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Show BECAME GREAT IN" A MOMENT. Corbatt Saya Joffrles Never Realized His Strength Until Ho Fought Fitz. "Jim .leffries is the greatest heavyweight heavy-weight fighter that ever lived, and he became the greatest in a moment," said Jim Corbett recently. "That was in the seventh round ot his la6t fight with Fitz. Before that time, although ho beat Fitz and knocked me out in the twenty-third round of our first battle, bat-tle, Jeffries was a cinch. 1 don't Know anv big fellow I'd rather fight than Jen as he was at Cone- Island. T thought he would bo a cinch after that in 'Frisco- The only thing I was afraid of was that Jeffries might get onto himself, him-self, no did not know his own strength. Just as I feared, he got wise in tho fight, with Fit?: in 'Frisco. Fitz, with his hands in plaster of paris, cut Jeff to Tags, but could not hurt him. You know Jeff thought all tho timo that any follow who could hit liko old Fitz might knock him out if he landed right. That's why he always fought so carefully. "In the seventh round Jeff began to think. Fitz, with his plaster off paris hanls. had walloped him on tht jaw a hundred times,' And all of a Bitdden Jeff got onto himself. He thought 'Why, these fellows can't hurt me.' The idea had just occurred to him. And ho jumped out. of his corner at the boll and ran at Fitz and put him out. That changed everything for Jeff. JIo stopped paying attention to what the other follow might do and made ur his mind io fight on the aggressive all .ihc time. Ho quit tho crouch and stood up straight. When he got n punch he laughed, because ho knew ho could not bo dazed by any blow that a man could strike. "The. man lo meet Jeff has not arrived. ar-rived. Jf you're looking for a man to meet him, look up ono who weights somewhere near a qflarter of a ton, has strength enough to hug a grizzly boar to death, and speed enough to dodge a runawny raciug car on a, narrow nar-row road. He 'must be gamo and he must have tho natural fighting instinct. Fighters are born. You cannot make thcni." Milwaukee Sentinel. |