Show F I BOTH WAG THEIR JAWS Corbett and Fitz Continue Their Wordy Snarls BOB WILL GO TO NEVADA CORBETT ON THE WAY TO THIS CITY If They Fight as They Talk Neva das Soil Will Run Red With Rivers of Blood Fitzs Flesh Is Hard and His Tongue Supple While Corbetts Biceps Are Elastic Elas-tic and His Tonsils in Excellent ShapeOh For the Days When Men Fought With Fists and Not With Faces Chicago Feb 7A special to the Tribune from New York says Within a week probably next Wednesday Wed-nesday Fitzsimmons will depart for Nevada to make final preparations for meeting James i Corbett on March 17 in what is universally admitted will be the greatest pugilistic event in the annals of fistiana fstaa Corbett has been training assiduously for this fight for some months until at the preset moment he is in condition to do battle for bis life Fitzsimmons on the other hand started in to take exercise and that of a light character only ten days or so ago This delay in beginning heavy training is in strongly marked contrast to Fitzsimmons behavior be-havior on all other occasions as it has been customary with him when matched for a fight to move with his family and belongings to some quiet place where he systematically carries out a prescribed course of training for several months before the event His failure to act according to his time I honored custom in this the most important I im-portant battle of his career has given rise to much speculation among the sporting fraternity Corbetts friends are loud in proclaiming pro-claiming their doubts of the antipo deans sincerity To these cynics it will be more or less gratifying to learn that first of all Fitzsimmons prime condition releases him from conditon releaes along a-long siege of heavy training and secondly that his delayed departure for Nevada is due entirely to the serious illness of a member of his family fam-ily a crisis for better or worse having been daily expected Could these same cynics see Fitz simmons well muffled up and wearing sweaters and followed by his SWEater cap folowed new pet Yaraum the wrestling great Dane trudging along each morning to and around Central park on his twelve mile jaunt and returning to his hotel dripping with perspiration they would think differently And perhaps could these alarmists follow Fitz to his room in the Bartholdi hotel and see him strip to the buff for his exercise with the dumb bells and wrist machine ma-chine and note his condition they would hesitate long before again commenting unfavorably OP theCornishman Bob Fitzsimmons is in superb condition for this fight and he looks f His flesh is firm and smooth his muscles hard but I pliable while his massive chest and I back denote great strength and power I His face and eyes show that he is not dissipated In fact he could not possibly I possi-bly be in any better physical condition than he is at present and he knows it While he was being rubbed with alcohol after his bath today Fitzsim mons said So the latest cry is that I am not training properly Well I suppose that Corbetts friends will want me to follow their instructions I should be just their pie if I dont get right and my loss Such kickers and cranks I never heard of Why they will expect me to fight to their directions soon I have heard so much talk lately about what I am doing and what Cor bett was going to do to me on March I 17 that I often wonder where the tales come from Well I dont care what people think about my training I am going to do the fighting and know just how I should be I feel great and am fit to enter the ring now My wind is good and strong and the only thing I necessary for me is to become acclimated mated to the high altitude of Nevada I I will have four long weeks to do this before the fight How do you propose fighting Cor I bett I dont know but he does or rather says he does I have read where Cor bett says that I am a tricky fighter Perhaps I am but the best trick I know is landing my fis on the jaw just hard enough to kj men out and I hope to show l jrbel now this little affair is accomplished Tsnt it nonsensical for him to alIt auout tricks What fighter does he know whom I trickea unless as I say he calls the knockout a trick Corbett says that you are rehearsing rehears-ing several new blows for this fight Is that true Well he must be a mind reader where does he buy his information New blows for him Not on his life any of the other ones will suit me and if I get my right or left to any part of his pompadour head he will hit the floor very hard 1 dont think that he will get up either Have you formed Xi ideas on the b yuu uun U5Ul UIUtll No I have not and if I had I would not tell I is just this way with me I might make up my mind to do a certain cer-tain thing in a fight when a blow from my opponent or even a feint would oblige me to change my tactics When I face Corbett my fighting will be governed gov-erned entirely by his movements hI may see my opportunity in the first round and then It may take me several to find his weakness You fnd may depend however that I will find his weak points I am just a confident a ever that I will win last How many rounds will the fight lastHow How ca I possibly tell you Thats the kind of bluster Corbett indulges in said Fitzsimmons with a disdainful disdain-ful look Then brightening up and clasping his hands he said So Corbett is going to have a doctor in his camp hey well is not that a bit surprising to his friends Now there is just one thing that I am going to insist upon before we fight and that is to have my physician I examine Corbett Have my own ideas why this should be done I know that this Nevada law calls for a medical examination but I want my own physician to examine Corbett before we fight I have had one peculiar experience ex-perience and I dont propose to have another if I can help it |