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slavin in ten rounds at the National Sport.
ing club. London, and won the champion
ship Of England and Australia Parson
Davies had jackson under hts wing then
and brought the famous negro back TO
America. where he starred for a year in
Uncle Toms Cabin" jackson was living
at n great pace at that time and soon lost
bis vitality. 50 that he was merely a
shadow OF his former self when Jeffries
knocked him out In three rounds at Frisco
In 1898. Jackson became a physical wreck
after that and died OF consumption in
Australia in 1901.
FitssimmOns the Best.
Fitzsimmons. who was born in England
in 1852. made his first appearance In the
ring at Tfmaru, n. a., at Jem Mace's tour
nament, when he defeated four men and
won the amateur boxing championship OF
New Zealand. The next year Fftz took
part In another tournament and defeated
five men, including Herbert slade, a MAORI.
The Cornishman then fought his way to
the front as a professional until he met Jim
Hall in 1880 at sydney. Hall won in four
rounds, but Fitzsimmons declared after
ward that he laid down" In May OF that
year Fftz arrived in California. where he
DtoN Blly MCCARTHY IN nine TOunds. IN
January. 1891. he defeated Jack Dempsey
for the middleweight championship and was
Immediately recognized as a phenomenal
pugilist. This fight took place at New
Orleans, where, about a year later. Fitz
met Peter Maher for the first time. Maher
outweighed Robert by about thirty pounds.
but the Irishman took an awful beating
and finally quit in the twelfth round, say
ing to his seconds:
Hes a divvle! l can't see him when he
hits me and can't punch him whin he's
near!'
Fitz then declared that he was ready to
fight any man in the world, regardless Of
weight. In March, 1895, he knocked out Jim
Hall in four rounds at the Crescent City
for q $4,000 purse. but Fitz received only
a part Of the supposed winners share.
After fighting a five-round draw with Joe
Choynski in Boston. which was stopped by
the police. Fitz knocked out Dan Creedon
at New Orleans in two rounds and then
put Maher away in a couple of punches at
Lantry. Tex. Tom Sharkey, aided by
Wyatt carp. the gun fighter. who was
referee, beat Fitz on a foul in eight rounds
In San Francisco in December. 1896. Then
Bob was matched with Corbett and won
the worlds championship at Carson City
or March II, 1897. in fourteen rounds, the
famous solar plexus blow doing the trick.
FItz held the title until Jeffries knocked
him out in eleven rounds at Coney Island,
but he kept on fighting, putting to sleep in
succession Jeff Thorne. Jim Daily, Ed
Dunkhorst, Rubin and Sharkey, who was
stopped in two rounds. Robert was then
ready for another mill with Jeffries, who
beat him down and out in eight rounds at
Frisco in 1902. Fitz was nearly all in
,rl,oo he cot. q 1aciatou oyar GaorQe Card
ner in twenty rounds the next year, while
in 1905, when Philadelphia Jack OBrien
put him to sleep in fifteen rounds, he was
a pugilistic joke. A year ago last July
Robert stacked up against Jack Johnson
and was smothered in two rounds.
Frank sIavin's Career.
Frank p. sIavin, known in the ring as
Paddy, was born in Maitland. New South
Wales. in 1862. He did a lot of ring work
in 1885, 1886 and 1887 in, Australia and ar
rived in England in 1889. After knocking
out Bill Goode and Frank Young in jig
time he fought a fourteen-round draw with
Jem Smith at Bruges, Belgium. This mill
was for $3.50 a side, the championship of
England, with bare knuckles, under Lon
don rules. Slavin was the better man and
was winning. when a gang Of Birmingham
roughs, headed by Jem Carney, broke up
the fight and plugged the Australian with
clubs and "knuckly busters Slavin, how
ever, got the money and was acknowledged
1.-THE champion of England" Slavin. nearly
a year later, stopped Joe McAuliffe in five
rounds at the Ormonde club of London
and then whipped Charley Mitchell in a
bar-room fight. Mitchell and he made up
soon and came together to America, slavin
making his bow at Madison Square Garden
in sparring bouts Will Mitchell and Jim
DAILY. That was in 1891, and shortly after
Slavin beat Jake Kilrain in Hoboken In
nine rounds for 5000 a side. with the late
Jere Dunn as referee. A year later Slavin
was knocked out by Jackson in London.
also by Jim Hall in seven rounds at the
same club. Then the Australian began to
slide down hill and in 1907, after he had
been put away by Nick Burnley in two
rounds at Victoria, British Columbia, he
decided to quit the ring.
Young Critic "A
Probably the greatest boxer that ever
stepped into the ring was Young Critic.
whose real name was Albert Griffiths and
who first saw the light of day at Sydney
in 1871. Critic was only five feet four
inches tall, and after a wonderful record
in Australia, consisting Of thirty-nine bat
ties, some Win pare hnuChleSl NllnOul SUI
fering a defeat, he came to America hailed
as the featherweight champion of the
world. Critic began operations in Chicago
in the latter part of 1898. fighting drawn
battles with Tommy White, Solly Smith.
Kid Lavigne and Van Hest and defeating
Young Scotty, Al Jansen and Ike Weir on
points. Critic went to Boston then and
beat Billy Murphy, also boxing an eight
round draw with clever Johnny Griffin.
On June %. 1894, he boxed George Dixon
to a draw in twenty rounds at Boston. In
August the same year Critic beat Jack
McAuliffe at Coney Island in ten round
but the latter got the verdict by means oil
an error OF Judgment. which caused a great
rumpus. without the stigma of defeat
Critic vent down the line after that, meet
ing Eddi Loeber, Bull Mccarthy, the Ken,
lucky Rosebud, and Jack Hsnley.
In 1895 Giiffo and Dixon went twenty.
five rounds 10 a draw at Coney IslanC
'he battle oting one of the most scientific
in the history of pug lism. The Australian
then stopped Horace Leeds in twelv'
rounds and boxed draws with Jemor'
Quigly, Jimmy Dime. Bull Mccarthy anC
others. lie defeated on points later on JoI
Harmon. Eddie Curry and Charity Barnett