The evening world., 1920-01-27
Young Bob FitzSimOnS Yet Far
Removed From His Famous
Fathers Class as a Fighter.
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crnc New NOrk Evening World

oll-etar show Of the Arena A. c. in
Jersey City last night.
1t was only Young Bob's second
bout and he stopped Eddie West, a
seasoned fighter, in seven rounds. The
referee wanted to have West take 10
his corner in the hfh round. but he
gamely refused.
At times the youngstcr reminded
the old-timcrs OF the famous old
freckled marvel He has an effective
left hand and toward the finish he dis
closed that his right possesses a
Knockout wallop.
What the chip OF tho old block"
needs most is experience and some one
who can teach him how TO hit. He
undoubtedly has the latent punching
ability and II he gets the proper
handling should develop in time Into
dangerous heavyweight, although
whether or not hc'll ever be the great
fighter that his father was is prob
leEnatical
There is one thing that Young bob
possesses, though, that his father more
or less lacked, and that Is aggressive
ness, or pep. The pater was "a sort Of
a take things-easy type while the
youngster wants to win from the
Jump.
As another fan remarked: If VIC
had only seen Old Bob in his second
hight may be he wouldn't have looked
any better than did the voungster."
There is remarkable interest in
Young Bobs career and II he can
only secure efficient coaching he may
some day be battling, Jack Dempsey
for the championship. thereby emu
latng his lamented father who took
the mlddlewJight crown away from
another Jack Dempsey
~ END TuNNEY looks like the
Vt most promising of tho new
crop that is being prepped 10
some day take away Jack Dempsey's
iaureis. He won another fight by the
Knockout route, this time stopping
jim Monahnn in a round
Another big surprise OF the night
was the knocking out Of johnny Buzz,
n Jersey City bantam star, who re-
abntiy gave jurk ShurKey hard
fight, in two rounds by Mickey Del
mont. A right To the jaw did the
trick. Bun was knocked down four
times before the referee came to his
rescue.
jackie Clark Of Allentown out
I~Jinted Tommy Robson in the only
feature event TO 20 the limit.
A LTHOUGH the Joe Stechcr- Earl
"A Caddock wrestling match is
only three days off, nothing has
been said about who is to referee it.
We assumed that George Bothner
would be the man for the Job, but
We learn that no one has even men
toned the matter TO him. Instead, II
has been rumored that Gene Malady,
manager of Caddock, would like TO
bring on Sandy Griswold from the
West 70 ofiiciate. Griswold is a vet
Gran newspaper writer with a thor
ough knowledge Of wrestling as well
as other sports, but he is an old man
too old, we should think-to Judge
such an Important match as this is
TO be, especially II it proves a long
bout
Its no easy JOB to walk around a
pair OF wrestlers for an hour or so,
with eyes focused on the men con-
tinuously, and every now and then
forced to stoOp, bend and almost lie
on the mat when fan seems i'm
minent.
Bothner should have the job, II for
no other reason than that 1t Is a New
uf InfW 1.a -. A0NuF
Importing another man seems unnec-
esBary in this case and. with all due
respect TO Mr. Griswod he can't be any
better judge Of wrestling than Bothner,
who for years was almost invincIDle
at the game in his own class.
Stecher, by the way, rs in town Mt
and ready, but will put in an hour
or 30 at work from now 10 Friday at
BOthner's Gym in West 42d Street,
just to keep himself on edge.
TNGLISH hstic critics must have
a fine opinion OF how boxing is
conducted here and how bouts
arc won and lost Listen to this
from the All Sports Weekly:
Il met Teddy Lewis, the hacker Of
jimmy Wilde, in the club the 0ther
day. when he showed me a cablegram
which stated that in newspaper opin-
ion Wide mas lost his first no deci-
sion" bout IN the States with a lad
named Jack Sharkey at Milwaukee.
~ all / hear about tho way these mo
decision" verdiCts are arrived at be
true, then / am not surprised at the
news that has come across the her
ring-pond l don't think that Jimmy's
reputation will suffer much even II
al these no decision" affairs are
given against him, for 1 am told that
the surest way to gain one Of these
Verdicts is not by boxing, but by pur-
chase. Teddy Lewis tells me that
nothing In the shape of a big match
has as yet been fixed up for Wilde In
America, and that he may not really
undertake one, contenting himself
with siN-round affairs. for which he
Wihreeeive a big price, wilde is GER
tainly determined TO have "go" for
the bantamwe!ght championship Of
- world before he retires.