Show Fil HAS AN EASY MARK Famous Always a Victim Vict of Grafters and Workers Worker Bob Fitzsimmons although he has en engaged engaged gge in over 3 battles b In the te Queens Queensbury Queensbury Queensbury bury arena arena and ad lies has h earned erne a fortune with wit the stuffed mitts mia his has h s very little Itle of this worlds goods good to show for for his long loner labor labors as a a wielder of the gloves glove Fitz Fit is not broke by b any ay means mes but tho thu tu bulk of what he now has ha ha he earned be the footlights in recent years eus it being asserted arte he has ha practically nothing to show as a a direct dIf cf result of his long J career In the ring The main reason ron for his not accumulating accumulatIng ing a competency out of the big sums of money he hehl has received from fron time te to 10 time as his share of shae ring encounters is 15 credit ed t to o the fact that tbt the he old red top has been an a easy ey mark mak for bunco bUC o men of ot high and nd low degree dege ever since he first drew on a glove glov The Cornishman it is assert ed has ha been ben out of enough money to put half a dozen doz n fighters and their families faie on Easy Euy for the rest rot of their lives Easy Victim for fop Smooth Brigade ariga e eThe The bet battler hai has been an aay aY victim for the te smooth talking members of the he bunco brigade ever ev f since he ho quit the blacksmiths forge tor e for fc the squared circle says one on writer and it i is only onty in the last l five or six years that he has be become come coma wise to the ways of the world and d has ha h received receive anything anythIng but what was wa coming to him as his share of the spoils which go to the victor In his hs hJ training quarters quarter over in Alameda before His fight with wit OBrien OBren th the sC d old t veteran regaled reged a few friends a long string of at tales tle wherein he played the part of the fleeced lamb in all sorts of flimflam propositions Pita Fitz Is al not nota sort a bit bI backward in admitting his hi trusting and unsophisticated nature in days gone by and among other things not generally known know in iX he h unfolded a story of how he was separated from wa every penny he received from the greatest eve ring encounter of his career his victory over Corbett Corbet at Carson City before twenty o four tour hours hour had passed after ater the th solar plexus punch went home which made nade him champion of the world He Ho does doe not Include this stOry as ts a one referring at at all ail ai to t bunco bune to indicate his run of luck luok Juo 8 S fit 01 ii Was Fleeced a 1 on 9 U Fitz declared declare that before the fight his manager Martin 11 o him with wit a proposition from fr D the promoter of the he fight to t declare deare him Fitz in as an a equal partner in lathe hith the ven yen ture Says says It was wa represented to him that tat Stuart expected to clear an im immense immense immense mense sum in the three tree days fight car carnival carnival carnival at Carson Cason of which the bett championship battle on St Patricks Patricks day 1897 was wa the te stellar stelar feature and that the big Texan would take Fitz in Tean wold as a an equal eual partner on the profits provided he would stand stad his share of the tho losses if I there were any ay Fits agreed and says saOS that after aft r the fight he received the sum of 20 In all al as a his share of the purse side bet bot and for expenses for himself and wife and for special reports of the bat battle batte battie tie tle te by himself for various newspapers newspaper te As A soon as l he was wa paid pId the money how however however ever eer Fitz says says he he h was informed by Ju han lian lan and Stuart that the fight carnival had been a a big losing venture and ad that the would no more than even his share of the losses los Fitz Fu says ays he turned over the money m ney without a a word and thaT thai he diet d dl not even ask ak for an a account account I had the won championship and I had licked Corbett Corbett and ad that was all al I want wanted wanted waIt waIted ed I said the Cornishman man |