The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-02

had an imaginary view OF every star
in the heavens. and foxy Joe Choyn-
ski, who, with Jimmy Carroll and Alex
Greggalns were behind him, did d lot
OF scheming and quick thinking to
stave of defeat for his man. He sue
ceeded Tired and groggy as F'itz was,
he came back and won. TO win after
being almost out requires two things
generalship and gameness, in gener-
GUS plentitude. The following year.
! In the same town. FItz hooked up with
Jim Hall. For three rounds Hall gave
him as artistic a trimming as one man
could give another. Martin Julian, who
was managing him, admitted at the
time that 1T looked awfuIly bad for
Bob in the third nd early In the
fourth. Hall seemed to have his num-
Der and was peppering him at will And
yet, although he was being severely
punished, Fitz made a game rally in
the fourth and put a right swing to
Halls chin that sent him to the Oster-
moor as cold as a wedge. A man with
a faint heart could never have done
1t. Hall was not a novice by any
means, and besides being a clever, hard
hitting boxer of the first fight he had
scored one victory over Fitz. They
say that once you knock a man out
1t is easy to do it the second time
That is once the theory broke in the
middle and wouldn't stand up. Hall
had stopped Fitz in Australia in four
rounds, so not to be outdone in po-
likeness by his fellow countryman,
Fitz returned the compliment at New.
Orleans. and in the same number OF
rounds.
A year later In Boston Fitz's cour-
age was put to even more severe
test He was boxing Joe Choynski at
the Boston theatre There are many
who believe to this day that Choynski
could hit as hard as anybody in ring
history, Jeffries, Maher, Fitzsimmons,
or anybody else noted for hard punch
ing. Fitzsimmons himself is one who
entertains this belief and it is not
without grounds. Joe had an awkward
punch that was used by few boxers.
hard to block and of terrible force He
had the knack of dropping it down
when least expected, and 1t generally
had the label turn off tho gas" pasted
on it when it landed fairly. It was a
full-arm, downward swing with the
right for the nose o. jaw, generally a
counter. He would wait for you to
lead for his face with a straight left
or a left hook, preferably the latter.
He would let you go along a few
times, when suddenly down it would
come with all his strength plumb over
your left lead, and the right which you
might have crooked on your chest us
ing as a guard. AS the blow descended.
on xrvft1,
no avail. The only drawback to the
punch VS. that he couldn't time it well
or judge distance carefully with It be-
cause it was what would be called a
wild" punch. Oftenti1les it landed on
the forehead or on top of the head, and
its effs ctiveness was lost. He dropped
one on Fitz' jaw in the first round and
1t almost finished him. This was the
time Bob said he thought the roof of
the building caved in on him. He
weathered the storm, and by the time
the fifth round rolled around, when the
police interfered, Fitz was winning.
The decision given by Referee Captain
ELL DAILY was a draw At Carson City
Corbett had Fitz in bad way several
times. but he won out in the four
teenth Nobody who saw Fitz box
Rubin at the Garden will ever forget
the first round. Gus hammered him
all around the ring and had him so bad
at bell time that Bob couldn't pro-
tect himself. Both arms were hanging
helplessly at his side. He looked a
so to l shot in this round In the sec
ond Bob came up smiling. fiddled a
while and then put left shift to Rub
Inns stomach that dropped him and
practically won the fight In the
third, fourth and fifth he had every
thing his own way, and in the sixth
he knocked Gus out. Anybody who
says Fitz wasn't thoroughly game
doesn't know what he is talking about.
He proved his gameness too often to
leave any doubt