Show JIM CORBETT TELLS HOW JEFFRIES WHIPPED HIM AT A CONEY ISLAND I c James J 1 Corbett writes in Answers about his fight with Jeffries The former for former former mer champion says Everybody thought my fighting days were over oyer but my own opinion was that I was as good as eve ever I 1 had been The fight was rounds and I was knocked out by a punch on the jaw in the We fought at Coney Island In the same ring that Jeffries and Fitzsimmons Fitasimmons had used and I 1 had Fitzsimmons cor corner corner corner ner Jeffries was two and stone stono heavier than I was and was I think 26 years old It was like the Sullivan fight all aU over again Jeffries was ope one of those rushers of tremendous strength and I 1 fought fo him like a toreador would fight a bull The people were amazed When we came up for the tenth round I was cheered to the echo because all aU thought I should have been been vanquished long ago Jeffries had knocked out Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons mons In iii eight rounds and there was I 1 still standing up to him himI I had for tor months been practicing one punch and In the eleventh round my I chance came to deliver a knockout blow Being so much faster than my opponent I could afford to slow up 1 Is is Impossible to explain the blow I used but it vas was a short punch for the Jaw and it dazed Jeffries just as it had done Sullivan I saw his eyes rolling and dashed at him just as asI asI I 1 had at John L Li and once more I saw the championship within my grasp grap But Jeffries showed better judgment He just put his big bare arms around me and held on like grim death Before the referee could part us he had come out of the dazed condition It was a apiece apiece apiece piece of superb generalship Never Again All through the rest of the fight I never got another chance to repeat that punch And so the battle went on for twenty rounds and the audience went mad bo be because cause it looked any odds on my being champion once more Even Jeffries sec eec seconds seconds were yelling out Take any chance you ou can Jeff A knockout Is the only thing With only two more rounds to go I thought it would be good judgment to relax my muscles so as to make an ag aggressive aggressive finish So SQ I walked up with muscles relaxed and ant with the knowledge that If I 1 could hold out till the end of ot the round I 1 should win the championship of ot the world which failing falling a knockout knock ut before the end of the round was to be decided on points And the next thing I 1 remember was my seconds trying to bring me rue round In Inthe Inthe inthe the corner and telling me I 1 had been knocked out in the round How did It happen I was told that I jumped back and my being re relaxed relaxed relaxed I did not know I was so near the ropes The contact bumped me back and Jeffries who was hitting desperately caught me on the point of ot the chin at atthe atthe atthe the dramatic moment when the cham champ p was once more within my grasp |