Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-31
Former Champion Says They Get Too Much for
 Sailing.
S5.0OO TO BEAT CORBETT
Lanky One Says When He Was Licked by Jeifries He Received Only S4.OOO. Regrets There Are No
 Old.Timers for Easy Money.
(By Frsanke Menke)

New York. May 30.-And now even "Old Bob" Fitzsimmons come along and utters some harsh, cruel words in the general direction of the pres ent day punching persons. Not only does Bob verbally hammer the white hopes of whom, Bob thinks darned little, but he also takes a poke at the entries ia all other divisions.
 "The boxers of the present day are menace to the sport asserts FitZ, with much gusto. ''They are money mad They ask too much for their service and the exhibitions some of them given are fierce.
 Think of Ritchie demanding-a1d getting-$1O, 1000 guarantee for ten rounds-exactly 30 minutes work. | Why it's absurd. Those fellows ought | like we did in the old days, the win ner receiving the major portion of the purse.
 "The reason that the fights of the present day are jokes and farces il connection with those in the old days is because of that guarantee business. When a fighter knows that he'll get a certain amount, no matter how thel battle ends, he doesn't extend him. l self. He just stalls along and de- frauds the public for he is taking their money under the pretense of fighting.
 But ten and twenty years ago be- fore the guarantee idea became in| vogue there was real fights. fighter knew that winning made difference of from 20 to 30 per cent il his divvy, according to whether the purse was split 6O-40 or 10-3O, and you can bet on it that he bumped some to grab off the big end.
 'It's too bad that some of the old fighters who gave the fan an honest run for their money aren't in their prime today so that they could grab down some of the big money. They were the boys who gave the crogd the very best exhibition possible They fought avery minute they were oa their feet. Stalling and performing marathon in the ring wasn't in their line. Yet they got pitifully little money for it.
 Some persons are Of the opinion that l got fortune for my fights with Corbett and Jefferies. The amount that I got for winning the championship yas $5,000-a sum that the second raters in this day would sneeze at. For my fight with Jefferies l drew down only little more than S4,O0O. And those were championship bouts. mind you. So you can guess what l used to get for fighting the second raters. It was hardly enough to buy chewing tobacco for the fighters of thiS dav
 Fitz's Son Disappoints.
 While on the subject of Fitz it, might be mentioned that a great grief has come into his old age. He has an son, namesake, who is regarded by all who have seen him as wonderful fighting machine and possible champion in the heavy weight division.
 But the boy cares not for the resin ed arena, he cares not for fame as pugilist and he recently told his stunned papa that he won't adopt prize fighting as profession. Young Fltz hates fighting as much as old f1tz loves it, and the grand old man Of the prize ring, who carefully groomed his son to bring the cham pionship back to the family, cannot understand the amazing attitude of the son.
 Fitz's offspring is under 20. He weighs around 200, is about feet tall and has a superb physique He is faster on his feet than any of the present day white hopes,' has a reach longer than his dads an assort- ment of terrible punches and a de- fense that is nearly perfect.
 | Ever since has was a little shaver. Father Fitz has been showing him all he knows of the ring game For years in his odd moments, the father has trained the son. An1 aow just at a time when he is ripe for the work of fighting his way to the kingly place ms father once held, young Fitz has decided that he doesn't care to go about punching other persons. l It isn't cowardice that causes this change of mind on the part of Fritz ]ualor. He's as game and as brave as his dad-which speaks volumes. US simply because Young Fitz | doesnt care for the prize fighting He. He'd rather be a farmer or learn l some trade than don the mitts. Ihls comes as severe blow to Old fltZ. The ambition of his later years has been to see his son the champion lie has devoted more than 10 years to training his boy and working him up ot that point, and now to have the boy break through the traces, to nave him decide that he won't be a lighter Is pretty hard blow to the | father
 But old Fitz isn't exactly in despair. lie IS humoring the boy now, hoping that In few months he will alter his present detTmination and go into