slang when he talks pugilism, he can
write good English. His book. 'sPhys
ical Culture and Self Defense" is said
to have been printed just as he wrote
It, and 1t will pass muster In ladies'
seminary. At his home he has 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.
allure, and he reads them too. But his
favorite reading relates to geography
and travel. One Of his friends, fel.
low OF the Royal Geographical society,
declares that Fitz Is an authority on
geographical matters. ~ t...a
Most persons perhaps would not look
for a moral to adorn tale Of pu.
gilist, but there is one In the case OF
Fitzsimmons How did he keep him.
self in such fine physical condition as
to win the heavyweight championship,
though himself mere middleweight,
when he was several years beyond the
age at which most pugilists lose their
fighting power? Let Fitz himself an.
swer:
"Most pugilists 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 q
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"
Not a Fake Fighter.
Another thing, Fiz always fought
fair. There was no fake about Fitz
He says himself that it was a goo6
thing that prize fighting was knocked
out in New York state. because many
managers were crooked and fighter:
put up fake exhibitions. When Fit,
was training at Carson City for hi:
championship fight with Corbett {
man from the Corbett quarters wen
over to Fits place shortly before til,
date for the battle.
"Here. Fitz; this man has been will
Corbett a good deal. Suppose 70,
have him tell you how Corbett fights
Before the Corbett friend could pro
test FitZ smoke uD.
IT don't want to hear him. I
wouldn't be fair"
Like Sullivan, Corbett and others o
the "profesh,' Fitz has essayed tn
role of actor. His present wife, No. {
who was Miss Julia May Clifford. wa
musical comedy singer before he
marriage. Both the Fitzsimmonses ar
peared in "a Fight For Love-" where
In Bob made horseshoe, shod horse
walloped the villain and brought dow
the house. But 1t is in his home lif
that Fitz shines most resplendently
A year or so ago he bought a farr
near Dunellen. N. j., with hous
somewhat like an ancient castle and
coy lodge at the gate There he II
stalled his books and his boxing pars
phernalia and settled down to gro,
! old gracefully. There are several sma
Fitzes to make home interesting. Hi
children call him papa" to his fac
and ''Fitz" to his friends.
The familiar picture Of Fitzsimmon
on the sporting pages shows him wit
huge freckles all over his body. 81
used to be noted as the only man o
earth with freckles on top of the heat
another championship distinction. Blu
of late years Fitz in some mysteriou
manner has got rid of his freckles, s
that the Borglum marble which 300
years hence will preserve him to az
miring posterity will be Of pure an
spotless white. like his ring record.