Show FIGHTERS BET ON THEIR OPPONENTS This Thin Is it not widely known When Hob fob Fitzsimmons and Gardner fought in III San ian I eo In III 1 3 each put Poul down downa a n bet b l on the tho other to win says ays The lime 1 ho Bulletin I 1 know this to bl be a fact ro 10 marked a n sporting turin yesterday who wagers a lot of ot money mono on every fight that thatIs Is l pullout pulled off here I was wa ns a 10 I man and backed him but my friends were frantic when they heard It They The cam camo to tome tomo toma me mo end told me mo about Fitz having a 11 bet beton beton beton on Gardner This set et ma mo to thinking but buthe before he oro hedging any best I nosed about and found that Gardner had bad wagered Jl t 1 SOO on Somebody huts hns got Kot gotto Kotto gotto to win will I 1 said to myself no imo 0 I t will let iet my may m bets stand After Atter the light 1 I heard out old Dab Bob tva wa al BO so dubious about his hl chances that he bet on Gard Gartl Gardner Per ncr lie He had n a hard time limo getting himself Ui tm shape lie was only a shadow of ot him himself hImself self 8 and old ohl hove have their trouble trou troubles bles ble when w lien It comes tomes to training Fitz need needed ed Ct time the money mOlle badly so he figured that If It Ithe ho he lost he ho would have a II a few to dollar com corn coming comIng ing lug to him Gardner was wan young and strong stroll and had h he 1111 known of momma mons s pitiful condition he would havo hao beaten him and won a II bet on himself to boot But nut he was afraid of or the old de do demon mon Ho no always was isa a coward it you rem remember ember Fits Fitz executed one of ot his famous shifts In the t round and an 1 dropped Gardner In lim his tracks This punch BO eo frightened Gardner that he h never neer went near I the other nineteen rounds Ill was WItS tottering on his feet teet and all Gardner needed to have done dona van tn to have hae up Ull COd nl pushed the theold old 01 fellow f 1411 Hob would wl never nevet have havo hn vo I led himself to hi hIs hili feet |