The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1897, Page 3

t IFTER THE | *VICTORIOUS | FACOUTER | | Champion Bob Breaks A]lE Pugilistic Rules by i Resting. AT HOME WITH WIFE| AND BABY. Mansfield Gives a Pen Picture of the Cornishman’s Domes- tic Happiness. BOB JX. THE PRIDE OF THE GREAT FIGHTER. Fi'z immons Coming H:re, and Will L:ter Go t> New York and Re- tire From the Ring. I 5 posed in | iather. honor of the occasion by his wres:ler, Emil Roeber. Itran: Our Champion Bob's a corker, He’s not a man’s that's slow. He was born in Cornwall I'd have you all to know. Your Corbetts and your Sullivans, Your Choynskis and your Mahers, They nre all back numbers Beside our Champion Bob. There are two feet too many in the last line of this ditty, but they are there to stay. Tiere is onlv one versein the song, but it is enough to tell the story. Any one who thinks the punching Fitzsim- mous received did him any serious injury should bave beard him chant that song. The queer featurs about his singing was that he seemed to be singing about some other person than bimself. S:1f conseious- ness was as far absent asanything that re- sembled boasting. Early to bed and early to rise s the rule in the Fitzsimmons household. The family ate breakfast gayiy and lounged about for an hour. The blacksmith cham- oion took young Bob in his arms, kissed him and tossed him in the air. *Hey, you big stiff,’” he cried, “*do you think you could knock me out?’ He made a sud- den lefi-hand jab a: the youngster and stopped his list—that ponderous and freckled triphammer—just as it grazed the baby’s pink cheek. There is a wonderful resemblance between the boy and his The features and coloring ere identical. Young Bob has his father’s glittering blue eyes and his auburn curls. The youngster has a funny way of doubling his tiny fists and drawing him- self up as if on zuard when anything of- fends him. He isa healthy, kearty boy, and one can already picture him in the ring as his father’s successor. “1 think that one of those hot baths at the penitentiary would be great,”” Fitz- simmons remarked. “So do I,”* cried his wife. Within a few minutes the horse was bilched to the bugzy and away they drove along the sandy, muddy road winding in and out over the sagebrush hills. Stelzner and Hickey followed. A CARSON, NEv., March 18 —As soon as > Cornishman left his dressing-room in | after yesterday’s battie he fe to their small, dusty, one- and drove her home. Of! as pieased at the applause of the crowd and the cheers tnat followed m, but he only waved his cap and E alittle. He did not appear any | ier than the ordinary man who finds jill in the street. He drove away with nis wife, who was all_smiles There isa woman with Spartan spirit. See her in ze with Bob, one could not help day when she will send simmons Jr., into the | ct orders not to leave it until | done his man. That she was ber d’s bestsecond at the ringside is | 7 2 matter of history. | The low rambling white house the Fitz- | mons # ily occupies at Cook’s ranch | cture. From without it is Nevada cattleman’s home, of grass and garden at the door hedged by TOWS of cottonwood trees. | Within the house is the typical home of | ze blacksmith who is makinga tiving from his trade and who has | her the inclination nor the money for axuries. The rooms are furnished with simplicity. Tber all open nother without any intervening Fuzsimmons' training has, of e the house a topsy-turvy av- | w champion very carefally tied | .orse in bonest farmer fashion, helped | e out of the bugzy and walked into | e with her. A farmer whose red | 2 the prize for fatness ata back | would show more signs of joy | han this long, lanky, silent man. The fegirl camo bustling into the dinine- | r Bob Fitzsimmons in | ie youngster looks about 1d stiff,’ cried Fitz, his blue ¥ as he poked a long | r against the little chap’s | body, tick!ing him in relatively the same spot where his crunching fist ‘bad laid | bett low less than an hour before. He | sed his little son and patted him on | head. | v, is dinner ready?” he asked i ® Ccook. “I'm hungry now. to a modest meal, this pair partans, laugiing and chatiing as they taiked of the battle. During the after- | oon the long-legzed man played around ranch like a schoolboy on vacation, | aped with the baby and taiked to his | wife about the preity little house they would buy in New York as soon as they | shoullt lay by a little money—for.a pretty f1ttie house 1n New York is their aim now that Bob has announced retirement from thering. Supper was at 6 o’clock. | Shortly after it was finished this farmer- | iike chawpion drove to town. He showed Rimself in the streets and was gaped at | and pointed out by the crowd. His right | 14 was bancaged and his puffed and | swollen lower ip was incased in courte | er. Otherwise Le looked about as , certainly notin the least distressed. | itz soon tired of the noisy town, for | and he was anxious to get back to his wife. . He could not tind Yarrum, his gi- gantic biack dog, and drove home with- out him, Imagine how this newly made cham- on nt the evening of his victory. He : down in his bedroom, which is the lor of the house at Cook’s ranch, and 7ed checkers with Dan Hickey, ons of his trainers. There was no champagne or'drinking of any kind. Thke north wind hoivled through the frinze of the cotton- wood trees, the wooden house shook husky. A fierce gust assailed it and snow was .flying in an stmosphere which at noon was hot enough for the gladiators to fight in nude, save for breechclouts. Within doors no one heeded the storm. The little nursegirl was singing young Fitz to sleep, Mrs. Fitzsimmons was here and {here about the room, singing and stopping occasionally to pat the piok, sunburned ba/dhead of her husband, and the pucilist himself was bent over the checkerboard fichting Hickey with care- ful moves and as much fervor as he had shown in fighting Corbett. When the lanky man had won his game he marched up to_ the small black organ, which ornaments the parlor, and began | ribs. | champion. s were filied with drunken men | | fierce snowstorm was driving in- their faces, but they.did not notice it. When the big man entered the prison he was surrounded by a half dozen clerks ana keepers, who shook his hand (his injured | right) very gently and congratulated him on his victory. 1, itis easy,” was his simple reply. “I'm out of thering now, feliows, Yes, that's right; I'm through with fighting.” When the big fellow was stripped for the batt: all the clerks and keepers who could get near enough took a long and careful survey of him. The only signs of injury they could see besides those already men- tioned was a big discolored patch on the left side of the body, about the lowest There was a little swelling and the contusions were blended in one mass of | color in which black and blue prevailed. These showed where Corbett landed | many of his short hatf-arm right-hand jolts. “Does it hurt, Fitz?” asked one of | the bystanders. ““No; he didn’t hurt me,” saia the big fellow with a grin thut showed | his even milk-white teetn. While the champion was being rubbed | down his wife took a hot bath. She said | afterward that she thou:ht it was good | for the complexion. Tais was by way of | joke, for Mrs. Fiizsimmons, whom thous- | sands rememver as Rose Julian, has a complexion of purest pink and white, in- | dicating excellent health. | Fitz:immons and his wife drove home and ate dinner. The reporter drove out to the ranch about this time and found them at the table. The new champion had finished a big steak and a mound of mesiy potatoes, for which Nevada is famous, and he was drinkinz. Think of the history of anv other champion pugilist you ever heard of ana then try to guess with what rare vintage this world-beater was washing down bis meal. He was arinking coffee, with milk and sugar in it, out of a big, thick, cheap cup that held half a pint. He invited his calier to sit down and eat with him. His invitation was not a bit of policy, for the man knows as muca sbout astronomy as he does about diplomacy. He soon fin- ished his meal and came into the parlor where his caller was waiting. On a bed | near by lay a brown five-ounce boxinz glove, its thumb reddened with Fitzsim- mons’ own blood. “Yes; that’s the one I knocked Corbett out with,” he said in reply to a question. “It was a swing that landed between the heart ar.d the pitof the siomach. 1It's the me blow that I knocked Sharkey out a Corbett talk to you at any timein the fight?"’ was asked. “No; but I talked to him,” said the “I told him when we came out for the thirteenth round: ‘Hey, Jim, this is the unlucky thirteenth for you. I'm going to knock you out’ He didn’t say anything to me. I finished him in the next round.'” »There’s no cut on the side of my head,” Fitzsimmons continued, showing both sides. “Icot my ear wrestling with Roe- ber a few days ago, and Corbett knocked w | the cut open again with a swing.”” Fiizsimmons sbowed his right hand. The thumb was badly swollen and wrapped in bandaging, and the knuckle at the base | of the first finger was swelled up and puffed. “I knocked up that thumb in the first round,” said the champion. “I swung my right for bis jaw, but he ducked and | I'struck the thumb against the back of i his head.”” The only other mark of battle on the | bizg man not yet mentioned was a smal! | dizcoloration far under the left eye and a | uny cut on the right side of the upper lip. | Fuzsimmons began opening his mail, which ue said he had forgotten to look at | yesterday. There were mascots enough | in the letters to supply a small army | corps. - The champion nsed his right hand with a great deal of difficulty. Among the letters was one from Ithaca | inclosing a red pennant bearing the word | “Cornell” in white letters; also one dated at Philadelphia and inclosing a small blne and red flag. The writer of the letter wished Fitzsimmons success, and told him him the flag had been used on the foot- ball field when the University of Pennsyl- vania team won a big victory last fall. Fitzsimmons lounged about the house all day, playing with his baby and the great dog Yarum. Once in a great while thers was abreak in his undemonstrative nature. He would rush up, grab his wife to sing. Mrs. Firzsimmons played accom- | around the waist and whirl her ‘around paniment. The tall pugilist’s voice is not | the room. But these ontbursts were not the most melodious thing ip the world, | frequent. but the enthusiasm of his singing is some- thing to wonder at. Fitzsimmons sang that popular and pathetic ballad, “Just Tell ’Em That You Saw Me.”” Heim- proved it somewhat by changing the sec- ond fine to **And that I knocked him out.” Fut he soon tired of this and began‘to a bymn. Everybody in the house the sleeping baby and the Chinese joined in this. Trainer Jack Stelz- nging was especially robust. The champion’s little blue eyes were twinkling like the points of an arc. He Was gamboling about the room as play- fally as a young calf, and with his ap- vrorching knees somewhat suggesting that cheerful animal’s legs. Suddenly he besan tosing » song that had been com- ner's Fitzsimmons expects to go to San Fran- cisco to-morrow and then to tour the country. J. G. MaNsFIELD, L e L JOE GUDDAED AND FITZ. Stuart Offers a Big Purse for a Fight Berween Them. CARSON, Nev.,, March 18.—1t leaked out this evening that Dan Stuart had of- fered a purse of $10,000 for & meeting be- tween Fitzsimmons and Joe Goddard, to take place in Carson three months hence. Biliy Madden, representing Goddard, jumped at the proposition, and Juiian is ihinking it over now. It wiil be left for the champion to decide whether he will defend his title. Mrs, Fitzsimmons is violently opposed THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 19,” 1897. A Veritable Triumph! A CROWDED STORE! A Pleased Public! Never in its wonderful history has the big store held as many people as the crowds of yesterday ; they kept powr- ing in and out all day till the closing hour, which we resard as a tribute to honest merchandising. \x§\\ Is perched wupon our baanm'; our \ NEW TO-DAY. house has always been held in popu- lar favor, but this High-Class Sale of ours at Challende Prices has made it doubly more so. Friday and Saturday will be the banner days of this great sale. Fri- day and Saturday are the last days of this great Challende Sale at tiny prices. We propose to end it in a blaze of glory. We propose to add Sreater values than heretofore---we are so proud of our success. Come Friday if yow can, bud Sat- urday sure. How About Your New Spring Hat? Are You Ready ? We are. We'll per- Sectly overwhelm you with pretty styles, new Spring bloc ks, in Long Pants Suits FOR BOYS, ages 12 to 19, in neat Cheviot How About Your Sunday Trousers? Do you need a new pair to wear out your coat and vest ? We can helpyou. Over 00 pairs of effects, well made and Black, Pearl, Glter new Spring styles in tailored up-to-date. new stripes, all. ool Challenge Price, RSN el Mas of at that. - Eacellently Brown; suell stuf. tailored. --$3.65-~- Our price Friday and Saturday, --95¢c-~ What pretty styles we show this Spring at $1.35. No end of pretty colorings and a hat that CO N FIRMATION JITS for Big Boys, in blue and_black, in Enguish Cheviots, a swelly gotten up_suit, in single and double Special to-dav at .80. Better ones in fancy Scotches, all sizes; wel: worth §400. Ez- celient fitters. Specia’ to-day at -98. Here's a gem ond a You've breasted, styles ; other quick seller. you arish., the hatter would charge $3 for. Sk ".f’;,‘l'f‘-,f""f:{ff,: CHALLERGE Friday and Saturday nre our French Worsteds. A FRIDAY AND Special Days. Therefore the teaser for Friday and SATURDAY, special price, Soturday. Special price, 8280 --$6.50-- --$1.35-~ Say good -by after Saturday tothose All- Wool Bannock- burn Cheviots; a better wear- ing darment never existed . New things for Spring and at Chal- lenge Prices at that, just arrived, but in they go, for Friday and Saturday over 200 swell Short Pants Middy Suits, ages 3 107, inblue and fancy Challenge Prices mean a heap o you these days. Handsomely Em- broidered Sailors, with many rows of silk soutache on the deep French coilar ; French slceves, in and the color- heavy yacht cloth. mized Kcotches and ings are all new \4 Also some handsome Homespuns. The col- for Spring. : novelties in Middy lars are handsomely You’ll pay Kuits, all new color- braided, in many double the ings for Spring, made rous of. soutache ; the for ‘em with a detached vest vests also prettily £ money d sailor coilar. braided ; large pearl h fter ; forlads ages 9 to 15; e ereafter; forla 5 buttons on the Middy; a suell affair ; in this great sale FRIDAY AND SATURDAY at —-$8.95--- also Reefer style, ages J to 10. Friday and Saturday, and not after, at 2.50--~ | One of the Gems at ---$2.95--~ We will not attempt to. deseribe the Over- coats and Swits at four forty-five. The picture speaks owt boldly for their Srea’ merit and true valuwe, but the colorings are all one cow'd wish for, in blwe, plack and Havana brown, in Oxford mixtures. Friday and Saturday will be the last days of them at the tiny price of - - - - —}.45 It Is Now Said **How Can We Do [t?” .l,\f/;@ That's what’'s A troubling owr amr competitors. Youw don’t care ; that concerns only yow and us. That Black Clay Worsted Suitin cutaway frock, in single and double breasted styles, that swell dresser in nar- row ridge Twills, in blue and black ; our competitors are charging $15 for goods that don’t compare in chic, new- ness or tailor- ing. These are the valwes that are making them kick and they’re in this Great Chal- lenge Sale for Friday and Saturday at $7.45. The Overcoats are made of the swell Kerseys and Clays, hand- some colorings, rightly Zdotten up—marvels of the tailor’s art. Yow'd dwess dowble the money and consider ’em cheap at that. Friday and Saturday are your days at —$7.45— IN THE LANGUAGE OF CHIMMIE FADDEN WE HAVEN'T “DONE A ’TING” To owr finest Suits and Over- coats, but closed our eyes to cost and, valwes. A blaze of glory it’s going to end in. A raretreat at $9.45 awaits you. All the new and pretty Plaids— they're so swell; real English Wors- teds in bluwe, black and fancy colorings ; Hoc- kanwum Chev- iots, in any and every style cut Sarment; few tailors can equal ’em at any price. he Overcoats are high-class Barments. Yow can have’emin the English box style, the me- diwm length, or the long Poole cut. They’re swell ; no tailor can _ turn ’‘em out better. You can have’em in blue, black and brown and sev- eral shades of tan. Garments worth dowble the money the year round. Friday and Saturday are your last days at —-$9.45— RAPHAEL'S (Incorporated), 9, 11, 18 and 15 RAPHAEL’S INCORPORATED), ——THE FRISCO BOYS—— 9, 11, 13 and 15 Kearny Street. ' KEARNY STREET. RAPHAEL’S INCORPORATED). LIVE HUSTLERS FOR TRADE, 9, 11,-18 and 15 Kearny Street. to the ides, and it is possible that Bob will heed her advice. Madden tried hard to get a match for Steve O’ Donnell, but failed. Jeffries, the Los Aneeles giant, who has been assisting in Corbett’s training, is matched against Theodore Van Buskirk of the San Fran- cisco Athletic Club. The good fortune which attended Dan A. Stuart and all concerned in the great championship battle yesterday was never better demonsirated than it was this morning, when the storm which the weather deities kindly kept bottled up be- bind the western Sierras on St. Patrick’s day was let loose with full force. But nearly all the sports had deseried the town, and those that remained were glad enough to stay indoors and fight the bat- tle over again. A number of sensational rumors which were telegraphed to the effect that Fitz- simmons was dangerously ill, caused a little excitement in the town. When they became current there wasa scurry- ing for vehicles to transport inquiries to Cook’s ranch, and the jaded livery horses were robbed of an hour’s rest by these ig- norant vaporings. When Fitzsimmons’ quarters were reach<d and the visitors’ mission made known, the champion and his family expressed their indignation freely at the cruel canards. “The fact is that Fitzsimmons at no time after he stepped out of the ring suffered any physical pain beyond that caused by a slight fracture of his right thumb joint which he received in the second or third round of the battle. After dinner last evening he drove into the city with Martian Julian and Ernest Roeber. He spenta few hours with his newspaper friends und iliustrated in the headquarters of the United Agssociated esses how the knockout blow was de- livered. A piece of flesh-colored court- plaster over his split and swollen under lip, & heightening of his ordinarily ruddy complexion ana a white linen bandage wrapped around his thumb were tiie only external evidence of the conflict, Fitz- simmons drove along leaving Julian and Roeber as his representatives at the cele- bration of victory. The champion re- tired to rest shortly before midnight. He suffered from muscular nervousness dur- ing the night and frequently woke up with a startling twitch. When he arose in the morning his joints ached a trifle, but a hot mineral. bath in the springs at the penitentiary quickly set him to rights and arubdown left him completely re- freshed. He dined with Warden Hender- son and spent a quiet afternoon playing with Bob junior. Martin Juliap was de- puted to answer the congratulatory cor- respondence, a task which kept him glued to the telegraph counter for hours. Stakeholder Al Smith turned over the purse and sidebets to Julian this morning in Dan Stuart’s office. William A. Brady, Secretary Wheelock and a few reporters were present when the transfer was made After the checks were handed over to Julian, Brady renewed his offer made last evening to back Corbett against Fitzim- mons. for $20,000. Julian's reply was evasive. He intimated that Fitzsimmons would retire from the fistic arena, ana judging by expressions uttered by the ¢hampion, it is not improbable that this will be the case. All along Fitzsimmons has assérted that this was the last time that he would undergo ttie ordeal of train- ing. /. Fitzsimmons’ revly to Corbett after they had shaken hands in Bob's corner yester- day indicated that the Australian was thinking of retiring. “You've licked me fair and square,” said Jim. ‘“Now I want you to give me another chance.” The champion replied coldly: will not fight you again.”” - Then I will punch you in the head the first 1ime I meet you on the street,” was Corbett’s retort. “If youdo, Fitz, with a cool, bitter smile ana in an even tone, “I will kill you.”” Brady, however, still thinks that Cor- bett is the bsiter man of the two and he is willing to back his judgment. The Corbett party, including Brady, Mec- Vey, Woods, Delaney, White, Egan and Jeffries, deserted Shaws Springs this evening. Brady ana White will go East from Reno to New York to-night and the others return to S8an Francisco. Martin Julian was disappointea at not being able to secure the Mechanics’ Pavil- ion fn Ban Francisco for an exhibition to- morrow evening. He hasaccepted an of- fer on behalf-of the champion for his ap- pearance at Suiro Baths and the Haight- sireet Chutes on Sunday. Accordiug to bis present programme Fitzsimmons will leave Carson to-morrow with his wife and child. Martin Julian, Roeber, Hickey and Stelzner will accompany them. It is thought that as to the future Fitzsimmons will accede to his wife’s desire of making their home in New York City. e CORBETY LACKED STEAM. Some Noted Awuthorities Agree im Their Opindon of the Has Been.” OGDEN, Uran, March 18.—The ** Par- son” Davies’ special and -the repular Southern Pacific train brought two full trainloads of returning sports from Car- son into town this evening. They were interviewed at the depot by a representa- tive of the United Associated Presses, and there was a wide diversity of opirion on the outcome of the fizht. The consensus of opinion, however, that the best man won. Fitzsimmons simply outfought the California champion, and the fight demonstrated that a scientitic boxer has no chance with a scientitic fighter. John L. Sullivan said: ‘Corbett putup a weak fight. He lacked steam, and al- though bhe hiy Fitzsimmons when and where he pleased he did not have force enough to land a knockout blow. He on exbibition. Fitzsimmons proved him- self a dangerous fighter, but it was not a battle of champious. Corbett’s alleged cleverness was not in evicence and Fitz- simmons had it all his own way. I chal- lenged the winner at the ringside, and if Fitzsimmons can be induced to fight me I will defeat him."” Sullivan is looking excellent and weighs 249 pounds. He says he can easily train to 200 pounds and will fight at that weight. Reddy Gallagher of Chicago and John Considine of Datroit were sore on Corbett. Said Gallagher: ‘‘Corbett did not make any fight at all. There are thirty middle- welghts who could have whipped him. He was deaa so far as punching is con- cerned. Why, out of the 196 blows which he landed or Fitzsimmons he only cut the Cornishman’s lip. Fitzsimmons a.d fairly well and showed he knew how to fight, but from a pueilistic point of view the battie was not a great one.” Considine echoed - Gallagher's state- ments., He said: “Fiizsimmons had a snap. Corbett could not hit hard enough to hurt, and it was only his ability to get away that saved hita long-before the end came. Corbett did not hurt Fiizsimmons at all. In the sixth round, when Corbett repeatedly put both mitts on Fitzsimmons’ jaw, everybody looked for a knockout, but Jim did not have the steam. Fitz- simmons went to his knees and the crowd thought Corbett knocked him down. It was no such thing. Fitzsimmons shipped and clung to Corbett to save going to the floor. “As he rested on one knee for seven seconds he winked at the men in his cor- ner, and when he got up Lhe wasas fresh asat the beginning. g “If Sullivan fights Fitzsimmons it will be a good fight. John L.’s methods are similar to those of the Cornisbman, and it jabbed and poked away as though he was ! they ever com together it will be a hot slugging match." Professor John Donaldson of Cleveland, Ohio, a former trainer and warm friend of Corbett, is of the opinion that Jim was handied wrong both in training and in the ring. He says Corbett was not in good form dnd did not in any way deronstrate that he was the same Corbett that defeated Sullivan and Mitchell, Vere Davies, brother of Parson Davies, ventured the opinion that it was a great fight and that Fitzsimmons is the better man. Fitzsimmons proved that ne was no accident and Corbett demonstrated that fancy boxing will not win a cham- pionship battle, M. de Friest of Atbany says that while it was a good fight it was not a great one. Corbett appeared to the uninitiated to have the best of it all the way through, but while he rained blows all over Fitz- simmons his grand-siand boxing did no barm. F.tzsimmons slipped in the sixth round and Corbett got the credit of a knockdown that he did uot n. De Friest will back Sultivan against Fitzsim- mons for any amount. Major Wintnrop, president of the Lon- don Athletic Club, says it was the greatest fight of the contury. He refused to stay and sce the smaller fights so as not to spoil the grand impression the championship battie left with him. Dave Lowensohn of Chicago said or- bett put up = game and scientific fight, but he lacked steam. You ean train a thoroughbred horse down to a tine edge, but even then he can’t kick as hard as a mule. Corbett foucht well, but the res puted cleverness was not sufficient to keep Fitzsimmons away. The Cornishe man forc:d the thing, and with ali his hitting Corcett could nat keep him away. The best man won, and he can do it every time," ‘The party left for the East over the Rio Grande Western at 1l o’clork to-night. Sullivan will get off a: 8t. Louis, where he opens with his theatrical company in & Sunday afternoon matinee.