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Show CORBETT SI JEFF mww WEEK "Sunny Jim" Says in Former Champion Is as Good as He Ever Was. BEN LOMOND. Cal.. June 3. After a nine-mile morning run nnd a half hour turn with the pulley weights. Jim Jeffries decided that was enough for one day ami spent tho afternoon fishing for trout. When Jeff left In the morning for a spin for the fish hatchery in Ills automobile, auto-mobile, he Intended to return to tho gymnasium gym-nasium and do some light work with the apparatus as well as spar with Choynslcl and Armstrong, but at the hatchery tho call of the trout assorted itself so strongly strong-ly that ho borrowed a rod and reel and started up-stream, sending his family back to camp. Jim Corbotl spent nearly tho entire day in the gymnaolum working for his first sparring match with Jeffries. 'I his sot to Is scheduled for next Tuesday. Corbett Intended to box with Jeffries Mondav. hut Jeffries has another engagement en-gagement for that day. Ho will motor to Monterey and indulge in a little deep sea fishing. "I do not think." said Corbett today, "that Jeffries ever was moro rugged or 11I longer than he Is now. nor do I think his wind has over been belter. If anything, any-thing, he is more xiowerful than when I boxed him several years ago. I have been quoted as saying that he was faster now than ever, but I did not say that. He Is about tin fast now as anyone could expect. He still has four weeks of training train-ing to go, and the sort of work he will do from now on is tho kind to make him fast. Jeffries was In high spirits all day. due l.irgolv to the fact that ho read Governor Gov-ernor Charles N. Glllctl's denial of the story sent out yesterday from Chicago by a nows agency to the effect that tho fight was a frame-up and that it was fixed for Jeffries to win. |