Show JEFfRIES BATTLES ARE OVER Naughton Reb the Fights With Sharkey Fitzsimmons and Jim Corbett Dy By W W Naughton San Francisco No Nov CAnt dope fighters S says S an old sporting adage But Dut th Ii fre Is no law against try ing argues the student of things pugilistic tic the lie warning Is 18 re 11 ted 11 lo fights with Jeffries Jeff were certainly the bitterest exper lences of the career and If as vcr ver many hold Sharkey In his heyday was no better than Tom Tommy Tommy my Burns Buras If indeed quite as good It certainly s seems oms as though John Johnon Johnson son on would hav handled In Ina ina a manner mannor Never Neer of oC that said one who tho listened and from Crom the quiet that thal prevailed It looked ed as Shark Sharkey as the basis bash of oC argument the whole question had been settled d months In hi advance But hold n 1 chipped In another Sharkey made Jeffries ex cx tend himself to the last ounce but think of what did to and or 01 what J did to lO FitzsImmons That saved the da day and brought I Ithem thorn them back to the old cant dope fighters For the th sake of prolonging the ar argument argument I possibly someone asked aske Fit Fita on the down grade when he went n against Jounce There irene halt hair n a dozen ready to dispute any claim of that character ThC They Insisted that the Cornishman nearly nearl J i months after being knocked out b by Jeffres at Cone Island came caine back Into the be lists and larruped arrup d Gus GM and Sharkey In record time lime Then the went their var louts lous ways as admitting that the whole bloated thing was very confusing As a suggestion to those who want to tako up th the discussion where It left off orr the feels like saying n that th the Jefries who fought Shark on two oC occasions slon was not as formidable able as tho of nt after r years an any anymore more than the thc Johnson who used I to box potboilers with J anti and Saud Sandy Ferguson Is the tho Johnson I of oC the present time Ume was a cub be heavyweight when he boxed with Gus and Toni Tom I for the tho first time Ho He lacked finIsh and he lacked confidence Ii H i had 1141 Dot ilOt learned how to take CAre of hl his hAnds and h he It away a from rom the ring in 10 thO years with his hi fists swollen and painful In hl his first with I 1 saw him tak lak a crack on the jaw front Crom I I I I I the tho big bib JO go mia around lb the ring riDS In hi panicky a Ioa 1 1 TIe Ho aas more mor than naD damaged In his hili second go 10 with RUn b he 4 den tol left so LA tOt Dr a l bod hotly 1 the In tact fact i I and aDd grinned derisively I At Bm Mad Maddon Maddon don after Ukla taking It It wu was the tho once IDee bet between lb DOme sad d 1 the con dat dator or In his second be showed better botter punching ability than thanin In tho first Th who ho MW aw the will U how bow bt be mad a tar l ot o I lift Ido the lUh round and the HOC be wrought was paip able bl to 10 anyone who ho TaUM the liar ilor ux next dJ day Tom swathed like inrI an 10 E Egyptian pUn but bitt he be tried tri d to tomake make Inako I ht of 01 hia injuries Couple of ribs broken I 1 her bear said saida let a 1 caller sympathetically I Nw replied Tom Crac mao I II hued lint But nn an asIde The point t I Am making is III that In every O fight bt chewed Ills very err best beat work In my way of thinking wn wag the I ho he mt JIm Corbett rb U In SAn Francisco Not ot hat Corbett was any anything I thlu thing like lIko the o of old oid but Con Cor bett In a great rent retained hii boxing skill lie HI knew how to 10 mark Judge JudEO hit snappily and get away and this C fellow Jo met mft Corbett nt at his hll own game mo and and him To put the tho thing In R a nutshell Jet fries was a gr greater ator fighter when h he went Into retirement than ho was n nt at nn any preVIous period In his career Wo We all think Wf we know what n it chop chopping I Iping ping block Ja k In his hll pre pres present ent form onn would make of Toni Tom In the sailors best days As n it com coin I pan Ion picture we 0 ou ought ht to tr try anul conjure lp l what the J who out sparred and Jim Corbeit have hlo done to when hon was In his prime Maybe Torr Jeffs two fights with will wll afford aCCord n a peg to han hang nn an arbu fluent on In the tho first meeting I f frIes s probably thought himself luck lucky to n a draw In the sec anti fight he toyed with Ruhlin laugh laughed ed d at him and put puL hIm aWRY away In nye five rounds And two p years ar later laler the same Jet Jar fries still improving gave Jae clover Jim Corbett n a lesson In boxing |