I think he must have had a hard life. -Will ... as a ... all, still ... I think that's highly likely. Perhaps the fact that B-W doesn't seem to have jumped on...
... I just got around to checking this. Sorry I took so long. The Fitzsimmons book is actually courtesy of Eric Berge. This is the PDF that he made. He had...
Does anybody know if there was another, maybe less prominent and successful boxer going by the name of Robert Fitzsimmons in the early 1900s ? Or was it really...
Hi Robert, numerous celebrities and entertainers during the late 1800s and early 1900s had their share of imitators and even impersonators. I recently wrote an...
Incidentally, on the topic of Fitzsimmon's country of origin; he was born in Cornwall (England), raised in New Zealand and boxed in NZ, Australia and the USA,...
Tony, ... of course you are right and this is possible. On the other hand, I was more thinking on the possibility of another, "real" boxer of less prominence,...
On 11/2/07, Robert Reinberger <budoforum@...> wrote: . ... While I consider myself somewhat of a boxing historian, i am afraid that I can't shed any light...
Thanks, Ken. The specific date in question is February 8th, 1906, clearly some years after the heyday of the famous Robert Fitzsimmons as a boxer. According to...
Bob was still (or at least back) fighting at that time, although I wouldn't be surprised if they became exhibition matches at some point considering he was...
Jason, thanks for the link. I've also found similar lists on the net in the meantime. So, Biddle's 1901 mention of Fitzsimmons retirement seems to be just...
... Yes, it was me. Thanks for the note, I'll spread it to my jujutsu research buds. Incidentally Lulu.com provides great service, but the postage to Japan ...
Lance, I didn't realize that. If you want to email me offlist, I'll order some copies and mail them out myself to anyone overseas at the cheapest overseas book...
My thought for the day: rather than dying a natural death, was Bartitsu murdered? I mean, graduates like Bankier, Tani, Vigny, etc., rather than teaching under...
Will, Funny you bring this up, I was thinking along similar lines during breakfast this morning. Why didn't "Bartitsu-Ryu" ever take off? It struck me as odd...
Seems to me, it is difficult to teach a professor anything. The usefulness of the cup is in its emptiness. I'm wondering if BW could have unbent to complete...
Hey, Kirk, I have xeroxed copies of several of the H. Irving Hancock manuals. Interested? -Will Kirk Lawson <lawson@...> wrote: ... I just got around to...
"Ruby Robert" seems to have quite enjoyed his association with the entertainment business. He kept staging boxing comebacks, at various levels of credibility;...
... The cost of shipping to "exotic" locations is the cause of some controversy on the Lulu message boards; obviously, authors want their books to be...
Didn't he also keep a pet lion? I remember something about his training being offbeat in some way. It may have been a couple rounds of wrestling with the lion,...
... breakfast ... cult-following. ... students to ... "headmaster"? The Lang article and Mary Nugent's interview give the impression that B-W was actively...
... usefulness of the cup is in its emptiness. ... training under Tani et al, or whether they were attempting to 'convert' him to Judo, that is, to Judo alone....
... wrestling ... guy. I ... Yes, and the lion might even have been incorporated into some of his stage performances. When we were working on "The Boxer", the...
... I've got a co-worker who's somewhat into amateur prestidigitation. He has one or two antique manuals that I've been trying to encourage him to republish...
Aha! Enlightening. Thanks, Tony. -Will ... usefulness of the cup is in its emptiness. ... training under Tani et al, or whether they were attempting to ...
I have: Physical Training for Women by Japanese Methods JIu-JItsu Combat Tricks Japanese Physical Training Physical Training for Business Men -Will ...
For the benefit of new members: Q - What is Bartitsu? A - See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu for the basics, http://www.bartitsu.org for a more thorough...
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