Show made alade fitzs head avil e 17 1 a the worst two minutes I 1 ever had in the ring said lanky bob fitz simmons to an admiring acquaintance the other day was vas with nuth peter maher in new orleans in 1892 1 I guess I 1 got a little barele s aad and let him punch me on mhd gnei head fitz s head fits a 6 hat it seemed like a trip hammer had me my had buzzed and swam and got light my brains didn dian t work I 1 didn dian t seem to know what to do I 1 was on my feet all right but I 1 had lost all sense ot of generalship the only thing I 1 did was to jab at marier malier with my left while I 1 Is juggled to pull my addled brains to their senses the round was nearly over when i came to the first thing I 1 realized was that jabbing m as just what maher needed so I 1 kept it up through the fight and won in the twelfth round without striking an other blow the second meeting between ritz and maher occurred at lantry te in 1896 the Corn cornishman isaman beclar de clard d openly that he intended to settle the fight with one blow I 1 have never nener forgotten that time maher hit me in the head he said and I 1 im in going to make him orry carry he ever did it I 1 in in going to hit him once hell he 11 lie ile down when I 1 do it listen to what I 1 in saying I 1 in going to hit him once after the battle fritz cald aid to his friends I 1 never saw anything like it in the ring in my life when mahr tood up before me I 1 could cee a look of awful fear in his eyes as they saw me put out my left as if I 1 meant to do some jabbing his hair almost rose on end he hadn haan it got over that awful punishment nt in four bears ears my left must have stuck in his craw he made a swing at my head I 1 stepped aside and as his own head went down my right met him on the point of the chin the floor was his and he catale tae I 1 there I 1 said I 1 d hit once and I 1 d d |