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Show " V T V r V V v Filzsimmons Was the World's Great Fighter Teter Mahcr, the most popular pugilist pugil-ist who ever reached these 6hores from Ireland, again has ring aspirations, ami is now planning a campaign which includes a crack at the best heav, weights In the business. Mahcr has been taking care of himself for some lime past and thinks his form In his last two bouts entitles him to a chance at better and bigger game. Ills new manager, Frank Jones, has mapped out some good bouts, and if he is successful suc-cessful Mahcr can then claim equal rank with men who are counted as stiff propositions. Maher ls in a happy hap-py mood over his prospects and expects ex-pects to make good. He grew reminiscent reminis-cent recently over some of the Incidents Inci-dents which have happened during his career, and when asked who was the best man he ever met he said: "Fltzslmmons was by far the best man I ever met. and I think he had it on all the heavyweights when he was at his best He was more experienced in the fine points and was n magnificent magnifi-cent ring general No matter what happened he usually had some means of counteracting it. and with his great hitting powers he was man enough to beat anv fighter in the world. He might not have been so clever as Cor-bett, Cor-bett, but he had the punch and tho heart and would wait his opportunity and tako all kinds of punishment until un-til he could get In his punch. After that all he had to do was to collect tho winner's end of the purse. Boh mado many enemies, but I always found him the right sort, and it 16 too bad there are not more of his kind in the world. I |