Made Lanky Bob Hot
Jim Corbett is still a thorn in the flesh of Lanky Bob Fitzsimmons. At Flint it is said that Fitz lid up a policeman who said that he could not whip Pompadour Jim. The Battle Creek Daily News says that Bob Fitzsimmons playod a part not on the program in Battle Creek last Saturday night. He was with a crowd in the Williams Ho'ise bar room when some one ventured to .-em irk Ihat he couldn't whip Corbett. The kangaroo became enraged in a second, and throwing a btindle of money on the bar exclaimed, "There is a thoisand dollars that says I can clean out this bar room in flve minutes." The money was not covered.
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