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ROBERT FITZSIMMONSAT THE GRAND SUNDAY.Robert Fitzsimmons and company appeared at the Grand Sunday night before a fair andienoe in Hal Reid’s comedy drama “ A Fight for Love ” The play is a very clever piece of work in fonr ajts and the company is qnite capable. Hob is not each a bad aotor as some might suppose and many in the audience enjoyed seeing hiui for the first time. People who discountenance prize fighting and boxing on account of its evil tendencies are interested in seeing bo noted a pugilist as Bob. Though now out of the business, he is unquestionably a very clever man in the ring Mrs. Fitzsimmons is a very pleasing woman and takes the part of Vivian Ellington. During the performance she rendered a vocal solo. She has ^ery good voice and her song pleased so well that site was recalled two or three times. In the second act Bob did soni3 bag punching, but nothing out of the ordinary, and the fourth act closes with a three round bout between Fitzsimmons and Soldier Tom Wilson, who plays the pait of the blacksmith helper, in which Wilson is knocked out, that is, in the play.I Wilson is known in the ring as a very clevei boxer and is much heavier than Fitz and really looks to bo a better man physically. The bout was a very tame atfair, however, to be iuduged in by such men as Fitz and Wilson.One of E. G. Bullard’s livery horses was an important actor in tlie first act.whioh opens in a blacksmith shop. In this act Fitz proves himself a clever liorseshoer, making a shoe complete in three minutes. After the performance Fitzsimmons and wife took supper at the Hotel Anthes lunch room and presented the proprietor, Mr. Sargent, with the horseshoe ne made on the stage. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons and his pet lion were subjects of interest on the street in the afternoon . The lion followed them about like a dog. Though the animal is said to be perfectly harmless no one attempted to fondle it.Mr Fitzsimmons was forty-two years old last .luuo and measures 6 feet 3 11*4 inches in height, a
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Wed, Mar 01, 1905
Page 4
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