Show FITZ COVERS BALD SPOT WITH TOUPEE AND POROUS PLASTER I Vanity among pugilists is a common trait tr it and most of them hate to get I punched pinched in the ring for or fear ear that their uy may suffer The worst afflic affliction I tion a scrapper can suffer is a deformed j P ear and an d It is said sid that I I h give a years years receipts of his saloon to have his ear back in the form It i was wa when he was born Other bruis bruisers I ers era er have ha sears scars sar as telltale evidence of some of the hard battles battes they were in while others other have hae other marks on their 1 viSage that in no way enhance their looks loks lo s such as broken noses puffed up lips etc Many wear w r flashy jewelry and ad pad p d their shoulders Some have the cologne habit some have a 0 penchant for patent leathar leth shoes trousers and so on but few fe thus far bane haxe h displayed any weakness toward their th lr hair hah Their hirsute adornment Is If the last lat thing they worry wor about abut but there ts Is tsan tsan Isan an exception in the the case of Bob Fitz Fiz simmons The Cornishman as many ring followers are ae aware is partly party bald His auburn locks which have been Immortalized In yellow blue and other tints by the genius of f the caricaturist caricaturist retired many may years ago In fact tact it i is said that they disappeared when Fitz Fiz was wa just turning turing 25 23 years old Fitz Fit its has a a youthful countenance and when ahen hen he ho has ha his iris head covered he can pass for a man mn of 30 and Bob con confesses confesses lessen to being bin 42 years yeas old When the the started stared out this season on the te road with a a theat theatrical neal company to strive for tor new nf his histrionic histrionic histrionic honors he concluded concludEd that some something something thing must be done to take tae the place I lae of his departed locks So S he h bought a toupee This was last August and he has ha been wearing it ever since Probably ably the fact would have remained un undiscovered undiscovered discovered until this day had not some something something something thing happened to the thing FIs vanity is the te cause cuse and ad thereby hangs hag a story When Fitz Fiz was s in New York a few weeks ago he thought that he lie would make the toupee a a permanent part of his head hed by making it stick closer by other means than mere paste So he hebo bought bo a porous plaster cut It the size of the toupee glued them together and then stuck the sticky side of the plas plaster pla plaster ter on his head hed The The scheme worked very er well wel until the plaster plater began to t draw drw Joe Edmonston Fitzs former forer manager who tells the story stOr says that the plaster plater might have have attracted Fitzs brains brins to the surface had he not warned the Cornishman in n time Edmonston found out what Fitz Fiz had done only onh after the plaster had been ben on two days He grabbed gabbed the toupee and the plaster and pulled pule it from the fighters head hea The toupee and plaster were by this time on familiar terms with Fitzs Fit s bald baldpate baldpate baldpate pate and it was no gentle gente job Bob writhed in pain pain but after ater much exer exertion exertion tion ton the toupee came off f and with It some of the few remaining hairs which grew grov gow in that locality For ono one on whole week FUr Fitz Fiz suffered In Ia Intensely intensely tensely and it i required all al his fortitude to wear we the toupee on the te stage Fits Fitz still sports his toupee on the spot he wishes to conceal Concel but he has since since re refrained retrained trained frine from bringing into requisition anything that tat is extra adhesive e |