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Show CORBETT IS ANXIOUS TO TRAIN JEFFRIES j CHICAGO. May 21. James J. Corbet t, 1 former hcavyweirlit champion. Is stay- i ing here a couple of days on his wnv to. Ben Lomond. Cab. to help condition Jef- ' fries for his fight with Johnson. I Asked concerning his old-time feu.l ' with Joe Choynski. Corbett laughed and i said: "No. T don't suppose we could bo called t friends for we've been enemies practical- ly slnco we were boys, but It would prove 110 obstacle lo our mutual efforts to help ' Jeffries. I've forgotten any hard feelings I 1 ever had and I hops Joe has. This is too big a liilng for petty bickering to! enter into the plans. I don'l -suppoue Choynski and 1 evor will room together, but, so far as 1 am concerned. I will greet Joo just as cordially as if we never had had any differences. "When I told Jeff some months ago that I would do all in my power to help him beat Johnson. I meant every word of it." said Corbett. "and I began light training at once and Increased it until for the last two weeks I have been doing what might bo calcd hard training." |