BOXING.

NZ Truth, Issue 161, 18 July 1908, Page 3

BOXING.

FITZY STILL THINKS HE CAN BEAT

Burns, O'Brien, and the Rest of the Pugs.

iThu^ Fitzsimmons talks to jan iAmerican scribie :— , F

. Bob Fitzsimmons bad bis war paint on yesterday. The old warrior was ail besmeared with the stuff. At the suieigestioh of fight Bob reared. "Blight? Vphy, I will fight anybody.. Black, yellow, pink or green. " It makes no difference to me. .1 will figlit Burns, and ill don't beat him I don't want a cent, and I will fight "Johnsoii, too." Now, you know how the grand old man feels about tbe gai_ue v Like all old-timers he still tb.in.ks there is one more scrap left m iijm, and he is willing- to take . a•chance- Hob looks as well as be did 'When he was here before the fire. : Wlule iie_w.as m . figjhting humor he r^erted his iast two >a^les waged ©eve, Gaid.np.r j lwasipyej:y:Jpad coiidiiJiiojiv' l he 'begau,. - 'My bleed.' 3ng banids were no good, my ieet^pre §ote ? ajid f Wsijs all ljuugea np.. B-_xxdr. 'rp&:< excepted to h^f me in' wree' lroii»ids', butas fe^ as J was 'I licked* Mm, ; I can lick petter men right htipw'. After Gardiner, O'Brien game Kalbirg. #fld ,bpftt me, but at • ijiat JTbifhie 'I W'^s haying trouble m my f a? Soijly, y.bu remember about that, ftnd^ 'say mindwas on anything hui fight- < :ijig. "While |n the rilig I was thinking my wife, and Q'itoen { ar . thest fldm my thoughts. The referee, sfbpped the fight at %he end of the rouiids, but j was not knocked out, as I could "have gpne on, but 'the 'referee saw fit to give the depir si on to O.Brien, ahd 'I ]tiad nothing to ,say. St.ll I would fight O'Brien 'fight over, and you may smile, but I iwpuld-'beat hltn.u . .

=■ After '(finishing with this shop t^lk Bob recounted a hard; Juck a mile long, jfe claimed to have lost J.1.0,---:O.0P/ dollars? m various ways' last year. *Tj_ie stbek- market got him for a'bun-' •die, losing a match with Tbmmv 'Burns he counted as so mucli loss, his shows were failures. 'Yes, Bob figured that he would have cleaned up 150.000 dollars if things had broken. rijKht. , • '"Say. are voir coming out to mv show -next Monday night ?." ! -quizzed. Bob, as the writer was about to leave him. miss it. It is a pretty ihingv It is a society piece and a beautiful thing."

"Are you trylnp: to knock John Drew out of a job playing society pieces ?" retorted the writer, o'pectine; to tread on BoYs toes, for when it comes to real 18 carat acting the -veteran slugger takes his hat off to no one.

-'Mr Drew is a good aotor, seen him many times, but-. I wouldn't run off the stage for him," fired bacK Fitz, who was never more serious m his long life.