| Show START RUMORS TO CHANGE THE onus ODDS What Will Happen From Now Until Fourth of July GAG OLD BUT STILL WORKS PHILADELPHIA JACK OBRIEN INDULGED HIMSELF By DT C Co E Eo VAN LOAN LOA o New York May 14 The day of the pugilistic has arrived once more Its an easy thing to start a private private vate line of inside Information about any man in whom the public Is inter interested interested ested Now for instance let us suppose that Jones Tones tells Smith that he has heard from Rowardennan that Jeffs left arm armis armIs armis is stiff Smith tells Brown that Jeffs Jef s left arm Is Ts sore as a boil boll and not fit to be used Brown tells Green that he understands that they may have to postpone the big light fIght because Jeff Is In such horrible condition that It would be murder to send him Into the ring And if it you dont watch Green he will have Jeff dead and buried burled before night The he funny thing about It is that a whole lot of people who ought to know better will receive this guff gnU with open mouths and pass it along fifty per percent cent stronger than they got It Almost any story gathers something In the telling Three good men handy at embroidering alleged facts can take the most Innocent circumstance and mag magnify magnify magnify It into a national calamity There are some folks who lie He for fun some who lie for money and others lie He because they the want to affect the betting Plenty of or men have made juicy prices for themselves by a little Judicious use of conversation Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia phia Jack OBrien once turned as neat neata a trick In this line as may be found In ring history and he did It single handed and abd alone All he did was to pass on a little talk to a man whom he felt would leak to the right people OBrien had bad been up In the Klondike on one of his long yearly pilgrim pilgrimages pilgrimages pilgrimages ages after the mazuma He was signed by wire to meet Al AI Kaufman Al was then supposed to be quite some de demon demon demon mon for he had been rocking them to all to sleep with one mighty poke and the San Franciscans thought well of him Met at Gangplank OBrien walked down the gangplank of or the steamer and started for his ho hotel hotel hotel tel Harry Foley trailed along Harry was once quite a tighter fighter himself but buthe buthe buthe he had a jaw which refused to stand standup standup standup up under bombardment Harry also had a tongue and a wide acquaintance He Be was on the job to find out what OBrien thought about the tough young giant he was to meet OBrien was very ver pessimistic Of course you ou know Harry Harr that Im not quite as young as I used to be and my hands bands are baad To come right down to It Im probably making a fool tool match but hut the northern trip meet my m expectations and you know one must make expenses I may oe De Deable beable able to get the decision over oer Kaufman at that but Id like to be about six years younger for the job That was plenty It was wag enough to send Kaufman Into the betting a 2 to 1 choice Foley told some of the wise ones and the wise ones told fold old their friends and pretty soon there any an money but Kaufman money When the price suited s him OBrien quietly unbelted and sent In Inthe Inthe inthe the family bank roll He slew Kauf Kaufman Kaufman Kaufman man at his leisure and the men who had nad been counting on Jacks hands got the trimming of their lives and every dollar that OBrien had to spare got him two the next morning Many Inny Rumor Starters Starter There will be a lot of Jeffries men setting afloat horrible rumors In the hope of bringing the odds to a bar bargain bargain gain aln counter basis There will be some Johnson men playing tho the same game The fellow who wh believes everything he hears and worries about It will be beas beas beas as busy as a bald hornet from now jiow on onto onto onto to July Jul The reports out of the Jeffries camp are bound to be colored by b the per personal personal personal opinion of the man who sends them Every fellow whose business will take him to Rowardennan has been besieged by friends with requests for the real dope on Jeffries Most I of these men will respond to the best of their ability and their reports on Jeffries will be based upon their per personal personal personal opinions Already we have hale had several scarey tales about the big fellows wind It ItIs Itis Is 15 not good they say Now when was wasa a fighters wind In i good condition co three months away from his fight one of the things a man usually goes Into training to correct tendency to short windedness And because Jeff puffs a little after aHer hard work these men are worried They ell evi evidently ev dently believe he should be In per perfect feet trim before getting into training If a man could hop Into his work at ata ata ata a few days notice and show no signs of short wind there would be no need of the long Jong gruelling training process There Is one thing which Jeff Jet needs and which the Importance of this fight demands that he should have and that Is the best trainer that money can buy Sparring partners as a rule are only sparring partners They do not know enough to superintend a mans training and that Is why they must take the hard knocks Sam Berger Bergeris is lacking in every elery important thing which goes to make a successful handler of at a fighter He Is a boy In years and an an amateur In experience He Is not qualified to handle a stub stubborn stubborn stubborn born fellow like Jeff There should be another Billy Delaney In the camp campa a man who knows how to put a fighter tighter on edge and get him there Just Justat justat justat at the time of oC his fight This fight must not be marred for tor the lack of ofa ofa ofa a man who knows the business of con conditioning conditioning a fighter and the tho sooner Jeff gets such a man Into his camp camIl the better It will be for tor him and for every everyman everyman everyman man who hopes to see him sent Into ring In the best possible physical con condition condition condition In the meantime you can safely fig figure figure figure ure on taking the stories you hear her with a few grains of salt Jeff has common sense and good Judgment The fact that he is In training means that I he believes he can win |
