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W I i I NEW WT-TC WT YORK ORK Oct The UThe The Vainest gamest fighter who over stepped into a i. iI I Sorry NEW ring Vas was Bob Fitzsimmons says Robert Edgren tho Fitz never foyer discovered any ulner bone bone- bonem in m his rUng tony tomy ting I If he be had broken one Bob would never nover have havo stopped or ord orn isn't built that way 4 He Broken d n bones never sever stopped Fitzsimmons from fighting When 4 ought fought Jeffries in San Francisco five iivo years ago he io broke the tho 4 i lASt knuckles of his right hand by hitting Jeff o on top of ot t the head heath t two so 50 splintered and azid telescoped that the tho knuckles 4 W era bones bone's back toward the wrist more moro than an inch But Fi Fitzsimmons kept yen ven r wi with that fearfully broken hand hane While Whilo looking at his hand 4 hitting fight I asked Bob how bow on earth he be managed to strike blows er the wreck of a fist splintered 1 said ho I 1 Just turned hand Fitz rit grinned Why a my sideways this c and sum kept on bitting hitting with the two bones that weren't verent busted 4 wasn't gameness then I 1 know the thc real article from 4 that i r r I If If siner erb bone e va variety Y-r Y t m t o H r l r-r- r fa fa- r Fitzsimmons in the ht in which at the ago age of 40 and be beor beor ber George Gardner foe beat or r the third time a champion of Eld ld ld In tn the fifth round of that had been playing with withE Iz Ct who E T r. r ai U s a 3 eat cat at plays with a a mouse out from his bs corner with every o of delivering the lockout Knockout and Bob gob feinted minute or so 60 feinted ifor for the fatal opening At last w v Gardner out Instantly Fitz Filz his right fist with ith terrific force is Knuckles Again doer ner had a knack of bobbing bobbing his bis own to escape a blow abow He bobbed this time and Fitzsimmons' Fitzsimmons fist trong tron since he broke it the last him the thick thick- i Jeffries es struck on above aboe the tho ear t of g-of of the skull just I 11 knocked Gardner down so harde hardie hard ie e e other side of his head hit the Irish nt But at the tho same instant shot FitzI Fitz Fitz- nt a 8 pop like a pistol is' is I hand had crumpled up The Thero ro 0 knuckles were driven back an and anid annd nd id d the splintered bones jammed I I the skin Gardner got ot up so 60 lared zed that he hardly knew whore where and stalled awa away Fitz kept im tm trying to drive home a solar punch with his Bis left fist On Bobs Bob's I I lere fre re was a smile and no one who tho t I heard the go o would have I I that bis his ri right ht hand was broken broleen th the end of the round both fi fighters 0 j their corners earners There Gardners Gardner's i cleared his head with ammonia id d him that Fitz was crippled r r. leaned forward and looked th the way war All ho saw aw with Fitz in n his corner with his hison Ion c on his fl's knees twi twiddling dlin his hia hiaL L That a man with a a. smashed rould do that was incredible Gardner thought his must be mistaken He Ho came out to fight again and nd the first thing Fitzsimmons Fitasimmons did was to miss him by bv a hair with a terrific right hand band swi swing g. g Made Blisters BUsters on Feet I Bob C Bob was badly badh crippled in that fight in other ways ways Ho He trained hard hardI for it and ran so much on the road rOM that I the soles of his feet became a ma mass s of blisters Still be kept on running until the skin came off in leaving his soles raw I saw him bim come conic in from ten miles on the road and when be he sat eat down in the boxing box box- ing room and pulled his shoes off and turned them upside down blood dripped from them Fitz hobbled about his work that day but ho entered the rin nary a day or two later as ns sprightly as a dancing master Fitzsimmons took his own gameness t s as a matter of course and expected the thes s slime samp me thing in others When a bear bit bita a R. big hole holp in J Jeffries' Jeffries leg at Harbin Sprin Springs s Fitz corralled Jeff and insisted upon sewing the gash up with a sail I needle and a piece of twine Jeffs Jeff's hide bide was as so thick that Fitzsimmons could hardly force the tho needle through h it and the operation they both lau laughed hed and j shed each other Fitzsimmons was proud of his work and was quite disgusted a few days later when Jeffries took a knife and ripped the wound open a again in to lot lct the air get at it He Ho Admired Gameness Fitzsimmons always alwa's admired gameness gameness game game- ameI ame- I ness in another man I asked him once for his opinion of Jeffries Hes Hos a game ame fellow said Bob I Any other man I know would a av quit if e was cut up like Jeff in our last fi fight ht E ad twenty four stitches taken in lD is face aft after r the fight all alJ is teeth was loose and is nose noso was broken flat I guesse guess e C would fave Jave been glad lad to stop but e got ot up and ad came at me just as ard as aseer ever eer until m my ands were busted an an e ew w wore e m me d down I And with w-ith- w all ll his gameness and marvelous marvelous mar mar- claus lighting fighting skill all aU his wonderful knockout powers Bowers Fitzsimmons was always al ways was the fairest and find most generous of When he be fou fought ht poor Jack Dempsey tho the great reat N Nonpareil for the tho middleweight middle middle- weight championship Fitz beat Dempsey Demp Demp- sey down time and again Game as a aman aman aman man can be Dempsey kept comin coming ii up long after his chance of winning ha had gone Kind Heart in Bobs Bob's Breast Whispering Fitzsimmons Fitasimmons be begged ged Dempsey Dempse to stay down Generous even in the heat of the greatest victory of his early fi fighting career Fitzs Fitzsimmons didn't want to injure the defeated man by cutting him up more and more or by 1 finishing him with tb his terrible knockout blows blos But Dempsey eursin cursing at his conqueror defied him to do his worst Dempsey Dempse was a game amo man Fitzsimmons mons mona when he saw that he ho must drove in in the last blow hard bard enough to mako make sure of a knockout and brought the butchery to an end Fitz Fitz always made it a principle to win win with as little dama damage e to the other man as possible He was a master workman Only a bun bungler ler or a cruel and sneering tellow rellow liko like McCoy ever eer cuts n a rival to pie pieces in the tho ring I Tho The gentlest way Fitz l-itz told me once I is is to knock clean with one punch I do that whenever I can They dont don't have any marks marys and they the feel all right the next day |