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THE GREATGOSSIP ABOUT THE CORBETT FITZSIMMONS FIGHT.Tlio Winner Will Mini Hlm««iriiikI Slioiililcrii Aliovi« All lt;'oi»M*rH Tom Hlmrkoy Will Miaflcngo t.li« Victor .IiiHt llcforc (he lliilllc.1TZ was asked theother day whom hi; would meet next, in case of his defeating Corbett. This pul the* Kangaroo into something of a revery.“I can’t think of anybody just now, he replied. “Whois there that would draw a purse against me? 1 in in the game to I lie end. if they can stir upanybody, but I am not going to dealin dubs or lighters whom 1 outclass or have already defeated.” Really there appears no one in the range of the pugilistic horizon today worthy of being tbought of as a future opponent of tin* winner between Fit/, and Corbett. K their contest should prove long and exciting and somewhat evenly contested a return match between them would doubtless he worked up within a year; otherwise it looks as though a consid-uble time must elapse before another big championship mill. A short time igo f thought Tom Sharkey must lie •omsidcred a worthy opponent for the best going, hut Tom seems to havehunted up handball courts in whatever part of the country he has found himself and there peeled his shirt and tested his bellows against skilled opponents in one of the most wind harrowing exercises ever invented.' Handball is a game of two handed quickness, of foot agility, of accuracy of eye—all of which characterize it. of the same category as ring lighting. The game is anti-fat and paunch destroying and no man who will mix up with handball an hour every other day need fear any-increase in that direction.Fitzsimmons goes more on bag punching, relieved by runs across country, and bag punching, when put to what it. ought to be, is, I believe, inferior to nothing known as a preparatory exercise to hard ring work. It is, however, an irksome task to most boxers, too much limited in space and movement and very hard work too. To overcome the wearisome routine of sphere thumping Fit/ likes to have a crowd of admirers of his skill stand round, sandwiching in plaudit* to the merry rat-a-tat. and Young Griffo, never much of a bag exerciser or trainer under any conditions, used to avow he would rather go to jail than rap the sphere ten minutes without a lot of awe-fitrickon rubbernecks. In hand-! ball this tediousness is pretty well done away with; you are always struggling with an opponent, and talk and jest put time quickly by.I II/. I'n(Ior n Dotuxlon.Speaking of hammering the sphere reminds me of a new wrinkle in this line, introduced by Fitz first in his preparation for that contest with Corbettdumbells. About 12 o'clock ho will strip for the work of the day. This will consist of running,hand ball,wrestling,boxing and hag-punching. While being rubbed down Corbett thinks his blood will be cooled sufficiently for his dinner, which will follow as soon as he is dressed. Then more loafing, followed by sleep. This routine began as soon as he reached Nevada.■*x« »•*. SvV' xN\ Yvfc=;2Sia«I 1I .111/*.. P'lt;t!j.iu/CHAMPION CORRETT. From His Latest Photo.fallen hack in general estimation of late. Those on the coast who are conversant with the sailor’s manner of milling think lie can never give the championship any sort of brush under Qurensherry rules, though under the old Style rules lie would probably stand an even or better chance with any ot them. However a finish meeting between Sharkey and Peter Maher shouldpoint out the next best man to Corbett and Fit;: dm molts.KluiidcHtig Nevada.It’s all well enough for the stay-at-homes to roast Nevada, but how about some of the poor war scribes who will in* set adrift out in that country presently? Some of them will he lucky if they can get hack with whole necks, in this connection it affords the writer considerable pleasure to chronicle that Nevadans, so far as he can judge from reading and labored eogitat ion upon the subject, are as handsome, eiegam and refined a set of gentlemen as one lt;•:;i:Ivl wish to meet. This is no bou-qrmt hanging on a contingency of the writer's liability to wander out that way, hut a simple piece of justice that lie has had in mind to say for the las’ couple of years.which fell through. This is lighting the bag with little dumbbells in each hand, which Fitz is said to have done formerly for about ten minutes at a stretch, after having lirst gone through the usual exercise at it with the gloves. Now, this serf of work is without doubt a mistake on the Kan-fM-oo'ss part, end I believe any trainer Wt,1-skiiled in his craft will agree that it id. Fit// theory is that if lie can pound the bag rapidly with weightedhands Im can urn!''0 thorn spin all the faster when they have nothing hut four-ounce gloves on thorn, supposingiiiaL he has grown extra muscle by vir-• Itne of the weights. Laboring under tliis same delusion, the writer has seen sprint racers put lead in the soles of their practice shoes and even carry weights strapped to the shoulders, and also shot-put tors, who argued that a man training for his utmost endeavor with, for ins'anee, a fourte-m-pound shot, ought to handle a much heavier one in advance. These are all delusions and snare;; and have been proved so long ago. Fitz can do himself noth-Il oitnm'itl d:i I.a vlgnce-Mcl'arihind l’ightIn downing Kid McPartlaml in 25 rounds (on points), which performance George (Kid) Lavigne did in New York, the latter probably picked off the. best, of the new light weight brood. It amounted possibly to the longest and hardest scrap Lavigne has had since he graduated from the featherweights, which was on tile occasion of his meeting with Andy Rowcn at New Orleans, December, 1804. MePartland did wellIn staying without a knockout for the full set of rounds, in which lie seems to have shown himself a grade better than .lack Everhart, who, it will be recalled, was too groggy for limber ,‘onsideration after stepping off twenty-imir rounds with the Saginaw voung-ster. It might he said that Everhart battled on the offensive more than did MePartland in trying his luck against Lavigne, blit this is offset by the fact that MePartland was less in weight than Everhart had been. The battle with MePartland marks the lirst time Lavigne has had an opponent come to his weight 122 pounds since his rattling tifteen round defeat of .Joe Walcott, December, 1SP5, and the Saginaw boxer’s meeting men at a weight, beyond the class limit led a majority of the suspicious scribes throughout the country to believe Lavigne wa; no longer a lightweight. Manager Sam Fitzpatrick. who backs and bandies Ln-vigue, wrote me a short time ago concerning the quick grown hallucination as to the champion lightweight’s avoirdupois, bidding those who were credulous to keep an eye on his boxer and see whether he was strong or not at the lightweight limit. 1 hope theyhave been convinced.How the llig Alcii Train.Next to hard sparring and bag punching handball is no doubt the best requisite, reliable exercise in the repertory of a man in training for a glove* conies*.. Jim Corbett lias figured it thatROD FITZSIMMONS. From His Latest Photo.ing but injury by weighting his hands; which, it has been reported, he is again practicing at his training quarters daily.t‘orblt;*t to’?* Daily K • u t Inc.Corbett is passing his days of training in this manner: Soon after he rises in the morning he will take a cap of coffee and a dish of oatmeal. Then hewill knock about, stroll over the hills i■and in a loafing way pass the time u:i- \ til his lirst meal of the* day, to be taken way. He lias since tin* earliest in- j at id o’clock Then a little ligln work tiinatiou of a go with Fitzsimmons j—wrist machine, bag, pulleys and
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Oak Park Vindicator
Oak Park, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 12, 1897
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