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14 Mins.; One and Full Stage. Bob Fitzsimmons comes on for a monolog of the flowery type, telling of his early life, and some of the high lights in his history. Talk delivered with clenched fists. Telling how a football player smashed him in the nose early in life, and how, after that, he took a blacksmith apron and made gloves with which he learned to fight. He then hikes to the wings. At McVicer’s, Baron Richter, on the program, steeped out to announce a three round boxing bout between Bob and his son. Curtain goes up, Richter takes his place as timekeeper and out comes Young Fitzsimmons, pink and big and a fine figure of a man in the palest of blue tights. On comes Bob in lavender and they go to it for three rounds, with some vigor, landing on each other with right good will. Bob is always a drawing card, and curiosity to see his son, who is booked as the one who is going to come forward later and stop Jack Johnson, should make the act magnet. On the closing spot at the first show Monday night, it packed the house.
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Variety, Volume XXXVI, no.9, October 31, 1914.