AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 69, 22 March 1910, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

_— _________:_ ______EUB. ,-,;• , . .I.s** ''1 >-.-■..« - , - •Perhaps the most irrteres feature of the new programme submitted at' His .'Majesty's Theatre last evening, in the presence^of, a large, audience, was the semi-pa——ii_; story told iby trig Boh Fitz-simm-ons 1 of his early life. He took an effective turn out of the punching hall first; and having satisfied. himself; toy ."_—-eking rt out," and a,, couple of .-.miles' or more into,- the ord_i_,'"_e*' sat | down on a. chair in, mid-stage, and. proceededas -well as he could, for even':a. champ—n pugilist's breath does not last I out a severe encounter with a punching .ballito unfold his unvarnished tale. Fi_simmoris does not attempt any feats of nation or rhetoric. He tells in the simplest of language how* -when' he "was working as a —____, at Timaxu, there came along a —g wave Of ' _6t_riic" enthusiasm, and everybody in-New Zealand and elsewhere was 'talking of nothing hut upper-cuts, —inches, half — 'blows and.other "things which are 'supposed to .-era the staple of conversation of pugilists and "the fancy." Tells how his mother had a large family to (bring up, and how. he came to the ; conclusion that he could make more money for her assistance if Be gave up 'belting away at anvils arid 'other insensate object and tried what the effect of his thews id muscles would he on real live -Sen. Atkl he did very well, too. He says, and there's no suggestion of hragg_da_io about it, that although he has fought 370 iba-tt he has only foee fairly beaten once, and that was when J. J. Jeffries had the handling of him. As for the fight with Lang, he does not regard that as quite a "fair go," for his antagonist's most effective blows were .struck when they were "in clinch—," which was' against the agreed-upon rules.'-. All the same, "Fit-' maintains that Lang is "the. ! making of a heavyweight champion before long." '' ..... ■>' '. The turns contributed to the pro- | gramme by Mrs Frtzsiminohs, the Trapnell Sisters, Mr Fred Bluett and''Mr Franco Piper were exceedingly -well ap- [ dated. ~-„...-. ~, ~„_..,,._....,....,.,..,.