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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue VIII, 14 August 1897, Page 236

Fitzsimmons, the champion pugilist, has taken to the stage. A dramatist has been employed to write a * play ’ in which the boxer might bring his art and muscle into use, but without too severely taxing his intellectual powers. As Fitzsimmons was a blacksmith before he was a fighter, so he will be a blacksmith on the stage. The last act finds him in fighting costume in the ring, and in a four round bout he defeats his opponent, and with the bets won on fight he pays the mortgage off the farm and saves the heroine’s family from humiliation and the poor-house. Mrs Patrick Campbell, who has been endeavouring to recruit her health at Brighton, is still very weak, and her doctors have ordered her complete rest for some time to come.