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Show JESS WAS RESTLESS DAY BEFORE FIGHT Willard Was Pestered by Many Admirers, Who Wished to Give Him Some Tips on How to Fight Johnson; Jess Says He Didn't Need Their Advice, Because He Knew He Could Win; Furthermore, Fur-thermore, He Tells That in the Black Champion's Cham-pion's Best Day Jack Would Have Been Easy for Him. By JSSS WILLAED. I Copyright, 1913. by A. Mrrritt. All rights , reserved. I THOUGHT the day before the fi-ht would ncvr cul. It wasn't nervousness; nerv-ousness; jus-t impationi-e. For al-mit al-mit five wreks I had pointed niv HV at this one battle, and now it was oniv tweiity-four hours away. Not for nnp minnte -'id I havo :ui Hoiht of winning t ho battle. A lot o poonto tboapht t-.at T la-'Ued eonfidon.-e bp.a'ic i tii-in't o around brainjf about what I was gxiup to do. I hnre to hray, and the inorP .Totinsnn boasted the nmro I shut up. H"wover, I don't ti;i:ik Johnson really mtut all of hi lo:l taik. H was siniply try-ine try-ine i1' n-.v -'-at. Hy lauhin nt me and pr. "ending to look on the hu'ht a-a a-a joke rrekun lw thought he'd get iue worri-'d and i.er ous. If I had 'no'-n a tior'.oiis, rldety ort of llnw th i-mwd. wnUid have driven ,.. orav. I n,ana.-d t' k."p away from mot ni them th" la.-t few da.vs, but ti ."-e w.tc loti of nee, uvoll mean int; fellows that ynt rnuldn't In.e. Had ?.Iany Advisers. All of then, v.u.il'd to pive m oino ahout .Fuan-on 's ti'-.titur ?yr. Th" would nip. r wanuajrt to me aom;t in- u(.prr. n;, bej iii- not. to hMen to hi ! " kiildin." an-i 0 mo adviee a:t to 1 ir, v plan of hattle. i Th-- t'unnv tJitniz t hat nmst of ! the-'' ad'. im! were fallows who didn't j know an-tiiinc at all about ti-hlin. , Hut rhev" nor.- o I'ri'-ndiy that I didn't 1 nae the heart to eut tum off -hort. ! Then th" Cubans t nen-.e! vr- t hoo- of 1 the oetter e!n.- - were very tmieli ox-cited ox-cited fur fear that .Ij-ihnoii niisht win. i'l'lff'' are more rdfleV? than whiten in I Cuba, and it wn tho -'ht that a ,lnhn-I ,lnhn-I hon v'i.'torv miyht lead to rn-"1 riots, j I enuid' neer har anybodv talkinir i that, wa v without etriri mad. I al luavs hated to be .-ulled a hite oyv" 'find thought it the n'lit r:di'-uliM tl'inj in the world to loo!- on m fiiit. with j,,!;.,,,,!! as a "tft of rneial puprem V. hen -laek T.anan., the Trih eham 5-.ir,nt was leri'-in-: for his- tight, with T'm Spri'm' "onie ndinirer presented him with Ihe preen tin 1 abntit hi v. a i 1 . "What. tie flaj of Ireland pot. tn do with a pri," fiyht'" he akrd. 'Thi-h 'Thi-h a tost Vetwe..) Tom Sj.rinrr and me to ee wliirh is the best man ; that ai'. ' ' The nnlv thin the battle was really n te-t. of 'was in the matter of habitfl. It was a fair, "tand-un fitfht between John Harlevrorn and frrae juiee--between, th" simple life and th" pay !ifo. Difl'ei-cnt Ways of Living. It v.np true that. 1 was a bier man than .lomin, but. when men pet. up a b five the '.li 111 pound mark and the pi x I'ert im ahii re wi.c doejtn 't amount. to anythiiip. Many experts ny that the b"M flphtinp rotnbitiatinn ia fIx feet and ;.") j niiii'N, as this (rives the hipheHt. 1 pnible blend of wpn-d and strenpth. , When Corbett. and JetfrioH first met nt Coney Mand the weight were IS,, and -17, n. flat difference of fifty -two pound. Yt. Corbett whipped the life out. of the pinnt. for twenty -three rnumU and would ' ha-, e won ha he nnl. hit apriinst the TopeM and been thrown baek .-.jiinre into a rtoinrndi piim-h. ,I v itilvaiitape over Jolinson in weight vni'iui fifteen loiindx. Apaint thin he had his vear" (if experience :in (lie knowb-dpe of rinp craft thai pueh ex-perienee ex-perienee pivew. Man t n man it u as an even break , ;ind the let lH liefvveeii two difl'"!'etd. ua vs "f li vim;. If J oh 11 ho m won it meant that drink wasn't such n bud thiiiL! lifter all, and that it, didn't mnhe a man very much to spend hin li fe riduip th" water wai'on. Know Ho Would Win. I'-u! 1 v n ;'. 11 "t. nl'iaid of the ontennin. I I'lie-v ! haj ins- wnv of livini; was rii'ht and 1 1. 11 1 J oli 11. on wik wron The whfde hi::lojy of alhbdi ' v:ih lllled with proof lhal whi;.lty and lobnccn were ioi W li i Ji v s I'i'a ve. ai d of pri'.e (bdit ert u Ji I led w i th liund reda who tlioupht that they eon Id whip John Barleycorn. Ciiainidon after ebampiou had lost bis title by thinkinp that he eould leave whisky alone when he wan red to. ' ' That '3 the trouble with drink. When the tune conies when a fellow thinks he wants to leae whiskv alone he rinds i that th- drink ha no idea of leaving I him alone. I knew the effect of ab-ohol on the e;. e an well as on t he heart and ti;e m up-. The Swiji govern men t ma.b? a 1 tet mt lunp apy to find out whether beer a H pood th inp for sharpshooters. sharpshoot-ers. Without beer t he men ra n up an ave--ape of t we tn v-eiph t hits oat of eve-y : flirty hof. Then t hev were given two ghtpyes of beer and made to -hoot again. This time thev only pot an average nf twentv two hits out of thirtv shors. Why iv it that we ta'k about a man being ' ' blind drunk ' ' 1 Pe. aue alcohol alco-hol affects the optie ner., I'se enough whi-!-.y and von can burn up the optic nerve ! s completely a tho'.iph vou held a lighted match to it. Had Better Eye. Thi was one of the tiling1' I counted on most. I knew that when I hit 1 would hit true. I can take a needle to day, hold it. in my left hand and jab a thread t hrough its e e in a single movement. 1 knew that Jolt non would not hit tme, j felt sure that he wouldn't have his old accuracy, pist s T knew that ; h1 wouldn't have his old speed. j K erv bo . even Walter Mnnahan. I nn trainer, was convinced that, nobndv ! mild fi:e Jor.nvnn 's uppercut on the ,a-,v and keep lis feet. ' (f 's a te-.-ror, ' ' I way told. "It nearly killed Fi tsimuions. It knocked all of Stanley Ketdielj teeth out . Jeffries thought that a mule hud kicked him. It only travel a few inehep, but if it lands, goodnight. ' ' An uppercut, more than an v other blow, calls -for an absolutely true eve and ton speed. It must be timed to the hundredth part of a second and not get off its line the hundredth part of an i in h. I feil sure that Johnson's right up per-ut was gone. And J tvns right. He tried a n v number of them during our light, and every one of them had the verd and the kick. But hi? eve was off nnd net one of (hem landed'on the point of my jnw. Whisky Helped Jess. I still think that I could have whipped Johnson in his prime, but T am perfectly wijlhip to ndmit that T got, a lot nf help from old John Barleycorn Barley-corn in the Havana battle. All Ihese things were floating through m v mind t he da v before (hp bntt le. I felt so Ro,-e ,,f v ictory that 1 cnuld hardly hard-ly wa it for the time to come to enter the ring. I wanted (o win for the sake nf mv I'amily and the good of in v friend. 1 was not. only broke, but 1 was deep in debt, a thing that 1 hated worse than being broke. Win or lose, knew that T wouldn't get enough out of the fight to pay my t ra i ui 11 g ex pen sen even. My only salvation was to win, for I knew that, money would come to me as champion. This meant some for mr wife and the four kids. It meant that my manaper would be nble to get his je wel r v out of pawn. And I wanted to win also because a victory would drive Johnson out of the-ring. the-ring. Since I was earning a living bv fighting I wanted mv trade to be h decent :ih possible, and Johnson, above all others, had d isg raced it . (iood people are mich-y unfair nt I ime-i. To rend odi tin ials and pennons v (in would have thought hat. all lighters light-ers were like Jack Johnson. M v ic tory over Johnson wain. t needed to prove Ihe grim Iruth that poor habits make poor nlhleteH. There isn 't n fighter in the country today who doe-ui 'f know that, wli Nky and tobacco and vice are the sworn enemies of st re apt h and sk ill 11 ml speed. The preachers and edil orn ma v not like prv.-e tlphtine, but the fact remains re-mains that pri.e lighters me the greatest great-est t em pern nee lemons in Ihe world. When I went to bed t lili t. Sunday fiighl before the lk:hl I was as happy as a kid with circim money in hia pock- et. Hy P o'clock T was asleep, and 1 did not open my rye until il o'clock j the next morning. 1 ( M ondnv Willard will gtvo a Inst 1 word on how to ot strong and keep ntron). |