Show NOT NOI HOW OLD BUT HOW llOY TilE THE I YEARS WERE YERE SPENT TilE THE RUBBy RUB I By fly Ed tl W Chicago April 9 Now It IB is Jeffries turn to have a birthday celebration but It ft isa is a question whether wn ther he le is proud of ot the fact that he is 35 36 years old although there is 18 nothing to be ashamed aham Pod ed of in ix that On the morning z of ot April 15 Jim J 3 effrIe retired and undefeated chain cham champion 1 pion lon now matched with Johnson for t he title will be 35 Ripe old age axe it for a man to be bet Sighting fIghting for tor the worlds title and after atter w t layoff from irom actual participation In hunting trips excepted since the night of August 26 1904 Nearly six year years of Idleness Contemplation of these facts f and fig figures figures ures ur s merely n r lY brings one back to the old question cn he hedonic Iome back The time Is coming when Jeffries will wUl demon demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate strate to the public at least whether he heis 19 is able to come back and be as good as aslie asbe ashe lie he was He will have to show some soni something thing In training camp for the public will be watching despite the fact that tm the big fellow follow has selected a site sit for f r his camp romp that Is far tar removed from the haunts of man Still that 1st going to take inquisitive inquisitive I tive Uve eyes off oU him Three e Years Difference There much difference In the i ing ages ng s of ot the men Three years ordinarily ily be so much nothing In Intact fact tact ad tad both men kept up their thelt ath athletic letic work without Cessation Johnson has been generally active actives s n ne e he started Jeffries has ha hanot not And the rub that is making malting t 1 U trainers of the game shake shako t ter hir e r tends heads and doubt that the white ian han will wm be more than outwardly ready when the pinch comes conies If It only Jeffries had decided to have havea a e rap or 01 two with be before fore fir f rl taking on Johnson If It only the thep p could have received that line on At hit might be expected of the white whito whiteman whiteman man In the coming contest with the black But It to be and hence the public can only guess And it U is a guess too because no other fighter no matter of how powerful a build and splendid physique was ever able to come back bacI after a layoff of anywhere near that length of time Black fighters last a long time In the boxing game There are several examples of their ability to o stay slay a good long time after atter their allotted span Good Despite Age The case of Bobby Dobby Dobbs tha the col colored ored fighter who is now battling In Ireland is prominent In this respect When Eddie McGoorty the Oshkosh I middleweight started training over ove I there for the battles he secured he was vas amazed to learn that Bobby was still good and at the grand old age ago for foT a fighter of 51 years Bobby was wa born In Knoxville Tenn TennIn In 1859 and though his eyes have been failing him for a long time Ume he Is still ablo able to do nicely In the rather mealo ere ore class he is called upon tp to meet on the other side Only three weeks ago he made a young oung butcher named Hick Hickman Hickman man mun quit In five rounds of ol wHat was to have been a d go Dobbs never had a path of roses when he lie was fighting in this for he tackled tickled such tough ones ories as Kid Kic Lavigne Joe Gane Joe Walcott Young Toung Peter Jackson J the Black Pearl anc and others of that calibre He has been in England for the past ten years oars and hn Is reported as doing very well He laughs at the Idea that he Is too old to fight |