Robert Fitzsimmons, as the most perfect modern production of the Roman gladiator, is to be sculptured in marble and placed side by side with the statues of the ancient fighters for the instruction of future generations in the physical development of the twentieth century. The former champion prize-fighter of the ■world has been picked by Gutzpn Borglum, the sculptor, as the' best specimen of muscular development, and the hero of four hundred battles will sit every day while the artist makes a statue of him.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 43, 19 February 1908, Page 8
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