| Show I SNAP SN P PUNCH MOST MOST P POWERFUL OF OF ALL LL BLOWS BLOWS A ACCORDING CORDING TO JIM JEFFRIES JEFFRIE MORE TELLING THAN lONG I Sack Jack jack jack- s Dempsey Kayoed Firpo With Ten Ten- Inch Blow Robert By Edgren W 0 listen said Jim Jeffries seen e e seen all th tho big fights from fromy y time down 1 to date data an and youve you've ou boxed with most of ot th the champions QU know who could hit and who couldn't and you OU know why rhy Jack Dempsey has tho the knack of ot hitting j-a j s ten Inch ten Inch knockout punch but how lOW many other heavyweights to today to- to o. o day can do it IU t 1 was Jeffries JeffrIe on his where I t found round him care carefully tully making making- around a plot where he ho hoA t t jr A zabe l 1 vegetables for tor his table Nat Nat- the lie talk taUt drifted from peas I and corn to left lell hooks and upp upper upper- r. r outs cuts You Xou cant can't name name- another r one said ara Jeffries In m my time there ere were erea a at- at least leist half halt a A. dozen that I could name off So except for tor or Dempsey how have havo the heavy heavy- t improved When we were twenty five rounds wo we hadr had r to p know how hov to fight Today with short hort i ort bouts they thOY ever J learn Now I want you to tell me something some Mme thing J Jeffries fries went on A l lo lb of or people have eople have havo asked me questions pout bout bout the Dempsey Firpo fight You sIt it and andI I 1 didn't But Ive I've heard nough enough to form forma a pretty good idea of what happened and what will happen next Urn time if they fight again The Tile difference between them was that Dempsey is a a. fast fighter tighter who knows how to to- snap sl his punches and FIrpo Is a a. powerful big follow fellow who shoves his i r out Ive I've boxed with lots I like Uke that Their punches shove your head back but they dont don't daze you From what I hear henr fell tell forward when h h s was knocked down and Dempsey fell felt 1 backward Is that tha right In nIU Y I KNOCKED n BROM RING G. G I j about right g T I said l Dempsey r rushed an and miss s a and d Firpo Fir Fir- 10 po p o uppercut him on the chin l Jempsey's knees hit the floor and andi i Ve IFo was up and fighting in the same samo motion mollon Next time Ume Firpo swung on oni i Jempsey's Jaw and Dempsey halff half turned as ho he went to his knees The f fd time lime I r knocked tn Jack c backward backward back back- ward through the ropes bodily Fir Fir- w was knocked down nine times In tho two rounds and fell forward f t every ery time q That paints the whole picture I r Mid Jeffries The first time ey went down he got a a. good gooc IS shock shock from Firpo's Firpo s punch because ilie ilze ran into it Hed He'd have ha got the e me shock if It ho he ran against a reo In the dark Next time was I. I push punch punch- because It turned I y around n The th third was wasI I l-I l b but a big g push h. h Dempsey mp went well t out of the ring because his Ills 1 I gs were against the tho ropes and he ha was pushed back he be had to lIe He wouldn't have gone gono down from that punch In the middle of the ring ring- If It that punch had been snapped over on his Jaw he wouldn't have hav-e got back Into the ring If It he fell through the ropes The V I flon of ot Jar and fall would have finIshed fin- fin l f r 1 himM him M Ive i only IY known one on man t to be beI I hit right and acid fall tall out of the ring ta l come back In time That was p I. I atom Sharkey when Joe Jos knocked him out of the ring twice when rhen Tom was a so sailor 11 ot and Tom ian fran around and cUm climbed bed ba back lC But Bu tom m was was was' the toughest m man n In th the theto to hurt hur COT GOr TIlE THE IDEA IDE- FITZ may be able to earn how howS S to snap his punches but lf If he le d hell he'll nev never r beat Dempsey T ok will knock him out again gain has the the- trick of ot hitting hrman A hit wi with wih h man these pun punches alays al- al mys ays falls forward Instead of ot back- back v ward ard He lIe falls because hes he's stunned for a If It hes he's stunned for ten Un seconds hes he's counted out If It you la ha had l 1 your head down looking at al me and suddenly became w e i i s you'd fall tall forward That's r happens when a a. a man is hit 5 r l. l c 1 the force forca oce of the brow blow Is t snapped into a few inches and Itt it itI t doesn't push a man mab back A short shor b bow blow ow can be snapped but a long I J lo is never anything but a big push ush Firpo probably drives his hisa Jp 11 a a foot where Dempsey an aa inch c F fJ always tried to snap my i pi punches Jeffries Jet went wont on I J got 4 tj t te edea e idea dea seeing fight tight a lorbett with those little short shor h s at at Carson the littler t time me we wo wex wee together we-together together up up- there I had it into me by the way Fitz- Fitz r ns' ns punches jarred me mo when him for Cor the championship was the greatest inch p hitter r I ever dyer saw He sure could snap them Ulem in with a Jar eF- eF n t r Walter Kid McCoy Sam Lang- Lang ff fordt and Joo Joe Gans knew how to snap sri a punch They didn't push em iem em oVer v-e-r so they could coula get s-et up tip again I they hit hit a man he fell tell jot for v v rd No s-rp s great grat t hitter yet ever J knocked no If his men over backward When I knocked Fitzsimmons out wItha with a a right on the jaw at Coney Is Island nd he fell feU forward When I k knocked orbett Corbett out with a left hook on th the jaw he fell on his fac face x 1 knock Corbett against 1 flie tho e rop ropes s and catch him on the re rebound re re- bound as I remember it I just got sot hiI him Him- punch i b- b I knocked pus pus-Kuhlin us out in he the round With ono one punch in the 1 b bo ly y and he ho doubled up and f fell ll forward The second time I knocked Corbett Corbett out it was with left and Bright hok hooks Jn In tho body and he lie doubled up and fell slowly over tow to to- wr w rd i rile me so o I could havo clipped him himon himon himon on the chin only I knew it wasn't n cessar hed he'd stay down They usually do when WRen heyre they're hit right V en I knocked knock d out Jack Mun- Mun un- un roe with a body punch he groaned so loud you could hear him out in th street and he fell feU forward When I hit Peter Jackson Jacksn on the chin P Peter ter fell forward on his knees I and I asked the referee to stop it because I didn't want to hit poor I le Peter leer er again if it he got upI upI up I only reme remember ber two fellows who I went backward when I hit them One On was Joe Goddard That was vas r I before I t learned haw hw to hit I I hit bit I Joe a regular Firpo wallop and lifted lit lift ed him over the ropes and out of ot tho the ring Tho The other was Tom Sharkey Tom lom was the toughest bird I ever fought and ho hI gave me a lot lot- of ot rouble rou trou- rou- rou ble I never could get him Just right He Ho was short and he rushed so fast he ho made a bad target At Coney Island I hit Tom and knocked him halfway across the ring i ito to a corner and ho bounced right up and ran rail back bacle at atmo me mel A ASter Alter er that I 1 kept snapping my right into Toms Tom's body bOOy as he me rushed and broko broke three of ot othis his ribs but somehow I 1 couldn't top stop him Bob Fitzsimmons could hit his hardest punch by snapping his hand a foot toot and that's the he only way to o hit a knockout knockout- punch He was the only one who could stop Sharkey and he ho did it twice In our last tight old FIb Fitz gave me more mor punishment than I 1 ever got in all the rest put together If It Dempsey Dempsey Demp Demp- sey soy can place his punches the way old Fitz did he ought to knock out anybody Tex wants me to teach Firpo how to punch Jeff con continued contin contin- tin Im too busy and anyway Dempsey suits mo me as a a. champion Ive I've liked that boy over ver since ho lie came over to the tho ranch to se see seq me and brought his mother along I JEFF IN ix SHAPE I Firpo may be able ablo to learn how to hi hit short and put a Jar jar- jarinto into it Instead of ot a push but hes he's got to learn something In a few tew months that he hasn't learned in three o or four tour years and that that- Dempsey had in his first fight r In my m- opinion th the only way Dempsey could lose to Firpo would be by being careless He was careless last time and h he wont won't be careless again I 1 wish I was was was' twenty years younger Id I'd like to take Jack on and see who could stand up the UIO longest Here J Jeffrie picked up the rake and went to work again I had been noticing that ho looked remarkably remarkably re re- re fit for tin an time old champion champion champion cham cham- pion so long out of ot the he ring and said so Sure said Jeff Jett Im better Im better right n now nv Jw than I was ten toil years ago but ago but that isn't twenty Im I'm up before daylight every y morning and anti I work hard every evory day Not an ounce of fat on me This getting up early Is fa I great grent stuff m Ill toll tell you you well well we'll start out tomorrow morning about 3 a o'clock al and d. d by i daylight we can be up at r and get a mess of ot mountain Qu quail qurill ll t I will if wai wake waK me me up I Il said Hi vj- vj t 3 bv by ii Boll S 1 te 1 Inc 1 fe I j l |
