The evening world., 1911-05-20

tralia. This fight a always been a
blot on Bob's otherwise stainless ca
reer. 1t was n fake fight. The Foley
Club was a favorite resort Of the ONO
ere and crews of the big liners running
between the Pacific Coast and Aus
tralia, and through them came the
news OF the big purses that the Cali
fornia clubs were offering for Nights. OF
the grea' success OF Peter Jackson In
America, and other highly adorned
tales OF the wealth that good fighters
could have in the United states. Hall
was very anxious TO reach this land OF
milk and honey. 30 he proposed to Fitz-
simmons that the latter should chal-
lenge him. The match would be made
and during the night Fitzsimmons would
allow himself TO be knocked out. This
would give Hall sufficient money to
come to America and would leave Bot
und!sputed possession OF the middle
weight field and an opportunity TO clean
up enough money to come to the United
States himself. This IS Fltzsimmons's
own story. Bob vas to receive nifty
pounds for doing this. The programme
was carried out and Fitzsimmons was
apparently kr rocked out in the fourth
round. Hall himself always contended
that the victory was a legitimate one.
but the fghting public always suspected
that the AFFAIR was a X In which
they are supported by Fftxsimmons.
The news of the defeat was widespread
and did much injury TO Fitxsimmons's
reputation.
After Hall left Australia there WAS
no recognized m!ddlewelght champion
OF Australia, so F!tzsimmons was
matched for the title with Starlight.
the we'll known colored sailor from
America. Starlight was then thu Md
die weight champion OF Queensland.
Bob Knocked the coiored mar out In
nine rounds and annexed the title.
Bob still wanted to come to America,
more especially after hearing OF Halls
success here. 50 ne conceived the Idea
OF opening an athletic cub similar 70
Foley's. Blu such a place would taxi
money. and money was one thing that
was very shy about Bob's house. He
had the nifty pounds from the Hall
night, but that was not enough. Kanga-
roo skins were then selling in sydney
for about nfteen pounds apiece. so boo
decided 10 go hunting for them. With
another man he travelled into the IN
terror to Maruruland for Kangaroo, or,
as the Australians call them, wailabees.
He was engaged in this for several
months and returned with quite q few
skins, after having had quite a few al
ventures. Three times Bob was In dan
ger OF his lie. The frst OF these occa-
slons was when he was pursued by a
number of female k%angaroos and hal
to make use OF his long legs to reach
q nearby tree and climb 10 safety. An.
other time he was mistaken by his part
ner for a kangaroo In the bush and was
fired upon, the bullet clipping one OF
the buttons on his coat. Still ano:h,r
time he and his partner were forced 10
flee from a tribe Of bushmen. In doing
so they lost their way and wandered
around for several days without food
or drink until by chance they found
their way out to civilization.
Fitz had now cleaned up enough
money to open his athletic hall. but he
suddenly changed HIS mind and went
into partnership with another man and
opened a blacksmith shop, Bob didn't
have much OF a head for business and
left the financial end of the trade TO his
partner. SO one morning Bob awoke
TO the fact that his partner had gone
WITH all the cash and that he was left
without anything but his clothes and
the few cents he had In his pockets.
And America now seemed further off
than ever,
The rezt chapter deals with Ftts's
other battles.